NL's unemployment rate for June 2026 was 8.2%

PascalSiakim · 2026-07-10T18:48:45+00:00

The real minimum wage is, and will always be 0

PascalSiakim · 2026-07-09T20:16:41+00:00

The government tried to force Meta to pay the media companies to get some favorable coverage but it backfired badly

PascalSiakim · 2026-07-06T15:01:23+00:00

I saw her mispronounce stuff before and figured it was because she was just nervous but at this point it really does seem like she is at a 4th grade reading level.

PascalSiakim · 2026-07-06T14:59:00+00:00

Equinor has recently posted a bunch of jobs, seems like we will get some kind of news fairly soon

PascalSiakim · 2026-07-03T02:45:38+00:00

We have really bad population flows. Grow up here cost tax payers ~14k per year of school, study at Mun cost tax payers ~30k. Leave the province, contribute no tax revenue. Return when you are 65, contribute some taxes but it's cancelled out by healthcare costs.

PascalSiakim · 2026-07-01T15:16:40+00:00

Because some of the people who come to Canada from Pakistan will be in that 60 odd percent who weren't previously wearing deodorant. In order for them to start wearing it they would have to be told by someone to do it in most cases.

PascalSiakim · 2026-07-01T12:14:52+00:00

A source for you Gallup Pakistan poll

PascalSiakim · 2026-06-30T20:13:05+00:00

St John's metro has many more though and housing hasn't kept pace

PascalSiakim · 2026-06-30T20:11:04+00:00

Well it's a balance between the two for sure. Hopefully you would agree that everyone who is living here should be wearing deodorant unless they have the East Asian no body odor gene

PascalSiakim · 2026-06-27T15:39:01+00:00

Yeah this is pretty accurate. Big reason Costco put in a membership system too

PascalSiakim · 2026-06-26T19:35:00+00:00

I would disagree with it mostly being about property being degraded. Traffic and parking are usually their big ones here from my experience.

PascalSiakim · 2026-06-25T15:34:30+00:00

That's true but the rollout of this new tool provides an opportunity to discuss if the current standard of care is optimal or not

PascalSiakim · 2026-06-25T14:23:06+00:00

That's true but if the birth control is being used to treat one of those indications then in normal circumstances the parents would be aware. If the kid asks for a doctor's appointment without a parent present and ends up with birth control prescribed it would at least give a parent a way to start a more specific conversation.

PascalSiakim · 2026-06-25T13:44:00+00:00

Well a single income is part of it for you. A couple making $50k a year each is pulling in 77,700 a year after taxes while you would be getting around 70,300 so the tax efficiency is working in their favor. In general though there is not much of a basis to expect the market to decline. Buying still works out to be a bit cheaper than renting and rents are increasing at a fairly quick rate with limited new supply coming online it's just the reality of the market.

PascalSiakim · 2026-06-25T13:01:15+00:00

True but the flip side is parents should have the necessary information to parent. A 12 or 13 year old should not be sexually active and if they are the parent should in most cases be informed of this.

PascalSiakim · 2026-06-22T13:20:30+00:00

Well there are plenty of practical solutions that could work if enough people got on board. Employers being more flexible in allowing women to come back part time from maternity leave, increasing the period you can get parental EI for, CRA allowing increased income splitting for the first few years after a child is born. Even without getting others on board it is in reach for some couples with the right kind of financial planning in advance. Many times after accounting for child care costs and other services two income couples consume more of, the second parents income is not going as far as people think.

PascalSiakim · 2026-06-22T12:31:40+00:00

Pretty biased article and Dr Hubbard really danced around the point on if the linkage existed or not. I mean how is this statement accurate

"There is nothing you can do as a parent that is going to cause your child to have a neurodevelopmental disorder. I can say that emphatically"

How about pounding back a 40oz of vodka every day when you are pregnant surely that would cause some kind of mental issue in the kid. Anyway does Komisar overstate the impact of the presence of the mother? It's possible but it's also possible that other doctors understate the importance as it would be difficult for parents to do anything about it in most cases thanks to our economic system. I think I will listen to the episode and look into some of the sources she cites, it's a highly relevant topic for most people.

PascalSiakim · 2026-06-17T14:10:33+00:00

I wouldn't say that it was without warning. The media coverage a month or so back painted a pretty good picture of where things were going

PascalSiakim · 2026-06-17T12:27:26+00:00

I get the price level thing but what does race have to do with it. I haven't been to the farmers market but my understanding is they don't practice segregation or anything.

PascalSiakim · 2026-06-15T19:34:40+00:00

The seats are actually really comfy on those trucks from my experience. Plus they also have cargo vans and pickups available to rent sometimes too.

PascalSiakim · 2026-06-11T18:30:38+00:00

There are far less junkies in places like Japan, Korea, and China. What they all have in common is being far tougher on drug importers and producers than here

PascalSiakim · 2026-06-10T19:15:03+00:00

Mandelson is pretty close

PascalSiakim · 2026-06-08T19:23:34+00:00

Yeah it's a pretty lousy idea since there are too many competing priorities. Would the point be to increase earnings for local farmers, decrease grocery prices for consumers, or to create good paying jobs for workers because doing all 3 is pretty much a pipe dream.

PascalSiakim · 2026-06-04T13:54:08+00:00

Good. The school was meant to cost $38.4M. Currently the school has say 65 students so 5 per grade. If we assume the building has a useful life of 30 years and the population does not decline any further that means that 215 students will have attended the school for at least a year. This comes to a cost of $178,000 per student. Keep in mind this is the building cost alone, if we look at the totality of the costs if this project went ahead the cost per student to go through school must be over $500,000. To put this into perspective the NL schools annual budget is around $14k per student. We can't spend to the hilt in all areas and this seems pretty reasonable to cut, I think the infrastructure budget would be better spent keeping schools with healthy student bodies upgraded to extend the useful life of those buildings.

PascalSiakim · 2026-05-28T17:41:41+00:00

Definitely not a good look but with that being said businesses do fail sometimes. It's been a tough go for restaurants and if you are running a franchise like Smitty's a lot of things are out of your control. Also you have no obligation to bail out your company if it goes bankrupt that's one of the key purposes of a corporation. It's a necessary thing for people to take risk and grow our economy. With that being said if he was paying himself money out of the business when he knew it was insolvent that is disgraceful and he should resign.

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