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[lanforod]

Shh, don't give it away, thats my local grocer.

[Danma]

Costco was crazy even before the recent events. The last few times I went there the lineups to checkout were back to the toilet paper area. I can't imagine what it would be these days.

 

I was in Costco saturday afternoon, and it was well ordered and full of stock apart from a couple items. For now it seems pretty sorted out.

There's a 2 dozen limit on eggs at Market on Millstream but otherwise no issues getting dairy products there either.

[Matt R.]

The dairy commission has approved the pending February 2022 price increase for raw milk, an increase of about 8% which is unprecedented. My wholesalers are telling me to plan for an increase of 15% for most products, as the increase will hit items with a higher fat content more.

Typical annual increase is 2-3%. This year we saw the price increase twice, which I don’t think we’ve seen before.

https://cdc-ccl.ca/i...o-be-increased/

[Barrrister]

Time to pay the price for Ottawa printing money. 

[vortoozo]

Time to pay the price for Ottawa printing money. 

 

You say this like Canada is alone.

Yet Canada's inflation rate is just slightly above the average among OECD (38 countries). 

The flip side is that Canada's economic growth is well above the OECD average for the first half of the year.

In terms of GDP growth, Canada has faired better than all of Europe, Japan, etc.

 

You've been listening to Pierre Poilievre too much. He used Switzerland as an example to demonstrate that Canada is trailing it's peers yesterday... Conveniently leaving out that Switzerland was very much an outlier, not Canada.

[Victoria Watcher]

The dairy commission has approved the pending February 2022 price increase for raw milk, an increase of about 8% which is unprecedented. My wholesalers are telling me to plan for an increase of 15% for most products, as the increase will hit items with a higher fat content more.

Typical annual increase is 2-3%. This year we saw the price increase twice, which I don’t think we’ve seen before.

https://cdc-ccl.ca/i...o-be-increased/

Imagine a world in which the producers conspire to set consumer wholesale prices.

Illegal in most products/services.

Not for the cartel.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 24 November 2021 - 07:37 PM.

[Barrrister]

Vort: I do not believe that I even remotely suggested that Canada was alone in printing a lot of money. And I had to look up Poiloivre. It looks like since you dont have a point to actually make that you just toss stuff out to argue. You sound like a typical politico. My party it is of thee. 

 

My point stands that there is a price to pay for running the printing presses. That we are in bad company will not make the price any less. But it is not me that will be paying this bill,

[vortoozo]

Vort: I do not believe that I even remotely suggested that Canada was alone in printing a lot of money. And I had to look up Poiloivre. It looks like since you dont have a point to actually make that you just toss stuff out to argue. You sound like a typical politico. My party it is of thee. 

 

My point stands that there is a price to pay for running the printing presses. That we are in bad company will not make the price any less. But it is not me that will be paying this bill,

 

Poilievre is the Conservative finance critic and his comments from yesterday were fact checked on CTV's Power Play this afternoon. It's current and therefore what I thought you were referring to.

[Victoria Watcher]

Fact checked by CTV! How much money does CTV get direct from the government?


Bell/CTV:


"Bell Media's parent company has boosted its dividends and still has almost $4 billion in the bank, and yet they're cutting jobs right across the country."

Despite the pandemic, BCE continues to be profitable and forecasts a profitable 2021. Dividends to shareholders have gone up by 5.1%. The company has received at least $122 million in federal wage subsidies, and at the end of 2020 had $3.8 billion of available liquidity.

BCE has forecasted it will see revenue and earnings growth of 2% to 5% in 2021, and free a cash flow of $2.85 billion to $3.2 billion.


https://www.newswire...-825302980.html

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 24 November 2021 - 08:36 PM.

[vortoozo]

Fact checked by CTV! How much money does CTV get direct from the government?


Bell/CTV:


"Bell Media's parent company has boosted its dividends and still has almost $4 billion in the bank, and yet they're cutting jobs right across the country."

Despite the pandemic, BCE continues to be profitable and forecasts a profitable 2021. Dividends to shareholders have gone up by 5.1%. The company has received at least $122 million in federal wage subsidies, and at the end of 2020 had $3.8 billion of available liquidity.

BCE has forecasted it will see revenue and earnings growth of 2% to 5% in 2021, and free a cash flow of $2.85 billion to $3.2 billion.


https://www.newswire...-825302980.html

 

CTV News is reputed to be one of the least biased news organizations in our country. CTV News - Media Bias/Fact Check (mediabiasfactcheck.com)

[Victoria Watcher]

Who checks mediabias?

[vortoozo]

Who checks mediabias?

 

A number of universities and libraries, for one: Media Bias Fact Check as a Source: Universities and Libraries - Media Bias/Fact Check

[Victoria Watcher]

Universities! Those bastions of left / right balance in faculty.

(It’s 90% left, for those that are unaware).

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 24 November 2021 - 08:51 PM.

[vortoozo]

Universities! Those bastions of left / right balance in faculty.

 

Where are you going with this? If you look up the other major news organizations in the country on mediabias they sit where you would expect them to; it's not inaccurate.

CTV News is the only one that sits in the middle; trying to suggest that they skew a certain way politically because their parent company benefits from the same subsidies that more biased media organizations also receive is a little far fetched, no? I'm not sure if you've ever watched Power Play specifically, but Even Solomon doesn't hesitate to give the gears to anyone regardless of political affiliation.

[Victoria Watcher]

Evan Solomon was fired from the CBC for secret art investment deals with show guests.

https://www.thestar....-art-deals.html

Hardly the guy to hang your argument on.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 24 November 2021 - 09:00 PM.

[vortoozo]

Evan Solomon was fired from the CBC for secret art investment deals with show guests.

https://www.thestar....-art-deals.html

Hardly the guy to hang your argument on.

 

Lots of people have a second job. And it wasn't secret, it was disclosed ahead of time to CBC.

We're getting sidetracked. Regarding inflation, Canada's is reasonable in the context of other countries. Regardless of whether Conservative critics want to mislead people.

[Victoria Watcher]

The Star found Solomon had been brokering the sale of paintings and masks owned by a flamboyant Toronto-area art collector to rich and famous buyers. Solomon, in at least one case, took commissions in excess of $300,000 for several pieces of art and did not disclose to the buyer that he was being paid fees for introducing buyer and seller.

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Among the people to whom Solomon has brokered the sale of paintings are Jim Balsillie, co-founder of Research In Motion (now BlackBerry) and Mark Carney, the former Bank of Canada governor and current governor of the Bank of England.

Solomon, as a journalist, has dealt with both men in his high-profile host jobs at the CBC. Carney, who is also a friend, has been a guest on both of Solomon’s shows.

Solomon met Balsillie while courting him as a journalist two years ago in unsuccessful attempts to get him on CBC to discuss sustainable development and small businesses, as well as Balsillie’s role in backing the search for the Franklin expedition ships.




Second job!!!! Lol.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 24 November 2021 - 09:16 PM.

[Barrrister]

All of that is really nice but rather cold comfort to people as they hit the grocery store. Just a tiny increase in the price of houses or gas these days. But the politicos end up arguing about who is buying art. My dad had his first job at fourteen working in a Welsh coal mine so I guess I am just not fancy enough to understand all this art buying stuff. Old saying that you should never trust a man with soft hands 

[AllseeingEye]

Oy....not specific to any one grocery chain (ok today it was Thrifty's) but wowza groceries are gettin' 'spensive - two paper bags today = a shade under $145 and the only thing remotely "exotic" and beyond the norm was a package of three halibut cakes.

 

They did have a sale on solid white tinned tuna @ $5/two tins which is a decent deal, long sold out by the time I got there naturally, and a dozen large brown eggs were likewise sale priced @ $6.99. I snagged the last of those otherwise they were sold out too. And the non-special dozen egg brands and types are averaging about $10/dozen. I sure would hate to be a single parent/single income earner in this town.

 

More generally I occasionally put mid-grade fuel in my vehicle but went Regular this morning simply because of the spiraling cost of gas: $40 of Regular got me about, or perhaps slightly less than, 40% of a tank of fuel. Can't imagine what a full tank of Premium must cost these days.....

[Danma]

There's a reason I do most of my shopping at Superstore or Costco; the prices at Thrifty's and Save-On and Fairways can get pretty stratospheric these days. For some items (particularly meat) it's gone up everywhere it seems.