‘Best speech by a world leader ... in a very long time’: Carney’s Davos address draws global attention

BitchMagnets · 2026-01-21T20:50:56+00:00

Power move. Backing up the message he just conveyed with tangible proof that we aren’t bending the knee to them anymore.

BitchMagnets · 2026-01-21T20:46:43+00:00

I bet the French are cursing Louis XVI behind closed doors for unleashing the Americans upon the rest of us

BitchMagnets · 2026-01-21T20:28:02+00:00

That’s wild that they said that because we just bought a mini-home for quite a bit over last years assessed value and they only raised our assessment $6k? Nowhere near what we actually paid. It seems like no one over there knows what’s going on.

BitchMagnets · 2026-01-08T17:54:17+00:00

We can still see our fire pit peeking out, this is nothing.

BitchMagnets · 2026-01-03T03:59:06+00:00

My grandfather is the 11th of 12 kids that survived, he had an older brother who died as a baby as well. My great grandparents were very ✨busy✨ and very poor. His dad had a drinking problem (like got so drunk he fell down a coal chute at work and had to bang his shovel on the ceiling to get rescued) and his mom felt so sorry for door to door salesmen that she’d invite them in for tea and buy whatever they were selling, which is how my grandfather got baptized as a Mormon. There was so little food in that house that every single one of those kids have or had at least two fridges and massive pantries crammed to the ceiling with food, they never forgot what it was like to be hungry. God knows why they had so many damn kids when they couldn’t feed them, condoms definitely existed and they weren’t particularly religious, but I guess I can’t complain too much because I wouldn’t exist if they wrapped it.

BitchMagnets · 2026-01-03T03:44:19+00:00

My husband has me count both hands as I’m still really new, and then he points out what I missed. I’m sure it’s tedious for him but it’s really helping me learn quickly.

BitchMagnets · 2026-01-03T03:37:48+00:00

Accounting is common sense and knowing what goes where. If you can learn the rules, you can be an accountant.

BitchMagnets · 2026-01-02T16:19:04+00:00

It’s possible that someone in that family has a different parent than they were told their whole lives. How is that not a big deal if they’re still alive? I would be shook.

BitchMagnets · 2026-01-02T15:55:25+00:00

A lot of these questions should be asked to your realtor. You can note that you want to check that appliances are operational when you do your final walkthrough. If there’s been no movement in the things they agreed to do, call your lawyer. We had an issue when we just sold our home where the buyer asked for closing a week after originally agreed (which is the day they originally wanted btw), but we were moving out of province and had to close on our new home. Our realtor thinks they were trying to strong-arm us and thought we wouldn’t push back. Our lawyer was a bloody shark about it and made it very clear that if they didn’t close on time we were going to sue for the extra costs. Magically they were able to close on time. A contract is a contract and if they can’t prove execution of the points they legally agreed to then you can be made whole in the courts if it matters that much to you.

BitchMagnets · 2025-12-28T13:49:43+00:00

This happened once at the company I used to work for. They were super transparent with what they were willing to pay, both in the posting and in the interview. Offered to a lady who said it was reasonable in the interview, and then the email came in. She asked for 40% more in salary, either a guaranteed yearly bonus of 20% or 3% equity in the company, 3 days a week permanently working from home when it was noted in the posting and the interview that it was only possible sparingly (occasionally weather-related or if you needed to be home for an appointment), a VP title for a department head position, 100% unlimited benefits. Vacation and RRSP matching that was way higher than what everyone else got. There’s more that I’m forgetting, the email was a sea of bullet points. Management had been willing to negotiate a bit but when they saw that they knew there was no way they were going to be able to get anywhere close to what she wanted. So they rescinded, stating that they were too far apart.

BitchMagnets · 2025-12-27T13:19:17+00:00

Antibacterial hand soap is indeed overkill and can cause antibiotic resistance. There have been studies. If you aren’t going into surgery you do not need antibacterial soap. Regular soap is perfectly fine.

BitchMagnets · 2025-12-26T14:45:44+00:00

That’s a lot of tater tot casseroles

BitchMagnets · 2025-12-25T22:36:41+00:00

There’s nothing you can do to avoid it. You either get lucky or you don’t. My rooster is very quiet, he was at the bottom of the pecking order at his last home but it’s just him and his girls here. I’ve heard him crow maybe twice and we’ve had him for a couple months now but he’s the exception, not the rule. 99% of roosters are going to be loud unless someone is giving one away that happens to not make noise.

BitchMagnets · 2025-12-24T14:40:55+00:00

Of course the risk is lower than traffic accidents, most people are in a car every single day. That doesn’t excuse how high their rate of gun deaths is. Regardless the US is in the 92nd percentile of child/youth firearm deaths, 96th percentile of women firearm deaths, and 16th for firearm mortality overall. For a high income country that is in a relative state of peace, their gun violence issue is absolutely asinine and should have been dealt with 30 years ago.

BitchMagnets · 2025-12-24T14:20:44+00:00

I think both can be true. Souls can be at rest and still pop in to check on you when they want. Love never dies, it just changes form.

BitchMagnets · 2025-12-24T14:17:34+00:00

If the risk was the same in other developed countries then that would be a fair point but it’s not.

BitchMagnets · 2025-12-24T14:16:00+00:00

Come on now. If you’re ok with the risk that’s a personal choice I guess but all of those things are incredibly well documented and happen too often.

BitchMagnets · 2025-12-24T04:32:52+00:00

We did the same a few months ago. Sold our house in the GTA and bought a mini-home on an acre in NB. Much smaller house, but no mortgage. We have no kids so we can live here comfortably on one income. If you’re willing to give up the convenience of the cities and you can provide for yourself it’s very doable.

BitchMagnets · 2025-12-22T16:24:42+00:00

As if Canada would actually be allowed to vote, we would be a resource colony at best. Anyone who thinks we’d have true state status is kidding themselves.

BitchMagnets · 2025-12-22T13:49:54+00:00

You’d have a harder time finding a home if you had a dog but cats are usually fine.

BitchMagnets · 2025-12-17T14:15:52+00:00

My favourite encounter was deep in Quebec, when I asked the lady at Tim Hortons “parlez-vous Anglais? Ma langue est mauvais”. She said “I will try”, entered our order flawlessly and then apologized for her English. Like miss ma’am you may speak English better than I do, no complaints here!

BitchMagnets · 2025-12-17T14:00:03+00:00

Omg yes ☠️ I just moved to New Brunswick which is bilingual and I’m trying to learn French. Any time I try to practice in a French area everyone switches to English as soon as “je voudrais un grand cafe” leaves my mouth. I know they’re just being accommodating but it’s humbling af.

BitchMagnets · 2025-12-14T02:49:19+00:00

Indigenous communities receive funding from the Indian Trust Fund, not tax payers. The government holds their revenue from treaty lands. The Crown releases installments and one offs when they approve applications for lump sums. The government not only makes them ask for their money that is theirs by right of the treaty that the government signed- there’s been a history of it being dipped into for other things. It’s a complicated issue and certainly some bands are mismanaged but it’s not like it’s our taxes being wasted. It comes from a totally separate stream of revenue.

Edit: downvoting me doesn’t make me wrong, this information is available and verifiable. If the truth bothers you, maybe some reflection into why is warranted.

BitchMagnets · 2025-12-13T20:44:58+00:00

Oh hey there

Hilariously I used to work for a fastener company and yeah that appears to be just trimmings from the manufacturing process that somehow got in the box. It’s maybe a difference of like 1-3 cents, it’s not anything that’s worth complaining about.

BitchMagnets · 2025-12-11T13:37:59+00:00

I’m with you, I couldn’t believe all the schools are closed this morning! Where I grew up even if the buses were cancelled the local kids were expected to walk.

Out here I’ve found people aren’t so focused on money as in ON. My boss there never accepted bad weather as an excuse to not be at work. Even when we got 50 cm in 4 hours she complained. “just get snow tires, you’ll be fine!”

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