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[dasmo]

Well spotted. Food cost is top of mind for you huh? 

[Matt R.]

I buy food and drink for a living, essentially. Few days a week I apply fire to the food and put it on plates or in a box.

[Sparky]

They sell wine in cans?

[Nparker]

They sell wine in cans?

[Matt R.]

Off topic but since Covid the market for canned wine and cocktails has exploded. So much so that wines I’ve been buying for years aren’t available right now in bottles, only cans, because the winery is following the money and canning more and more, rather than bottling. Easier shipping, beach and campsite friendly, easy to chill, easy to toss into a to go bag or backpack or pannier… glass is so 2018.

[Mike K.]

There's also a glass shortage impacting brewers and wineries.

[Nparker]

There's also a glass shortage impacting brewers and wineries.

Perhaps if I was allowed to recycle my glass containers* (alcohol bottles excepted) instead of throwing them in the garbage, there would be less of a shortage.

*not available in my strata

[Nparker]

I apologize for continuing to derail this thread.

[dasmo]

Perhaps if I was allowed to recycle my glass containers* (alcohol bottles excepted) instead of throwing them in the garbage, there would be less of a shortage.

*not available in my strata

Since we are off topic this is one of my bones! Wine bottle costs $3.50. Recycle return $0.10

In Ottawa I was working on Canada day celebration elements and the logistics director took me to the warehouse to see what we had from last year. He said let me show you something. He took me to where they stored the glass "recycling". Mountains and mountains of glass bottles. 

Considering we are suffering a sand shortage perhaps we should up the deposit and go back to collection - wash - and re-use. 

[Matt R.]

There's also a glass shortage impacting brewers and wineries.

Lots going on these days and that is definitely part of it. Breweries are switching over to tall cans more and more, away from bombers. New vintages are being bottled over the next weeks so product will be back, and hopefully our long suffering federal workers and their guests can get back to drinking from proper magnums on their private intercontinental flights to climate change meetings.

[dasmo]

More mini bottles for the elites! 

 

"printing half a trillion dollars is causing hyper inflation? Let's print a few billion more to address it! 

 

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[dasmo]

I am sure Klaus will be proud of his protégé

We shouldn't have our Deputy Prime Minister on the Board of Trustees of the WEF IMO...

We need less globalization and more hyper-localization. How can we be confident she has our best interests at heart? 

 

https://www.weforum....rystia-freeland

https://www.weforum....tees-3b4f679708

[Stephen James]

How can we be confident she has our best interests at heart? 

 

 

Key Question, above.

 

If we can verify she doesn't subscribe to any of the cray-cray, Qanon, WEF, pizza-BS, this-conspiracy-sells-the-most-attention-on-social-media, election-lie, we're probably ok. 

 

Then we just have to decide if we agree with her policy ideas.

[dasmo]

How can we be confident she has our best interests at heart? 

 

 

Key Question, above.

 

If we can verify she doesn't subscribe to any of the cray-cray WEF BS we're probably ok. 

Fixed it for you. Answer to the above is... She does.

[Mike K.]

Canadian premier Justin Trudeau joked that Western leaders could try to match Putin’s naked torso pictures with a ‘bare-chested horseback riding display,’ one of his widely publicized athletic adventures.

- https://apnews.com/a...74b7d04f2e76c83

[Victoria Watcher]

Apparently all the provincial premiers are in Victoria today and tomorrow for their annual pow-wow.

[Nparker]

They couldn't meet via Skype?

[dasmo]

They couldn't meet via Skype?

They can't practice their elbow bumps that way.... 

[Mike K.]

Yes, and our premier has decided to blame Ottawa for the mishandling of healthcare.

How much longer are we going to drag this out before we finally legalize private care? You would have thought weed was a lesser priority than healthcare, but it’s now legal while 20% of the population has no doctor and it’s illegal to pay for one.

[Stephen James]

Yes, and our premier has decided to blame Ottawa for the mishandling of healthcare.

How much longer are we going to drag this out before we finally legalize private care? You would have thought weed was a lesser priority than healthcare, but it’s now legal while 20% of the population has no doctor and it’s illegal to pay for one.

 

I've paid enough taxes that the private care discussion is irrelevant to me. Have it or not, I don't care. I want better choices by the Prov Government about the use of the money they already have and I believe a family doctor is the expectation of every Canadian, for that tax money.

 

Debating solutions seems wrong because it's a complex problem, decades in the making, and unless you're Horgan or Dix you don't have enough information. The political spin on the information given to us renders much of that information suspect. Example: the provinces will suggest that the feds are shortchanging them for health care money. Maybe. Its also true that the feds removed some of the accountability for the transfer money over 10 years ago and now we doubt it was all spent on health care. So they want more money.

 

The bottom line is this, for me: more money means elected politicians don't have to make hard choices with the resources they already have, and don't have to say no, two things they will avoid because both risk getting reelected.

 

No more money. Private is not a substitute. We need doctors now and we should work to elect a government that does this, and unelect governments that do not.

 

No more announcements - time for results.

Edited by Taco, 11 July 2022 - 03:01 PM.