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AltaRed said
Re post #57, there are plenty of easy-to-use and inexpensive tablets available on the market for $100-150, and there are low cost internet options such as https://ised-isde.canada.ca/site/connecting-families/en if one qualifies.  

If you can explain me HOW can one live on those amounts, please.
Even if you live under the bridge there is NO way to survive on these amounts...
So all this 'government help' is plain BS.

2. Seniors
Seniors that are eligible for the CFI meet one of the following criteria:
They receive the maximum amount of the Guaranteed Income Supplement (GIS), as determined by the Guaranteed Income Supplement Estimator; or,
They are single with an annual income of less than $4,000, and also qualify for the Old Age Security (OAS) program; or,
They are in a couple with a combined annual income of less than $8,000, and also qualify for the OAS program.

itsme said

Your statement reminds me of an article I read which said producing an electric car battery makes more pollution than one gasoline powered car on the road.

Sitting behind a computer screen makes one think that it's all clean and efficient but it takes an enormous amount of energy to keep things online and running. Anyway this thread has gotten way off topic.  

yah, this!

CAD and AltaRed: That low-cost internet program is:
1. voluntary on the part of the ISPs
2. capped at a fixed number of recipients set by the ISPs (and is always full)

savemoresaveoften: What one prints for oneself is of limited credibility. Look at all the faked images on line! We still mostly have printers, though I was recently been given one by someone who has sworn off paper forever. I won't return it if they don't figure out in three months they still need it!

mordko: I said:

employees working at private liquor stores here in B.C. get paid less and do more. Is that a good thing for our society? More income inequality?

HermanH: said:

Yes, it is a good thing to improve productivity. The very definition of productivity is to do more with the same level of resources.

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That is incorrect. That productivity benefit will be divided between the owners, management, and workers through bonuses, dividends, and raises. No single group will garner all the benefits, but they certainly will not gain equally.

I reply: That's just silly. The lower-paid workers gain nothing and lose pay.

So, mordko, you are, I think, agreeing with me:

Lowering pay does not increase productivity. I would expect it to lower productivity due to poor morale.

It is also likely not $4,000 or $8,000 per year of "Total imcome" (line 15000).

Government benefits are often qualified with "Net income before adjustments" (line 23400) or "Net Income" (line 23600).

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Meanwhile, back to the subject at hand . . .

More 'Food For Thought' ➡️ https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/denmark-postal-service-canada-post-9.6942307

It' just a matter of Time❗

Dean

As long as our politicians and their families and entourages are happily flying all over the world for no compelling reason other than to enjoy the high life then I know climate emergency is fiction so I'm not concerned about my "carbon footprint", not even for one second.

I keep my statements in digital form (with a printed out summary spreadsheet updated monthly or so in case I die so that someone will know where all the money is today) only because that's how I like to do it.

RetirEd said
Doug: That's what Canada Post was before the creation of Canada Post Corporation and it was widely reported as "privatization," as with all crown corporations.

Canada Post was never privatized. That was just a change to its legal structure, when it was a government department headed by the Postmaster General. Should it go back to that status? Maybe, but we still need to implement some degree of restructuring and modernization, as the taxpayer is not limitless and cannot sustain endless level of unnecessary bureaucracy

employees working at private liquor stores here in B.C. get paid less and do more.

Is that a good thing for our society? More income inequality?  

That's what I am saying. Get rid of the private liquor stores by way of attrition. Besides, is making alcohol accessible on every street corner good for society?

everhopeful said
Then there is further energy expended if the client doesn't pay online, either by mailing a cheque back across the country to the biller, or by (most likely) driving/bussing to a bank to pay at the teller window.

Even Canada Post itself seen the eventual future and created Epost at the turn of the millenium (and shuttered it in 2022 when it didn't gain traction). I think a service like that paired with a low cost internet plan (most seniors don't need gigabit home internet) with an easy to use tablet would make the transition a lot easier for a lot of folks.

In this era daily mail delivery is unsustainable, both economically and environmentaly. Any efforts to keep it is just kicking the can down the road to create an even bigger problem in the future.  

"driving/bussing to a bank to pay at the teller window"
I go to my bank via a manual bike. However, our car friendly Premier wants to eliminate bike lanes. He said bike lanes interfere with gas power vehicles.

savemoresaveoften:

Your realize a snail mail paper statement is just an official printout of the e version that is produced regardless ?

Not necessarily. The database is there, but why would they bother generating and storing the statement images whose profiles say they don't use E-banking?

Norman1: If one has a stack of historical statements printed by the bank, they will match the one in question in ways others can't.

doug: All those high-paid tech jobs depend on their ability to get rid of many other jobs.

And the more internet apps and data-hoarding services we have, the more will be skimmed out by the middlemen like delivery services, non-taxi skimmers and the like.

COIN: I walk to the bank. I need the exercise and the human contact with the staff.

ALSO: I heartily agree about how the booze-pushers are always claiming ANY liquor laws are "outdated" and "obsolete." And now restaurants and hotels are complaining that the liquor-sellers' strike is killing their business. but that's because they built their business on booze. It was only about a decade or two ago that BC eliminated the requirement to buy food for drinking in establishments licensed as restaurants. Meanwhile, the social and health costs of booze continue to rise, even though beer consumption is falling in the province.

After free trade killed off or sold off the Canadian beer manufacturers (I think one small one was saved in the end?) There was a rush to create all manner of "craft breweries," which have been shaking out and are nearly all gone. And they mostly can't maintain their taste and quality. That's why they have so many odd-flavoured beers on the market now - the brews don't have to taste like anything recognizable. Wheat straw and BBQ goat, anyone?

Retired: “After free trade killed off or sold off the Canadian beer manufacturers (I think one small one was saved in the end?) There was a rush to create all manner of "craft breweries," which have been shaking out and are nearly all gone. And they mostly can't maintain their taste and quality. That's why they have so many odd-flavoured beers on the market now - the brews don't have to taste like anything recognizable. Wheat straw and BBQ goat, anyone?”

This is accurate with the following caveats:

1. Far from being “wiped out,” Canadian brewing has thrived since the 1990s.

2. The Craft Beer sector exploded, not collaped. 1400 craft breweries, many, like steam whistle and Muskoka are exporting all over the world and winning awards.

3. Quality and diversity improved by a huge margin.

4. What we see is called consolidation with overall craft beers production increasing even while total beer consumption is declining.