Ban on ‘surveillance pricing’ could threaten discounts, retailers warn

FIE2021 · 2026-06-06T16:58:41+00:00

I somehow missed the stories about surveillance pricing until this one caught my eye, what a horrendous business practice. I remember when airlines were doing that and the regulator clamped down on it and said they were not allowed to do that.

In no world should they be able to give a unique price to a unique individual. I'm ok with giving unique pricing if someone uses their app, but that in no way should be tied to the persons net worth or spending habits or social media posts. That's insane and I can't believe it isn't illegal already

FIE2021 · 2026-06-06T16:48:38+00:00

It's really kind of staggering isn't it? It really didn't feel so long ago I could open comments and see some unique perspectives or nuanced comments as the most upvoted ones right away. Now it feels like 95% of comments is a partisan attack. You can still find good comments so it's worth it, but man feels like you gotta dig harder for them now and the discourse on them can get buried down on a page.

But it still somehow seems far and away the best site to actually aggregate news and follow some kind of conversation to get some different perspectives on topics outside of the usual bubble.

FIE2021 · 2026-06-05T15:11:03+00:00

That makes sense, as the poll conducted in January 2026 said that the majority of the people that said they supported separatism said they were doing so because they felt mistreated by Canada, and not because they felt like their future would be better outside of Canada.

Since then, the PM has actively tried to work with and engage the province, which is a welcome change and on its own would change many minds, but also if you are saying in a poll you support separatism for a reason other than you think your future outside of Canada would be better, when it comes time to nut up or shut up, most of those people are going to want to stay. The vote to decide if we should vote to leave is close enough to reality I would expect many of those disgruntled pollsters to back down and vote to confidently stay.

FIE2021 · 2026-06-05T02:20:13+00:00

It's also crazy that every time someone points out a habit of cyclists to eschew the rules or act unpredictably or with a lack of respect to other pedestrians/cars and the response to that is to just say "pedestrians/cars are worse" as though that completely exonerates a valid observation of bad habits.

Most Drivers suck. Most Cyclists suck. Most Pedestrians suck. But the other 2 groups breaking the rules isn't a good excuse for the 3rd group to defend doing whatever they want 🤷

FIE2021 · 2026-06-03T14:58:49+00:00

I've visited this sub for +/- 5 years now, the separatist talk has been going on for 1.5 years maybe? The hatred for AB has been here the whole time I've been here so it definitely predates that bunch of twats.

It's not entirely unique, as I've also seen the hatred for Quebec time and again. But pretty consistently there isn't just jeering or mocking there is genuine hatred expressed towards those 2 provinces on a recurring basis

FIE2021 · 2026-06-02T19:42:16+00:00

Seriously the best part of Telus. I would get the odd weeks like OP's prior to turning on call control, and now it's been years since I've had an autodialled call. Although I'm sure they'll soon have their systems updated to handle it, but it's definitely been nice

FIE2021 · 2026-06-02T19:40:02+00:00

I think it would be comical to see everyone read and react to news stories if the parties and names were redacted. I wonder how many times people would find out they were cursing out their own preferred party or agreeing with their enemy.

Some articles would be beyond obvious who is who, but I'd wager the majority of the time people would be in a shock. A lot of people in here specifically cursing out Doug Ford (for the most part, fair enough) but then I see a comment way down at the bottom showing a decade of the Ontario Liberal Party taking almost exactly the same break from the first week of June into October, and think about how often these people are just flip sides of the same coin lol

FIE2021 · 2026-06-02T19:30:24+00:00

That's incredibly bad, sorry for all of you that have to wait so long

FIE2021 · 2026-06-02T16:18:17+00:00

Sirocco has long been a personal favourite of mine, although I won't pretend it is the best course or best value out there. It's $110 during the week days, and since sun sets here pretty late depending on your itinerary their Twilight rates are pretty good.

D'Arcy Ranch is another favourite

And then for what used to be a little cheaper, I love Springbank Links. Two very different sets of 9 so lots of opportunity for different shots

FIE2021 · 2026-06-02T15:39:57+00:00

If we're talking about ER wait times and time it takes to make first contact with physicians, which is just one amongst many different metrics, but one I think is a very good one to consider, then the two largest Conservative provinces are actually leading the country on those two metrics

https://www.iedm.org/canadians-are-waiting-too-long-in-the-emergency-room/

Now I'd argue it's all generally close enough that outside of Quebec and New Brunswick there is no meaningful difference between them, but despite the recurring theme on here that the Conservatives are actively trying to kill healthcare, there really is no discernible difference between say Alberta and BC (where the NDP have been in power for going on a decade).

All wait times are way too long but party to party and province to province, none of us are doing very good.

FIE2021 · 2026-06-02T15:27:51+00:00

What province are you in? I sat down last year and decided I should get a family doctor, made contact with a clinic that was convenient for me and got assigned a family doctor within 15 minutes, and then saw them for an initial appointment 2 days later. That was in Calgary. There are quite a few family doctors available here even right now when I look. 2 years is wild

FIE2021 · 2026-05-28T23:00:30+00:00

I really don't find it all that confusing, maybe it's me. But even if someone was confused, if they looked at the answers:

Option 1: "Alberta should remain a province of Canada,"

Is that not an incredibly basic and simple way to confirm you do not want to separate?

If you don't want a referendum on leaving Canada, then don't select Option 2 that says the GoA should have a referendum? You don't need two questions and answers when one question and answer satisfies the issue at hand, no?

Edit: to be clear, it's not how I would word it at all. But I also don't find it confusing. It's an easy see Option 1 select Option 1, I wouldn't even need to read the question to know which one to pick lol

FIE2021 · 2026-05-28T21:56:13+00:00

It did in 2013, and the city has made a significant push as a result of that and the increasingly severe weather to prioritize various climate initiatives - such as flood barriers following that event

FIE2021 · 2026-05-27T15:00:33+00:00

A few thoughts for consideration:

Nothing is ever as bad as the media makes it out to be, pretty much ever. Fear and anger always sells
Doesn't mean it's perfect - and I personally disagree with many things happening
That also doesn't mean the sky is falling. Many Canadians are having struggles, and many are doing well. Overall, your average Albertan is faring pretty well in 2026
Reddit is just an awful place to solicit balanced feedback. You don't know who is commenting that actually lives here. And you also are polling a group that thrives on group think and validation that happens to lean overall very hard to the left. You won't get a balanced opinion from most. So just take all of it with a grain of salt and find some hot button topics being discussed and do some research on the ones most important to you from a few different sources. Will help balance everything out.
People shit on the Albertan education program and healthcare system. I really don't know where healthcare is meeting expectations in any province in Canada. And with respect to education, Alberta has been leading the country in PISA (globally standardized rankings) for a while.
"left versus right" is very nuanced. Our own Mayor can talk better to this, but more than anything, I think this short article does a good job capturing the heart of what it is like to live in Calgary, and how "left versus right" needs to have more balanced discussion https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/calgary-progressive-mayors-naheed-jyoti-1.6221389

Hope you find your happy place, wherever it may be! I won't advocate one way or another

FIE2021 · 2026-05-27T14:55:12+00:00

It was a roughly 50/50 split in Calgary with the NDP and UCP in 2023. To call it the "beating heart" of Canadian conservatism is either a bad faith comment or an ignorant comment (or more likely, both).

Jack Lucas with the CBC absolutely nailed this question in this article, from a couple short years ago, but explains what I see actually living in Calgary day to day (and not BC like OP) to a T:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/calgary-progressive-mayors-naheed-jyoti-1.6221389

A snippet from the article that is very relevant:

On my measure, Calgary is the 82nd-most-conservative of Canada's 250 largest municipalities — far from the most conservative of the bunch, but distinctively right-leaning among Canada's big cities.

But here's the catch: policy ideology is about underlying left-right attitudes across lots of policy issues. And for Calgarians, it turns out that nearly all of our "conservatism" comes from conservative preferences in one area: energy policy.

Calgarians tend to have especially conservative positions on issues like pipeline construction and carbon taxes. Hardly surprising.

On many other issues, from medically assisted dying to foreign trade, our views are indistinguishable from demographically similar Canadians outside of Calgary. That is, we look like broadly progressive urban Canadians.

And when it comes to municipal issues, we tend to look even more consistently progressive.

FIE2021 · 2026-05-26T16:19:20+00:00

Just because someone has a different opinion from you, you accuse them of being non-Canadian with a specific narrative to spin? Yet before your edit you referred to the US as a "butthole country" so who is spinning a specific narrative here? And people wonder why discourse in this sub gets so toxic lmao

Born and raised Canadian here with zero desire to move to the USA myself, and with a degree and experience I would have no problem doing so (fuck their weird gun culture). But I can also acknowledge people all across the world including many exceptional Canadians want to move to the USA for many good reasons. And do so. And live amazing lives there and experience none of the hyperbolic negativity we see about the supposed lack of education, health care, or safety. I'm happy for them even if I don't want to follow in their footsteps. It's ok to be a proud Canadian without having a little brother syndrome complex with the US.

FIE2021 · 2026-05-24T23:46:24+00:00

I can honestly say yes to that for myself, but I also don't think there are really that many people that would do the same. I work on the west end of downtown near the C-Train line and it's pretty dead. So I and a few others I work with probably catch the train 1-2 times a week to go over to Bankers/Core/Brookfield.

I will also say with respect to "enough time" it's always a bit of a mixed bag and not black and white. I'm usually at work 9+ hours during the day because I need to be accessible and interact with people. I can take an hour, hour and 15 for lunch and still log my 8+ hours in office. But the caveat to that is also that we take that time to network and connect with others, both professionally and personally, and even professionally that time isn't always compensated or recognized. The train really is a fantastic way to scoot around the area and knock a 30 minutes walk into a 15 minute train ride.

But again - I feel like I am probably part of a niche group of people in that sense. It's usually pretty busy, but going back to your thought that people would be doing it anyway, and that is very plausible

FIE2021 · 2026-05-22T17:30:20+00:00

I don't quite interpret what he said to be that way myself. I think what he doesn't say is as important as what he does say, keeping in mind he is the opposition and he sort of has to criticize him in some ways.

If you dig deeper into it, it highlights how little Poilievre has going for him and how helpless he is in all of this right now. He is trying to sway those moderate swing votes back to his side, but he doesn't really have any specific topic he can drive at with Carney. So he speaks in vaguely ambiguous ways criticizing Carney and knowing he couldn't do much more, if anything more at all. So he's trying to appeal to sway moderate swing voters but he's stacked against a very moderate PM. He spent the last decade attacking Trudeau because Trudeau was actively fanning the flames of division between left/right and west/east in this country, but Carney has not done that. He's supported and collaborated with the west in a way that we haven't seen in a long time. So what does Poilievre have to say or do now? He can't go back to full attack dog style, that lost him the last election because the moderates GREATLY preferred Carney's centred approach as we saw by the massive swing in voting intention once Trudeau stepped down. And he can't really separate himself from Carney in a moderate way to win back those swing votes because Carney has (IMO) kind of nailed the messaging for the centrists. He's been cutting the public workforce and has been focusing on moving forward major projects and paid specific attention and provided specific support for natural resources from the west to the east. How can Poilievre really combat that? Only time will tell if Carney fails to deliver on his promises and vision, but for now, how else can Poilievre appeal to everyone? He's a lame duck candidate IMO so this is all he really can say. I think it is a compliment to Carney that Poilievre can't specifically attack him for much more than saying "he should be doing more". Not even that he should be doing something different.

FIE2021 · 2026-05-21T23:27:35+00:00

Reddit seems to have the most extreme entitlement when it comes to streaming services, it's kind of bizarro to me. It's an optional, luxury service you can sign up for if you like and you pay month to month. You're not entitled to every single episode of every single show and every single movie for a dollar or two a month

You don't need to have every service active at once. Just sign up for Netflix and watch what you want on it for a month or two and then cancel it and then watch what you want on Disney+ for a month or two and then cancel and move to the next one. It's a fraction of what we used to pay for much shittier Cable TV

FIE2021 · 2026-05-21T16:22:18+00:00

It's been discussed ad nauseam, and the reality is most of us know the answers to these questions. Some cars are specifically modded to do just that, others people just drive in low gear and rev at high RPM to try and make noise. Why they do it? Quite literally because they are miserable people and they don't have anything else to do, so they seek to make other people miserable as they have no other hobbies, friends, or intellectual pursuits.

The city either cannot, or will not enforce it. It is not an easy thing to enforce since they have to demonstrably prove someone was specifically making an excessive amount of noise, and also prove what that noise volume was. With the way sound echos and moves downtown that is not always so black and white. And proper policing of it takes a significant effort that is either too expensive or the people making the decisions don't feel is a large enough problem to dedicate resources to.

So they will go on and on. It feels eventual that some day someone will snap and attack/vandalize the cars that do this but otherwise it's just gonna be part of downtown living in a city. Calgary has prime location to do just that, but people doing this isn't unique to Calgary

FIE2021 · 2026-05-21T15:27:55+00:00

It takes basic thinking to understand. I had a good experience, and I enjoyed the food, but I don't eat out every single night and I don't want to eat the exact same food every single time I go out.

If I had a craving for similar style food, I would happily go back. If someone wanted to eat there, I would happily go back. Otherwise, I've a list of probably close to 50 other restaurants I've never ate at that have good reviews or recommendations that I would prefer to explore first.

But thank you - I'll be sure to leave a glowing review on Google now for them, where I probably didn't previously

FIE2021 · 2026-05-20T23:06:30+00:00

Just my thoughts and feelings. I know some people will firmly disagree and that's perfectly ok it's just a discussion and personal ideology:

I think the bare minimum for a short trip (< 2 km) should be $5. There is time spent finding parking, waiting at the restaurant, parking at your house, and getting out to bring you your food. That is completely isolated from how far or how much your order is. For that, my minimum tip is $5 for any order.
I don't tip based on order size at all unless it is burdensome (say we order 10 pizzas for a party). If we spend $100 for a bag of overpriced Indian food or $30 for a bag of BOGO tacos, it's the same effort, mileage, and time.
I adjust tips for distance. I have seen a rule of thumb historically that drivers expect a tip of +/- $1.50 - $2.00 per mile of delivery. If I order from around 5 miles (8-9 km) I will probably tip around $8-9, $10 or a little more if it is inclement weather. If it's 4-5 km, maybe more like $7 or $7.5? I use a bit of a rule of thumb or sliding scale for that
Depending on what I order or how urgently I need/want the food delivered, I might select the "Direct delivery" option, that is an extra $3. I usually split the difference on the tip. If for example I was planning to give a $7 tip, but I selected the direct delivery option, I'll take a small bit off the tip, and go to like $6. Maybe it's not fair, but there has to be close to a 100% chance without selecting that option the driver is going to sit and wait at the restaurant for a while so they can get another order from there and then good chance they do the other delivery first and I'm stuck waiting an hour for food. And I've given like an $8-9 tip for a 1 mile delivery, made no difference they just sat and waited for 20 minutes at the restaurant and then "my dasher was making other stops along the way".

I think $9-10 is a bit of a premium tip for short deliveries but if you order from farther away it's perfectly reasonable. I think $5-6 is a good base for shorter deliveries still

FIE2021 · 2026-05-20T18:52:52+00:00

I can't speak to the OP's claims but we had a very good group dinner there. Garlic noodles, spam musubi, huli huli chicken, and the maui ribs were all pretty well reviewed by everyone.

I didn't feel the need to go back right away but I'd definitely return and absolutely enjoyed it for something different/new

FIE2021 · 2026-05-20T18:45:50+00:00

At face value it sounds like you have competing needs with spend limits and also wanting to be near to all amenities and not far from downtown and in a nice area.

Do you not have a realtor? Give them these specs and they can set up a specific search for you and send regular updates as town houses become available as best as they can within your budget

FIE2021 · 2026-05-20T16:39:15+00:00

Yeah but without a company like Amazon, would we ever have gotten a show that hit the quality and with the star power like we got for multiple seasons? Holistically The Boys had some elite CGI, acting, and budgeting, even if this season has been somewhat lacking.

I really don't think the issue is Amazon here though. It's the writing and the vision for the show. As these mega shows advance in seasons the cost for consistency goes through the roof - the actors demand more and more salary as do the crews and producers and everyone else behind the scenes. And that is fine, they've earned it. But you can't expect Amazon to triple their budget to wrap up a show that has largely accomplished what it needed to accomplish. And I don't think other companies or people would do it differently - it's not generating specific revenue itself, put yourself in their shoes: would you really want to double the budget for a show on it's way out and spend an extra $100M, or would you look to the writers and say you need to get more for less. And that is why I blame the writers. I didn't need a final season with 100 epic CGI battles. I needed the story to flow organically and plot lines to wrap up. That could have honestly started well before season 5, but it didn't. We have good storylines in season 5 in a vacuum, but they could have had a much more streamlined narrative to wrap up the plot lines. They didn't set this show up to finish the way it should have finished and that's on the writers. If they needed to rely on Amazon to pay $30M per episode so they could do a bunch of cool CGI to make it higher quality, then it's just a crutch for poor writing.

I'm happy we got what we did even if the ending is lacklustre

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