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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...

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.

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?

.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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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....

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.

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?

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.

Has anyone ever convinced an anti-vaxer to actually think about anything that conflicts with their agenda? Facts and logic mean nothing to the willfully ignorant.

I think the provincial government has already done something in that vein, eliminating single family zoning throughout the entire province, forcing municipalities to allow multiple housing units on every piece of residential land. Unfortunately, being politicians, you can count on them implementing this idea in some really stupid way that they think will appeal to their constituents.

As everyone who is not living in a cave is aware, we have a housing shortage in Canada, and more specifically in the Lower Mainland. I see the clowns in Burnaby City Council are doing their bit to alleviate the supply shortage by turning down a proposal from their planning staff to encourage developers to build more non-market rental housing. The proposal would allow the developers to build more condos (also alleviating the housing shortage) to compensate them for the cost of building the (unprofitable) required non-market housing. What a terrible idea by the planning department, eh, to encourage developers to provide more housing, both market and non market? No wonder council killed it, after all, everyone on city council already has a home, right? https://www.burnabynow.com/local-news/burnaby-reject-plan-allow-developers-to-build-more-condos-rental-policy-review-7155973 This brilliant move by these clever politicians is rationalised by the claim that the calculations for this "offset density" are "confusing". Apparently for any proposal to be acceptable to them, the calculations in the Zoning and Development Bylaw must be simplistic enough to be easily understandable by these politicians and their constituents. Unfortunately, the real problem is that this city council is very left wing, and consequently choose to hold the belief that the path to universal prosperity includes killing the geese that lay the golden eggs. No doubt that in their minds killing this proposal (by their own planning staff!) will cause developers to build huge amounts of rental housing without any of those horrible condos that aren't real housing. Makes perfect sense, right?

Them for sure. But of course there are far more bad class 5 and 6 drivers on the road than there are bad class 1 to 4 drivers., they are just operating somewhat less deadly weapons. Regular testing (and higher standards, like maybe at least Class 4 level tests for all drivers) is not a really bad idea, and obviously would improve public safety. Any competent driver who spends any time on the road can easily see that. But as far as age goes, everybody has different skill levels and ages at different rates. Some people are looking and acting (and driving) elderly while still in their 50s, while others appear, act and drive much younger in their 70s. Ageist attitudes are generally a function of youth and inexperience. Anyone who assumes that 65 is elderly in the 21st century is demonstrating their ignorance.

I am familiar with the right hand rule at uncontrolled intersections, but at 4 way stops the driver who came to a stop first at the intersection has the right of way, regardless of who is on whose right. That was definitely the case when I received my professional class licence a half century ago. Has this changed since then?

Wilful ignorance about deadly, tragic situations is disgusting behaviour that deserves to be insulted.

Actually, supply and demand apply to everything in a free market. For example, yes fuel is a necessity. But that doesn't mean that people will consume the same amount regardless of the price. When fuel prices are high, consumers change their behaviour to buy less, by doing things like turning down their thermostat (or turning it up in the summer), carpooling instead of driving separately, changing to more fuel efficient vehicles or leaving the car at home and taking transit, etc. When fuel prices are low, people do the opposite. And when energy companies are unable to sell all the fuel they have available and want to sell, they are forced to lower their prices until the demand from consumers increases to match the supply.

I have seen you saying this a number of times. It is not correct. The Market sets the prices in a free market. The Corporations/Suppliers are only one side of a market. The demand side is equally significant. If consumers are not willing or able to pay the prices the suppliers ask, they buy less or they don't buy at all. Corporations, like any other sellers of anything, will typically get the most money they possibly can. Consumers, like any buyers of anything, will typically pay the least money they possibly can. Things like competition, shortages, government subsidies etc. will all have effects on where the equilibrium price settles. Of course putting money into the hands of consumers increases their ability and willingness to pay higher prices. And of course when that happens, sellers will raise their prices. Expecting otherwise is unrealistic.

Evidently so are all the rest of the 5.5 billion people who have been vaxed. Apparently we have entered the world of "Idiocracy" where only the people from the far left side of the IQ bell curve will survive. One of the funniest ones I have heard was from a woman who stated that she can have no physical contact with vaxed people because the MRNA vaccines change the recipients' DNA so that she is now allergic to anybody who has been vaxed.

11.1 % smaller, not 12.5, but 12.5 % more per gram.