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That's right on the money! If I add up my income tax and various payroll deductions , my property tax , school tax , hydro , PST / QST .. I get to 43.9% of my salary.

Well, O'Toole can't possibly be any worse than Scheer, can he? That last campaign was so dreadful!

Is it the same in Quebec? I heard they shut EVERYTHING down, even construction. We did, for roughly 6 weeks - from Mid March until the end of April Only the following commerces were allowed to operate as usual. Groceries stores Convenience stores Drug stores Gas stations Most restrictions were lift...

I heard a medical expert on CNN yesterday say to expect mask use for 2 to 3 years. That was the first I've heard of that. Basically they're here to stay until there's a vaccine is what he's saying. Even once an effective vaccine has been created, it will take months to produce , distribute and use ...

Reagan was the best. When he and Thatcher were riding herd, the world ticked along a lot better. Because of Trump's lack of leadership, some Republicans are speculating that McConnell will throw Trump under the bus and lever someone else into the nomination in order to save the Senate. Something ha...

Environmentalism became a religion some time ago. Will be interesting to see if the religions of wokeness and environmentalism clash. When the wokeness religion collided with the COVID religion, wokeness won that battle pretty handilly. I suspect it will be the same if wokeness and environementalis...

That's a complicated topic! I can't fault anyone for wanting a better life. It's human nature to want to improve one's station. I think the fault resides more with our governement, for failing to set clear guidelines & expectations, than with any individual immigrant. Perhaps we could make them sign...

In Québec it has been dropped to 1,50M and will likely be dropped to 1M pretty soon.

We're social beings, social distancing is not natural. We need each other to thrive. Treating every person you encounter as a potential source of contamination is quite mentally taxing.

The article sum it up well. The worst outbreaks have all been in places where people are packed together for long periods of time : Subways , meat packing plants, jails , hospitals , retirement communities.

We made the decision of living on my sole income. My wife will stay home with our son until he goes to kindergarden. Am I glad we made that call now!

No vacation for me this summer. I'd rather stay home and make $ to support my familly. We got a nice backyard we can enjoy the 3 of us after working hours.

If Trudeau has his way, he'd buy all the votes he could. This is my prediction. I expect an election call in September. Make sense to me. Call the elction right after Labour Day for an election day in mid October. Trudeau will want the election to happen before a second wave of COVID. The virus cou...

We have the most jobs added in the recovery because we had lost the most in the first place. Our lockdown was the most severe in Canada. For exemple, construction never closed in Ontario while all sites were shutdown for 2 months in Québec.

In Québec it's already de facto legal. I see people drinking beers in parks all the time and the police doesn't care.

I'm very frustrated at the very quick 180 in public discourse re : COVID-19. The virus doesn't care about the righteousness of your cause because, well... it's a VIRUS. My frustration goes double for canadians because we have absolutely zero influence on the situation. IDemonstrations outside the US...

Not our circus, not our monkeys.

Canada have more than enough actual problems to deal with. What happened to George Floyd is horrific and I hope Derek Chauvin will spend the rest of his life behind bars but it's not our fight to have.

I haven't regulary watched TV for more than a decade now so COVID is a non factor in my case.

I wouldn't even have cable if it wasn't for my wife. She is pretty tired of hearing about COVID so she watches other channels.

i've been to the park yesterday with my familly. It's a large suburban park with lots of parking available. For the first time in my life, I had trouble getting a spot! I never seen that park so packed ever before! Thinking about it for a second, that was quite predictable. People are tired of being...

I love working from home. I'm made for this! It shows in the quality of my work. Receiving praise from my colleaues feels good, I have to admit B-) I don't think we'll be WFH forever but this will last a while longer. Our offices will re-open at 40-50% capacity at a yet to be determined date. I'll d...

I'm ambivalent on this topic. On one hand, contact tracing is an excellent way of slowing down the epidemy. People who know they have been in contact with an infected person would get the chance of being more careful while interacting with others as they wait for their test results. Taiwan and South...

Mid March to mid April was really rough. My wife went 3 times to the hospital during that time span (not COVID related). Taking care of our son was the only thing keeping me grounded during that period. Now, she's way better. I'm working from home and I love it! I save so much time and money by not ...

Now, we are being told we will be locked up until there is a vaccine. We are in trouble. I had already kinda figured it out.. but it still hurt to ear our PM states it so plainly. My wife's in the hospital (Not COVID related). My parents are forbidden from leaving their appartment, even to use the ...

I credit my 10 months old son for keeping me sane in these tough times. Seeing him play & laugh like nothing was happening in the outside world both lift my spiirit and remind me of my duty to keep him safe. I make sure my familly does it's part to stay safe from the virus. Besides that, I can only ...

Or maybe all the drama with Meghan and Harry was meant as a diversion...

There needs to be a complete independant audit of the app code and of all communications during devlopement of said app. We need to know for certain if this epic failure is due to mere incompetence or downright malice. If the democrat party tries to shove this under the rug, they might as well conce...

Hello everyone. It's been a while! How is everybody doing?