ABEXIT - is it time for Alberta to think about leaving Canada?

pgs

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My first house was a new 1320sqft 2 1/2 story townhouse in Coquitlam with a killer view of the river and N.W. Whalley for $180K in 93.
Good you probably made money on both . Hope you had good locks on the second one .
 

JLM

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Malarkey.

Blue Cross Gold Plan in WA is $1,520.85 for a smoker aged 64+.

Gold
Higher monthly premiums, with lower deductibles and out-of-pocket costs.
Good for customers who see the doctor more than a couple of times a year, manage at least one health condition, or take multiple prescription drugs. Your monthly premium is higher, but more healthcare costs are covered.

I'm paying $94 a month for the same Blue Cross Plan with dental and optical.

Provincial is garbage, especially in BC. At least they axed the cost from $75 a month to $37.50 but it's still shitty.


I'm still paying $75 a month but certainly not complaining. Health is the most important asset you have!
 

taxslave

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Early 80's and into the early 90s.
Funny that when the dippers took control in BC the drug money started rolling through the casinos.and criminals started pushing up real estate prices in Vancouver. I blame their soft on crime agenda. Of course Sahota and a few other socialists became quite rich at the same time.
 

taxslave

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Still out of range for young families . You could still buy a new house in suburbia cheeped then the city and available housing in the city was undesirable. The DIY craze might have started sooner if people thought land values were going to increase as much . Also no one wanted to live and raise families east of Cambie where inexpensive housing was . The immigrants pooled their resources and bought up the housing as the boomers escaped . A few smart people bought properties for the rental market and made millions .
Various ethnic groups have been doing that in east Van since WW2. Some stayed in little enclaves but the next generations largely moved to the burbs and in the 70s a whole new crop of immigrants from a different part of the world moved in. Except for DES which has always been a shithole.
 

AnnaEmber

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Malarkey.

Blue Cross Gold Plan in WA is $1,520.85 for a smoker aged 64+.

Gold
Higher monthly premiums, with lower deductibles and out-of-pocket costs.
Good for customers who see the doctor more than a couple of times a year, manage at least one health condition, or take multiple prescription drugs. Your monthly premium is higher, but more healthcare costs are covered.

I'm paying $94 a month for the same Blue Cross Plan with dental and optical.

Provincial is garbage, especially in BC. At least they axed the cost from $75 a month to $37.50 but it's still shitty.
No, it isn't bullshyte. Look it up. https://www.hca.wa.gov/employee-retiree-benefits/retirees/plan-costs My cousins pay a bit more than the average.
And the private sector: https://www.valuepenguin.com/best-cheap-health-insurance-washington#metal
And since when has hubby and I's premiums been down to $37? THAT is BS. And it helps if you are active and not a sofa-slug and eat healthy.
 

spilledthebeer

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Fact 1: the current pipeline is 60 years old
Fact two : the current pipeline is too small to supply demand.
Fact 3 : the anti pipeline groups are financed by U S oil interests thus making them useful idiots instead of just idiots.




HemerHOID has a mind that is just like that 60 year old pipeline....................................


TO SMALL to be useful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

petros

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No, it isn't bullshyte. Look it up. https://www.hca.wa.gov/employee-retiree-benefits/retirees/plan-costs My cousins pay a bit more than the average.
And the private sector: https://www.valuepenguin.com/best-cheap-health-insurance-washington#metal
And since when has hubby and I's premiums been down to $37? THAT is BS. And it helps if you are active and not a sofa-slug and eat healthy.
BC cut premiums in half in 2017.

The prices in your link are for the year not per month.

BC MSP Rates 2019 and 2018
As per the BC September 2017 Budget, the premium rates for all British Columbians were reduced by 50%, and the threshold for elimination of premiums was increased from $24,000 to $26,000. Rates are based on adjusted net income.Sep 22, 2019
 

petros

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I'm still paying $75 a month but certainly not complaining. Health is the most important asset you have!
BC MSP Rates 2019 and 2018
As per the BC September 2017 Budget, the premium rates for all British Columbians were reduced by 50%, and the threshold for elimination of premiums was increased from $24,000 to $26,000. Rates are based on adjusted net income.Sep 22, 2019
 

AnnaEmber

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BC cut premiums in half in 2017.

The prices in your link are for the year not per month.

BC MSP Rates 2019 and 2018
As per the BC September 2017 Budget, the premium rates for all British Columbians were reduced by 50%, and the threshold for elimination of premiums was increased from $24,000 to $26,000. Rates are based on adjusted net income.Sep 22, 2019
Yeah, $900 /12 = $75
12 being the number of months in a year.
 

Gilgamesh

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B00Mer

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What I find disturbing is that Quebec calls themselves a Sovereign country while still largely involved in Canada's Parliament and obtaining all kinds of transfer payments and tax breaks from the Canadian government courtesy of all the tax payers. I wonder if Alberta, Saskatchewan, & B.C. decided to call themselves The Sovereign West would we get as much help and sympathy such as Quebec has over the many, many years.
 

JLM

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What I find disturbing is that Quebec calls themselves a Sovereign country while still largely involved in Canada's Parliament and obtaining all kinds of transfer payments and tax breaks from the Canadian government courtesy of all the tax payers. I wonder if Alberta, Saskatchewan, & B.C. decided to call themselves The Sovereign West would we get as much help and sympathy such as Quebec has over the many, many years.


Excellent point!
 

captain morgan

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Tell us what you expect to get out of Wexit?

To dump the under performing anchor called eastern Canada


Nope. Obviously we are a distinct and unique culture with the framework already in places thanks to Quebec. We'd be far better off if we handled our own affairs in the manner Quebec does.

Sakatchewan is by far the richest piece of real estate on the planet with Alberta a close second. We've been f-cked over ever the NWT as formed. It's time First Nations got Rights to property and an equitable chunk of the riches of the land. They had jobs for 300 years prior to being stuck on Rezes.

There is nothing we need from the east.

It's not about money, it's not about resources, it's about 131 years of disrespect and enough being enough.


Take a look at the age demographics in Que, Ont and the East coast... Within the next decade, there will be more retired folks in these provinces than there will be working people.


It's a train-wreck in slow motion.


Best to leave now and let them implode all on their own