Lived in Seattle for a few years. Healthcare and earnings were way better but holy shit, double or triple the amount of driving for errands/ski/beach/mountains and if you're in Bellevue, how freaking boring it is

For someone in their 20s tho, easy to meet other tech bros, travel a bit, and try a bunch of hobbies. They either buy a townhouse and disappear at 26 or move to New York (guilty)

https://apple.news/AsnBTutQsQwKj5HSSOwLHkw

Sack of shit liberal/NDP coalition trying to actively delay voting to secure pensions for 80 people? Fuck right off.

"There are 32 Conservatives, 22 Liberals, 19 Bloc Quebecois, six New Democrats and one Independent MP whose pensions are potentially on the line."

Really?? I'm sure the opposition is sooooo opposed. They're all sacks of shit.

Cons are opposing the bill to move the date?

... this is a pretty naive take don't you think?

Like.. you're going to benefit from this financially... and you know you can't kill it by voting no because you're outnumbered, but you can say you're gong to vote no to look good/look fiscally responsible.... you're going to oppose it knowing full well you will look good but also get the financial benefits when it passes.

I mean, if a bunch of Conservative MP's or BQ MP's abstain or return their pension??? Then we got something to talk about.

They know full well what they're doing.

Like I said, they're all a bunch of shitbags.

Oh I agree, but if they all end up voting against it, can’t say you didn’t try even though you likely know it would passed based on NDP and lib participation. There isn’t anything else you could do.

I'm sure the 99 Conservative/BQ MP's that aren't getting a benefit will be very upset.

That said, do you really think the entire reason for pushing this through is so that 28 out of 180 MP's on the Liberal/NDP side can benefit?! that's like 10% of their party... who the heck is going to risk looking that bad for 10% especially when 30% of the opposition is benefitting?

Methinks this bill has more to do with re-election strategy than pensions. Not that shit like that is any better... but it's hardly partisan.

No politicians should get pensions. The lobbyists they go work for after their terms are done should be paying for it.

PP had his pension by the time he was 30. At that time that was a record.

Interview with the con leader of BC.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/cana...using-climate/
What a joke.

Wow ticks all the boxes for right wing crazy mofo

Books are killing children: check
Climate change doesn't exist: check
Wants to fire the pro-vaccine PHO: check
No platform (to be unveiled -- and planks even, what a lovely blue collar construction word): check
Health care is North Korean-like and intends to fix it the same way the current govt already is: check
Won't disclose sources of information: check
Against housing measures because reasons: check

Can anyone confirm if this is true.

I was told that government agencies have budgets and if they don't spend enough they will not get the same budget for the following year, so what they do is just spend money just to hit their budget, and they spend on things they don't really need or upgrade things pre-maturing just to spend money.

Is this actually true?

I don't know what level of government you're talking about, but I can answer on federal.

And the answer is quite complicated/nuanced...

There's different types of money. There's Vote 5 or Capital money which is for things that are $10,000+ and then there's regular expenditures <10,000 and you can't cross over from one to the other, at least not easily or conventionally anyway.

Generally speaking, if you don't spend it you "lose" it, so there's definitely incentive to spend it... but you don't necessarily get punished for it with a lower budget in the next fiscal year and when I say you "lose" it, it just means it gets moved over to another program or silo that needed it more or overspent their budget within the same department. It's also become more popular to do what's called a "carry forward" especially on cap/vote 5 money so you can carry money into the next fiscal year and spend it then. Some managers/directors/ministers try to dissuade this though, I think it affects their bonuses somehow. Programs I work with do a lot of carry forwards because it can take Ford or GM up to 9 months to deliver a truck and if it's a custom build 5-tonne it can be over a year sometimes, so carry forwards are a must.

Anyway the simple answer is it's "somewhat" true but not really in the wasteful way you have heard or gets tossed around. What you are hearing is from programs that figured out they had money left over in a fiscal year, so they will look to spend it on things they thought they couldn't buy earlier in the year. You will see a big rush in March for the federal government because March 31st is the end of fiscal and at the very least delivery of an item purchased need to be physically confirmed by that date to be able to count it in that fiscal year. I have gone as far as to drive out to a dealership on March 31st and touch/take a photo of a VIN so we could claim it delivered in current fiscal. The worst thing I've ever seen was a manager say we could all get a new keyboard at the end of the year as long as it was <$150... so big whoop, I wouldn't call that wasteful I definitely felt like most people needed one and we couldn't buy f-all all year. Oh, and one program had extra capital money a couple years ago and they wanted to buy an eletric car since we're under massive pressure to do that right now, so I helped them replace a 2009 Malibu with a Tesla since we could deliver it fast enough to make the cutoff. I know, I know... ME helping a progam buy a friggin TESLA... it hurt me almost as much as you are imagining.

I can't speak for provincial or municipal though.

March seems wild for deliveries - VIN pic at the dealership on the 31st, that's hardcore!

Keyboard example might not be the most efficient use of funds, but hey, free upgrade! The Tesla...interesting use of the electric vehicle push, to say the least
Good info btw

yeah the provincial conservatives scare me.
see at least the federal ones know that they just have to be more to the right than the liberals to pull off a win.
the provincial ones know that they have to be even more to the right than bc united which is our normal right party, so they are swinging wildly right almost MAGA style to differentiate themselves.
unfortunately it's working because people are too dumb to realize they have nothing to do with the federal conservatives except they share the same name

Its called March madness for good reason

One of the amusing things to me is that, at least the federal level, the idea of something being a "capital asset" hasn't changed from $10,000+ since like... the 90's as far as I can tell. Lots of stuff that shouldn't be a "capital asset" cost more than $10k nowadays.

Likewise, we also can't repair vehicles for more than $20,000 without going to tender... if a headgasket or transmission goes on a 5-tonne the minimum is going to be $25,000 to fix that as a starting point and goign to tender for this kind of work takes literally forever, so the truck just sits broken somewhere all that time? Do you violate treasury board policy and contract split? There's been zero adjustment to these dollar amounts to account for inflation or rising costs the last 25+ years lol

The fed and BC cons are the same. They have the same supporters. PP tries hard to hide some of his parties extreme vies but he can't. He is week.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/poi...tion-1.7222881

PP can disagree all he wants in public. But if his member put up a private member's bill to block something he will not stop them.

honestly they're both bad. not sure how im going to vote next election, it might be the first time since i started voting that i might not cast a ballot.

it's not uncommon, my mom was in health care, i was in IT selling to gov't.
No one wnats to be under budget. You always want to say our department is not getting enough funding - so they will grant you more.
It's true, if you get 1M to deal with 100 patients, and you now have 110, and you're stretched with same budget 1M, you're justifiying an increase.

why would i give you more if you're only spending 800k.

Standard negotiation for allowance tactics I learned when I was a kid.

This is fantastic. Just fantastic. MPs 'wittingly' taking part in foreign interference -- most notably with China and India.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/mps-...ttee-1.6911673



It baffles my mind as to why these foreign cock-sucking MPs weren't named in the CSIS report. Rat them and and let public fury rip them a new one! Or at least, put them on the spot to see what kind of ridiculous justification they can try to spin to make them look even uglier.

The Turdeau gov's response is just as unacceptable. It pretty much amounts to shrugging its shoulders and say there isn't much they can do about it. Perhaps that's true because it is apparently so widespread -- it is occuring at every level of government. But it is still surprising because we have a federal gov election coming up next year, and by doing nothing, it basically looks like the Liberals have just given up, and isn't even trying to win much of anything in that 2025 federal election.

FailFish

Maybe JT is just setting a trap. Get the cons really upset names are not being released and then when the election gets close release the names and watch the cons scramble because a punch of high profile cons are on it.

Remember pp's former boss and mentor Harper is friends with Modi.

https://x.com/stephenharper/status/1...434432?lang=en

https://www.nationalobserver.com/202...stephen-harper

pretty sure that's treason....send them to jail.

From the sound of it, I'm sure there'll be MPs from all the different major parties. There have long been accusations of inappropriate ties between Liberal MPs and foreign govs in the past, with the most recent MP being Han Dong of Toronto with ties to the CCP. Conservative MPs having ties to India would not surprise me either, given Harper's ties with Modi and India. So if the news blows up, I'd expect all major parties to be affected. The question would only be -- which party has the largest number of sellouts?

yes that is true, I have certain government customers that always order extra at the end of the year so they meet their budget numbers. They normally need everything they purchase but lets say an item will need to be replaced two months after the budget so they will replace it now instead.