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Rice Krispie Cheese Crackers - jim Young “It’s the holiday season. Let the overeating begin!” - Melanie White One of my favourite things about Christmas is the opportunity to overindulge in the great foods and treats that are often only available at Christmas. Don’t get me wrong. That’s not my only favourite thing about Christmas by any means. I have, like, about 129 favourite things about Christmas. This is just one of them. And of all the great food and treats that are so readily available at Christmas, this recipe is also just a drop in the bucket of all my favourite foods and treats. But here’s the thing. There really is nothing to say that we can only enjoy these great foods and treats at Christmas. We have turkey on a few different occasions throughout the year so why save Egg Nog for just once a year? Who’s the boss of Candy Canes that says you’ll choke if you try to enjoy one of those in August? What’s the difference if the chocolate you eat is shaped like Santa Claus, The E...

 

My 70¢ Worth On Baseball - jim Young “Take me out to the ball game, take me out with the crowd; Buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jack, I don’t care if I never get back.” - Jack Norworth & Albert Von Tilzer The cost of going to a ball game in 1908 when this song was written was between 10¢ and 25¢. A box of Cracker Jack was 5¢. A bottle of Coke was the same. For a total of 70¢, you could afford pretty good seats to take your date to the ball game and spoil her with some refreshments. Adjusted for inflation, that’s about $25 in today’s money.. But even double that will only get you a single ticket for a regular season baseball game today; never mind a date or any refreshments. And forget about the World Series where ticket prices can easily range from $1,500 to $7,000 Cdn each (PLUS taxes). Or you could book a room with a stadium view at Rogers Centre for about 10 grand and split the cost with 5 friends. That’s only 2 grand each but only 4 people can spend the night so you’ll have to...

 

 It looks like some Canadians have fallen for U.S. propaganda again as I see more and more Canadian shares of the following meme. For any of you that are interested in a much more accurate account, check out this meme. You should also know that similar “over-quota tariffs” that are in place on the Canadian Dairy products were also in place on U.S. Agricultural products under CUSMA. So why is it fair for the U.S. and not Canada? Some of the lower tariffs on other products shown in the first meme are retaliatory tariffs that were imposed only AFTER Trump started his Trade War with Canada when HE broke the CUSMA agreement that TRUMP originally stated was the “fairest, most balanced and beneficial trade agreement we (the U.S.) have ever signed into law” and “the best agreement we’ve ever made”. How's that for being a weak, wishy-washy President? Even the Canadian retaliatory Dairy Tariffs are currently only at 25% to 50% with NO retaliatory tariffs on butter, fluid milk, and cream, yog...