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2 hours ago, Alflives said:
I think dad’s in some unions can take baby leave too, no?
Dad's have the legal right to take paternity leave. Mother gets the first 15 weeks (I think) then the rest of the 1 year/18 months time can be split. I took 8 months off work with my son.
Has nothing to do with unions, its a family thing now thats mandated by government that the last 8-9 months can go to whichever parent. They did recently put in a 3 week fathers time to help with the kids, I could have taken that with my second too but I had just come back from a broken leg and needed to start making more money again so I didn't even use that to my advantage.
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6 hours ago, iinatcc said:
Don't forget Kole Lind ... after he was selected by Seattle people here were saying that "we had Gadjovich anyways, and he's the more promising player"
Yeah Toffoli one was laughable, like who is going to say no to a PPG player a 4.25 Million for 4 years
My 2 cents on Gadjovich being claimed though is that things stings. My personal view is that since Gadjovich hasn't really shown much at this point in his career it's unlikely he's going to be more than a NHL tweener. That said this still kind of sucks losing both Gadjovich and Lind, not because neither panned out but but The Canucks hasn't really had a lot of draft picks during Bennings tenure that our hope for late round steals relied mostly on these two 2nd round 2017 picks.
Canucks already lost out on Gaudette and traded away Forsling (who has turned out to be a NHL dman) now Lind and Gadjovich are also out of the club. Hoglander is nice but the team needs more Hoglander type home runs to have a sustainable team.
Only been 1 year as a full time NHL player now with Florida at 24 years old. Spent 3 years bouncing back and forth for Chicago and even 19/20 was AHL only with Charlotte. Maybe he finally found a home that works in Florida but not like he's been ripping it up in the NHL as a full timer for years now.
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13 hours ago, Alflives said:
I read somewhere, that Singapore is showing 98% of their vaccinated people (who get a break through case of Delta variant) are either asymptomatic or have mild symptoms. The vaccines there are proving to be 93%-95% effective at preventing serious disease. That's really good. Only more reason why people need to get vaccinated.
But the antivaccers on facebook keep telling me "but vaccinated keep getting cases too!"
Its almost like they have zero reading comprehension that the vaccine is to keep you from ending up sick and in the hospital, not to keep case count down....
I see Covid School Tracker on twitter has a lot of schools popping up, wondering if they are doing "outbreaks" by different standards than the government. I know if my daycare closes, I am gonna be pissed. Not only will we have to take time off to look after the kids but last time it happened it closed for 14 days and didn't hit the 15 day threshold for refunds. So I would be out of work not making money and not getting daycare refund for time missed. God I hope that doesn't happen.
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3 hours ago, nuckin_futz said:
The 2nd tweet is unconfirmed.
Hopefully we don't get more spam calls on our phones
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12 hours ago, Ilunga said:
Here you go
Bit of a read.
Well worth it if you are genuinely interested.
Some people are being held to account and just as importantly IMO it has inspired a bunch of young Journo's to take up the cause.
Sweet I will give that a read once I got some time thanks mate
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I remember there was a question on CBC twitter or something asking topics you wanted to hear about, I kept tweeting I wanted to know the panama papers update since many countries had taken an active approach and Canada was like "yea its gonna take 5 years to get this sorted out"
Still never heard an update on it really.
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3rd day in a row of getting stopped out of positions. Oh well.
That's a change....
Didn't see that happening, another 3 hit stops today. Oh well looks like I'm cash heavy now.
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On 9/28/2021 at 12:52 PM, UnkNuk said:
From the article:
"...58% of all food produced in Canada becomes waste."
That is incredible.
That's why some stores started those "imperfect veggies" section. When I worked at a compost site, we used to get peppers, etc that looked, felt, and probably tasted perfect but they didn't pass quality control set by stores as a funny shaped or colored pepper would end up never getting grabbed and thrown out anyways. Used to get 40 yards bins of them all the time.
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Wonder if they are going to lose certain trick or treaters this year.
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22 hours ago, Mj2345 said:
Looks like Canadian NBA Player Andrew Wiggins is going to miss atleast 41 games this year all because he won’t take a shot that may give him side effects for a day or two..Warriors should just get rid of him, he clearly selfish and not thinking of the team
I was hoping they were going to trade him in the offseason after the good Canada performance. Was thinking it could possibly have been a Wiggins+ for Simmons but I highly doubt that'll happen now
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14 hours ago, nuckin_futz said:
This is going to be a big problem this winter if it gets as cold as they are predicting. Natural Gas is at a 7 year high.
"Ok kids get those coats on, its gonna be cold inside this year!"
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11 hours ago, RU SERIOUS said:
After you get answers to that question why don't you flip that around and ask how many feel like having to sit next to an unvaccinated - unmasked person breathing and/or coughing, screaming or sneezing with their face just 18" away from theirs at a game and just possibly being the lucky one to be sitting next to a Covid Carrier that just might be your ticket to a free ventilator ride in your local ICU.
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16 hours ago, Chip Kelly said:
I was trying to buy that Canadian tech company growth stock Nuveii on the dip .. put the buy order in and realized now a week later It looks like I got the wrong symbol and got some OTC pink shares and it shows up under the US flag even though it shows under Canadian holdings WTF????!!!!
Does anybody know what's going or that uses RBC direct investing? Am I stuck with these shares or can I even sell them off?
Will I get taxed by both Canada and the US now?
Please tell me I didn't just flush all my money and half my remaining TFSA room down the toilet in 1 week.
Does anyone what OTC and pink shares are... please someone talk me off the ledge....
You tried to buy NVEI and bought NUVCF instead? Same company just looks like its not listed on the nasdaq or anything down there. You just bought in USD instead of CAD so you'll probably be paying the 1.5%-2% foreign exchange (can't remember what I pay with RBC when I do it).
If you sell keep the money in there, don't remove it from the TFSA, you can still buy and build it back up with something else if you wanted.
Or simply just hold and see if she keeps going back up. Just found an article on MontleyFool (some people like them, I find them ok) and they seem to like it. I have had numerous stocks dip 20%+ under my buy, if you believe in them just hold them. Not everything is going to be a winner from day 1, I have learned that the hard way with panic selling. Just make sure you have things in your mind, are they day, week, month, year or lifetime buys? That'll change your outlook on positions even if they dip. TFSA is probably better to buy some safer stocks overall though.
https://www.fool.ca/2021/09/24/could-nuvei-corp-be-a-millionaire-maker-stock/
Looks decent by that brief article, might be something you could hold for a few years if you can stomach ups and downs.
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On 9/20/2021 at 6:13 PM, Warhippy said:
Mate, I have just seen a 1 bedroom apartment for rent for $1800 in a city where the median monthly post tax income is barely $2200 a month. This will bring the average 1 bedroom rentla prices towards $1500+
I know how bad it is and it's only getting worse. Collapse is coming.
My brother in law just got a house for his family here in the Fraser Valley, had a basement suite, they had a girl come look at it and talked to her about renting and she burst into tears and told her friend with her to pinch her when they offered her the place because it was $1400 when older places (this was a new build for him, nothing amazing but decent house) were going for $1800 for one bedrooms with much less quality.
Wife and I are looking for a home now, neither of us want renters really but if we found a place we could get a decent renter even at a below market value it would take a huge burden financially off us. So many decisions to make.
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4 hours ago, Fanuck said:
Don't rule out Toyota, the brand new Tundra is going to be finally unveiled today I believe (or sometime this week anyway). There may not be a hybrid at first but there most certainly will be one soon, and the fully electric model shouldn't be out of the question either.
Toyota has said the new Tundra will be a game-changer in the full-size segment.
Toyota is just dragging their feet though, its frustrating as a life long toyota owner until I got my Hyundai EV recently. They keep pushing hydrogen eventhough theres no infrastructure.
5 hours ago, Ghostsof1915 said:Yeah, me either. More worrisome is their Hummers have seemingly twice the battery size of their competitors. Real world numbers when they are all in production will be interesting.
Personal opinion that I like the Rivian and Ford's style the best. Ford at least is stating their range is based on 1000 lbs. of payload. Basically if you're doing a lot of highway driving EV's may not be for you quite yet. Once again it depends on what you are doing with it.
I see almost just as many folks driving pickup trucks with the bed empty as folks driving with the bed full.
Hummer is just a big wasteful toy, they need a normal truck. And who knows with Lordstown, their style of the 4 wheel hub motors is interesting but theres lots of reasons why people have come out and said it could lead to premature wear.
Rivian is pricey, F150 should be the go to for most for those that don't want the Cybertruck. CT is funky, different, but their tech is still far ahead. I currently have a pre-order for the CT myself, see in a couple years when my order actually gets filled. Rumor has it theres a million of them on pre-order (who knows how many of that will get filled) and the estimate when I put my order in was around the 300,000 mark that was estimated by sites so we'll see. F150 would be my second choice of the group as of right now.
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1 minute ago, Alflives said:
My scooter and me don’t work as well in the rain.
Get one of the ones with the covers that I see people zipping around on!
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Absolutely hate rain. Between my new soccer season about to fire up today and now postponed, to not being able to take my 3 year old to the playground both Sat and Sun, its gonna suck. Atleast he's learned some board games at home but we really like getting out and getting a bunch of exercise and energy burned off for the little guy.
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3 minutes ago, nuckin_futz said:
There's no such thing as bad fajitas. That's like saying you had bad bacon.
I went away for a bit and my bacon was a bit green when I got back home.... Yea didn't smell good....
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11 hours ago, -DLC- said:
Bunch of clowns.
Schools are OFF LIMITS....they should be arrested not dispersed.What a bloody joke, can't these people just let others live their lives and not screw up kids learning.
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3 minutes ago, nuckin_futz said:
For those who don't know her, Laura Loomer is a right wing provacatuer so extreme in her views she makes Laura Ingraham look like a member of the "Loony Left".
Last December she posted the following on Parler............
Earlier today she posted the following on the TrumpWorld social network Gettr .........
Now in fairness bad fajitas can really do a number on you.......
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Oh wow never really followed them but thats unfortunate. Google says they have 123,000 employees, thats quite the work force and being the 122nd largest company in the world at one point. Quite the fall the company seems to be spiraling down into.
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52 minutes ago, johngould21 said:
I met our grand daughter at her school yesterday. A good half of the parents, and grand parents doing the same weren't masked at all. Friggin' scary and ignorant. I also found out yesterday that 3 of the BC Lions volunteer staff that are anti vaxxers are no longer allowed into BC Place for games.
Were they outside waiting for kids to come out? Or wandering inside the school?
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45 minutes ago, Lil B From The Pack said:
Linkin Park
Came here to say Linkin Park
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5 hours ago, Silky mitts said:
I can’t wait till the passports are here . So we can waive at these idiots from inside where we belong having a beer and a meal .
I joined one of those facebook groups of companies who won't ask for a passport, its a pretty long list. A lot of places are pushing back and say they won't do it (eventhough 90% of them don't need to and it was more self promoting). If they keep a mask mandate on for a while I think we'll be fine.
Your opinion of Corey Hirsch's colour commentary work?
in Canucks Talk
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Hirch is a radio guy not a TV guy. Its 2 different roles, one you need to explain more whats going on (radio) and one you sometimes just need less (TV). He was asked to do a task that he's not usually doing, I don't blame him for being off for the TV side.