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RealityWarCriminal posted:it's okay, you can rent out your home in calgary and rent in red deer. and the guy in red deer can rent out his home and rent in grand prairie. and the guy in grand prairie can rent out his home and rent in zama lake. everyone makes money How does Westlock fit into this equation
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RealityWarCriminal posted:it's okay, you can rent out your home in calgary and rent in red deer. and the guy in red deer can rent out his home and rent in grand prairie. and the guy in grand prairie can rent out his home and rent in zama lake. everyone makes money The Gorilla method: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuiK7jcC1fY
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bvj191jgl7bBsqF5m posted:How does Westlock fit into this equation either too gay, or not gay enough, depending on who you ask
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Rodney The Yam II posted:I've never understood brokerage, like is this some government appointed appraiser who sits at the border pulling numbers from a hat? I know a business owner who will drive from Montreal to the US border for every shipment because he's somehow allowed to be his own broker. Broker brained system Anyone can do that, and it can save you a ton of money. You need to live in the right places though. The government partially privatized customs. Canada post does it, but it seems like they inspect 1/100 packages in my experience, and the fee is literally $9.95. UPS got a contract with the government that they run their own independent customs brokerage, most couriers have this, and they charge a $70 fee, plus any taxes and fees you might incur on your parcel, plus tax again on their fees. It is a perfect case study of privatization, the government saved a small amount of money, and we pay a massive fee to a private corporation. Ship with Canada Post and you pay $10, plus some taxes in the background. This system sucks, because it comes down to whether or not the person/company shipping to you knows that UPS is predatory in Canada. Just unbelievable, $10 sometimes if the government does it, about $100 if UPS does it. I'm not counting the actual customs fees here as those would be incurred either way. loving idiots want this same system but healthcare.
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Thanks for the breakdown, i had no idea it was that stupid. I used to get around it by getting stuff shipped to a university department where i knew the receiving guy. Which i realize is also an incredibly stupid system I hope your Warhammer purchase brings priceless joy regardless! e: the uni has their own dedicated broker
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Worlers at the big car delivery port in Hali walked off today. CN immediately bringing in scabs lmao https://halifax.citynews.ca/2024/02/27/halifax-harbour-transshipment-facility-for-imported-vehicles-hit-by-strike-unifor/amp/ Made me wonder, since I can't find a super clear breakdown of what counts, are ports covered under that anti-scab law whenever it comes into effect? I know the government always legislates the crews back to.worker so that the precious flow of Treats isn't interrupted so I assume now
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If it's important enough, they will pass the Port of Halifax Defense of Prosperity Act, as with the Port of Montreal strike in 2021. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/port-montreal-strike-back-to-work-senate-1.6008623 quote:The Senate has passed legislation that will force 1,150 striking employees back to work at the Port of Montreal.
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Virtual Russian posted:Holy gently caress UPS is poo poo. A goon sent me less than 20 ancient warhammer models, I got hit with $35 of GST (fine), and $90 in brokerage fees. That is absurd, how can you justify a brokerage fee multiple times the actual tax being levied?! I'm actually going to write my MP about this. I'm in PEI so it will actually get read and responded to. Fwiw this has been the case for years with UPS and representing yourself as your own broker and the absolute headache that is is the only workaround. As you might expect, the letter will get a boilerplate response. UPS will have its brokerage flesh fees no matter what. Also DHL does the same poo poo to business accounts, strangely UPS doesn't. FedEx is the only private carrier I know of that doesn't levee brokerage fees, but that's likely because I've never had the experience to ask them to ship a shipping container.
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Isizzlehorn posted:Fwiw this has been the case for years with UPS and representing yourself as your own broker and the absolute headache that is is the only workaround. As you might expect, the letter will get a boilerplate response. UPS will have its brokerage flesh fees no matter what. Probably cheaper to refuse delivery and have the shipper resend. IIRC everything but the cheapest UPS international service includes brokerage fees. The thing that pisses me off about them is they don’t notify you in advance that your parcel is coming (unless you have an account?), so you can’t prepay the duties and by the time you get the notice saying you have to pay they have nicely paid the government on your behalf so the package can be released to your local depot and have loaned you the money for that. You immediately owe them interest on that loan.
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/cannabis-spirit-rising-foster-1.7127101quote:Province cuts ties with Winnipeg foster home operator after teens given marijuana daily quote:Spirit Rising House, a Winnipeg-based for-profit company, runs nine foster homes and two specialized group homes for 34 high-risk youth in Child and Family Services care.  So, presumably Spirit Rising had access to some kind of cheap bulk weed, was taking the money designated for the kids' cash allowance, and was pocketing the difference between the cost of the weed and the allowance. It's amazing that's how the disbursement works. Why doesn't the government just set up an account for the kid and deposit funds directly in there? Giving weed to kids is also the kind of bizarre "innovation" in social services you get from having a for-profit company provide what should be a government service. If anybody remembers Winnipeg mayoral candidate Shaun Loney, the "social procurement" guy, this is the wonderful neoliberalized world he thought we all should live in. Not to mention that a gram a day is... a lot of weed.
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DJJIB-DJDCT posted:Where did all that cheap land come from, I wonder? A land without a people for a people without a land. 
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Arc Hammer posted:Housing anxiety is enough to make anyone consider drastic measures. I live in Edmonton and all my friends and most of my co-workers, who talk about politics, are pretty left-of-centre, hate the UCP and want the NDP back. We work in healthcare-adjacent fields so maybe that has something to do with it. Sometimes I feel like I'm in some kind of ARG because I've never met anyone in real life who had anything good to say about the UCP. My wife is on many medications and would benefit greatly from pharmacare, so we're pretty choked that the UCP are trying to opt out. I hope its just a stupid knee-jerk talking point and then quietly gets enacted in a few months.
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Karach posted:https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/cannabis-spirit-rising-foster-1.7127101 i'm extremely pro-weed and i don't wanna start a whole argument in here but i do personally believe it ain't great for developing minds, ditto booze. i know you can't keep kids away entirely but giving them a gram a day is insane. just dope up the kids to make them easy to deal with i guess 
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Virtual Russian posted:Holy gently caress UPS is poo poo. A goon sent me less than 20 ancient warhammer models, I got hit with $35 of GST (fine), and $90 in brokerage fees. That is absurd, how can you justify a brokerage fee multiple times the actual tax being levied?! I'm actually going to write my MP about this. I'm in PEI so it will actually get read and responded to. Yes, classic stuff. If someone from the states is shipping you something it's important to only ever use USPS. Chances are good that you won't get hit by any fees at all, but even if you do it'll be like $10.
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Isizzlehorn posted:Fwiw this has been the case for years with UPS and representing yourself as your own broker and the absolute headache that is is the only workaround. As you might expect, the letter will get a boilerplate response. UPS will have its brokerage flesh fees no matter what. USPS shipping from the States is the way
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ARACHTION posted:If you feel depressed about who to vote for federally, instead get involved in the labour movement if your work is unionized (if your leadership sucks, work to replace them), or try to get it unionized if it isn’t. This is more closely connected to your day to day living conditions, will have you feeling more empowered and then when it comes voting time, you vote your favourite choice and call it a day.
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I honestly don't mind DHL, at least the brokerage is a fraction, rather than a multiple, of the taxes. USPS rules though.
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Cold on a Cob posted:i'm extremely pro-weed and i don't wanna start a whole argument in here but i do personally believe it ain't great for developing minds, ditto booze. i know you can't keep kids away entirely but giving them a gram a day is insane. just dope up the kids to make them easy to deal with i guess we have been doping up foster kids with poo poo way worse than weed for decades. too much weed is definitely bad for teenagers but is it worse than thorazine? haldol? from that perspective I can see it as harm reduction, let alone the "keeping them away from drug dealers trying to sell them meth/fent/benzos" angle. obviously the entire situation is a loving massive disgrace and failure of our society, but I don't personally feel outrage over anything that was quoted in that post by karach. i guess what I'm saying is that having failed these children so horribly, a gram of weed (three joints?) is small potatoes compared to all the other abuses that have become completely routine and are swept under the rugs by so-called healthcare professionals and social workers
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Bilirubin posted:USPS shipping from the States is the way Oh for sure, I usually won't even buy something if I can't get it to go with either fedex or usps. I know UPS is bad, but this was shocking.
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Turpitude posted:we have been doping up foster kids with poo poo way worse than weed for decades. too much weed is definitely bad for teenagers but is it worse than thorazine? haldol? from that perspective I can see it as harm reduction, let alone the "keeping them away from drug dealers trying to sell them meth/fent/benzos" angle. obviously the entire situation is a loving massive disgrace and failure of our society, but I don't personally feel outrage over anything that was quoted in that post by karach. Two things can be bad. I'm very pro-weed, but that is an insane amount to give a teenager. It would be like saying you don't want kids dying of alcohol poisoning in some field so give them a six-pack every evening on the condition they drink it at home. I get it, I get what you are saying, it is much better than meth or dope, but that we consider this the best of a bunch of bad options is an indictment of the country.
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Bilirubin posted:USPS shipping from the States is the way shouldnt be on the consumer to find this out though. i got whacked with these 'brokerage' fees once and i never knew about it, i shouldn't have to go online and do research for someone else shipping things to me lol.
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Virtual Russian posted:Two things can be bad. I'm very pro-weed, but that is an insane amount to give a teenager. It would be like saying you don't want kids dying of alcohol poisoning in some field so give them a six-pack every evening on the condition they drink it at home. I get it, I get what you are saying, it is much better than meth or dope, but that we consider this the best of a bunch of bad options is an indictment of the country. I agree, but I don't think "we" consider this the best of our bad options, I think the foster caregivers were doing this as an act of desperation in an attempt to protect these kids. though I understand that may be a generous stance to take considering the possibility of financial exploitation going on.
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Society whose emotional responses to the hellscape they created are dulled by nonstop drug use shocked that people would eventually do the same to children
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How much does 7 grams of weed cost, anyways? ...I'm a square who never touches drugs, not even experimentally.
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Randalor posted:How much does 7 grams of weed cost, anyways? nothing! if you're in foster care
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Virtual Russian posted:Holy gently caress UPS is poo poo. A goon sent me less than 20 ancient warhammer models, I got hit with $35 of GST (fine), and $90 in brokerage fees. That is absurd, how can you justify a brokerage fee multiple times the actual tax being levied?! I'm actually going to write my MP about this. I'm in PEI so it will actually get read and responded to. If you've already paid you're likely out of luck. I had the same thing happen to me half a year ago. They left it on my doorstep without taking my signature or payment but I found they could still send collections after me/mess up my credit etc so I couldn't leave things be. After reading up a few tricks I drove it up to my city's Canada Border Service Agency, waited in line, showed my ID listing the same address and all of the UPS-provided paperwork, and paid the customs directly. I then phoned UPS, told them the government customs were already paid so I didn't owe them a thing, they grumbled and said I should have done this step beforehand but let it slide 'this one time', opened a ticket and had me email the CBSA's paperwork, and then I successfully got the $100 fee canceled. Haven't tested it, but my understanding is that if you contact UPS right away after a shipment starts, you can tell them you'll do the customs yourself and they'll send the paperwork for CBSA so you can pay the gov't directly as above, and won't release the package until you're done. Or (again, untested) you can select one of UPS' premium shipping options that might cost $10 more but it includes any brokerage and saves you a trip to the agency. Total thieving bullshit.
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Randalor posted:How much does 7 grams of weed cost, anyways? depends where you are, the quality/brand, if you're buying bulk or just 7g and if its black market or not. but from like $10-$100
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Femtosecond posted:Street name question: Saw this post unreplied for so I'll make a quick recap: Basically, once the battle is over, British soldiers and loyalists pillage the village and set the houses on fire after. They also do this in the surrounding villages. In January... so have fun spending your night out in the cold. Leading to the Rebellion Losses bill, because even politicians were aware repression went in a bit too far. Leading to the burning of the parliement of Montreal because Angryphones be anglo as always.
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My experience with self-clearing foreign shipments is once you get the tracking number you contact the shipper and ask to self-clear the package and that you need the paperwork for it. Once the package actually gets here, you get all the paperwork and go to the CBSA border clearance office typically next to or close to the airport. And then you declare and pay the brokerage fees for the item there. It isn't easy and sucks at times because the cbsa office is only open like 830-430 M-F and can be difficult to make the time to do it. But if you can it's a lot cheaper. Those usurious brokerage fees is technically a convenience fee to not drive around to do all that. For Albertan goons check out dykpost which kind of does it for you and basically gets you decent rates on shipping and receiving packages from the US. Not as cheap as doing it yourself but cheaper than UPS or the like.
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Randalor posted:How much does 7 grams of weed cost, anyways? Rule of thumb for me is $10/g for government weed is decent. Black market is cheaper and the price goes down per unit as the quantity increases
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Bilirubin posted:USPS shipping from the States is the way Juul-Whip has issued a correction as of 22:28 on Feb 28, 2024 |
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At my closest weed shop you can get a pack of 10 .3g prerolls for ~$24, making it ~$8/g
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You can explore the Ontario government prices for dope at this handy website - https://ocs.ca/ Some stuff is cheap, some is insanely overpriced. Depends on the brand
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Karach posted:Rule of thumb for me is $10/g for government weed is decent. Black market is cheaper and the price goes down per unit as the quantity increases $70-120 for 28g in AB at the stores
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