[-] Someone@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The original owner was the car dealership that's now selling them. So officially, they were stolen from the dealer, but it really sounds like they were stolen by the dealer from their own customers

[-] Someone@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 month ago

Maria Cruciano and her husband Jim White bought a 1957 Chevrolet from Robert Bradshaw in February 2023. After storing it and making repairs over the winter, they went to register the car in early June, only to discover it was now listed as belonging to Grogan Classics. 

White called Grogan, who explained that there had been an error. Grogan offered to sign over the ownership slip and courier it to Bradshaw. White picked it up the next day and registered the car in his name. (Cruciano and White provided CBC News with a copy of the signed slip and phone records documenting the call to Grogan's dealership.)

Yet the Chevy was still declared stolen six months later. The OPP seized and returned the car to Grogan in July.

"[Grogan] absolutely knew our car had been sold," said Cruciano. "We spoke with him. He signed the ownership. He couriered it to Bradshaw.

"And you know what the man didn't say to us? 'Holy hell, that car was stolen! That guy can't sell my car!'"

This is insane. How is it not fraud to report a car as stolen after signing the documents personally?

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Nearly 80 Hullo ferry employees have voted to unionize, according to the B.C. Ferry and Marine Workers' Union.

[-] Someone@lemmy.ca 39 points 1 month ago

I don't have confidence in the Liberal government, but I am confident the Conservatives would be worse.

[-] Someone@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 month ago

Honestly I wouldn't start to use the current transit in my area if it was free. The issue isn't cost, it's that the service is stretched so thin it's only usable as a last resort and your day has to be planned around the schedule. On the rare occasion I can't use my car I have ended up walking for an hour and a half because it's more convenient than the bus. I'm just glad I'm not disabled or I'd have to turn some of my outings into overnighters.

[-] Someone@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 months ago

Just because a car is cheaper than the average new car doesn't make it affordable. Lots of people can only afford used cars. I'm not suggesting we need new EVs to compete with used car prices, but we need the prices to come down so that the prices of current used EVs become more affordable and/or these cheaper new EVs become affordable when they're resold in several years.

[-] Someone@lemmy.ca 40 points 2 months ago

So if/when rates go back down the tenants can apply to have their rent lowered back, right?

[-] Someone@lemmy.ca 27 points 4 months ago

the party is taking a stand against a policy that disproportionately affects wealthy people and big corporations.

What about every single other policy that's even tangentially related to affordability that disproportionately affects everyone who isn't wealthy and small businesses?

[-] Someone@lemmy.ca 13 points 6 months ago

There's no need to water a lawn even if you "need" one. There's nothing wrong with brown grass, it'll change back once it rains.

[-] Someone@lemmy.ca 12 points 6 months ago

The most insane part to me is that the minimum threshold to start cutting back OAS is $80,000 when it's only $35,000 for the CCB. This should be flipped, a fundamental requirement of the CCB is that you have a whole extra person (or more) to take care of. How does it make any sense that a senior needs more than double to live on than a whole family?

[-] Someone@lemmy.ca 12 points 6 months ago

This has to be one of the weakest ~~bunch of whining~~ arguments from any of the bankers, executives, etc. He's not even saying it will do any damage, just that things won't improve. How does an increase in foreign investment improve our standard of living? By sucking all the profits offshore?

[-] Someone@lemmy.ca 9 points 8 months ago

This is awesome, II was probably my most played game of that generation. It's too bad they didn't add 4 player splitscreen from the Xbox version as that's how I spent most of my time with this, but I'm not going to complain about a good thing and it's great they didn't remove splitscreen entirely like way too many new or remastered games.

Realistically though I can't see many situations I'd be able to get 3 other friends in the same room to play splitscreen and on the off chance I do I still have my original Xbox and disc with 4 working controllers.

[-] Someone@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 year ago

Exactly, you can throw all the incentives you want at me and I'd be happy to switch today, but my landlords don't care because they're not the ones paying the carbon tax.

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