Jeez, you guys. Could you be any more unbalanced? (Tho I can understand how utterly off-putting Geo Will can be....).
Speaking just to your and your side's economic comments, they are just utterly unfounded. Not enough bandwidth here to refute 'em.
I'm deeply saddened by what Canada has become. I have two engineering degrees (MIT and Northwestern) and threw them away to trade options here in Chicago at the Board of Trade. I learned a lot about economics. (Ironically, a lot from a speech by Gorbachev when he visited the exchange. He said "The Soviet Union would have collapsed decades earlier if it didn't have the West's prices to use internally and externally.") But, along the way, in the early day we were backed by a private employee-owned investment bank out of Toronto, so got up there a lot over almost twenty years. (Firm was subsequently bought by BMO, and we parted ways, albeit pretty well off.). But, for those many years we got to know so many Toronto folks. Just awesome nice. Beyond Wisconsin or Minnesota nice, but urbane. I've lost every Canadian friend I had; I didn't change; they did. And they were nasty on the way out. But, that's the dark side of human nature (says this 65 yr old).
Peter Munk was a hero to a lot of Canadians. Trizec pptys and Barrick gold showed that Cdns could be big players too. It's no coincidence that his support for debate coincides with narrowly escaping the Nazis as a child. I see that a lot here in Chicago. Folks who came from E Europe (we have the largest Polish population outside of Poland) emphatically reject the Woke tripe that people in my wealthy suburb just blithely repeat. They're baffled that people can't see through them. But, as Kahneman et al have taught, people want to belong. Standing out from the herd is dangerous and painful. So, folks find ways to believe......
Jeez, you guys. Could you be any more unbalanced? (Tho I can understand how utterly off-putting Geo Will can be....).
Speaking just to your and your side's economic comments, they are just utterly unfounded. Not enough bandwidth here to refute 'em.
I'm deeply saddened by what Canada has become. I have two engineering degrees (MIT and Northwestern) and threw them away to trade options here in Chicago at the Board of Trade. I learned a lot about economics. (Ironically, a lot from a speech by Gorbachev when he visited the exchange. He said "The Soviet Union would have collapsed decades earlier if it didn't have the West's prices to use internally and externally.") But, along the way, in the early day we were backed by a private employee-owned investment bank out of Toronto, so got up there a lot over almost twenty years. (Firm was subsequently bought by BMO, and we parted ways, albeit pretty well off.). But, for those many years we got to know so many Toronto folks. Just awesome nice. Beyond Wisconsin or Minnesota nice, but urbane. I've lost every Canadian friend I had; I didn't change; they did. And they were nasty on the way out. But, that's the dark side of human nature (says this 65 yr old).
Peter Munk was a hero to a lot of Canadians. Trizec pptys and Barrick gold showed that Cdns could be big players too. It's no coincidence that his support for debate coincides with narrowly escaping the Nazis as a child. I see that a lot here in Chicago. Folks who came from E Europe (we have the largest Polish population outside of Poland) emphatically reject the Woke tripe that people in my wealthy suburb just blithely repeat. They're baffled that people can't see through them. But, as Kahneman et al have taught, people want to belong. Standing out from the herd is dangerous and painful. So, folks find ways to believe......