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Recovering army brat. Semi-retired housing market analyst.

Nanaimo
Joined October 2010
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Tzepo wants your F150 up on blocks & your wallets empty to save the planet. @lamphieryeg
“You can't cut with only one half of the scissors, just emissions, and allow production to grow.” @Tzeporah sat down with TRT World’s @The_Newsmakers Andrea Sanke, Katerine Petersen (E3G) and Tim McDonnell (Semafor) to discuss why the clean energy transition must include phasing out coal, oil and gas, and how there are over 25 countries now sitting at the table to develop a Fossil Fuel Treaty. 🎥 Watch the full conversation youtube.com/watch?v=UlwI7bBz…
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Nice gig if you can get it. Taxpayer-funded Golden Handshake? cbc.ca/lite/story/9.7413258
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Youthful climate crisis bedwetters want the courts to send us all to the poorhouse so we can appear to be "taking action." cbc.ca/lite/story/9.7415629
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Bibi & Trump both losers at the polls. The rank & file have grown tired of the bloodshed. cbc.ca/lite/story/9.7413714
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A good thing the Liberal Budget was yesterday & not today. These labour force survey numbers would have taken some of the wind out of Ottawa's sails. 😒@lamphieryeg @timescolonist @VancouverSun @edmontonjournal @globeandmail
New data from the Labour Force Survey for the month of October 2026 are now available: www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/dail…
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I suspect we have a sore loser here.
Trump doesn’t have 2 years left. He was on Fox News last night and said he looks forward to making deals with Democrats. President Trump may have had 2 years left if we didn’t lose the Senate, but we are finished as a country because now the Democrats controlled the House and the Senate. If President Trump moves to veto everything the Democrats push forward, they will immediately move to impeach him, convict him, and harass his family members and find a blue state to prosecute him in so that a presidential pardon will not protect him or his family members. We are not going to see any more of President Trump’s agenda be signed into law. It will not be codified over the next two years. People will betray the president and everybody in his orbit will be subjected to nonstop harassment. I’m not sure why people keep pretending like we have two more years. If President Trump even tries to push his agenda, the Democrats will just impeach him, and there are many RINO Republicans who care more about self preservation than protecting President Trump, and they will throw him under the bus so that their families are not killed by communists in power who will send their DSA hit squads door to door assassinating all political opposition to their takeover. And let’s be honest, if President Trump puts up a fight, the Democrats will just recruit somebody to kill him. They already tried to do it in 2024. They normalized the killing of Charlie Kirk too. Let’s not pretend like they won’t do it again. Don’t be delusional. Democrats don’t want to work for the people. The only thing Democrats who were elected last night care about is flooding our country with an unlimited amount of illegal aliens and jailing President Trump and his family members. You’re sorely mistaken if you actually think Democrats are going to work for Americans and make life better over the next two years. You’re going to watch your country completely crumble and be destroyed. Your life, and your children’s life is going to become very difficult, and there will not be any way to vote ourselves out of this. At this rate, Democrats will take 2028. If you voted for Democrats, just know you fell for a lie. You will not be getting free healthcare. Gas is not going down. The cost of living is going to substantially increase as Democrats open our borders and flood our country with 50 million more illegal aliens, and crime will be out of control. There is no more time. America is over. It is time for every single logical thinking citizen in our country to internalize the fact that America is over and the American dream is dead. If you don’t want to live in reality, don’t be shocked when your life becomes unlivable in the next two years.
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The price of regular at the ⛽️ is going up today in Nanaimo be 14 cents/lit. Prices on the north side are still $1.859 while prices closer to downtown have moved to $1.999. Why is that? New war premium? Bibi got re-elected? Oil barons' mistresses need new Porsches? 😒
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Can anyone pls tell me why @cmhc did not publish any price data for new detached homes absorbed during the month of September?
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The trend line for housing starts in 🇨🇦 continues to run below 250K SAAR. That's 1/2 the rate Ottawa set as a target earlier this year.
Housing starts were almost flat in September, only registering a slight increase of 0.6%. Units under construction were flat month-over-month, completions edged down 0.9% and approved permits waiting to start increased 1.1%. Get the full picture: cmhcschl.ca/NWie50ZYech
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Wake up & smell the coffee, Ottawa. You're not following the right playbook, according to the White House.
Canada wants all the perks of open trade with the US, but they’re leaving the back door wide open for Chinese cars and steel. So I asked @USTradeRep Jamieson Greer: have we actually made any inroads on stopping Canada from acting as a proxy for Beijing? "They're going to import cars from China. They've talked about having investment in cars from China. We're obviously not going to accept that. We don't sell Chinese cars in America. Their economic program, which they're entitled to have... it has a lot of inconsistency with what President Trump is trying to do. And so until those inconsistencies are adequately resolved I think we'll just be where we are. They want to be globalists with the EU. We're against that. We want to have more manufacturing here. We want to reverse the negative things that happened with NAFTA or things that could have happened with TPP. So as long as their trade policy is different, then it's going to be hard to have a completely open relationship with them."
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NDP hopefuls after hearing the $10/day Eby daycare story. 😉
Pretty clear from latest polls that the Merrifield stuff was an X thing, not a normal voter thing. But $10 a day is cutting through - those Eby numbers will sink further NDP candidates be like
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More bad news for PP & the CPC. But more fuel for AB's separatists who see TRO🇨🇦 as hopelessly liberal-left.
Preferred Prime Minister Polling: 🔴 Carney: 61% (+2) 🔵 Poilievre: 21% (+1) 🟠 Lewis: 3% (-1) 🟢 May: 2% (-1) ⚜️ Blanchet: 2% (-) 🟣 Bernier: 2% (-) ⚪️ Unsure: 10% Nanos / Oct 9, 2026 / n=1000 / MOE 3.1% / Telephone/Online (% Change With Oct 2, 2026)
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