https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-real-estate-insolvencies-in-canada-set-to-surpass-levels-of-global/
More real estate developers face insolvency owing to high debt levels and construction costs as Canada is on track to reach about 240 real estate insolvencies this year
I try to collect conversation starters so I have things to talk about with people I like.
Some of them are general and work on anyone, like: "I'm moving soon!" or "how was your weekend?" or "did you see that ludicrous display last night?". Others deal with shared interests or common friends, so they're person specific.
What's a word to describe collecting conversation starters? Borrowing from other languages is legit.
... some kid in the daycare has lice.
We went through this a couple of years ago: one kid had a tonne of lice in his hair, my wife got infested and ended up shaving her head. The other kid and I lucked out.
Regardless of what happens, we've got some short summer haircuts in our future.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/investing/personal-finance/article-facing-a-costly-mortgage-renewal-this-family-decided-to-downsize-and/
Selling the four-bedroom family home they bought 10 years ago will save loads of money each month
https://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/a-great-victory-for-the-industry-taxi-drivers-celebrate-ruling-that-found-city-of-ottawa-negligent-in-allowing-uber-to-operate-1.6885044
An Ontario Superior Court judge has ruled that the City of Ottawa was negligent in its enforcement of the city's taxi bylaw when it allowed Uber to begin operating in 2014, harming the city's established taxi industry.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-could-nurse-practitioners-fill-the-primary-care-gap/
More than 6.5 million Canadians are without a family doctor. Some would like to see nurse practitioners step in to ease the crisis in primary care
https://jacobin.com/2024/05/canada-euthanasia-poor-disabled-health-care
Canada boasts one of the world’s highest assisted-death rates, supposedly enabling the terminally ill to die with dignity. However, this suicide program increasingly resembles a dystopian replacement for care services, exchanging social welfare for euthanasia.
Is anyone else boycotting Loblaws? I don't have many alternatives, but I'm doing my best to take my business elsewhere.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-how-td-bank-got-caught-up-in-the-global-drug-war-helping-to-launder/
U.S. authorities believe the criminal ring laundered US$653-million between 2016 and 2021
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