The coming housing correction in Vancouver and Toronto. Jim Flaherty’s mortgage reforms tried to protect Canadian buyers and Canada’s capital requirements for banks should protect them. Too bad for the new, young owners.
Of Course….
“They have made up their minds and are working on the right narrative to support it.”
I’m not tied to the F-35 by any stretch, but come on, can’t any gov’t just give the real reasons for buying the jets instead of making up narratives?
Not everyone can be Napoleon.
Former Johns Hopkins chief of psychiatry: Being transgender is a ‘mental disorder . . . biologically impossible’
H/T, Ken (Kulak)
What the next Fiscal gov’t should do.
Six steps.
H/T oa515
Y2Kyoto
That darned Earth. It just won’t follow the models.
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Meat Thermometers
Yes, do use a thermometer when you’re cooking. For grilling, nothing beats an instant read pen type. For BBQ, the probe types work best.
Though McMullen and the other researchers haven’t discovered what temperature will ultimately kill all E. coli, McMullen recommended using a thermometer and cooking meat at 71 C to 73 C. “It doesn’t matter when you’re grilling any ground meat, you should be using a thermometer.”
Riding Mass Transit Is Like Inviting 20 Random Hitchhikers Into Your Car
Teenage girls arrested in New York subway beating of 78 year old woman.
The Battle of Midway
And The Passing of The Torch (from 2013).
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It may bore you
But this is a big deal in the shipping and mailing departments of companies Canada-wide.
It means that in the near future there will be alternatives to using Canada Posts internal crappy, bloated Java applications just to create mailing labels and bar-coding.
A Future Courtesan
This robot mimes human expression and may represent the next wave of robotic interaction in the work place. In this video by the Wall Street Journal’s Geoffrey…another interview with robot Sophia
Well, there are easier ways….
to commit political suicide.
The days of Liberals losing to the NDP are over, so that means the NDP has to go left having failed to capture the centre. Who wants to lead a party that’s effectively back in the Audrey McLaughlin days?
Trump will win.
Watch: The moment a Trump supporter, surrounded by protesters, is egged in the face, hit by other food. pic.twitter.com/qYFdwJWvrS
— Jacob Rascon (@Jacobnbc) June 3, 2016
I called 911 but no one answered. Donald trump protest in San Jose, CA pic.twitter.com/LwaWyeYZfq
— Marcus DiPaola (@marcusdipaola) June 3, 2016
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How Deep, Senor Maduro?
“We guarantee things will improve in the next few weeks.”
H/t, maz2
The Truth About the “Derivatives” Threat to the Global Economy
For those looking for a particularly dry and cerebral economic analysis of the derivatives market and whether the “$1.4 quadrillion” in derivatives poses a threat to the global economy, my I recommend you pour yourself a stiff drink and watch this.
However, in all fairness and honesty I must warn you it is NOT a great opening topic to pick up chicks at the bar.