Banker arrogance
https://www.greaterfool.ca/2023/09/22/banker-arrogance/
[Can't trust the banks]
"...On the 4th Jim walked into his bank (the green one) to convert that big whack of money from the sale ($1.1 million) into a draft which he planned to hand deliver to his new lawyer in order to close on the bungalow. “Sorry,” the teller told him after peering into her terminal for several, painful minutes, “but you don’t have enough available funds for the draft.”
"But, he said, it’s my money. It was deposited into our personal joint chequing account by our lawyer, from her trust account and as a certified cheque. When a cheque is certified, it’s certified. The funds are there. It’s like cash. You have no right.
"Holding a cheque is legal. Federally-regulated financial institutions can sit on your money for a period of between four and eight business days, according to OSFI. But, it is not entirely arbitrary – and the front-line employee making that decision at the time of the deposit must know the rules....
Ottawa Funded the China Ferry Deal—Then Pretended to Oppose It
While Beijing-backed hackers infiltrated Canadian telecoms, federal and B.C. leaders quietly financed a billion-dollar shipbuilding deal with a Chinese state firm—then tried to pass the buck.
https://theoppositionnewsnetwork.substack.com/p/ottawa-funded-the-china-ferry-dealthen
Some of these things I still miss
I grew up without safe spaces.
I grew up without trigger warnings.
I drank water from the hose.
I ate peanuts in class.
None of us wore a helmet.
Kids got hurt. We fell down. And we signed a lot of casts.
We couldn’t pause TV. We’d call out “It’s on!” as soon as the commercials started to end (for those who had left the room). And we watched our favourite shows as a family.
There was no next day delivery.
There was no bundle this with that.
There was no internet. Skip the Dishes didn’t exist.
Fast food was not the norm. It was easier to eat healthy. There were home phones. There was VH.........
