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@integritycdn Cast iron pans are usually seasoned. If you soak it, it destroys the surface. Usually you would iron a bit of hot water in the pan while it is still warm and wipe clean.

I don’t get it😐

@ThomasWatsonCD 154.9 in Regina.

175.1 for gas in Ottawa! 243.9 for diesel.

@JaredDapena @DanielH85442891 @JonFlynnREstats Income tax was once considered a ‘temporary’ measure.

@DanielH85442891 @JonFlynnREstats I would hope not. Given how many Canadians are home owners, I think it would be political suicide.

Brought my friend a case of beer for his 50th. It cost over $60 CAD The same beer in 🇺🇸 imported from Holland is $27 USD ($37.45 CAD) + tax 🇨🇦 $51 CAD + tax Why are Canadians paying 36% more?

@alexmarz Try doing the reverse. 🤪🤣

I’m 45 going 80

@aakashgupta @KathrynMathias1 The bottom photo is so much prettier, and lovely to walk in that neighbourhood.

Let me explain exactly why every new subdivision in America looks like the top photo, because the math is wild. A mature tree increases a home's value by 7 to 19 percent. On a $400,000 house, that's $28,000 to $76,000. A single shade tree produces the cooling equivalent of ten room-size air conditioners running 20 hours a day. One tree on the west side of a house cuts energy bills by 12 percent within 15 years. The bottom photo is worth more, costs less to live in, and sells faster. This has been documented by the University of Washington, Clemson, Michigan State, and the USDA. The data is not in dispute. Removing those trees saves the builder roughly $5,000 per lot. Concrete trucks need twice the dripline radius of every standing tree. Utility trenches need flat ground. A bulldozer flattens 200 lots in an afternoon. Preserving trees adds weeks and thousands per home. So the developer pockets $5,000 in savings and the buyer eats $50,000 in lost value for the next two decades. The person making the decision and the person paying for it have never been in the same room. The Woodlands, Texas is the proof of what happens when they are. George Mitchell bought 28,000 acres of Houston timberland in 1974 and preserved 28% as permanent green space. He forced McDonald's to build behind the tree canopy. That McDonald's became one of the highest-volume locations in Texas. The first office building, designed to reflect the surrounding forest so you couldn't see it from the street, leased completely. The Woodlands median home price today: $615,000. Katy, a comparable Houston suburb that clear-cut: $375,000. Named #1 community to live in America two years running. Fifty years of data. The trees are worth more than removing them saves. Developers clear-cut anyway because they sell the house once and leave. You live in it for 30 years.

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@JaredDapena I’m at a loss for words. I’m not angry, but I’m not sure how to describe my feelings - perhaps such a deep sadness that someone cud think that & then say it publicly. So hurtful to the family & friends of a man who served his country heroically in Vietnam & in peacetime at home.

The same evangelical "Christians" and room temperature IQ Americans who will enthusiastically endorse this message will be apoplectic at the global celebrations that will occur when it's Trump's turn.

@manik199 @anders_aslund And Mr Carney made part of his speech in Japanese!

While Trump humiliated himself, the United States, all Americans and the PM of Japan with the Pearl Harbor comments, PM Mark Carney pulled a Jake Ryan and surprised her with a birthday cake. Canada: still winning over America.

@PaulStewartII @marissenmark @canadiandobie You don’t even have to own a home to have a good life - you can rent.

Of 55 years I could have owned a car. I owned one only 15 years. Half that a van. Half a Range Rover. Don’t have one now. Worked a global career from 23 to 62. Been to 35 countries. I made a choice made at 16. Never felt deprived. Always felt richer. It’s how I bought my home; used that money for better housing. I lived in locations that made transit viable. Sometimes for some it’s not possible.

Vancouver is actually lucky that local First Nations are able to use their own rules to provide this much-needed housing that’s walking distance to downtown Vancouver. This is the kind of housing that reduces the necessity of owning a car, making life more affordable and convenient for the people living there. Over 50% of trips in Vancouver are already made by walking, transit or bicycle.

@alanfryermedia Nor do dictators or any politician (of any political stripe) who is tarred with scandals.

Socialists never apologize for the havoc they wreak.

@marissenmark @Prominent_Bryan @beheshtialex It also benefits the environment - fewer vehicles. This is certainly doable in large cities with good public transportation systems. I lived in London, Eng for 2-1/2 yrs & never had a car. Bus, tube & train system excellent. A car would have been a major headache & expense. 🙂

Owning a car can be a huge hassle in downtown Vancouver. And the average cost of owning a car in Canada is about $16,000.00 per year, and that doesn't even include the cost of parking. Parking supply in residential buildings often exceeds demand by a wide margin, particularly in areas close to public transit. Parking spots that go unused also make those apartments themselves more expensive than they need to be. Each spot can increase the purchase cost of your condo by anywhere from $50 k to $100 k. At minimum, being able to take at least $1300 off your monthly bills in exchange for a $100 transit pass is appealing to a lot of people. We should be building more housing in places where you aren't required to have a car. This also frees up the roads for the cars that are actually needed. If you still want/need car culture, you're still more than welcome to live in the suburbs.

@PremierScottMoe Amazing curling!!

Canada brings home Paralympic gold in wheelchair curling, and Saskatchewan’s own Gil Dash of Kipling delivered when it mattered most.   Proud of our athletes who continue to inspire the province and the country on the world stage.

@JohnIbbitson It’s not asylum to know what is true r not anymore!!

I deleted a Trump post that I’m told was fake. My apologies.

@Matt_Pinner Raspberry and blueberry

You have to name him the last thing you ate

@djbip1986 @OrbitStudios The longer they delay the more expensive it becomes. Funny how they have the courage to engage in scandals but not for a proper home for the PM. 🤷‍♀️

@OrbitStudios It’s not the money, it’s a lack of political courage on the part of our leaders.

We’re petty cheapskates as a nation and it needs to stop.

@JustaGuy8g @alanfryermedia So….you think Israel & US knew the strait would be blocked & the Gulf States attacked & proceeded with bombing anyway?? They weren’t worried about oil prices skyrocketing, transport of oil ceased??

@HistoryCath @alanfryermedia That’s predictable.

Same columnist who predicted with certainty that Trump would never strike Iran now predicts with equal certainty that the military operation will fail spectacularly. It’s true that war is a messy and often unpredictable business and many of the experts I read and listen to - including superbly connected Israeli and other ME journalists - admit they have no idea how this ends. But Canadian opinion writers do have the whole stopped clock thing going for them…

@djbip1986 I’m sure he would rather work with the PM than have an election, esp given the polls. 😀 I do like his ‘new’ demeanour and efforts to work in Cda’s interests instead of saying “it’s broken”.

"Poilievre said a few weeks ago that he would rather work with Mark Carney than have an election over who should be negotiating with Trump. ... thestar.com/politics/polit…

@JustaGuy8g @alanfryermedia Iran has blocked the Strait of Hormuz, is bombing other Gulf states, etc.

@HistoryCath @alanfryermedia Sideways? How exactly?

@integritycdn It’s a way for businesses to say we make GF products but we do so in a facility that also produces products with wheat, rye or barley. If it’s “certified” GF then it’s made in a GF facility. A restaurant will say gluten friendly to try to avoid liability shd someone become ill.

I don’t wanna appear crass but what the fuck is gluten ‘friendly’? It can make folks really fucking sick if they are Celiac when well intended Hosts think it’s safe so this term should be thrown the hell out It’s gluten free or it isn’t ffs

@djbip1986 @OrbitStudios And economic woes add to the feelings and f frustration.

@OrbitStudios He’s been in power 8 years. This is normal.

People are waking up.