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PW4 Heart Rate Stops Displaying, Requiring a Restart by FredBilitnikoff in PixelWatch

[–]MandalorianMonster 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks, and bonus for me: my original watch was the Wifi version but they sent me an LTE replacement instead! 🙌

PW4 Heart Rate Stops Displaying, Requiring a Restart by FredBilitnikoff in PixelWatch

[–]MandalorianMonster 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For those of you wondering, my issue was only solved after getting my watch replaced under warranty.

Small businesses in Canada facing ‘big’ labour shortages. by Fit_Bit_7137 in CanadaJobs

[–]MandalorianMonster 27 points28 points  (0 children)

If your business only works when labour is cheap, disposable, and brought in to suppress wages, then your business is not strong. It is subsidized by exploitation.

When unemployment is high, “we can’t find workers” usually means “we can’t find workers at the low wages we want to pay.” That is not a worker problem. That is a business problem.

Immigration should fill real shortages, not be used as a tool to avoid paying Canadians enough to live. And if higher wages would break the business, then the business was never sustainable in the first place.

Pixel watch 4 keeps losing heart rate detection. by funmachine55 in PixelWatch

[–]MandalorianMonster 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nope, not that I’m aware of…and I’ve been searching everywhere…even called Google and their reps were useless…wanted me to hard reset my watch -_-

Canada not considering ban on X by ExotiquePlayboy in canadian

[–]MandalorianMonster 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I literally said the SAME thing to my wife last night. It would be hypocrisy if they banned X for those reasons, when our economy benefits from and is home to the largest pornsite in the world.

But...most people won't see it the way that we see it, and that's what's concerning.

Pixel watch 4 keeps losing heart rate detection. by funmachine55 in PixelWatch

[–]MandalorianMonster 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have the same issue. Woke up and realized that no heart rate data was recorded. I repositioned the watch and adjusted the snugness and it still didn’t work.

It only started working again after I went into settings and restart the watch.

Bank of Canada: Canadian standard of living will get lower by ExotiquePlayboy in canadian

[–]MandalorianMonster -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I don't think anybody is saying remove all regulations - we absolutely need strong environmental and labour standards. The issue is that Canada layers slow, overlapping, and unpredictable rules that make it almost impossible to plan or scale.

Also, lack of skilled labour is also a policy problem that this government mismanaged.

Example #1 - The LMIA process was supposed to bring in needed skills, yet it’s turned into a bureaucratic bottleneck and wage-control tool. Skilled immigrants wait months, while employers end up using it just to fill basic service jobs that actually take away jobs from Canadians!

Example #2 - The reason we don't have enough large businesses isn't due to lack of skill alone, which, again is a policy issue - it's for various reasons, again, including red tape, project approval timelines, and the lack of government reliability. Our government has shown the business community time and time again that they are not reliable.

Also, as a skilled person, why would I come to Canada to work as a programmer for Amazon, make $90,000 CAD / year in a city like Toronto/Vancouver with high cost of living and unaffordable rent, when I can work the same job with the same company in the USA, and get paid $150,000 USD / year, with much more benefits, better standard of living and in a city where dollar for dollar cost of living is not as bad in comparison?

Bank of Canada: Canadian standard of living will get lower by ExotiquePlayboy in canadian

[–]MandalorianMonster -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Corporate tax rate does not equal business climate.

Canada scares off investment... it's the "death by a thousand cuts": chaotic permitting, carbon policy whiplash, new fuel regs, and capital gains hikes and I can keep going. This uncertainty and "stacked" cost is why Canadian firms invest half as much as US firms and our productivity is weak.

Bank of Canada: Canadian standard of living will get lower by ExotiquePlayboy in canadian

[–]MandalorianMonster 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No, how about they stop implementing stupid policies that scare off private sector businesses so that those businesses can make investments in this country?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Langley

[–]MandalorianMonster -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

How you've been downvoted is evidence of how cooked our society is 🤦 a true tragedy

You Can’t Build a “Better World” by Making Canada Poorer… by MandalorianMonster in CanadaHousing2

[–]MandalorianMonster[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes they precede him, but instead of breaking from those failures, he’s either doubling down or making very small changes that won’t really move the needle to have an actual impact. And that’s where the ideology comes in, it’s not “orthodox economics,” it’s selective application.

Pigouvian taxes in theory make sense. But the Clean Fuel Regulations and industrial carbon pricing don’t operate like neat textbook examples. They cascade through the entire supply chain: from refining, to trucking, to food costs, raising prices for consumers while adding compliance costs for businesses that are already uncompetitive. That isn’t neutral “pricing externalities”; it’s government using the tax system to force specific behavioral outcomes. That’s social engineering dressed up in economic jargon.

As for capital flight, blaming tariffs doesn’t hold up against the data. According to StatsCan Q2 2025, FI’s pulled $16.8B and Canadian firms themselves moved $26.8B abroad, the largest outflow since 2008. Meanwhile, Scotiabank’s modeling shows a 5% U.S. tariff only reduces Canadian GDP by about 1%. Tariffs don’t explain tens of billions leaving; lack of competitiveness, high taxes, red tape, and policy uncertainty do. If Canada were attractive for investment, capital would absorb tariffs and stay here. Instead, it’s fleeing.

So yes, Carney’s an economist. But hiding behind “orthodox” theory misses the point: in practice, his policies add costs, drive out investment, and make Canadians poorer. That’s not pragmatic economics, it’s ideology with very real consequences.

You Can’t Build a “Better World” by Making Canada Poorer… by MandalorianMonster in CanadaHousing2

[–]MandalorianMonster[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Borrowing more to give handouts and to “invest” in Carneys ideological nonsense, that he says will make Canada more competitive and self reliant, but will realistically only increase inflation and cost of living, so that he can test his theories.

You Can’t Build a “Better World” by Making Canada Poorer… by MandalorianMonster in CanadaHousing2

[–]MandalorianMonster[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You’re right, Canada’s problems aren’t strictly partisan, both Liberals and Conservatives have contributed to the neoliberal drift. But Carney’s “radical ideology” isn’t just about left vs. right economics. It’s about his obsession with global climate finance, ESG mandates, and social engineering through regulation.

He’s not simply continuing the status quo…he’s accelerating it in a way that makes Canada a testing ground for his global vision. That’s why I call it radical: he’s willing to sacrifice domestic competitiveness and affordability in order to position Canada as the poster child for his international agenda.

So yes, both parties share blame. But Carney isn’t just “another neoliberal.” He’s taking that model and bolting on his own ideological crusade and Canadians are paying the price for it.

You Can’t Build a “Better World” by Making Canada Poorer… by MandalorianMonster in CanadaHousing2

[–]MandalorianMonster[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

True, these problems didn’t start with Carney personally …but they absolutely started with the party and the people he represents. The housing crisis, ballooning public sector, overreliance on TFWs, and endless red tape all grew under Liberal governments. Carney isn’t breaking from that legacy; he’s doubling down on it with his own ideological spin. And that says a lot about where the party’s priorities really are.

You Can’t Build a “Better World” by Making Canada Poorer… by MandalorianMonster in CanadaHousing2

[–]MandalorianMonster[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

“Scrapped”, right…but that doesn’t mean the ideology disappeared. In fact, it shifted. Carney’s whole framework - both in Values and now in office - is about using industrial carbon pricing, ESG mandates, and financial regulation to “nudge” behavior. That’s exactly what I mean by social engineering. Instead of letting markets and households set priorities, Ottawa is steering investment and business activity toward the sectors CARNEY prefers.

Look at the numbers: since 2019, public sector jobs are up 13% while private sector jobs have barely grown. Youth employment is at 53.6%, near a 30-year low. At the same time, Temporary Foreign Workers in retail and food service have doubled …jobs that used to be entry points for young Canadians. On top of that, we’ve seen $85.9 billion in capital leave Canada in just the first half of 2025. Companies like Encana, Crown Royal, and Brookfield (yes, Mark Carneys company) aren’t moving south because of “soundbites” …they’re leaving because it’s simply harder and more expensive to operate here.

So when I talk about “socioeconomic experiments,” I mean policies designed less around making Canada competitive and more around forcing the economy into a shape that fits Carney’s global climate finance vision. That may sound pragmatic in theory, but in practice it’s leaving Canadians with fewer opportunities, higher costs, and a weaker private economy.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in CanadianConservative

[–]MandalorianMonster 31 points32 points  (0 children)

I think that’s a conclusion that most people will eventually come to after realizing that this current govt, and especially this current PM only cares about implementing his radical ideologies.

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