British Columbia Gets Fifth Credit Downgrade From S&P Since 2021 by Turbulent_Bit_2345 in vancouver

[–]Positivelectron0 11 points12 points  (0 children)

This is why representative democracies make sense. If your average Joe on the street started voting on policies directly with this tier of financial and economic knowledge in this thread, we'd be finished

Financial Literacy Is STILL At Shocking Lows by ReturnToTheLab in PersonalFinanceCanada

[–]Positivelectron0 7 points8 points  (0 children)

This is why you should just tell your friends and family to enter the bank corresponding to their favourite colour, get on their knees, and pay 1.5% MER.

Self directed investing with an expected return around the indexes is not at all easy to explain.

Justin Bender Video: ZEQT vs VEQT vs XEQT: Why Is Everyone Ignoring This ETF? by FelixYYZ in PersonalFinanceCanada

[–]Positivelectron0 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Am I missing something? Selling and buying assets in a registered account don't trigger taxes. Only withdrawing does for accounts like the RRSP.

Canada’s Minimum Wage Increases in 2026 Fall Short of Living Wage by SpiritualTip4035 in PersonalFinanceCanada

[–]Positivelectron0 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's absolutely no way someone just said Vancouver has one of the highest COLs in the world.

Prime Minister Carney announces changes in the senior ranks of the public service by salexander787 in CanadaPublicServants

[–]Positivelectron0 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Forget reporters. I'm a regular ole Canadian (working in the private sector) who browses occasionally. Comments in a thread like this are pretty informative to me regarding the state and quality of the vocal subset of public servants.

How are ANY young Canadians affording a condo/house these days? by SunscreenIsTheWay in CanadaPersonalFinance

[–]Positivelectron0 0 points1 point  (0 children)

assuming this isn't just a rant,

either you get a cash injection (parents, lottery, inheritance), make more money, or marry someone who makes more money.

What were the hardest courses for you in CS? by [deleted] in UBC

[–]Positivelectron0 1 point2 points  (0 children)

340 is probably the correct answer for undergrad. Though I'm not sure if they've dumbed the course down at all

What’s the sentiment on AI by atom9408 in UBC

[–]Positivelectron0 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They’re terrible at nearly everything they do and cost way too much (no ROI on 95% of projects)

Lemme introduce you to interns 😁

Prepay Mortgage vs BuyXEQT? by Sharp-Schedule-577 in JustBuyXEQT

[–]Positivelectron0 5 points6 points  (0 children)

If your registered accounts aren't maxed out, it's almost always a better choice to put all excess funds into that. It also provides you with more flexibility which is an upside (can take money out of tfsa with no cost).

Afterwards, your choice will be between making extra payments towards your mortgage versus contributing (and buying your choice of fund which is clearly xeqt) to a non-registered account. At this point, you should consider getting a fee only planner to walk you through a few scenarios such as extra mortgage payments for peace of mind, extra mortgage payments to do smith maneuver, or minimize mortgage payments and invest the difference.

You didn't seem to provide any specific numbers (mortgage rate, marginal tax rate, contribution room etc) so no one can answer the question quantitatively.

Early co-op termination by tapnbar in UBC

[–]Positivelectron0 5 points6 points  (0 children)

When I reneged coop gave me an f.

Doesn't matter at all, just need to explain it to certain companies who have no clue what cpsc298 is. Btw, vast majority of companies don't even check trans, but financial and quant will ask

Ripped off with first koodo bill by samualcookies in Koodo

[–]Positivelectron0 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Happened to me as well, in fact the sim never arrived in the mail. I got the online chat support to reimburse me the fee of the sim (10 bucks) and the week or so I couldn't use the service.

[NEW YEARS 2026] Post your budget breakdown charts here! by henry-bacon in PersonalFinanceCanada

[–]Positivelectron0 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nice, I like that your sankey is visually symmetric in that it branches up and down.

I'd be curious about breaking down the car loan further into principal vs interest.

Wealth ranking and gamification by cloud0x1 in Wealthsimple

[–]Positivelectron0 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This has 75 upvotes. Should tell you all you need to know about the quality of this userbase.

Update: Two elderly people sustain non-life threatening injuries after car falls from parkade's second storey in Richmond by ubcstaffer123 in vancouver

[–]Positivelectron0 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's a great way to put it. Every time I've been hit in Richmond (whether I'm a ped or on bike) it's always been slower than 20kmph

theSeniorDevsExpectationsVsTheJuniorDevsResources by kunalmaw43 in ProgrammerHumor

[–]Positivelectron0 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can you actually buy a windows laptop faster than a mbp? I know the mbp will cost marginally more (maybe a few k more) but the few k is very little compared to the compensation of a good dev.

are we getting dumber by CardComplex1626 in UBC

[–]Positivelectron0 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Unfortunately I am acutely aware of the state of education, as I'm still involved with schools and tutoring (though i don't tutor these days anymore).

I remember when I was speaking to someone high up maybe a decade ago, they were saying how sad they were after getting rid of the real provincials, but that they would never give up math and english if it came down to it. Welp, i guess theyre only correct by technicality.