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cowofwar posted:Why not just work to reduce the cost of healthcare? Less interventional care and more hospice/palliative care. DEATH PANELS Who are we to say to that 95 year old that those 2 months arent worth it! We should but WHO ARE WE?!
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Just FYI, no one in BC gives a gently caress about the east coast.
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Feb 11, 2016 15:18
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Just raise taxes on pensioners who are in hospital beds, not like they need the money anyways.
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Cultural Imperial posted:Just FYI, no one in BC gives a gently caress about the east coast. Does anyone give a gently caress about the east coast?
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triplexpac posted:Does anyone give a gently caress about the east coast? Evidence from the east coast suggests not.
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Feb 11, 2016 15:48
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Without the east coast we wouldn't have our thriving Anne of Green Gables industry.
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If things go to poo poo I hope the Maritimes revert to some sort of Viking-esque reaving society, I would probably commit to a beard finally if it were socially acceptable to braid it with bird skulls
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vyelkin posted:The best part about the Maritimes' inevitable doom is that all their problems would be solved if they were just less racist, but instead all the old white Maritimers got together and decided they would rather let their provinces suffer a slow and painful death than let any nonwhite immigrants in.And when journalists go and ask them about it, they have no justification for it. They say stuff like "Oh yeah, I'm very concerned about the aging population, who's going to pay for my healthcare after I retire???" and then the journalist asks them about immigration and they say "gently caress off we're full" in slightly nicer language. Thankfully this is where Newfoundland has differentiated itself from the Maritimes. NL has several communities clamoring for refugees to fill the space that the lack of young has caused.
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Feb 11, 2016 16:23
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The ratio of young to old must remain a solid 5:1 Sorry olds, you should've taken your advice you give to young people and saved your money Death is certain.
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Feb 11, 2016 16:34
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Send all the syrian refugees to the east coast, problem solved
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Marijuana Nihilist posted:Send all the syrian refugees to the east coast, problem solved They're refugees, they don't deserve to be treated as harshly as that.
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Feb 11, 2016 18:45
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Gotta create a market for halalibut.
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Feb 11, 2016 19:07
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The halalibut in Halalifax is awesome but the bars are all closed because beer is haram.
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http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/economy/canada-average-wage-declines-led-by-resource-rich-provinces/article28715838/quote:The average wage across Canada declined last year, with pay in resource rich Saskatchewan and Newfoundland and Labrador dropping the most, according to new government data.
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Feb 11, 2016 19:17
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Wait, you're telling me there's still more Canada east of Montreal?
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HookShot posted:Wait, you're telling me there's still more Canada east of Montreal? There's Bonhommia, Lobsterton, and Gableville, yeah.
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Apparently mennonites are scouting PEI snd the east coast for farming land since real estate is so retarded in Ontario that the young men can't get a hold of any land.
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It's been pretty much three years to the day since this thread was created. It's pretty amusing to go back and read the initial few pages - just about everyone (including myself) is virtually certain that the housing market was at that very moment undergoing its last few dying gasps. Gotta give the bulls credit - things have played out in their favour to an extent even the wildest optimist wouldn't have predicted. At least in terms of housing... USDCAD was almost exactly 1.00 back then.
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EVERYONE WANTS TO MOVE HERE
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Cultural Imperial posted:EVERYONE WANTS TO MOVE THEIR LAUNDERED MONEY HERE
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cowofwar posted:Why not just work to reduce the cost of healthcare? Less interventional care and more hospice/palliative care. Most doctors recommend that you don't do chemo and radiation after the age of 75 as it's going to kill you faster then any cancer you have. One of those dirty little secrets of the healthcare industry. Why we do hip and knee replacements on 75+ year olds I don't know.
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Lexicon posted:It's been pretty much three years to the day since this thread was created. It's pretty amusing to go back and read the initial few pages - just about everyone (including myself) is virtually certain that the housing market was at that very moment undergoing its last few dying gasps. Gotta give the bulls credit - things have played out in their favour to an extent even the wildest optimist wouldn't have predicted. Yeah, this is exactly what's stuck in my head. I'm looking to buy real estate in Calgary, but holy poo poo things look bleak, and I'd hate to miss out on a crashed market.
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PittTheElder posted:Yeah, this is exactly what's stuck in my head. I'm looking to buy real estate in Calgary, but holy poo poo things look bleak, and I'd hate to miss out on a crashed market. I think one big reality that has been lost on many of the individuals in this thread including myself is the political centrality of housing. It isn't like any other asset class - it's special cased at every level of government and is absolutely central [rightly or wrongly] to culture in this country. Obviously much of the currency drop is related to the commodity crash, but it's increasingly clear that the political forces in this country will do just about anything to protect nominal present values, as well as growth, in the price of housing, even if that means sacrificing the currency, or social services, or what have you. You can't say that about any other asset class, and you also can't capture the value of this in a price:rent ratio. So three years hence, there's a pretty great chance you buying in Calgary now was the right move. -- someone who rents a condo in Vancouver
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sbaldrick posted:Why we do hip and knee replacements on 75+ year olds I don't know. Because we don't like having people live with crippling pain and have even lower mobility then the elderly already do. I guess we could death panel them because the pain is likely to end their lives sooner.
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Lexicon posted:It's been pretty much three years to the day since this thread was created. It's pretty amusing to go back and read the initial few pages - just about everyone (including myself) is virtually certain that the housing market was at that very moment undergoing its last few dying gasps. Gotta give the bulls credit - things have played out in their favour to an extent even the wildest optimist wouldn't have predicted. Yep its pretty nuts. The markets are inherently irrational because that's the way people are. Bull markets can have some pretty long runs. I mean even some of the absolute craziest stock speculation trends have gone on 5-10 years. I don't think there's any question real estate in many areas is detached from fundamentals but trying to predict when and how it will tumble is as pointless as trying to predict stock market volatility. I look at our house as a place to live instead of an investment, if I get some equity out of it one day then wonderful. I wish we could've bought it cheaper when the HELOC/Audi finance types had defaulted after some sort of well deserved RE armageddon but oh well.
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PittTheElder posted:Yeah, this is exactly what's stuck in my head. I'm looking to buy real estate in Calgary, but holy poo poo things look bleak, and I'd hate to miss out on a crashed market. If you are trying to buy real estate in Albertan metro areas you would be doing what's commonly called knife catching. I think the Albertan metro area real estate will get burned first and have a price correction over a 2-3 year period especially if the oil crash price continues.
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sbaldrick posted:Most doctors recommend that you don't do chemo and radiation after the age of 75 as it's going to kill you faster then any cancer you have. One of those dirty little secrets of the healthcare industry. My Gran is 75, has recently had both knees replaced, and is likely healthier and more active than half the goons in this thread. We do it so these people can have a better quality of life for another 1-25 years. If we're going to start denying medical services for perceived lost causes, how about start with the smokers and fatties?
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Ya gently caress hip & knee replacements. Why would we invest all those resources in quality of life procedures that allow seniors to remain mobile, and healthy? Knee shot? STRAIGHT TO HOSPICE!
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If it's good enough for a race horse it's good enough for gram
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shrike82 posted:As an outsider, has the loon depreciating by 30% had a noticeable impact on the day-to-day lives of Canadians? http://www.goodcarbadcar.net/2016/01/canada-luxury-car-sales-figures-december-2015-year-end.html http://media.gm.ca/media/ca/en/gm/home.detail.html/content/Pages/news/ca/en/2016/Feb/0202_Sales-February.html
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etalian posted:If you are trying to buy real estate in Albertan metro areas you would be doing what's commonly called knife catching. Well I'm buying it as a place to live rather than an explicit investment, so I can ride out any further price volatility over the next few years. Just trying to avoid buying at the peak of things, but god drat am I ever looking forward to moving.
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PittTheElder posted:Well I'm buying it as a place to live rather than an explicit investment, so I can ride out any further price volatility over the next few years. Just trying to avoid buying at the peak of things, but god drat am I ever looking forward to moving. Can't tell if this is satire or not.
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shrike82 posted:As an outsider, has the loon depreciating by 30% had a noticeable impact on the day-to-day lives of Canadians? I don't buy anything online anymore and most imported stuff at the grocery store has gone up. That's about it.
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Cultural Imperial posted:http://www.goodcarbadcar.net/2016/01/canada-luxury-car-sales-figures-december-2015-year-end.html I don't get it. Sales have gone up?
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shrike82 posted:As an outsider, has the loon depreciating by 30% had a noticeable impact on the day-to-day lives of Canadians? Cost of living is up, well past regular inflation. Almost anything imported is noticeable more expensive. Has it actually impacted anyone? Anecdotally it just seems like people borrow more money to maintain the same lifestyle and the banks are all too happy to enable that behavior. I regret leaving IT for the accounting world awhile ago, its depressing seeing how close to the margin many people live despite outward appearances suggesting otherwise.
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shrike82 posted:As an outsider, has the loon depreciating by 30% had a noticeable impact on the day-to-day lives of Canadians? Even the poorest person is still bootstraping themselves into an iPhone still when the outright cost is $1200 CAD for the mid storage option
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jm20 posted:Even the poorest person is still bootstraping themselves into an iPhone still when the outright cost is $1200 CAD for the mid storage option Well it's the other cost of the cheap loonie, canadian newspapers crow how the cheap loonie will save the economy but forget it makes anything from stronger currency nations much more expensive.
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