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Not the point. Between the provincial government and the feds this is just another subsidy to provide relief to an industry that continues to reap profits while you and I foot the bill to clean up after them. How is that ? Especially when the law says they are to clean up after themselves...

Is that a metric gallon ?

I wonder why the Alberta giovernment is footing the bill for orphaned wells then ?

Nothing. I'm just tired of people whining that CERB payments are keeping everyone at home in front of the Playstation. I'm sure it's happening to some degree, it always has, but certainly not to the extent that it's the only, or even biggest reason for the shortages in the service sector...

Agreed. It's right down there with "voting anything but Conservative is communism".

Not necessarily, but they will not have access to as large a labour pool as businesses that aren't tied to pricing set by the franchiser. Prices have been going up noticeably at fast food joints aound here, you're not likely to get through the drive-through for less than ten or fifteen bucks...

Something that is not happening in too many cases, or is happening at a snail's pace. Standard practice in the oil patch is to claim financial hardship and disappear.

Of course, and admission requirements in regards of intelligence and aptitude, would apply to all regardless of how deep Daddy's pockets are. I agree, dumping the money-making aspect of student loans, as in interest, would be a huge step forward. It's not just the cost of the education...

We're on the edge of getting into economic policy and the prevailing theories we operate under, which is a wildy deep and complicated topic. Simply speaking around 1970 there was a shift in policy towards neo-liberal ideals brought on in large part by Margaret Thatcher in the UK and Ronald...

True, I did a carpentry apprenticeship in the eighties and actually made better money in school than on the job, but whiule there are significant shortages forecast in the trades, these opportunities only appeal to a few. I'm thinking that any program of free tuition would have to be careful to...

That's a big part of the problem, the cost of post secondary education and the mountainous task of covering that cost. A dead-end job in the service sector just doesn't offer that option. Unless Daddy has deep pockets. There are places on this planet where post secondary education is free...

Yours and my ideas of how things should be are not the point at the moment, it's the reality of the numbers involved. A full time, minimum wage job earns just over $31K/yr before taxes. Current cost of living estimates for an individual in my area of the country (Okanagan Valley) range from...

My understanding of international finance is far from comprehensive, but if the concern is the instability of the US economy as a basis for global trade I can see the reason for that concern. The 2008 Financial Crisis was largely the product of policies employed by US banks but had major...

I think they are looking at their own, individual "economy". Did you look into the source of that article, the original author that the munknee writer was working from ? Sounds like a real fun guy.

It might be a little overzealous to think that these people are looking past their own bottom line. The pandemic has become just another Boxing Day sale to them.

I used to have a lot more respect for Rex Murphy than I do lately. I see him stooping to sensationalism and "selective coverage" since he signed on with the National Post. Not a mention by him of the restrictions and precautions being imposed on the conference attendees bu the organizers of...

I wasn't trying to insult, just suggesting a possible intent on the mechanic's part. I get what you're saying, sometimes it's worth a twenty not to have to go to the bother yourself. I went through something similar recently, basically being lied to by a the front end guy to cover up shoddy...

It's not socialism, it's called predatory capitalism. The inevitable result of a totally unrestrained free market.

Entry into what, poverty ? Is it unreasonable to think that a job and "making a living" should be somewhat similar ? The point is that cost of living has risen steadily for decades while wages have remained stagnant in adjusted dollars. Workers are simply responding by refusing to work in...