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Ontario needs to invest in EVs as a realistic Option.
herbie replied to Boges's topic in Provincial Politics in Canada
12 Cheapest New Cars in Canada in 2023 1st go out and try to find a base model of anything, anywhere 2nd. Find one the dealer hasn't marked up over MSRP 3rd enjoy your Chevy Spark or Mitsi Mirage pisspot The average price people are paying for new cars in Canada is over $45,000 -
I bug every guy stocking pop and every restaurant I go to to ditch the Diet branded pop.. Guys (most) don't like a can with DIET blaring out on the label. Zero sugar IS diet soda without the connotations. So what, maybe that person's diabetic like 1/3 of the people I hang with... sometimes I'd have a chug of the wife's Fresca to remind me I hated the diet taste. I woke up last week and realized why the flavour of GZero Orange was so comforting... reminded me exactly of the watery half pint Dairyland Orange Drinks we'd get on Hot Dog Day back in Elementary School. ?
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I've owned many, many vehicles - predominantly Dodges. But I'm not loyal to them/ The best is a Saturn I still own and use, all the worst were Ford pickups. And if I'm thirsty it's always been Pepsi over Coke, even now in Zero Sugar mode.
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Oh. Socialism then. Glad to have you onboard.
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Because if they use gov't money to build 'affordable housing' they're competing against developers. If you own a building and lose tenants to it, you're gonna sue. If you own a home and are paying thru the nose, you'd lose money to sell and buy one of those instead. If you're not allowed to buy or rent one because you're already housed it 'proves' you can afford it even if you're feeding your kids sawdust and telling them it's oatmeal. I have no problem with them building housing to get people out of tent cities, hell I think it's time to march down Hastings Street with flame throwers, but for working people all they can do is open up land, and that's not available in the cities you mentioned. Plenty of room for suburbs on the Prairies, in the Cariboo, the Peace and Nechako regions.
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So you have decided for everyone. Tossing your own words back... Look at your username, OWN what you are.
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That communism is defined as the government building things instead of private enterprise. Did you not know even that much? Hell buy into the whole 'conservative' idea why don't you and rail against the socialists building phone companies, railroads, hydro, car insurance, ferries too. All that was built because it wasn't profitable for private enterprise to do it, or because they did a shit job of it. It's why you have Transit corps and not 12 Joe's Bus Co. and Frank's Bus Co. 'competing' and only serving one profitable route. Everyone seems to have forgotten that bit of history, like why Air Canada even exists and only 1 private airline can even try in the market.
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Being a single guy who only wants a couple decent cups to wake up with the Keurig with Costco Pacific Bold is more than adequate. So I guess I'm loyal to that. Occasionally grab some Starbucks pods for an extra boost. I find Timmies coffee disgusting like their donuts, and every attempt with their dark blends a fail. Only thing that can be said it's HOT, iike so damn hot if I drive for half an hour, it's cool enough to sip. We preferred A&W coffee as those were the 2 choices on the highway to town. Been stuck buying clothes at Moore's, i take shirts in XLT and as everything's made in China these days and they have a cartoon perception of 'big people' 2XL,3XL,4XL are just tents with sleeves that only reach your elbows. Pants over 36 only come in 30" legs. And living here, it pisses me to no end about the corporate management that decides what to stock in stores. Prince George is full of loggers, millworkers and truck drivers so you can buy size Small Carharts, Size 8 workboots and size 32 jeans anywhere on sale anytime. Any size larger is out of stock in 3 minutes and head office won't send more. The hardware stores are already full of gardening goods and not a snowblower left, but there's still 4 ft of snow on top of ground frozen 4 ft deep. I bet ladies wear is displaying bikinis too. I'm also loyal to Safeway too, for having real meat cutters and cows that produce more than just hamburger and steaks, bakers that actually bake and a sushi bar where they make it there instead of trucking it 2 days from Vancouver. Unfortunately the closest one left is in Terrace 6 hours away. And I guess Jeep for making vehicles that can move when it snows on a Saturday when they won't pay overtime, or after the 15th when the snow removal budget runs out.
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Marks hasn't had any Tall sizes in 5 years, I used to buy their WindRiver shirts. Costco has like 3 or 4 men's clothes items at best. I have no brand loyalty, they all seem to eventually turn to shit. And I like the 32 score idea, though in 2023 I don't know any outfit that would earn more than a 1 for Customer Service. I'm such a pessimist in that field I am sure within a decade we'll be charged for using the self checkouts and there will be even longer lines to use them. They'll have some $1 a ton chemical they add to plastic bags to make them biodegradable and people will say they shop a X cuz they only charge $2 a bag and $2 to self checkout
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So you're all for communism? Soviet blockhouses? I'd be all for it if they were nicer housing anywhere but the places mentioned. Then again, I'm all for nation building when everyone else only wants destroying.
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Douglas Todd: Why being 'woke' is not left wing
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The Left is Destroying Western Civilization
herbie replied to blackbird's topic in Federal Politics in Canada
I was going to ask some posters do do up their fly as their swastikas were showing. Nor do I gain anything by reading the same narrow minded religious opinions over and over by others believing that will make them truths. As for the British Empire, it was in palliative care before I was born and died an inglorious death before we even heard of the Beatles. -
The Left is Destroying Western Civilization
herbie replied to blackbird's topic in Federal Politics in Canada
Tom Douglas wasn't a 'real' minister. That ranks right up there with Catholics are not 'real' Christians on my formula "the more one spouts their Christian righteousness is an inverse square proportion to their actual Christianity' scale. -
Senior Discounts -Why do old people pay less?
herbie replied to August1991's topic in Business and Economy
Why seniors discounts? Why do they advertise? Why make coupons? To get them to shop in your store. Funniest thing I ever saw was doing retail. Everyone who had a monthly account and paid on time, we sent a coupon worth so much on anything in the store. A guy walked in and threw a handful at the teller and screamed not to waste his time with these goddam thing. Paid his $40 bill with Visa, stormed out and we picked up the $25 worth of coupons and sent them out to customers in the next cycle. Once I sent and employee out and he papered all the windshields at the Grad ceremony with $100 off a computer on that Grad Day coupons. We watched from across the street as one guy tore it from his windshield wiper and marched like 200 yards from the parking lot to barge in and scream how dare we touch his car.... -
Man charged with murder after defending his home from a lunatic
herbie replied to West's topic in Federal Politics in Canada
Schiff flooding instead of deflection your specialty? Fling shit in every direction and hope something sticks? It's pretty simple actually: self-defence means right to defend you or someone else. not property. If someone's stealing your car or breaking into your home you can wave a gun and chase them away or hold a gun to their head and hold them til the cops get there, but if you shoot they will review it and you MAY be charged and/or convicted. -
Abortion has Sweet F*** All to do with antisemitism on the Left. So STFU already, you're just incapable of discussing an issue without deflecting to an entirely different issue. Successfully draqged everyone into discussing an entirely different subject you think you have a chance of "winning" at.
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Man charged with murder after defending his home from a lunatic
herbie replied to West's topic in Federal Politics in Canada
Try learning a little about law. And reading the very links your post, the circumstances of the i2 cases are different. The difference ultimately comes down to how prosecutors apply the facts to the Criminal Code’s self-defence rules. Sections 34 and 35 of the code say someone is not guilty of an offence if their actions were a “reasonable” response to a threat of or actual use of force, or to stop someone from entering or damaging property without permission. There is no self-defence of property. -
Don't have a clue what genocide means. Don't have a clue what racism is. Don't have clue what right and left mean politically. But can't STFU that they must be all connected because they don't like something. The Triumph of the Ignoroids.
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Why waste your time with people so screwed in the head they equate birth control with genocide. And block headed enough not to distinguish criticism of a state's policy with racism.
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Man charged with murder after defending his home from a lunatic
herbie replied to West's topic in Federal Politics in Canada
Bullshit. The damned charge laid filed proves that specifically. Are you another person that thinks what you believe over-rides the law of the land? Then welcome to join the local peanut gallery. -
Man charged with murder after defending his home from a lunatic
herbie replied to West's topic in Federal Politics in Canada
but not always of killing him, that's what I pointed out. If there's evidence of wrongdoing. charges can be laid, so there obviously was. And the laws in Ontario are the same as everywhere else in the country. Once had a local pi-sstank I didn't know at the time barge in the front door while the wife and I were watching TV. I frogmarched him out kicked him in the ass and told him I'd call the cops if I saw him in my yard ever again. If I'd panicked and shot him, I'd be in jail. The operational word is proportional response, not minimal or maximum. -
Ontario needs to invest in EVs as a realistic Option.
herbie replied to Boges's topic in Provincial Politics in Canada
Tesla's opening it's superchargers in the US to everyone. Ford is telling dealerships they must install a fast charger on their lots. Hopefully all car makers will make that their dealership policy. We don't have a charger in our town (yet), its 60 kms to the nearest one in the next town. But there's a few EVs around ppl charge overnight. A friend bought his wife a PHEV Mitsubishi SUV and it interests me. Almost a large as the old Saturn Vue I don't use much anymore, and she told me he made her drive to Costco (175kms away) because she hadn't gassed up for 3 months and it was going stale.... and I was pumping hundreds of bucks at the time to fill up the Wrangler. I find the Mazda rotary PHRV I described as fascinating - it actually changes the single rotor's speed each firing cycle to achieve better fuel and emission specs that makes vibrations, but because it's only a generator doesn't make that noticeable thru the drive train. I will try to find the video that explains it. Only puts out 94 hp, but at a steady highway sped that's more than enough - when you need more it draws from the onboard battery. We could also look at powering Hybrids with propane or LNG. Lots of options to explore. Like with everything - there's far more than just either or, black or white solutions.
