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  1. Would it really be so horrible if Mik wasn't ready to play and stayed on LTIR until sometime during the season? It's not as if we will need to be using Megna or Chaput to fill in for him. We have an abundance of wingers, some young, promising, deserving a shot and who are worth watching. Injury depth is part of the game. Anybody remember a dozen or so years ago when it seemed to be a given at the start of the season that Bieksa was tradebait because we had too many solid/expensive #2/3 Dmen? But through the magic of LTIR, when the playoffs rolled around we still had: Salo, Hamhuis, Edler, Ehrhoff, Bieksa, Tanev, Ballard...
  2. And I will call out anyone who fabricates numbers to support a position that is clearly contrary to facts. Calling someone who buys a condo or two for an investment a "corporation" is silly. And again, saying that 60% of home sales are going to investors, let alone corporations, is beyond silly.
  3. Maybe you could bold the part where it says 60% of the homes are being purchased by corporations? I don't see it, and really I can and do read. Even if you want to consider any person who buys even one condo for an investment to be what you called a corporation, where does it say that 60% of homes are being sold to investors?
  4. .Colmar says some of the key factors to watch for are further interest rate hikes and employment levels – warning that if rising unemployment levels combine with spiking mortgage rates Canada could face a situation similar to the 2008 crisis in the U.S. A couple of points: (1) If unemployment levels rise significantly, the BOC will not continue to raise interest rates, but will cut them, and (2) Everybody buying real estate in Canada has at least some equity and an income sufficient to make their mortgage payments, unlike the NINJA (no income no job no assets) mortgages which led to the 2008 US crash. So not really that similar.
  5. Nice set of links. So which one of them shows the data that 60% of homes are being purchased by corporations? Btw, company and corporation are synonyms.
  6. I would call BS on claims that 60% of homes in Canada are being bought by corporations. That sounds like a totally fabricated number that is probably at least 10 to 20 times higher than the actual percentage.
  7. Many people who like to talk about the "bubble" bursting seem not to be aware of the full term, which is "speculative bubble", meaning that a market is being driven by short term speculators betting that prices will continue to rise, allowing them to make a quick profitable flip, not by demand from actual end users. An example of a real estate bubble would be one of the Chinese cities where 20 or 30% of the homes are sitting empty because they were built and bought on speculation that prices would continue to rise, not for any underlying demand. While a place like Vancouver can and does certainly have price corrections when prices get excessive, when there is an ongoing shortage of a commodity, ie: excess demand from end users, calling it a "bubble" and expecting a massive price crash is unrealistic.
  8. Wish ours did. Starting in mid September and finishing in May would be way nicer than starting in mid October and finishing the playoffs in mid June.
  9. I could see him getting sent down briefly at the beginning of the season for cap reasons, but I think he is too skilled, hard working and motivated to be there for long. They will make room for him.
  10. Who dislikes the deal? A handful of armchair GMs who like to believe that their (EA NHL honed) negotiation and team assembly skills would always have enabled them to make a better deal, whenever they wanted to.
  11. Smart keys, which go with push starts, give car thieves new ways to steal cars. Ways that do not work against key cars. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/04/crooks-are-stealing-cars-using-previously-unknown-keyless-can-injection-attacks/ https://www.carwow.co.uk/blog/keyless-car-theft-prevention#gref
  12. Sounds to me like you came down too easily on your price, so they assumed that they could keep chiseling you. They will squeeze every penny they think they can get from you, and if you seem easy....
  13. That's excellent news. I wonder, if and when this vaccine is released to the public, if the Luddite anti-vaxers will still refuse to accept mRNA treatments. They seem to be absolutely determined to qualify for the Darwin Awards. I would be fine with that, since for the most part cancers are not contagious, unlike Covid.
  14. Seriously? I see a lot of very happy Canucks fans with just a couple of trolls spouting their usual crap pretending to be clever and knowledgeable. Where are you looking, HFBoards?
  15. I would imagine that the anti-vaxers have mixed feelings about that. On the one hand they like to pretend that Covid doesn't exist, and hiding the thread in the Adults Table would help them with that goal. But on the other hand, they enjoy trolling civilized people, and hiding the Covid thread would limit their opportunities to do that.
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