Billy
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@ronmortgageguy @BeegJj You don't say goodbye to your friends when leaving a party?
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@shreditor @Jennnyyyyyy All that good math to end up shitting the bed at the end. Sheesh.
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@Jennnyyyyyy LOL - I should be sleeping right now! 10+15=25
My mistake, but literally never had so much immediate engagement before
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@Jennnyyyyyy Rnd=3
Tringle=5
Sqr=10
Sqr+triangle x rnd=
10+5x3 =10+18=28
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@ronmortgageguy @BenRabidoux @MortgageProsCan @CanRevAgency @FinanceCanada @OSFIBSIF_leader Its intentional - the fraud is a feature, not to flaw
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@BenRabidoux @MortgageProsCan @CanRevAgency @FinanceCanada @OSFIBSIF_leader Bottom line: CRA has decided it's too expensive (although they would recover 100% of the cost)
And CRA believes they are too busy to bother
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Reminder: It's been 3 years since this bombshell CBC expose on mortgage document fraud, and 2 years since @MortgageProsCan formally asked govt for digital income verification...and so far NOTHING from @CanRevAgency / @FinanceCanada
cc @OSFIBSIF_leader
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YouTube
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@RussellShaw_MLS This one is up your alley if you're looking for posts to comment on.
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Mark Kaplan@markkaplan20
I have 12 years of blood work. 7 panels. Every result. Every flag. All leading up to my heart attack at 52. They flagged one marker every single time. LDL cholesterol. The only one they cared about. They missed a different marker flagged 4 times. A marker Dr. Broda Barnes called "the riddle of heart attacks" in 1976. Let me show you what they saw, what they missed, and what nearly killed me. 🧵
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An Open Letter to the Five Members of Parliament Who Crossed the Floor. 🔥💯
“To the Members of Parliament who chose to abandon the voters who elected you,
There are moments in public life that define a person—not by what they say, but by what they do. Your decision to cross the floor mid-mandate is one of those moments. And it will follow you.
You did not earn your seat under the banner you now carry. You did not campaign on the platform you now support. Canadians placed their trust in you based on clear promises, clear affiliations, and clear values. That trust was not yours to trade, reassign, or surrender once it became politically convenient.
Switching jerseys in the middle of the game is not strategy. It is betrayal.
And it is not a small one.
Every single vote that put you into office came from a Canadian who believed you stood for something specific. They believed their voice mattered. They believed you would carry that voice into Parliament with integrity. Instead, you took that mandate and handed it to a government those same voters did not choose to empower.
That is not representation. That is a reversal of consent.
You may justify your actions however you like—strategy, stability, national interest—but none of those explanations change the fundamental truth: you were not elected to do this. If your convictions truly changed, the honourable path was obvious—step down, face your constituents again, and ask for their permission.
You didn’t.
Instead, you chose the path that benefited you while silencing the people who trusted you.
And here is the part that cannot be avoided:
Every day you look in the mirror, you are looking at the face of that decision.
The face tied to every vote that put you where you are—and every voter who was left behind when you walked away from them.
You may gain position, influence, even reward. But none of that changes what this is.
Because of your actions, a government now holds power it did not win at the ballot box. A majority carries enormous weight—over the economy, over policy, over the everyday lives of Canadians. That power was not freely granted. It was assembled through your defection.
And the cost will not be yours to bear.
It will be carried by hard- working Canadians—by families already stretched thin, by small businesses trying to survive, by people who now feel their vote can be taken and repurposed without their consent.
That is a dangerous precedent.
Because when people begin to believe their vote no longer truly matters, the damage goes far beyond one decision, one Parliament, or one government. It cuts at the foundation of trust itself.
Canadians deserved better than this.
They deserved representatives who either stood by their word—or had the integrity to return to the people and seek a renewed mandate when that word changed.
You chose something else.
And Canadians will remember, history books will remember……your name.
Sincerely
an ordinary Canadian ,
Stephanie La Porta
West Vancouver
BC”
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Can't tell if this was a serious question in the first place? It it was, its some consolation to the rest of use that even you can't make heads or tails of which expert to believe. Seems the decision should be based on more than just lab test values. I would want some proof of physical risk to inform my decision (ex. Positive CCTA), then I'll talk about it.
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I have my answer with many thanks. If you are on statins or thinking of going on them, the comments are, should we say, revealing and seemingly unambiguous...
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Dave Collum@DavidBCollum
If you've gone on statins, I would love to hear your experience. (It is not for me but for my wife.) One doc says definitely and another says she doesn't need them. I'm biased against them. Anecdotes appreciated as well as wisdom.
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@DrIngold @CovidConfusion @Russell75212047 @RussellShaw_MLS @NTFabiano Thank you - learned so much from this thread.
2 week hold sounds easiest (AKI=acute kidney injury, right?)
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Yes normal eGFR prior to creatine start is good but not fully reassuring because you can’t definitively say the updated Cr rise isn’t AKI.
1 week hold very common, 2 weeks hold before labs even more safe
Normal eGFR even w/Cr rise isn’t helpful but isn’t fully reassuring (see above AKI point)
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