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Loblaws branded stores disappeared from QC years ago. In Québec, Métro is pretty expensive, like IGA or Provigo. The cheapest groceries are Maxi (yeah, it’s Loblaws group) and SuperC (Metro group). But for me, all fruits/vegetable comes from local greengrocers, who also sell various ham/cold cuts and lot of cheese, sometimes for 50% of the price of groceries, and it’s fresh cut. Else for some bulks there’s bulk barn, and Costco, or sometimes even Amazon, a family box size cereal is $10.99 at IGA and the same one is $5.49 on Amazon.
Not a lot you can do, install multiple tracking system like Tag, then one of your own (aliexpress has cheap GPS tracer, you need to put a sim card in it with a 10$ SMS plan or something), an apple tag, a kill switch well hidden, and a club steering wheel lock, you can also put a OBD2 secured cap to annoy thieves a few minutes more.
But if your car is a truck or RAV4 or Tacoma or Tahoe etc, it will be stolen, if you are lucky they will find it before it goes in Montreal port and you will get it back, then after 3 or 4 times your insurer will drop you, or thieves will successfully steal it.
Police/Government do about nothing, a car is stolen every 5 minutes.
Yeah, what is middle-class really now? Even if in a couple you own 100k, it’s not much nowadays especially in Vancouver/Toronto , with houses at 1M…
100k is the new 50k of before. In Québec, teachers or nurses own 100k+, policemen/firefighters too, half of municipal employees are at 100k+, provincial/federal employees 100k+, etc
Situation is horrible in Montréal and elsewhere in the province. There is something like 13’000 airbnb in Montreal, most of them illegal, and a lot of people are struggling to find a place to rent, price double/triple for some of them. When you had an appt at $685, are evicted, and the equiv appt is now for rent at $1600, what are you going to do?
When I say to my friends/colleagues that I never used a uber/lyft or airbnb/vrbo or ubereats/doordash/whatever, they look at me as if I was an alien…
I just take taxi, go to hotels (using the owner site, never a 3rd party), and do groceries and cook at home.
Am I so out of touch or young people are wrong? :)
It was perfectly legal. And those protestors asked for things like “no vaccine required to enter USA”, Trudeau had nothing to do with that. Those protestors then degenerated into various conspiracy, and basically wanted to remove Trudeau and put a dictator instead. It was almost a coup, not a “protest”.
IIRC years ago Tim Hortons stop buying the coffee beans that was good, to buy cheap disgusting ones. And McDonalds then started to buy the good one, so the McDo coffee is what was the good old Tim ones.
I prefer McDo cofffee than Tim. I rarely go to Tim, maybe once a year.