Since I’m in Winnipeg, I buy it from a Co-op grocery store near my house. The article suggests that the company making it might just be badging it for Co-op and you may be able to get it directly. https://borealheartland.ca/

Penner is a common Mennonite surname, and there are are a lot of Penners in Canada. Mennonite low German (Plautdietsch) is more weirder.

The wiki page has some good sample texts comparing it between Dutch and Low German.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plautdietsch

My surname (Unrau) is also Mennonite, but could be German.

This concludes my TED talk.

Yeah, would be an interesting lawsuit if she had proof of that statement.

On the flip side, I like that our courts publish proceedings. If we’re having an open and transparent society, and we want to trust in our institutions, then this transparency is required. An conundrum, to be sure.

I mean, our courts publish proceedings. Wouldn’t be hard to assemble a database from that info.

The accuracy of such a database (particularly when interpreted by an AI) would be hugely suspect. Also, hard to argue with a database when you’re at the border being detained – the guy detaining you didn’t create the database.

Whole thing reeks.

Copy pasting their list, which may or may not be accurate.

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Uline is more like “warehouse supply” than office. Like, if I want an anti-static workbench for an electronics tech, then Uline is where I would previously go.

Chilean wine is great. I recommend the Emiliana Coyam. Mmm

Must be a leadership review coming up. Pandering to base.

Manitoba should invade down that highway – see how the rest of Canada feels when the Riel Rebellion …

Ah nevermind, let bygones be bygones.

Or logging, or farming. There’s a bunch of reasons to have low population density road networks.

At this latitude?

Epic answer haha. My other half grew up in a Soviet apartment block, so I get stories from her about that on occasion. Mostly about not owning any of it except their contents. Definitely a “poor but housed” situation – don’t look behind the curtains. I’m not sure it’s a good idea either. During the collapse of the Soviet Union when the power and heat shut off, they were burning furniture in there – but I guess that’s a testament too a solid construction haha.

Anyway, fun reply! :)

Was in Regina for the weekend (I’m a Bomber fan, don’t hate me) and had a nice time! We were looking up real estate and comparing against Winnipeg and it seemed similar ish. But that doesn’t tell us about the rental market which sometimes has weird emergent phenomena.

If you were benevolent dictator of Canadastan, how would you fix it?

Yeah, and the east coast, excluding Halifax.

Prairie cities, except Calgary, doing alright too.

Conclusion, based on some random scrolling around in the maps.

The rural north is fucked. But we already knew this. You could make the same map for teachers, nurses, postal workers…

In the bigger cities, it’s a bimodal distribution – the newest neighbourhoods (where sprawl is occurring) lag behind, but also the older poorer neighbourhoods. So it isn’t just socioeconomics, but also about sprawl.

At press time, sources confirmed the cat had decided to sleep in a laundry hamper full of dirty towels.

At least they are dirty! How many times have I got to check my stack of folded laundry only to find it was an appetizing spot for a mid-day snooze.

I actually tried to work out the economics of it based on the rate we were paying ($200/night) in a place that was clearly worth at least half a million.

$200 per night. Assuming they only get occupancy on the weekends, and use some weekends for themselves. Then you could reasonably presume they can get maybe 150 rental-days in a year. More likely to be 100. Let’s use 100 because it maths easy.

That’s $20000/yr. If you were only paying for your place with short term rentals at that pace, and interest wasn’t a thing, it would take 25 years to break even. If you include interest at a trivial 4%, then you’re looking at a 40 year mortgage.

And that’s not including all the cleaning, repairs, etc.

So if you’re using the place as an income stream, yeah, that ain’t happening. Not unless it’s in a high-demand location that you can charge a lot more for.

Unless you’re looking at it like a retirement-home-in-waiting or something.

There is (or was) once a pretty nice industry of “cabin resorts” – basically a facility with a bunch of cabins for rent. They are functionally hotels, and subject to all the regulations. Now you rent a VRBO and show up and there’s rotten food in the microwave and you have no recourse.

Yes, this actually happened to us. Yes I have pictures. You can’t smell it in the picture.

Damn, it’s not like he downloaded a car