7 minutes ago, BPA said:

I doubt they would be 60 goal scorers at all.  They would definitely get a bump in their stats.  But don’t tell me Hyman would be the same high goal scorer without McDavid.  
 

What Hyman has done is gelled his game with McDavid.  He wasn’t going to be an elite winger without McDavid.  Just like Boeser found his game with Miller.

 

In the other EP thread, I keep hearing that EP needs an elite winger.  Sorry.  If you are going to make $11.6M then you need to be the guy that improves the players around you.  Just like Miller did with Boeser. And McDavid with Hyman.

the contract is the big thing

if u make that kind of money, you need to be able to have a pylon as a winger and get him to score 30 goals just like henrik did with taylor pyatt speaking of pylons

34 minutes ago, Elias Pettersson said:

Demko will be out the second round too if we make it there…

 

 

i can see us taking round 1 without him, we can beat nashville 

0 chance we can beat edmonton without Demko. 0. 

4 minutes ago, Canuck You said:

Petey needs to get going, Lindholm is doing what Kesler did against other teams top player to open up chances for our top guys, That needs to be taken advantage of.

im genuinely terrified of that 11 million dollar contract

petey can be so dominant but the fact that he can just disappear for months is wild for a guy getting paid what he is

what a fookin steal for a round 2 draft pick

and coming into his own at exactly the right time

2 hours ago, Elias Pettersson said:

 

this demands correct context. the statement was made before Israel's counterattack, and was based on Israel targeting Iran's nuclear sites. Here it is in full. I do not believe this is relevant anymore, given Iran's claims that Israel did not in fact hit anything, and the attack was successfully rebuffed. Based on how Iran is addressing this, they appear to favor de-escalation and to frame the unsuccessful Israeli strike as a win for Tehran. 

"Tehran's first direct attack on Israel, launched late Saturday, was in retaliation for an April 1 airstrike on the Iranian consulate in Damascus that killed seven members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, including two generals.

Israeli officials have not said when or where the country would retaliate, but Ahmad Haghtalab, the Guards' head of nuclear protection and security, said Iran would reciprocate any attack on nuclear sites.

"If the Zionist regime [Israel wants to take action against our nuclear centers and facilities, it will definitely and surely face our reaction," the official news agency IRNA quoted Haghtalab as saying.

"For the counterattack, the nuclear facilities of the [Israeli] regime will be targeted and operated upon with advanced weaponry."

His warning came after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel reserves "the right to protect itself" following the Iranian attack with hundreds of drones and missiles.

Haghtalab said the threat of an Israeli attack on Iran's nuclear facilities could lead Tehran "to revise and deviate from the declared nuclear policies and considerations," without elaborating."

https://www.voanews.com/a/iran-warns-israel-against-attacking-nuclear-sites-/7575713.html

Guess what

holidays DONT start tomorrow

hehehehehe

okay that was a hell of a game

1 hour ago, The Arrogant Worms said:

My house was built in 1972.  It has been updated.  Even if I could get an interest free loan for more renosI could not pay it back before I die.

could just be an option for people, not required of course

but would be attractive for people who have small old bungalows and have really underbuilt their property & have no ability to modify the existing home to add a suite, etc. 

2 hours ago, Bob Long said:

 

Yep that and a ton of leasehold property 

i had an idea id love to see them try-

loosen up subdivision rules & provide interest free loans to homeowners that redevelop their 1970s or older teardowns into multiunit properties. a ton of those homes are fire hazards not to mention are chock full of asbestos and other terrible things. 

case would be something like:

bungalow from the 1960s gets torn down and redeveloped into:

- 3 storey home with legal groundfloor/basement suite

+ 1-2br laneway house

where the subidivison loosening rules apply: owner can choose to sell the small parcel of land with the laneway house

win win win for everyone involved:

- home owner can "take profit" on real estate investment without losing roof over his/her head & can redevelop into something much nicer & vertical (can probably do this without losing much or any living space)

- additional rental unit enters the rental pool (basement/ground level suite)

- additional affordable property (laneway house + land parcel) becomes affordable to purchase, and increased supply hopefully leads to moderated prices

3 minutes ago, Bob Long said:

 

It's really hard to say no to doubling your equity in 5 years, as was the case for a stretch there.

 

What political party said no? 

yea agreed, no political will to change the situation at all

now majority are without their own home & rents are unaffordable as a result

its very sad

im really hoping that the next 5-6 years we see a big push to expand rapid transit outwards and more single family homes get redeveloped into multiplexes

2 hours ago, Bob Long said:

Finally, some truth to this:

 

The dirty secret of the housing crisis? Homeowners like high prices

 

But Paul Kershaw, a public policy professor at the University of British Columbia and founder of the affordability advocacy group Generation Squeeze, says the emphasis on increasing housing supply obscures an issue politicians are less likely to address.

Namely, that we, as a country, have become addicted to ever-rising home prices, largely because we've been conditioned to see our homes as financial assets.

 

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/housing-prices-affordability-real-estate-1.7170775

a while back i read a fascinating history of vancouver real estate speculation, its been treated as a speculative asset since the late 1800s. 

im sure this effect has only gotten worse as peoples savings have been eroded by inflation, the house is the only thing thats keeping peoples financial situation afloat

2 hours ago, King Heffy said:

https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/parksville-property-owners-get-exemption-from-short-term-rental-rules

 

https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/tofino-embraces-new-short-term-rental-rules-to-assist-renters-while-victoria-asks-for-more-time

 

Parksville got an exemption and Tofino's local government opted in.  How is this "without any consideration for properties & towns that are clearly tourism-exclusive?"

Interesting, i didnt know this, thanks for educating me. 

Sounds like some good work is being done

1 hour ago, aGENT said:

 

It is. I still have issues with their heavy handed rules on many people's vacation properties. 

 

If I've worked hard and managed to buy a vacation property somewhere, that I plan to use/live in part of the year, I should be able to rent out that property when I'm not using it. It was never going to be long term rental property. By all means regulations against (frequently foreign) investment groups buying up swaths of properties is a MAJOR issue that needed to be tackled. But exemptions should be made for individual owners IMO.

 

It may yet also restrict the money a lot of smaller "vacation" towns rely on as well. People will have less options to stay in those towns now. That means less money coming to those communities.

100% agree. proactive review of zoning regulations should have had a solution to this ages ago. absolutely ridiculous that they can apply the same crushing restrictions province-wide without any consideration for properties & towns that are clearly tourism-exclusive. 

On 4/13/2024 at 5:41 PM, aGENT said:

 

The government didn't increase your grocery costs FWIW. You can thank corporate profiteering (and a pandemic) for that. 

 

Housing is a multi layered issue, largely municipal (though the provinces certainly do own some responsibility as well, and across both the previous Lib(Con)s and current NDP here in BC). Though the latter are actually probably handling it better than any other province. 

 

As for the heavy handed Airbnb rules, while I certainly don't agree with ALL of them, the thought process isn't insane, it's also the will of a LOT of the people (even if you and I agree that particular part is misguided).

 

 

its a mix of authorities being way too slow to relax zoning restrictions + poor transit options from distant suburbs into the city + perpetual influx of migrants and many other factors. definitely multilayered and hard to pin the blame on any one thing or one group, but the city should have been planning for this 15 years ago. 

we also need to realize we live in a very urban and developed city, and we're gonna have to get used to less square footage, much like europeans have gotten used to for decades now. 2000 sqft for a family just isnt realistic here anymore. broadly think multiplexes are the future and if rapid transit can expand further into the suburbs quickly, we shouldnt have any shortage of land to build on

14 hours ago, Maninthebox said:

 

Have to strongly disagree with this part. Particularly if your frost date has already passed, what crop could you not grow from seed in the next 120 to 150ish days, even factoring germination? I continue growing from seed with starts as late as August in zone 4, not counting 'winter' plants such as garlic.

 

As for nurseries, garden centers, and the like, those costs add up fast. I cringe each time I see someone purchase a $20 tomato plant that will be lucky to produce $5 worth of fruit. Other than occassional soil amendments, I'd only recommend herbs, perennials, and discounted items.

 

No offense to anyone who owns a nursery, of course. There will still be plenty of grandmas overpaying for flowers soon enough.

fair enough, im probably just biased towards the stuff i like to grow in large quantities and consume a lot of (tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers being my big consumables). i saw 6" tall tomato and pepper seedlings at canadian tire for $3-4 each, as well as some strawberries that look like they'll fruit this year for around the same price. Not an awful cost if one wants those. there are also people who sell seedlings on marketplace for really cheap, i saw tomatoes for like $1-2$. A good bet if somoene really wants those but missed the optimal timeframe. 

But yeah one could still sow potatoes, garlic, peas, plenty of others. 

suck it coilers

3 minutes ago, Gnarcore said:

Well thanks for the finer details. That is actually a fine line but does make a world of difference honestly. 

hes wrong it was part of the embassy

specifically a "consular annex"

distinction without a difference

israel did it to provoke a response, now we have the response. fingers crossed it ends there.

19 hours ago, Canuck You said:

 

 I have contemplated this for a few yrs now and I would love to start growing my own fruits and veggies , Especially nowadays...Hopefully some tips and tricks to the trade from experienced users could help someone out like me and others on the site.

 

 I assume many of us live in the lower mainland and the weather is all over the place sometimes and I think it would be a good idea to have opinions of people who have knowledge and experience around these parts..

 

So for a beginner, a rough draft would be nice, I do want to start pickling/jarring (if that is an actual term) to keep foods for long term consumption.

 

Think it's the right way to go with prices these days..Grow our own!

 

Cheers

 

Growing my own produce is one of the best things ive ever done. Plus it makes an awesome hobby and mental distraction from work. 

Its too late right now to start seeds for most crops, but if someone was starting literally right now, we're just past the last frost so you can buy transplants from nurseries 

Decide on a garden plan though. We have a patio and a balcony, so its all container gardening. We have about 300 sqft of growing space, and have room for: beefsteak tomatoes, san marzano style tomatoes (makes great suace), spacemaster cucumbers,  all the cooking herbs we need, bell peppers, biquinho peppers (my favorite ornamental pepper and has a terrific non-fiery flavor), peas, some carrots, garlic, potatoes, swiss chard, two varities of strawberries, and raspberries. 

its a bit more expensive to get transplants, but worth it to get a crop this year for sure. and perennials like strawberries will bear fruit again next year. 

7.5m seems fair, get it done 

Nucks 402 to zip