I checked out my Shoppers Drug Mart - the only shaver they had left was $299.

I ended up having my wife shave it down with an old beard trimmer I had - with the #1.

It would have been better to use my weed wacker.
- Atomic Wedgie

Have you ever heard of Amazon?

now do CBC, Global, CTV...where do they get their directives from?
- drexel

The ghost of Stalin

The ghost of Stalin
- Zezel

He’s dead?

He’s dead?
- Canada Cup

Lincoln Project is a group of anti Trump Republicans who have been running devastating ads

https://twitter.com/proje...tatus/1255093730283044864

Our work is offering reduced work week hours if we want, no questions asked, at a reduced wage of course. We could then claim a benefit for lost wages.

I considered this, because hey, free money. The truth is, I don't need to do this so I don't feel right about it.

I know a lot of people will "game" whatever system is in place. Even before any of this you see employees every day gaming the disability benefits.
- Aetherial

It’s really poopty.

But it needs to be in place for those who actually need it...there will always be people trying to take advantage of people to get ahead.

Our work is offering reduced work week hours if we want, no questions asked, at a reduced wage of course. We could then claim a benefit for lost wages.

I considered this, because hey, free money. The truth is, I don't need to do this so I don't feel right about it.

I know a lot of people will "game" whatever system is in place. Even before any of this you see employees every day gaming the disability benefits.
- Aetherial

I loathe gaming the system to get ahead. I'll apply for tax credits but I'd rather work for my income than fill out forms for it.

Working for income is better for the social good than applying for programs that one doesn't need.

Edit: I guess that last statement is painfully obvious

He’s dead?
- Canada Cup

poop the Onion doesn’t (frank) around

“Trump Accused New York of Padding State’s Mortality Rate by Including African American Deaths“

Last line - “Trump went on to demand that Cuomo apologize to him personally for harbouring African Americans in the first place.”

https://www.theonion.com/...-mortality-rat-1843113132

I loathe gaming the system to get ahead. I'll apply for tax credits but I'd rather work for my income than fill out forms for it.

Working for income is better for the social good than applying for programs that one doesn't need.

Edit: I guess that last statement is painfully obvious
- TheMussel

Unless you’re going to hammer the poop out of everyone, you accept that there’s going to be a bit of leakage. Oh well, a few people get a bit too much or don’t work when they could. The alternative is worse.

Unless you’re going to hammer the poop out of everyone, you accept that there’s going to be a bit of leakage. Oh well, a few people get a bit too much or don’t work when they could. The alternative is worse.
- Canada Cup

Yup. But in the context that Ivison is suggesting that getting 2k a month from the gov is going to turn everyone into welfare queens, which is pretty presumptive and suggests that he believes that he has insights into the human psyche that nobody else has.

Unless you’re going to hammer the poop out of everyone, you accept that there’s going to be a bit of leakage. Oh well, a few people get a bit too much or don’t work when they could. The alternative is worse.
- Canada Cup

We should put those workers on LTIR, and then they don't count against Canada's salary cap.

Yup. But in the context that Ivison is suggesting that getting 2k a month from the gov is going to turn everyone into welfare queens, which is pretty presumptive and suggests that he believes that he has insights into the human psyche that nobody else has.
- TheMussel

He's clueless, 2000 a month won't cut it for most people who lost their jobs.
My mortgage is 2000 a month.

He's clueless, 2000 a month won't cut it for most people who lost their jobs.
- bobbyisno1

24000 dollars a year?

I used to make 24000 dollars a year about 12 years ago.

That money didn't go very far when I was a broke ass student with three roomates, hard to imagine how you could live on that now.

He's clueless, 2000 a month won't cut it for most people who lost their jobs.
My mortgage is 2000 a month.
- bobbyisno1

More heartless than clueless.

But there may be some truth in it - if I'm a minimum wage worker, getting 32 hours per week, that's less than $2,000.

If it's a job where I'm exposed to the virus, and I have young kids or older parents living with me, well hell yeah, I might be tempted to tell the man to go frank himself.

24000 dollars a year?

I used to make 24000 dollars a year about 12 years ago.

That money didn't go very far when I was a broke ass student with three roomates, hard to imagine how you could live on that now.
- TheMussel

I think it's set up for only 3 months.

We should put those workers on LTIR, and then they don't count against Canada's salary cap.
- Atomic Wedgie

Scheer Island

I think it's set up for only 3 months.
- bobbyisno1

Yeah, trying to contextualize it in annual salary (poorly)

Yeah, trying to contextualize it in annual salary (poorly)
- TheMussel

I'm just hoping this shyte goes away so I can go back to work.

The ghost of Stalin
- Zezel

i guess that covers Gerald Butts rather well

More heartless than clueless.

But there may be some truth in it - if I'm a minimum wage worker, getting 32 hours per week, that's less than $2,000.

If it's a job where I'm exposed to the virus, and I have young kids or older parents living with me, well hell yeah, I might be tempted to tell the man to go frank himself.
- Atomic Wedgie

Best was when this guy (billionaire) explained how Americans get by on $1200 for 10 weeks

https://talkingpointsmemo...lls-photo-would-be-public

i guess that covers Gerald Butts rather well
- drexel

Butts a Stalinist? Lol

He's clueless, 2000 a month won't cut it for most people who lost their jobs.
My mortgage is 2000 a month.
- bobbyisno1

so you bought a house you couldn't afford

Butts a Stalinist? Lol
- Canada Cup

I suppose he is if you only see the world in the blackest of blacks or the brightest of whites

so you bought a house you couldn't afford
- drexel

Well I've had it for 15 years so apparently i used to be able to afford it.

so you bought a house you couldn't afford
- drexel

Should a guy living in Alberta really be throwing stones like this?

Asking for a friend.

I suppose he is if you only see the world in the blackest of blacks or the brightest of whites
- TheMussel

He’s certainly not very ideological