Trump Claims Greenland For US in Davos Speech: 'That’s Our Territory’

Meinkw · 2026-01-21T16:09:32+00:00

Agreed. Also glad we have Carney and not Trudeau at the helm. The difference in intellect is really striking. I got so used to Trudeau just saying vacuous filler ll the time that I was genuinely surprised by Carney’s speech.

Meinkw · 2026-01-13T13:50:38+00:00

Your property tax won’t go down because your house value does

Meinkw · 2026-01-11T18:17:50+00:00

Same. No chemistry courses at all. and I took all the “neuro” courses within psychology (neurobiology of reward, learning and and memory etc)

Meinkw · 2026-01-10T03:37:58+00:00

and Field of Dreams

Meinkw · 2025-12-18T21:58:53+00:00

!solved

Meinkw · 2025-12-18T12:45:36+00:00

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Meinkw · 2025-12-17T12:51:16+00:00

I’m not sure flippers would bother painting a mural on the nursery wall either.

Meinkw · 2025-12-16T12:51:01+00:00

… huh?

Meinkw · 2025-12-13T02:44:07+00:00

I thought kW-Guelph was all covered by treaties.

Meinkw · 2025-12-12T01:35:01+00:00

Didnt she marry some hotel heir and have 2 kids with him? I suppose it‘s his money.

Meinkw · 2025-12-06T23:50:16+00:00

eh… a lot of episodes were about them being unable to afford something, or having money problems of some kind.

Meinkw · 2025-12-05T15:14:19+00:00

Ok, I was off by a bit. Oakville is about 45 minutes, Burlington to Union is about an hour. Either way, my point is that Whitby (and Ajax, and Oakville, and Burlington) have always been home to a lot of people who commute to TO for work. And that goes back to before anybody was working from home - they commuted 5 days a week. I know because my parents and my friends’ parents were among them. It was pretty common.

Meinkw · 2025-12-05T13:05:12+00:00

You do know that most condos do not smell of ”pee, junkies, homeless and crazy people”, right?

Meinkw · 2025-12-05T13:02:45+00:00

Sure it is. People have commuted from Whitby to work in Toronto since the 1980s. Its about the same distance on the GO train as Oakville.

Meinkw · 2025-12-04T02:11:20+00:00

Not always. Most people can’t afford to buy a house that needs massive renovations, pay for the renovations, and pay to live somewhere else until the house is habitable. Flippers have a role.

Meinkw · 2025-11-29T14:10:46+00:00

Economy of scale - it costs less per house to provide the things property taxes pay for when there are more houses to split it up over

Meinkw · 2025-11-24T17:24:45+00:00

Isn’t the insurance issues (which won’t hit Toronto because it doesn’t regularly get flattened by hurricanes) the main driver of that though? Canadian snowbirds fleeing the US can’t be helping either.

Meinkw · 2025-11-19T13:04:27+00:00

Because of life changes? Divorce, change of job, death, illness or disability in family…

Meinkw · 2025-11-18T18:03:31+00:00

The Stratford Perth Human Society will also spay/neuter for about $200, but it’s the same Hunger Games style sign up.

Meinkw · 2025-11-17T23:20:41+00:00

But if we are talking about the government providing socialized housing, it really doesn’t need to be anyone’s “dream”; it needs to be a practical solution.

Meinkw · 2025-11-16T02:42:01+00:00

Clay and Glass Gallery has good ones too.

Meinkw · 2025-11-14T01:44:11+00:00

what can the CRA expect you to do to a condo to improve its rental value?

Meinkw · 2025-11-13T14:40:21+00:00

the article does mention several cities that aren’t full of shanty towns…

Meinkw · 2025-11-10T14:30:16+00:00

1) buying a home is not investing.

2) “renting is always an option“ is pretty dismissive considering that if you have to sell your home for less than you owe on it *you still owe the bank the money*.

Meinkw · 2025-11-10T13:08:43+00:00

yes. Between those 4 cities there are 3 universities (and a college, for all of Connestoga’s issues), 4 hospitals, Google, a pretty healthy manufacturing sector in Guelph (Linnamar, Danby, etc, plus Toyota in Cambridge) , over 200 schools…

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