I learned today that a Starbucks Iced Pumpkin Cream Chai Tea Latte Grande comes in at around 480 calories and has 15 teaspoons of sugar. Your daily allowance of sugar is 6 teaspoons. If you’re even considering drinking one of those incredibly wordy drinks, please kiss your wife and children first because chances are that after you drink it you will die a horrible, shaky death.
Starbucks is an organization famous for fighting for the rights of a whole slew of left-leaning causes. One of the causes they aren’t fighting for is the causes related to your health.
Starbucks is also famous for, at one point years ago, of allowing drug addicts to use their washrooms so they can shoot garbage into their veins. My suggestion is that it is time to turn their washrooms into medivac stations instead. You know, for the pumpkin grande latte crowd.
The stock market gained about 500 points Wednesday on news that we still have high inflation that eased ever so slightly from the previous month. With that news the dollar crashed about 3.5%. Treasuries also cratered. Which means inflation is sure to rise. And that will cause the stock market to gain thousands of additional points next month. Great news, bad news, no news, old news, red news, blue news, it’s all good news for all-time highs.
Average rent in Canada hit a new high last month, with Vancouver leading the way. The average rent for a one-bedroom overall in Canada was $1,906 ($15 American), with Vancouver averaging $2,872 ($17 American).
And why is Vancouver so expensive compared to the rest of Canada? Simple answer - magic mushrooms. They’re everywhere. And you have to be stoned out of your gorb to pay nearly 3k for a 1 bedroom shoebox. Which apparently every Vancouverite must be.
Canada has a housing problem like no other country in the world, and it is not going to end any time soon.
The Canadian gov’t’s on all levels have various plans, and to be fair, they are all variously terrible.
We don’t have enough houses in Canada by a long shot. So the federal and provincial gov’t’s create *housing strategies* where they commit tens upon tens of billions of taxpayer money (inflationary), to create hardly enough housing. And why isn’t it enough? Because we import 1 million immigrants a year.
And considering a house in Canada is on average over $1 million - I’m talking about Toronto and Vancouver, and I know it’s less elsewhere, but no one wants to live anywhere but Toronto and Vancouver - how can any immigrant that we’re bringing in afford anything close to that?
They can’t.
But our federal gov’t keeps bring in millions of immigrants who can’t afford housing that won’t be built anyways.
What’s the definition of insanity again?
Exactly.
I think your point on making Canada unattractive to immigrants is powerful, Mayor. You are so brave for having the strength to speak up about this. I wonder what I can do to help?
ReplyDeleteThe good thing is that all the heavy thinking has already been done by those far smarter than us. What was advertised as attractive is now unattractive. It is our job to agree.
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