It wouldn’t surprise me. Canadian wages tend to be low compared to the U.S., while the country has a high cost of living. It leads to a lot of talented individuals moving south of the border.

There are fans, and they have been redesigned:

I’m not sure anyone really did believe them (aside from the ever-credulous media), but the alternative is war, and the West is, if anything else, war weary. So the Taliban it is.

Because it is filler for the 24/7 news cycle. Canadian news networks aired U.S. Supreme Court confirmation hearings, which were quite literally irrelevant to Canada, but hey...I guess it meant a break for the newsroom.

Automatic credit card increases aren’t a thing in Canada, but banks will often send notices stating that they’re willing to give you a higher credit limit, meaning he would then just have to let the bank know that he consents to the increase.

Just be careful if the company at some point decides to abandon its pension obligations in the future.

The obvious problem with XV is that it’s just a fraction of a planned larger game hastily stitched together with some fluffy sidequests. Considering it’s troubled development history and the alternative of just cancelling it altogether, I’m happy it exists. XV, as horribly flawed as it is in so many ways, is fun for…

To each their own, of course, but my issue with Tomorrow Never Dies is that I found the setting to be dull and Jonathan Pryce’s villain to be incredibly corny in a bad way. World had much better atmosphere from my perspective, and I enjoyed Sophie Marceau’s character and performance.

Having rewatched it fairly recently, I didn’t really find Moore to be “too old” in his last outing. I think the problem is that he was very much “70s Bond,” and it’s clear that, by A View to a Kill, the series was ready to shift to darker, more action-oriented films that were very much of the 1980s, and Moore just…

I think two of Brosnan’s Bond films are good (GoldenEye and The World Is Not Enough), while the other two are quite bad.

It’s what narcissistic psychopaths do best.

Bankruptcy is a regular fixture of American business, and, frankly, the economy would be much worse if we didn’t have it—a certain element of “risk” is what makes the American economy so productive and wealthy, and part of that is accepting that a certain percentage of failure and bankruptcy is inevitable.

There’s such a thing as a “communal/activist narcissist,” which is largely the vibe I get from people like Jessica Krug.

The problem, I think, is that 50 years of leftists—not just in the U.S., but worldwide—are far more comfortable with being “the opposition” instead of “the government.” The former is considerably sexier (with loud protests and activism) than the latter, which often involves a bunch of unglamorous meetings with…

In Canada, it’s now gauche to want anything but a very modest subsistence level life.

Find an accountant (ideally one located in your new country) that specializes in U.S. tax filing from abroad. There are lots of Americans who live overseas in your situation, and the paperwork involved is considerably more complicated than a standard domestic file.  It also doesn’t matter if you didn’t earn any income…

I’ve been a big fan of Gregg Araki ever since I caught a random broadcast of “Nowhere” on IFC a couple of decades ago (a happy occurrence because the film never had a Region 1 DVD release), and I was lucky to have attended a retrospective of his career at TIFF in Toronto several years back where he also did an…

As icing on the cake, he’s also the great-grandson of Francisco Franco.

I saw a commentator on another thread say Biden should just play this gibberish on loop to clinch the next election.

A ranked choice primary election on the same day nationwide is the only way to manage this fairly and democratically.  No single state can or should dictate the will of the others.