Please read what I wrote again. I never said to discount accessibility, traffic, public safety, etc. It is the less obvious fees/policies that cities impose. Some are triggered only when a business changes hands.

But it also tells that many have no idea how much upfront money is required for these upgrades to get aging buildings into compliance and that's when you haven't even started selling anything. You need at least 500k of liquidity to just 'start' (if it's anything like a small cafe as an example) and that amount won't even last past 6 months given the nature of how consumer habits work in North America.

Add in the lack of trades in Canada, the price skyrockets - I mean, that's a whole other story.

The silver lining in there is that people should be claiming tax credits/breaks where applicable. Many provinces and federal taxes for business have built-in incentives.

This is simply the result of Canadian cities with overly anti-small business policies. The fact that you can't just run a business anywhere, or that you require to have a license from the municipal/city, or even have a permit for a sign out on the street, have a permit for x style of signage, etc. all for the sake of the look-and-feel of a city... is anti-business. It puts barriers in front of lower budget mom/pop stores.

Go out of North America, and you'll see that when overbearing policies are removed, small businesses thrive, cost of goods go down , and more variety are available to the consumer.

This extends beyond just the grocery market.

Account made on Oct 6, 2026....HMMM....just in time for the election huh.

Misleading claims about how NDP 'bankrupted the province'...sure, sure...16 years of BC lib/con cuts/crown corp guts and sales definitely can be undone in 9 years!..

It's not an age/culture war. It's a wealth-class war.

I think the move to call an election wasn't fully thought out, but who wouldn't call an election when your opponent's side is imploding? But hindsight 20/20. The messaging from Eby is poor from day 1 of his tenure as premier. The things he proposed should have been announced even without the 'threat' of an election.

That being said, 9 years of straight NDP isn't going to magically fix 16 years straight of BC Liberal policies and spending. It's easier to spend/sell assets than save/generate wealth. It certainly didn't help with COVID in there alongside a trade war. BC Liberals effectively bankrupted BC.

But sure, let's vote for the BC Libs/Cons for more tax breaks...that will fix the budget! Somehow their words speak louder than their actions...

I keep seeing people saying 'NDP has been in power long enough', 'their policies suck', 'they spend too much'.

Well hello, it's easier to spend than save. Who gutted BC's crown corps? Oh right the BC Liberals/BC Conservatives/BC United side. NDP has literally just been playing 'keeping shit together' since 2017.

Let's face it, the province has been effectively hollowed out by 16 years of BC Libs. Go on, tell me how you're going to somehow undo 16 years of faux 'balanced budgets' (vast majority of it was selling BC's assets and cutting budgets that won't have an immediate effect, but never reinstated) with only 9 years.

16 years compared to 9 years. Tell me how one can somehow make more wealth in less time than you spent it as a government body.

I think the bigger picture is missed here - it's the natural environment that is suitable for humans to exist that has been pillaged, razed, and sold off for cheap while a handful few have become obscenely wealthy as the guardrails that were put in place to prevent/mitigate such environmental extraction are dismantled all in the name of short term gains. While the guardrails can be placed back in relatively quickly, it is the raping and the alternation of the natural environment that is not easily reversed - if even possible at all right now.

That is the real cards current and future generations have to deal with or the lack of...the longer we ignore this issue, the worse it will get. Tragedy of the commons.

But I will also mention that millennials were pretty much sold lies at every turn while growing up.

i've looked at them at their postal branches and they're pretty sturdy. Fill up the empty space with crunched up paper and it should secure things in place.

277 million loss before tax...

Okay - so...they really just need about 7-10% more people in the entirety of Canada to send parcels with Canada Post to make up for that shortfall (napkin math I know)

Hey - did you know that Canada Post have these nice and sturdy flat-rate parcel boxes in like 4 different sizes that are pretty competitive in prices that ship across Canada?

Looks like the gaming industry, under the consolidation of 'big tech' or spreadsheet crunchers, have been treating all staff as 'temporary employees'. Once the project or role is done, they cut you off.

What a great way to run an industry! /s

The point isn't about body shaming. It's about the double standards that the OP is trying point out (regardless of whether the image is real or not).

The ugly truth - our current way of life does not price in the real cost of the environment. Go look on the shelves of every store from groceries to clothing and even online stores. You can buy anything from anywhere from around the world but at what environmental cost were they shipped there? Produced? Sure the prices are set at what the capitalistic market can take, but it almost always exclude the cost on the environment.

Companies are not going to magically give up their arbitraged profits to fix the environment unless regulated to do so. The carbon tax was one of many ways to approach this.

We can say to stop burning fossil fuels today, but the big underlying problem is the system we're all stuck in because the leaders and politicians are simply unwilling to take the hard path for the greater long term good. We're facing the problem of 'tragedy of the commons' but among nations. Blaming the single regular consumer is a red herring. Sure we can all make individual choices to consume less, buy something more ethical/local, but we all know that under the overwhelming capitalistic corporate systems, the regular consumer has no real choices.

Until real proper regulation is done across the entire globe, it's a race to see who can benefit the most before the world's current ecosystem is completely fucked. The fucked up part is - if we simply moved slower - we could have all the things we have today, but no.