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  1. 28 minutes ago, ArcticCrusher said:

    That is not really the issue.  Dolts have overextended themselves and can't carry a mortgage rate increase and when their mortgage becomes larger than what they owe.

    over 50% of people live pay cheque to pay cheque

    average personal debt is over 20k per person (not including mortgages or car loans)

    ya I agree the generation of lining up for the new cell phone release is going to be in trouble -  government can't be blamed

  2. Just now, ArcticCrusher said:

    It's an issue in Elementary as well when they drill down into details.

    the level of math isn't high until maybe grade 7 or 8

    some kids will never understand it no matter who teaches it.

     

    the fact you don't need to take grade 12 math says alot

  3. On 8/1/2017 at 0:38 AM, Puzzleboy said:

    Yep, so can golf courses.  That's why the entire ban is a crock of shit. 

    That is there business, weeds would kill a course

    same reason a sod company can use weed killers

    Weed killer was banned from public parks over 30 years ago

  4. 5 minutes ago, revrnd said:

    You obviously haven't seen how today's kids are taught how to solve this simple question: 365 x 789 =

    The method now is a complete clusterfuck compared to how it used to be taught. 

    the answer is always the same and always will be, how you get there isn't relevant

  5. 1 hour ago, ArcticCrusher said:

    The main problem is they don't have math teachers teaching these kids.  Fucking useless artsies with French backgrounds.

    In high school this can be an issue specially in rural areas, but its not a concern in Elementary level.

    It isn't the reason kids can't give change out

  6. 1 hour ago, 02sled said:

    How about the abysmal performance of students in math.

    http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/ontario-to-review-school-curriculum-as-student-math-scores-decline-1.3577216

    The tests showed that only half of Grade 6 students met the provincial standard in math, unchanged from last year, and 62 per cent of Grade 3 students met the standard, a one percentage point decrease from the previous year.

    Maybe they should focus less on teaching kids about homosexual lifestyles and methods and focus more on the 3 R's.

    I heard an interview yesterday comparing what it takes to become a teacher in Quebec compared to Ontario. It's a lot tougher and the education more focussed on teaching skills to become a teacher in Quebec than in Ontario it seems and apparently the students there do a lot better than in Ontario.

    They were discussing how the math curriculum in Ontario doesn't focus on learning 2 X 2 = 4 (times tables) but more on WHY 2 X 2 = 4. I'm not sure what that means really but I do know you can confuse the heck out of most younger cashiers in a store these days. Your bill comes to $18.37. You hand the cashier a $20 bill and they enter the amount in the register. It tells them the change should be  $1.63. Now give them another two quarters ($0.50) and watch most of them scratch their head. They can't figure out that the change should now be $2.13 so you end up with less coin.

    Math has always been the hardest subject, most people just don't understand much about it.......

    3R's

    writing is almost useless today as computers take over

    reading is done more today then anytime in history as people are glued to there phones reading messages

    Math - will never change

     

    the 1950's are gone, where schools didn't need to expand the education and just taught the same shit year after year.  Todays world is far more complex then the simple times of your youth.   Back in your day  beating on a gay kid was considered okay - making fun of a retarded child was okay - calling someone a Nigger was okay

     

    Times have changed 02sled, you should open the basement door go up the stairs and go outside.  There is a whole new world for you to look at

  7. 6 minutes ago, Kev144 said:

    Whilst I. Glad we agree he was good for a bit.  I think he should not have run again. The lame attack adds on Justin and some shady shit at the end sunk him.  Should have stepped away after his last term. 

    Harper proved he was in it for himself and fucked over the entire party

    Unlike you oneways - I never posted anything negative about Harper until the last 2 years and up coming election.

    Trudeau gets elected and revrnd goes and others go nuts with Trudeau posts from day one.

     

    Harpers attack on Muslims did him in, and left the door open for Trudeau to go overboard the other way. 

    Newton's law at its best

  8. 7 minutes ago, ArcticCrusher said:

    What % of those jobs were created by small business that he is attacking?

    you tell us?

    I have always said its business that creates the jobs not the government, where you flip flop depending on the Party. 

    Harper made gains in jobs do to his government but in Ontario jobs were created by business.

    Now jobs are again created  by business and not Trudeau

     

    we all see the trend here

  9. 3 minutes ago, ArcticCrusher said:

    Side of the mouth didn't have a recession  to deal with and had an economy recovering with an added bonus of GST and free-trade.  Two things he was against.

    Mulroney doubled our debt, considering Trudeau increased it 10 fold and Harper's went up 25%, again after another recession.  Don't look at static numbers.

    JT will eclipse Harper's debt numbers, inflation will rise and we will have another recession.  Our housing is already starting to take a turn, so are we blaming JT for it?  Harper at least created real estate wealth for the middle class.

    wow

    so you are saying Harper single handed created a housing market most people can't ever enter?  is this what you are boosting about?

     

    :lmao: don't look at static numbers :lmao:  so Trudeau can borrow more than Harper did and still have a lower percent increase :lol:  I can just hear you cheering those numbers in the future :lol:

  10. 9 minutes ago, Kev144 said:

    You can thank Harper for a better relationship with Quebec as well.  Bloc party support dropped quite a bit under Harper.  

    not sure what he did or didn't do, but ya it has dropped and will again rise in the future.

    Harper was good up to the last 2 years of office

  11. 8 minutes ago, ArcticCrusher said:

    Cheering part-time jobs, you can't make this shit up.  Congrats part-time PM.:pan:

     

    So again its Trudeau's fault walmart hires only partime?  when do you think this will change?

     

    Service sector industries led employment gains in August, with an increase of 14,600 jobs in the finance, insurance and real estate category. Employers also added 9,800 positions in transportation and warehousing, and 8,900 in accommodation and food services.

    Most of the decrease in full-time employment occurred among workers between the ages of 15 and 24. In the last year, employers have added 213,000 full-time jobs, compared with 161,000 part-time positions.

     

     

  12. 13 minutes ago, ArcticCrusher said:

    We added to the debt, so operation budgets are not a true measure of a balanced budget when the net debt still increases.  The Feds don't seem to have that accounting luxury.

    I will repeat - the only Time in recent memories we had a surplus and debt went down was under the Liberals ....

    You really can't  hold to much value to debt or you would be boosting about side mouth and Martin

    Instead you boost about the guy that had the 2nd most debt in our History,  or it would be Mulroney that had the highest debt ever. 

     

    You are a true ONEWAY

  13. 10 minutes ago, Kev144 said:

    Ontario has passed California in debt and we are 1/3 the population, lost some points on our borrowing rating.  Where does it end on the countless scandals. :flush: 

    We will see how Canada fairs. I think Harper did a good job during the great recession.  Canada did fairly well compared to our friends down south. :bc: 

    I don't disagree but like I said Ontario fared well during the recession too in the exact same manner as Harpers near record debts.....

    Quebec owes less but more per person - does that make them better lol

     

     

     

  14. 5 minutes ago, Kev144 said:

    We have seen how Ontario has done under a liberal government.  Give Canada time.  Ontario = most in debt sub Nation in the world. 

    Ontario certainly is,  would it have happened no matter who was in charge?  most likely YES

    running 2 balanced/surplus budgets prior to 2008 crash,  then getting no credit like Harper for keep Ontario out of the gutter.

    We are GREECE :lol:  what happened to that slogan?  Ontario is %40 of the GDP vs Greece at %175 of their GDP

     

    Comparing who owes the least in the game of debt seems stupid

     

    When Browne wins next year, debt will rise and the  blame will be on the Liberals still

  15. 5 minutes ago, revkevsdi said:

    On another note. Canada has the best performing economy in the G7.  If they said that about the US all the Trumpsters would claim it was because of his amazing business sense. 

    Maybe snowboarders know a thing or two. 

    back in the early days when Harper saved us from economic diaster we praise our Lord.  When our Lord brought us down to the worst in the G7 the blame was put on to ........ the Liberals somehow.

    Now that we are best in G7 again, RECORD GROWTH  this has ZERO to do with nice hair Trudeau

     

    so really it just depends on the Controlling Party

     

    What is never mentioned is, when Harper had a Minority government his economic records was good,  when he won his only Majority our economy slipped to last place :lol: 

     

     

    Timing is everything

  16. 7 minutes ago, snopro31 said:

    The fentanyl that true addicts are using IS NOT being dispensed by doctors in Canada.

    Its being shipped over the border in powder form from China. 

    Those USERS are not the people dying on the streets because when  you know you are taking fentanyl you take controlled doses for the most part.  Its the fuckwads lacing shit that is killing people.

    Statistics from January to April of 2016 reveal that fentanyl, a synthetic opioid that can be 100 times stronger than morphine, was found in 56 percent of all BC drug overdoses—up from 31 percent in 2015. The province's 200-plus fentanyl deaths this year has been declared a public health emergency.

    But many of the people dying of fentanyl overdoses don't even realize that's what they're taking, according to health authorities and cops who are warning recreational drug users that they're at risk of dying when they take drugs like oxycodone, ecstasy, heroin, MDMA, and cocaine, all of which could be laced with fentanyl. In Vancouver, heroin is believed to have been all but replaced with fentanyl

     

    He says fentanyl's popularity has risen as the availability of opiates such as OxyContin and oxycodone has declined. Doctors are writing fewer prescriptions for those drugs because of concerns about abuse and addictions

     

     There's an additional danger when a person is not a regular opioid user and inadvertently ingests fentanyl.

    Here is a clip of MOMO reaction to the patch

     

     

    Man made drugs are cool

     

  17. 6 minutes ago, ArcticCrusher said:

    Once you're dead you are no longer a drain.  Not sure I agree.

    People are dying because of fentanyl - something doctors hand out by the jar full

    It can show up anywhere - some guy doing a line one night with his buddies next thing you know they are overdosing

  18. 4 hours ago, ArcticCrusher said:

    That fucking kills me every time I here it.  What a dolt.   I would kick my own brothers ass if he ever became a Liberal and certainly would not vote for him.

     

    My wife's grandmother never voted for her own husband when he ran for mayor of their small town (he won),  instead she gave the nod to the nephew.:lol:

    spoken as a true ONEWAY :lmao:  

  19. 4 hours ago, snopro31 said:

    a hell of a lot cheaper then a life time of social services and hospital stays.

    just that that set in cause in BC and other places, death by overdose seems to be the only way to beat it.

    bold is so true for many addicts

    but "safe injection sites" are far cheaper than a dead guy on the street

     

    Thinking you can stop drugs or addicts is 1920 thinking, the war on drugs is not working and has never worked. In fact its more rampant now then anytime in history.....

     

  20. 1 hour ago, FAT DAVE said:

    Do you?

    a bit over 2 million a month today,

    now agree its nowhere near the most dangerous drug in the world but its use is far less.

    9 people a day die and cost you money, so lets close safe injection sites because you don't believe in them. 

     

     

    Hospital costs by substance in 2011 in descending order were:

    • Alcohol: $145 million

    • Opioids: $15 million