[kEiThZ]

In 20 years, when Millennials will be in their 60's. Long past the time it would have been fruitful to make anything better. That's if they don't die first, having mortality rates 40% higher than Gen X behind them.

Exactly. They need houses now. So they can have kids. They don't need houses in their 60s, when they are past childrearing. And we wonder why our birthrate has absolutely tanked.

I hope Beez remembers these conversations a few years from now when he's wondering why his kids aren't giving him grandkids. It's actually the new complaint of Boomers:

The Unspoken Grief of Never Becoming a Grandparent

A growing number of Americans are choosing not to have children. Their parents are grappling with what that means for them.

www.nytimes.com

 

[Admiral Beez]

In 20 years, when Millennials will be in their 60's. Long past the time it would have been fruitful to make anything better. That's if they don't die first, having mortality rates 40% higher than Gen X behind them.

You do see a dark future for yourself and others. If you're going to be a hedonistic nihilist, you might as well enjoy your life to the maximum.

 

[evandyk]

I bet the federal government could’ve gotten more bang for their buck in terms of making more people happy by ending the Canada Post strike.

 

[afransen]

I bet the federal government could’ve gotten more bang for their buck in terms of making more people happy by ending the Canada Post strike.

Does anyone care about the CP strike? It has not impacted my life 1 iota. Less junk to bring from my mail box to the recycling.

 

[evandyk]

Lots of people use mail in the lead up to Christmas.

 

[PL1]

Lots of people use mail in the lead up to Christmas.

Also some small businesses

 

[lenaitch]

Culprits? I'm careful to assign credit or blame to those who were just trying to live their lives as best they can. I voted back then for the MP and MPPs who belonged to the parties I felt would best run the country - that's all we can do, delegate upwards, hope that they do a good job, and hold them to account at the next election. We blame the Boomers (and now Gen X?) as if there is some secret society pulling the strings to its generation's own benefit. Will future generations blame Millennials and Gen Y for the actions of today's politicians on climate change, growing income disparity or popularism? Likely, yes, but those future Canadians will be just as wrong.

Don't you remember the meetings? We all wore funny hats.

 

[lenaitch]

So, the Feds are out w/their Affordability announcement.

They will remove (for 2 months) GST/HST (the latter implies the provincial sales tax, but I'm not sure that's been agreed to) from a wide variety of items..........

Notably, Diapers/Kid's Clothing, Toys, Restaurant/Prepared Meals, all groceries (presumably this means any food item, not yet clear if this would apply to tissue products etc.), as well as Beer and Wine.

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Swell as far as that goes........but....... it kicks in December 14th. Bit late for holiday shopping for the kids........if they were going to do this, merits aside, surely it should have been done by December 1st at the latest.

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Also, taking a play from Doug Ford's political handbook............cheques for everyone...........$250 for every person who worked during .....2023. The money would go out in spring.

The only limit is a max income of $150,000 per year.

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On that............why are we sending cheques to people whose annual income was $149,999 last year? I don't see where $250 is likely to make any difference to them.

We could debate a logical cut off..........$100,000 and give every qualified person $300? $75,000 and give qualifying person $400? $50,000 and give every qualifying person $600?

But surely $150,000 is just excessive and fails to target the need appropriately.

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This will cost the treasury a pretty penny.

Gaaa. Another government trying to bribe us with our own money.

The 'holiday' will be too late for most people in terms of Christmas shopping but I can see people who are financially closer to the line waiting until it kicks in. For Christmas dinner shopping and small entertaining, its not bad timing. For larger groups that have to book a venue it will likely be too late since many happen between now and mid-December.

I suspect, but don't know that, since the 'holiday' is selective and not across the board, industry convinced them that they need time to re-program their systems.

 

[Richard White]

The 'holiday' will be too late for most people in terms of Christmas shopping but I can see people who a financially closer to the line waiting until it kicks in. For Christmas dinner shopping and small entertaining, its not bad timing.

My 37th Birthday is on December 14th so this goes a long way to cutting costs on my birthday dinner.

The mandarin ia 40 bucks a person on Saturday!

 

[wopchop]

I mean, we should be cutting off OAS well ahead of that threshold too. What pisses me off all the time is the massive difference in clawback threshold between OAS and CCB. Nothing says more about how much Canadians value seniors more than kids

CCB is more complicated than just a clawback threshold. It claws back in a sliding scale by income, yes, but also increases based on the amount of kids and varies based on their age bracket.
For example of family with a $150k income and one kid between 0-5 still receives a payment of $218 per month. The same family with 2 kids in the same age group would receive $482. Once those two kids are age 6-17, it drops to $279.
A family income of $200k would still receive $78 for one child under 5 and $244 for two children under 5.

OAS 2024 max clawback is $148,065, the sliding clawback starts at $90,997.

 

[Admiral Beez]

My 37th Birthday is on December 14th so this goes a long way to cutting costs on my birthday dinner.

The mandarin ia 40 bucks a person on Saturday!

Mandarin has been a ripoff since before Covid. But it looks like there are cheaper buffet options.

Top 10 Best cheap buffet Near Toronto, Ontario​

 

[afransen]

For $40 I would rather do most korean bbq places.

For a while a decade or go, my workplace at the time would often have big team lunches for birthdays and such which would often go to Mandarin. Lunch even back then was over $20. I got so tired of the food I haven't been back since.

 

[evandyk]

Or hot pot!

 

[Richard White]

For $40 I would rather do most korean bbq places.

For a while a decade or go, my workplace at the time would often have big team lunches for birthdays and such which would often go to Mandarin. Lunch even back then was over $20. I got so tired of the food I haven't been back since.

That was one of the reasons I did not want to go. I live down the street from the Scarborough location and cannot be arsed to pay $40.00 a person for mediocre food.

There are 5 of us and at 50 bucks a person with drinks that is $200.00 for dinner before tip (including my Birthday discount). We are opting to go to Cibo instead in Yorkville after seeing Come from Away that day!

 

[Towered]

My 37th Birthday is on December 14th so this goes a long way to cutting costs on my birthday dinner.

The mandarin ia 40 bucks a person on Saturday!

But hey, if you scarf down 4 plates plus dessert, they lose money on you