Gold Rush California Was Much More Expensive Than Today’s Tech-Boom California
An interesting article at the Smithsonian on how prices in San Francisco during the gold rush compare to them now, with the current tech bubble.
There's a lot of parallels between the Gold Rush, and every gold rush in Canada & Alaska, and even more relevantly, the "Boom & Bust" cycles of Alberta. As many are now unfortunately discovering...
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Canada Post (5)
I mailed him a parcel last Sunday. Speaking to him last night "Don't worry Pa, I haven't received any of the parcels people sent me yet...".
Canada Post. Your new slogan: "Some of the Mail, Some of the Time". "Maybe". "All of the flyers, All of the Time:".
Still no response to my query, via your webform, sent last Sunday or thereabouts. Not by email or mail (you know better, I know) or phone or at all.
You know, there should be a fee to use the word Canada or Canadian, a Tax, it used to be a mark of distinguishment, now when people hear it they imagine a bunch of clowns running into one another with their dicks out in a circus ring. Think of Canadian Tire, and their upside-down triangle shaped tire. That isn't a logo, that's what they think a tire looks like. OR the Canadian Government, with Stephen Harper screaming:
"Human rights commissions, as they are evolving, are an attack on our fundamental freedoms and the basic existence of a democratic society... It is in fact totalitarianism. I find this is very scary stuff."
Yep. Human rights are scary Mein Fuhrer. Lets not call this "The Canadian Government", call it instead an experiment in right wing futility and dictatorship. So I would suggest re-branding your mail "delivery/loss/parcel-appropriation program" "Maybe?". People will say: "How you gonna ship that" and we'll say "Maybe". Which means, really, find another fucking delivery service, but it doesn't embarrass us, the nation, any further. We've got the government and Canadian Tire working on that, thank you very much.
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Parcel #5 Arrived, daughter not here to appreciate. Thanks. Still waiting on 6 & 7, & no reply to the ticket I opened on Sunday...
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C-51
C-51, the antithesis to "Home of the Free". Harper's Dystopia, and by even writing this I risk becoming a victim of his Orwellian policies. Appalling that the Liberals in any way endorsed this...
Link: McLeans on Bill C-51
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