Recent content by afransen

I find using drive-thru is a shit show most of the time, at most fast food places. TH has long been awful. If I am out in the morning and have no other options for coffee, I will at worst case go to a TH, order a coffee in the app and pick it up from the pickup location. The drive thru, last...

Surely if we're talking about disrupting a $150B industry we can have some bureaucrats and consultants do a bit of homework. It would be less capricious than just willy nilly ordering companies to divest regional banners. I think the T&T example is rather curious. There are quite a few options...

I don't think ordering to divest banners makes any sense. What stops a target company from just rebannering said stores? Not allowed to own Loblaws anymore? Presto chango they are now Zehrs or no frills. If the issue is lack of competition, that competition takes place in local trade areas, and...

If they want something to come of this, they need to work to lower the barriers to entry. Canada isn't the easiest country to do business in, and foreign retailers parachuting in expected to be welcomed with a red carpet have in the past failed spectacularly, most notably Target.

Wasn't it reported here that a woman with a dairy allergy had a severe reaction when ordering a tea with plant-based milk and getting dairy instead? You'd have to be mad to trust your health to Tim Horton's food preparation.

I guess you exist in circles far above those NL runs in. Maybe I live in a totally different reality. I know quite a few people who use AirBnB for vacation accommodations. Aside from all-inclusives/cruises, I'd say about half of people who tell me about vacation plans used AirBnB or similar. It...

I know recent immigrants who live in rooming houses who as a group rented a STR cottage for a weekend getaway. $400 a night is not bad when split between 6 adults for a weekend getaway. Try bringing a family of four anywhere with flight and accommodation for a week for less money.

I doubt many seasonal resort workers would be living in waterfront vacation properties.

I'm not sure I follow the logic of twinning the bridge. QEW is quite constrained through St Catharines, Are they expecting to expropriate neighbouring proprerties to expand the ROW?

Not sure I agree. STRs in northern Ontario are a more affordable option for vacationing than flying a family just about anywhere.

I think this would be wildly unpopular with Canadians and would be incredibly disruptive to the real estate markets in areas like Muskoka/etc. Lots of cottages made available as STR for when the owner is not using it.

CPP is partially funded. OAS is pay as you go, much like Social Security in the US (this has a reserve that Congress has raided and replaced with IOUs). Harper tried to raise the eligibility age to 67, but this was rolled back due to outcry (probably mainly from boomers approaching this age). I...

$650 psf is pretty exciting from a housing affordability standpoint, given what highrise condos are going for.

Expanding roadways in dense urban areas is usually either impossible or incredibly expensive per unit capacity. Transit is cheaper.

The other possibility is that the loss in capacity is not 1/3, given that the ramps tend to be the bottleneck.