a couple of years ago, the price of oil skyrocketed due to a war and other issues, and the idiots at the bank of canada thought increasing interest rates would reduce the effects of foreign conflicts on commodity prices, which created a brutal housing crisis. now, our government has foolishly hiked tariffs to respond to an economic attack by donald trump, and the inflation rate is predictably up. are the retards at the bank of canada going to raise rates again?

inflation has nothing to do with interest rates or with unemployment. the philips curve is thoroughly debunked and dead and buried, but the government won't adjust. it continues to use an inflation model that was proven wrong almost 50 years ago.

i would actually benefit from both inflation and higher interest rates, so long as i don't have to move soon, and i'm happy to watch these things move together and laugh at the eggheads when they complain that the philips curve isn't working. the tariffs are gone now, but sellers may never reverse prices back to the place they were before the tariffs were implemented, which should have in itself been a reason not to do it.

the bank of canada needs serious systemic reform. it's been waiting decades for something to replace the philips curve, and nothing has; nothing will. the connection is false. there's no causal relationship to uncover because there's no correlation in the first place.

if the bank hikes rates again and cites inflation from the retaliatory tariffs, tiff macklem should be tarred and feathered and forced to spend a day in the economics 101 class at the school he graduated from in a clown costume.

i would support a strengthened points system, and a return to the immigration rules we had from 1975-2005ish.

the reason canadians supported reasonable immigration levels in the past was that we had high entrance requirements. stephen harper started breaking down those entrance requirements to bring in more conservative voters from religious societies, and justin trudeau bizarrely accelerated harper's policy. we now have an irresponsible immigration policy with low entrance requirements, including letting people bring their grandparents with them, which is insane.

canadians have not changed their views.

the government has abandoned responsible immigration policy, and canadians are rejecting that shift in policy.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/conservatives-too-many-immigrants-9.6945905

i wasn't able to find any sign of roaches behind the fridge, but i lysolled it to death and dumped a little bleach in the condenser tray. let's see how the fuckers like that.

it's time to stock up on pantry items for the winter as well, and i just spend $600 on a gigantic walmart order, bu i won't have to buy this stuff again until the spring, and in some cases i haven't bought it since last year. that should mostly be there in the morning but some of it will need to be shipped.

so, i'm getting there.

i think my kitchen table won't get here until tomorrow.

it was the squirrel's birthday, clearly.

the squirrel could have just as easily eaten through a garbage bin, right? compost needs to be disposed of carefully. so, we might have some user error.

leave it in the freezer until the morning of the pickup date if you can. but, that's how you should store your garbage, anyways.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/squirrel-eats-into-windsor-green-bin-9.6945893

it would make no sense for the russians to just stop, without any guarantees of nato withdrawals, and without securing any kind of geographic boundary.

it would suit the united states for that to happen. sure. but the russians would be retarded to take that offer.

it seems as though mr. schreiner forgot to call shotgun.

the speaker's reasoning is sophomoric.

https://globalnews.ca/news/11486776/green-party-leader-moved-to-ontario-legislature-back-bench/

i had a rough weekend, and didn't get much done. i'm feeling more stable, but very gross and disgusting and filthy. i got a lot of cleaning done overnight, including a good clean of the rest of the stove and some placement of items around the kitchen. my table should get there today, which should help me put almost everything away.

i am noticing a couple of roaches down here around the fridge. i am going to have to pull it back out and see what's under there.

i hindsight, i think the gross freaks likely managed to get something in my food before i left the previous apartment. i remember a few moments where i felt like i was on something while i was moving, and that build up of dry skin might not have been natural. the weekend after i found the key, i isolated some soy milk, and then didn't drink it. i wonder if they drugged something else, but i don't know what. i guess the hot sauce is the most logical guess.

i wanted to do a large walmart purchase this morning for cleaning and bathroom supplies, but the website isn't working and i'm going to fall asleep instead.

i'm more than a little bit depressed about the situation, but i'm making progress on the kitchen. this is the fourth place these sick losers have followed me to. they appear to have no lives of their own to live. am i going to have to deal with this until they die?