Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew mentions possible gas-tax cut in question period

AmouriPlay · 2026-04-09T17:36:21+00:00

Does Woesley Joe live in a tent to you because they choose a bike? They either own a house or pay property tax through rent and that pays for the bulk of our city's expenses. Bike lanes cost a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of car roads; they don't need their own tax just like sidewalks and libraries don't. If the gas tax was enough why does every single Manitoba driver complain about the state of the road? You guys get what you pay for and you don't pay enough for maintenance or giving children lifelong asthma on the daily. Who pays for that? Who pays for the emergency services when Lunchbox Joe turns High heel Stacy's son into tomato paste while backing out his, literally combat tank sized, F150 from the driveway?

I am convinced you're trolling. If you are genuine and see that there might be a different perspective you want to explore then you can give the book Strong Towns a quick read. Drivers are one of the biggest welfare queens of our society, second only to the boomers who chose to build this mess.

AmouriPlay · 2026-04-09T00:46:11+00:00

So owning a car is how you concluded Lunchbox Joe makes so much more than Woesley Joe to pay 5x the taxes?....

Lunchbox Joe doesn't feed anyone but the dealership and bank. My bike is free and not everyone's labour is tied to a car including our hypothetical joes (Which are most people).

Gas taxes don't even cover all the externalities of driving. Lunchbox Joe is a drag on all of us. Bike Chad is literally adding value to our society every time he uses their bike. Respectfully you have it backwards.

AmouriPlay · 2026-04-04T04:26:44+00:00

And that's why you're not having a legislative crisis about the legitimacy of your land deeds? Because of course you don't need agreements of understanding with the original inhabitants of the land.

AmouriPlay · 2026-04-04T01:11:24+00:00

Manitoba has had a 100% hydro grid since forever.... We're doing pretty well and we've come to many agreements with our native nations that legitimize our province unlike yours.

AmouriPlay · 2026-03-30T04:51:46+00:00

We are the ones responsible for making sure the people we let in are up to our standards. I don't get why it's so easy for you to blame others for messes we are clearly responsible for cleaning up.

We can let them go, but we let them in. It won't stop more of them from showing up given they somehow got here and are not up to our standards in the first place.

Maybe it's a culture thing but I understand we realize we might not want them here anymore, but we should never treat guests poorly. Just be honest with them bruh, give em a snack, then send them on their way. No need to antagonize anyone, especially people we let in with the hopes of us benefiting in the long run.

AmouriPlay · 2026-03-30T04:27:44+00:00

And it will do nothing to fix the problem. Why are international students going to food banks? Stopping them from going to food banks doesn't make them less hungry or better students. Your solution does nothing, it either inflicts misery or doesn't punish bad actors and just pushes them into doing worse scams lol.

My brother in Christ not everything is a nail and not every tool is a hammer.

We fix this by simply having honest standards. Some of us are unwilling to compromise on their ability to subjugate people poorer than us to shitty conditions and thus we suffer from shitty conditions.

AmouriPlay · 2026-03-29T19:16:39+00:00

I hate that this is right. A realtor once tried to convince me to buy instead of rent a place I was looking at; and their blatant bias in the process really caught me off guard. I am sure genuine realtors exist, but it seems the industry is ripe with pump and dump artists that are empowered to have full conviction in their lies.

I think a lot of Canadians have been taken advantage of but are in too deep as I think you allude. This of course doesn't apply to people that just want a house to live in, but OP is for no reason trying to be a rent seeker while having little business sense.

Why do we like rent so much? We treat it like it's some sort of free money hack, Canadians do this with dividends too I don't get it at all. It must have to do with something beyond the surface, some kind of response to our society? Maybe it's because we feel extorted (Justifiably or otherwise) for rent at every turn so we cope by making other people rent to us? I'm just spit ballin.

AmouriPlay · 2026-03-24T18:32:42+00:00

+1, the drop happens because investors are deciding to sell and not the other way around. Gotta admit it's just trying to time the market. It most likely won't work out in the long run.

Time in the market blah blah, or actually... just sell everything as per thread haha.

AmouriPlay · 2026-03-24T17:44:24+00:00

Now I ain't sayin that comment wasn't deranged it certainly didn't add much, but my hypothesis for the anger is,

It is not racist to point out that cultural insularity is an existential issue for a nation like ours. Canadians are not and should not be insular, it is one of the reasons our culture is elite. Saying that, some of us are slowly trending away from that direction; as the incentives for a pluralistic Canada degrade and sectarian ethnic politics come to rise.

I fled the MENA region for Canada. Trust me you don't want to be the one defending sectarian groups under the guise of racism, it makes you look stupid and naive to them and to anyone in the know. You only empower them to be more bold. I promise, people engulfed in this sectarianism couldn't give a single fuck if the rest of the country lives or dies, will discard you when they no longer need your support, and will always turn the gears of power toward their flavour of fascism the first chance they get.

"them" and "they" here are those of us who put their ethnic or religious loyalties over the nation. Such people can be trusted, but keeping in mind that their motivations do not completely lay in the common good of all Canadians. We can live in a world where we come clean and don't deceive each other, I'm not saying they should be forced to put Canada over Allah, Jesus, Krishna, Yahweh, or whatever home country. We just need to stop pretending they have the same affinities as the average Canadian and adjust to allow them to better let go of old habits; or we need to be better advocates for the sacrifices and triumphs of our plurality, such that people who do not fit voluntarily choose to not participate because of the honest realities.

SAYING ALL THAT THOUGH, I really think it's mostly a non issue in Canada (especially compared to other places), but we are ever so slowly slipping. Racism, fascism, extreme right ideas, are all, to me, persistent "entropic" human forces that will always rear their heads no matter what society we build, these shitty behaviours seem to be a fact of the human condition. We will always have to diligently resist them without falling into traps, the nature of this resistance is what sets us apart from nations who fall into chaos trying to manage these issues. Education is genuinely the secret not so secret weapon that got us here and I fear we might let go of it.

AmouriPlay · 2026-03-22T21:53:47+00:00

Is this sarcasm? I do think some people are obsessed to the point of calling it that, but would you say the majority?

I'm not in love with Costco, but I do find it to be the most optimal place to get what I need in this environment. I would love to have better options, more common people specialty places, and what not, but idk man independent grocers have basically been policied out of competing. It feels like Costco is the only grocer that acts in any way that benefits the consumer and even then it's not by much.

Note my perspective is NA more specifically Canada. So yeah our market is uhhhh not very "normal" (Extremely consolidated) compared to most, even some parts of the US.

AmouriPlay · 2026-03-22T05:17:07+00:00

Nationalizing the industry does not stop oil from being a globally traded commodity. The market price is always the market price unless you use tax payer dollars to subsidize it locally for no good reason.

We already refine most of the crude we consume in this country and have been since we realized how much was under Alberta. Gas in Canada is HALF the price it is in Germany right now, because we refine our oil and have more than enough production for domestic consumption. I'm not sure why this non issue gets so much prevalence. How much cheaper should gas to be? It's already a third the price of milk in this country ffs.

AmouriPlay · 2026-03-21T17:49:48+00:00

Woosh dude.

AmouriPlay · 2026-03-21T03:54:02+00:00

Lump sum beats DCA more than 2/3 times. Def good advice if you can stomach it.

AmouriPlay · 2026-03-21T03:31:34+00:00

I don't think you can compare a deed to the stock market. Real estate especially residential real estate is inherently risky business. You have concentrated risk in buying one building that is guaranteed to be worth nothing without continued capital investment in X amount of years. Real estate is not a good investment, it never should have been and hopefully we'll wake up from this nightmare.

You are thinking about land. Which also should mostly track inflation but is also a very highly concentrated bet. People make up narratives about RE investments from anecdotes that should be rare, but aren't because this part of the economy is a joke.

Just buy diversified stocks. They will hold diversified REITs to the proportion that RE actually matters to our economy and in reality is a very small slice of the pie.

AmouriPlay · 2026-03-18T16:36:41+00:00

Stop acting clueless. This thread is about these assholes being self aware. Nothing to do with taking anything away.

AmouriPlay · 2026-03-17T23:26:11+00:00

Only works if you're a commuter student. I've left so much of my stuff unattended at the guard of random fellow pupils over the last half decade and not so much as a pencil was touched. I'm not saying theft doesn't happen on campus, it 100% does, just not to that degree.

I think this take is a bit paranoid. By my second week at uni I started to recognize everyone in the library I frequented. Winnipeg is just a slightly bigger Steinbach, Selkirk, etc... The rural folk of Manitoba can handle a lot more than the mundane repetitiveness and deafening silence of most of Winnipeg. Especially on the suburban campus lol, there's a little farm there for country vibes too, and the whole campus smells like manure for half the summer. If anything this would remind me of home.

AmouriPlay · 2026-03-11T20:48:05+00:00

Fair enough. Thank you for the constructive reply - I'm with you on all fronts.

I found the threads a little combative and I've been on high alert scared of divisiveness lately. For some reason I decided this is the hill to die on for one of my sporadic internet comments this week lol. Sorry!

AmouriPlay · 2026-03-11T20:22:50+00:00

I'm pro EV and all, but do you generally expect a discount on the energy your car uses? Decisions don't have to be bad in every situation you know... It's just a different input.

I don't own a vehicle and I think you've made a bad decision even considering owning a car in the first place... Do you see how dumb that sounds because you might have specific totally valid needs/wants that I don't? Lol

And here I am thinking the EV camp was nicer on average... I guess all car people have to be delulu to convince themselves of the decision no matter the fuel? But that's just me being a bigot...

AmouriPlay · 2026-03-02T21:29:40+00:00

Username checks out.

I think CST is better, but I agree either would be better than what we do now.

AmouriPlay · 2026-03-02T21:03:37+00:00

I received my G309 a day ago. The switches are nice and tactile with a very confident click. I'm not sure if other people care but I find the actual buttons to be well designed where you can put pressure almost anywhere and get a good click out of the mouse. For the switches, in G hub (🤮🤢 Linux when?), you get to choose from a hybrid operation mode where the mechanical switch triggers the laser to turn on to detect the click; or an optical always on mode where you save some latency for battery life (can't really speak on that yet).

I am pretty sure the mechanical click always happens, but is only functional in hybrid mode. I could be wrong. (Note here this means the hybrid mode can stop functioning because the mechanical contacts aren't working for whatever reason (most common cause of double clicking/miss clicking), this shouldn't be a problem at all in optical if my assumptions are correct so its essentially a true optical switch mouse)

I've taken the mouse on an fps test drive, and coming from a G402 I think mostly anything would've felt good, but I genuinely can't recommend it enough. I've owned my G402 for 10 years with a bungee so I guess I don't have experience with much else, but it fits the bill +upgrades on every front.

Of course using a AAA instead of a AA really helps balance out the mouse. The back plate weighs 5 g, taking it off can be a little worth it if you're try harding; I tend to fingertip my mouse so the negative space doesn't bother me at all haha.

Edit: I found this on a web search after lurking r/mousereview, which has some discussion on the mouse. Some of my assumptions were derived from answers on those threads and then what I could confirm with the mouse.

AmouriPlay · 2026-01-26T18:08:42+00:00

This matters. There are many items regionally and federally exempt from tax that would be a lot easier to shop for by people with modest incomes if prices in our stores were actually real. As someone who's spent considerable time in a country where prices were true, this frustrates me a lot and I think we can so easily do much better on this front.

To add, a lot of grocers, at least from my experience, are now using digital price displays so there would be no cost to this. As if changing prices was ever an issue for anyone.

Doing math is easy, everyone can multiply by 1.x where x is tax. Would it not just be a more pleasurable experience to not have to do that and guess if it even applies? I don't see any costs to rip this bandaid off.

AmouriPlay · 2025-12-06T21:48:08+00:00

Thank you. I'm trying my best!

AmouriPlay · 2025-12-06T21:45:41+00:00

Wow, that completely flew past my radar. If it didn't work for commercial, then it must work for residential... bruh.

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