OT: The News Thread
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JohnnyHolmes
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It's always good to diversify.
KingBrodeur
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So today's Darwin award winner....
Is it too soon for this smiley? :bomb2::bomb2::bomb2:
Happy 4th...
Is it too soon for this smiley? :bomb2::bomb2::bomb2:
Happy 4th...
lecoqsportif
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Weather balloons and lawn chairs again: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calga...bes-soaring-over-city-in-lawn-chair-1.3139591
LeafGm
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Pronger84
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Major anti-abortion protests are going on in Kingston right now, people are carrying graphic photos while they protest. Cops were called in and after consulting with the crown attorney, they decided that no crime was being committed and that it was within people's rights to protest and freedom of speech.
JaysCyYoung
Legend
But is the brand new Sobey's okay?
axlsalinger
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http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2015/07/07/china-stock-market-crash_n_7747180.html?utm_hp_ref=canada
As the Greek debt drama plays itself out one 60-euro withdrawal at a time, some economic observers are saying the world is paying attention to the wrong crisis.
That's because in the space of three weeks, China’s Shanghai Composite stock index has lost nearly 30 per cent of its value, wiping out some $2.3 trillion U.S. in wealth. As Bloomberg News put it, that’s a loss of $1 billion for every minute of trading. Regulators have halted trading in more than 700 listed companies, and at least two dozen IPOs have been cancelled.
And some economists fear the country’s response to the downturn could be worse than the stock market crash itself.
“China could well be setting the stage for another financial time bomb to match its local government debt and real estate bubbles,” said Sherry Cooper, the former chief economist at the Bank of Montreal, in a note issued Tuesday.
She described the Greek crisis as a “sideshow” to the real drama unfolding in China. “China has more than 120 times the population of Greece and is the second largest economy in the world, dominating demand for natural resources,” writes Cooper, who is now chief economist at Dominion Lending Centres.
It’s that demand for natural resources that makes China very important to Canada’s economy, even if the two countries’ trade relationship isn’t that large. By largely determining demand for natural resources, China effectively sets the prices Canada gets for its resources on global markets.
And China’s crash is already having an impact on Canada, Cooper said in an email to HuffPost.
“It has already led to lower commodity prices and therefore further damaged the resource sector of our stock market,” she said. “Today's very weak trade figures reflect the slowdown in energy exports. Not good news for the Canadian economy.”
As the Greek debt drama plays itself out one 60-euro withdrawal at a time, some economic observers are saying the world is paying attention to the wrong crisis.
That's because in the space of three weeks, China’s Shanghai Composite stock index has lost nearly 30 per cent of its value, wiping out some $2.3 trillion U.S. in wealth. As Bloomberg News put it, that’s a loss of $1 billion for every minute of trading. Regulators have halted trading in more than 700 listed companies, and at least two dozen IPOs have been cancelled.
And some economists fear the country’s response to the downturn could be worse than the stock market crash itself.
“China could well be setting the stage for another financial time bomb to match its local government debt and real estate bubbles,” said Sherry Cooper, the former chief economist at the Bank of Montreal, in a note issued Tuesday.
She described the Greek crisis as a “sideshow” to the real drama unfolding in China. “China has more than 120 times the population of Greece and is the second largest economy in the world, dominating demand for natural resources,” writes Cooper, who is now chief economist at Dominion Lending Centres.
It’s that demand for natural resources that makes China very important to Canada’s economy, even if the two countries’ trade relationship isn’t that large. By largely determining demand for natural resources, China effectively sets the prices Canada gets for its resources on global markets.
And China’s crash is already having an impact on Canada, Cooper said in an email to HuffPost.
“It has already led to lower commodity prices and therefore further damaged the resource sector of our stock market,” she said. “Today's very weak trade figures reflect the slowdown in energy exports. Not good news for the Canadian economy.”
blacksheep
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SundinsTooth
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See that house he lives in? Dude made a Faustian deal, no doubt.
blacksheep
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No doubt.
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JohnnyHolmes
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Canadians have been getting the high hard one on cell / data charges forever.
I have a T-Mobile sim card, and in Europe I can get unlimited roaming data (2G speed mind you) almost everywhere for $80 USD a month. Certainly good enough to check emails and facebook or whatever.
The Bell roaming packages are brutal.
Zone 1 - 300mb, 30 days, $75
Aland Islands, Albania, Andorra, Anguilla, Antigua & Barbuda, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Bahamas, Barbados, Belgium, Bermuda, Bonaire, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Cayman Islands, China, Croatia, Cuba, Curacao, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Estonia, Faroe Islands, Finland, France, French Guiana, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Greenland, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guernsey, Haiti, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Isle of Man, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jersey, Kosovo, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macau, Macedonia, Malta, Martinique, Mexico, Monaco, Montenegro, Montserrat, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Saba, San Marino, Serbia, Singapore, Sint Maarten, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, St. Barthelemy, St. Eustatius, St. Kitts & Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Martin, St. Pierre and Miquelon*, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Trinidad & Tobago, Turkey, Turks & Caicos, United Kingdom, Vatican City, Virgin Islands (British).
Zone 2 - 200mb, 30 days, $85
Afghanistan, American Samoa*, Argentina, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belize, Bhutan, Bolivia, Brazil, Cambodia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, East Timor, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Falkand Islands, Fiji, French Polynesia, Georgia, Guam, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Malaysia, Moldova, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nauru, Nepal, Nicaragua, Northern Mariana Islands, Oman, Pakistan, Palestinian Territory, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Qatar, Russia, Samoa, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Syria*, Tajikistan, Thailand, Turkmenistan*, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Vietnam, Yemen.
Zone 3 - 60mb, 30 days, $95
Algeria, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros*, Congo, Congo (Democratic Republic), Cook Islands*, Côte d’Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Micronesia (Federated States Of)*, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Norfolk Island*, Palau, Reunion, Rwanda, Sao Tome & Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, South Sudan, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Tonga, Tunisia, Uganda, Vanuatu, Western Sahara, Zambia, Zanzibar.
It's far better value to buy a local SIM for $10 - 20 Euros and get your 1-5 GB of 3G / LTE data per month.
It's really not even close to competitive.
If it was even in the same ballpark as T-Mobile, I would have gone for it, but I'm with Bell, and they are totally useless.
I can't believe they've been allowed to get away with the bullshit they've been pulling forever.
Anyone else ever get a quote for a Yellow Pages ad before they went extinct?
It's truly unbelievable.
MindzEye
Wayward Ditch Pig
I was using a Telcel sim card in my S5 (just had to pay Bell the 50 bucks to unlock the phone) while in Mexico this winter and for using it normally, the way I would have at home (apps, calling, texts, etc) was costing me about 300 pesos worth of prepaid cards (~23 buck), while getting way more data than as Johnny has just shown us, Bell provides in Mexico for 75 bucks.
Whenever I go to the states I use roam mobility, 4 bucks a day gets me unlimited phone and 400mb per day. The data is pretty sweet as your data quota grows with each day you're on the network, so for a 3 day weekend you get 1.2 gigs that can be used at any time.
Back in late May when I was in Bermuda I got a SIM card for cellone and a 1.5 gig data package for less than $50.
Buying my phone outright and not dealing with bell subsidies was one of the better low level financial decisions I've made in a long while.
Back in late May when I was in Bermuda I got a SIM card for cellone and a 1.5 gig data package for less than $50.
Buying my phone outright and not dealing with bell subsidies was one of the better low level financial decisions I've made in a long while.
blacksheep
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Exactly. Don't even bother keeping the "home" SIM in your phone, lest you be gouged huge by the big three.
A far better plan. If you don't have a brand preference, you can get a no-name Chinese touchscreen phone running Android that can hold four or six SIM cards. Same phone. Same contacts. Same apps. Just reboot and select your SIM.