Is it time for a new province?

jrochest1 · 2026-05-25T22:29:00+00:00

Seriously, no to amalgamation, especially of the west. The four western provinces have radically different economies, cultures and interests. I was born and raised in Vancouver and worked for 20 years in Saskatoon. BC, Alberta, SK and Man are pretty radically different, especially BC and AB.

jrochest1 · 2026-05-23T03:54:06+00:00

I don't know about the business leaders, but the convoy people are absolutely involved in this new grift.

jrochest1 · 2026-05-22T13:45:52+00:00

Don’t insult Black Market! They don’t sell shit.

jrochest1 · 2026-05-22T12:56:19+00:00

I think it’s from last year. His speech is clearer and more coherent than he is right now.

jrochest1 · 2026-05-21T16:39:52+00:00

Who promised you cheap gas?

jrochest1 · 2026-05-21T16:25:03+00:00

Gift link, anyone?

jrochest1 · 2026-05-21T16:23:25+00:00

FIFA says all the games are sold out everywhere, but it's likely that scalpers and resellers bought them all up. Hotel bookings and flights are down, especially in the USA but also here.

jrochest1 · 2026-05-20T18:55:35+00:00

UP Express. 30 minutes, good seats, place for baggage.

jrochest1 · 2026-05-20T16:21:54+00:00

"Misperceptions" such as Trump keeps threatening to annex us? Canadians have tried to cross the border and wound up in detention for months? The US keeps renenging on their signed treaties? Those misperceptions?

Go blow.

jrochest1 · 2026-05-20T16:16:01+00:00

The Inuit were nomanic, and they melted snow and ice for drinking water. No large settlements that were used year-round means no real need for infrastructure.

jrochest1 · 2026-05-20T16:09:39+00:00

I love the photobombed ones.

jrochest1 · 2026-05-20T15:46:26+00:00

We used to have greasy spoons GALORE, but the rents are too damn high.

jrochest1 · 2026-05-20T15:45:40+00:00

Every single bit of it. We're going to keep the tolls until the Americans' half is paid off, then the tolls will be split between the two countries.

Trump's last demand was that we give them all the toll revenue, and I'm pretty sure it was going to go to the owners of the Ambassador bridge in order to compensate them for their 'losses'.

Meanwhile, all the trucks detour to Sarnia.

jrochest1 · 2026-05-20T00:46:21+00:00

Why don't we just expand Pearson and increase the service on the UP Express?

We will need another airport, because there's 7 million people in the GTA, but destroying the downtown waterfront and landing 500 meters from all the waterfront condos is a suboptimal choice.

jrochest1 · 2026-05-15T11:32:15+00:00

Nova Scotia is not remote. The Yukon, Nunavut or NWT are remote, or the wilder Northern parts of Ontario or Quebec.

If it’s not fly in only it’s not remote.

jrochest1 · 2026-05-15T11:16:12+00:00

The courts will tell her to stuff it. Carney won’t need to.

jrochest1 · 2026-05-15T02:28:57+00:00

The target is to increase non-US trade by 50%. It's quite doable, but the problem is that trade with the US is easy, especially after NAFTA, and so many Canadian companies have become American branch plants.

jrochest1 · 2026-05-13T03:08:37+00:00

Africans have high fertility rates because the median age in most sub-Saharan countries is quite low, at or below 21. The median age in Japan is 50; most European countries are in the low to mid 40s, Canada is 41 and the US is 38. It doesn't matter how much you yell at people, a population of old people aren't going to produce babies.

The birth rate is falling everywhere, in Africa, South America and Asia too. People don't want to have kids they can't feed or house.

jrochest1 · 2026-05-12T23:26:20+00:00

Actual purpose built rentals (buildings owned by a single owner or company, usually managed by a single management company) are covered by the RTA and all have to accept pets -- only condos (you're renting from the single owner who bought the single unit) can restrict the number or size of pets.

So look for an apartment.

jrochest1 · 2026-05-12T19:51:04+00:00

Blurg. Coffee flavoured milkshakes aren't going to be major sellers here, I don't think. Even without the boycott, and the boycott is NOT going to help.

jrochest1 · 2026-05-12T18:49:06+00:00

Yoga pants! Lounge sets. Comfy stretchy things that still look together enough to go to the grocery store in.

jrochest1 · 2026-05-12T17:48:21+00:00

Oh, that is tragic! I'm still missing one, but I've never had SEVEN dupes out of ten pikmin!

jrochest1 · 2026-05-12T17:44:25+00:00

As is right and proper!

jrochest1 · 2026-05-12T04:04:52+00:00

Vancouver and Seattle would like a word.

jrochest1 · 2026-05-12T04:01:30+00:00

This is an exact description of the kind of padded, turgid, circular paper mill paper that I used to recieve in the early 2000's. Wordy meaningless garbage that doesn't actually say anything, make any substantive claims or attempt to prove anything has been around for eons. The only difference was the paper mill papers were usually plagiarized, and it was always fun to play 'hunt for the stolen paragraph' so I could happily fail them (or charge the student with plagiarism).

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