Homes will never again be affordable because the system is completely broken (and not broken in the Millhouse expression, but rather in a normal definition). We made housing a commodity rather than a necessity of life and it ended with predictable results.
Now we have the unpleasant decision of diluting the investment of millions of Canadians or continuing to allow millions of Canadians to never own a home.
All fiscal Cons peddle the absolute same baloney, including Harper. And then we get the opposite.
Cons are liars, every single last one of them. Their whole philosophy is fundamentally provably false.
If Canada elects this career grifter and fake family man poseur, I am genuinely done with this country. I don't think I can take another rightwing government at a time in history when we desperately need a party for the working class.
The last thing this country needs is yet another white male cishet christian fiscal con telling us what the fuck we need. "Everything is broken." Yeah, because your donors own all our hard work, you muppet.
I will genuinely move to Europe or something.
I know it sounds like a /r/thathappened but it was one of those situations where it built up over several trips to the store of this guy harrassing me to the point where I didn't want to shop at Walmart anymore. I am averse to confrontation so when he took over my self-checkout to sign up for the credit card I was like, dude fuck off, go away. And he was a bit shocked and acted like I was being dramatic but it was because I hadn't been more politely forceful in our earlier trips.
Yeah, you always think of the negative stories you've heard. For example, my accountant's husband had an operation and the surgeon didn't do a follow-up with him and he passed away from a blood clot. The widow feels that if the surgeon had done better follow-up care he could have sought help and lived. I guess I just want that reassurance that I'm being looked after and not just another number in a health care system.
I also recognize it could be a time sink to call and say "hey everything's fine" but it sure would make me feel better/appreciated as a human being.
If people want to live with 10 million other people in overpriced and overcrowded cities that's really their deranged fetish but I personally think Canada was better off with a smaller population
Sometimes the cashiers themselves are slow and scan items like they're regretting every life decision they ever made.
What I love about selfcheckout is I go at my pace, as fast or slow as I want to be.
At the self-checkout at the Walmart near me a little man would go around asking if we want to save on groceries by signing up for their credit card.
The fourth or fifth trip there that he did this I had to get a bit ruder until he finally grabbed the self-checkout and clicked the credit card opt-in and I had to tell him to fuck off. He acted shocked but dude I go to self-checkout to avoid human interaction, not be sold a bullshit credit card only a teenager would fall for.
You're the reason I go to self checkout. You're seeking out social interactions in a purely business relationship. I want my avocado and grapes and to get the fuck out of there, not stand there while you ask somebody how their day was and whether the weather might be getting cooler this weekend.
What value does a real human provide you though?
I genuinely don't think I've paid in cash in Canada for about 10 years now.
I got Disney free through some kind of shady Shaw deal I signed up for but the billisecond I see an ad it's gone.