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Cake day: July 2nd, 2023

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  • No idea about recourse in BC, but in Ontario former tenants have a year after a bad faith eviction to go after landlords for moving costs and a year’s worth of rent difference the tenant has to pay at the new location, there may be some other things I’m missing. Unfortunately, I think the max is up to 35k, which sadly may not even cover the cost in loses.l, but better than nothing.

    I hope there is something like that there. greedy landlords are a big part of the housing issues we are experiencing. Too many landlords that operate like cowboys in the wild west. They need to be penalized.





  • Oh, I’m not saying they can walk away and just hand in their keys, done and dusted. Granted bankruptcy? You do understand that all loans in Canada are civil matters. If you move through the proceedings of declaring bankruptcy, and it’s genuine because you don’t have the money to continue to pay you mortgage, bills and debts, you think that you will be denied the option to proceed with that? Or do you think a consumer proposal to pay out all the outstanding charges on a defaulted mortgage and loan will be suitable when you can’t pay it?

    I don’t even know of any places where you can just hand in your keys and walk away without reprocussions. But trying to pay for a repossessed house isn’t really for many in that situation.



  • Bubble has not popped.

    When people are handing the house keys back to bank and saying fuck it, then you will know it has popped.

    A good indication of that is when you start seeing for sale signs popping up everywhere and those signs stay there.

    Seen it before elsewhere. Canada has done an amazing job with smoke and mirrors to keep the bubble inflated but Canadians have run out of money to prop it up.

    When it pops, the government will have already run through all the ink in the money printing machines to do anything about it. Rough times ahead. Hopefully it doesn’t come to that, but it seems the writing is on the wall.



  • Not sure how to feel about this story. A relief for the family, but yeah, depending on what his status is when found maybe he didn’t want to be found?

    It’s trying hard to be a feel good news story, but doesn’t give any info on his status. If he was homeless and suffering from mental illness in the states, then of course it would be a good ending.

    However, if he left to completely cut ties with family for whatever reason, then it certainly wouldn’t be a good news story for him.

    They will be reunited, wonder if that will be the case or if he will disappear again before that can happen.




  • The first time I experienced an airline lying was around 2000. Halifax to Toronto, with a stop over in Montreal. Flight was delayed due to bad weather in Montreal, and you could assume it might be because it was march. However, when they kept extending the delay, I decided to use a payphone to call my friend in Montreal. He said the weather was sunny and clear, no sign of snow. After a few more hours, I said f it. I’m just going to drive. A few other passengers heard my change of plans while I was on the payphone, and asked dif they paid for gas if they could join.

    Car full, we took turns doing the drive, getting to Toronto without a single snowfall encountered.

    The airline eventually cancelled the flight, and tried their hardest to deny refunds saying it was due to bad weather in Montreal. I pushed for a refund but it was a pain in the ass and involved writing to them saying I drove instead and weather wasn’t an issue.

    What always pissed me off the most about it was there was an elderly woman who was counting on that flight to celebrate her 90th(?) Birthday with her twin sister in Hamilton the following day.

    Airlines in Canada have been fucking us passengers around for far too long.

    Edit: I wonder how more efficient they would be if the government sent them a bill for having to process a legitimate complaint, that was deemed valid and the airline had to pay back the passenger. Something like a contingency fee but directed at the airline for each valid complaint/resolution.

    As much as I would like any of this to change their behaviour, the fact is that when they lose money the government will top them up each and every time, using our money.




  • I feel bad for any displaced Ukrainians who bought the lines that Canada would welcome them and be their home away from home.

    There was never any infrastructure or policies put in place to facilitate the costs associated with providing housing, food, living affordability.

    It’s one thing to use smoke and mirrors against Canadians. It’s another thing entirely shameful to virtue signal to the world we will take the refugees and treat them well, all the while knowing once they get here, they are fucked. Not all but many of them. It’s embarrassing as a Canadian. The federal government should be doing much much more, and do better for incoming Ukrainians as a whole.