Terrence Brennan
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Freestyle prices are up...it could be worse!
Cry me a river, folks. Up here, in the Great White North (Ottawa Valley), gasoline is between USD$4.65 and USD$5.05 per US gallon! Conventional photographic supplies are virtually nonexistant (Henry's in Kanata has a few items, including, strangely, 24-exp rolls of Arista II film, aka rebadged AGFA 400...go figure). If a Canadian wants supplies, he/she pretty much has to order them from the US. Except chemistry; I recently took delivery of 25-Kg of sodium sulfite and 25-Kg of sodium thiosulfate, and will be driving to Montreal in a few days to collect a parcel of assorted raw chemicals, all to keep my darkroom going.
The only thing we have that our friends in the US don't have is "free" medical care. Except it's not free, and it isn't what people like Michael Moore say it is. BTW, Enbridge has received approval from the feds to raise the cost of propane 45%...guess who's glad he didn't rip out the electric baseboard heaters when he had the propane furnace installed four years ago?
We are also faced with the possibility of a fall election, and there exists a chance (a SLIM chance) that the Liberals may get back into power, with a worst-of-all-worlds scenario, a minority government, propped up by the NDP and the Bloc Quebecois. The Liberals' so-called Green Shift plan will be implemented, and just watch the cost of energy, and everything else, skyrocket!!
So you don't have it as bad as you think, in the good old U.S. of A. Don't believe me? Why don't you move up here for five years; be sure to keep your US citizenship. That way, you can return home when you have had enough of high energy prices and inflated rhetoric.
Cry me a river, folks. Up here, in the Great White North (Ottawa Valley), gasoline is between USD$4.65 and USD$5.05 per US gallon! Conventional photographic supplies are virtually nonexistant (Henry's in Kanata has a few items, including, strangely, 24-exp rolls of Arista II film, aka rebadged AGFA 400...go figure). If a Canadian wants supplies, he/she pretty much has to order them from the US. Except chemistry; I recently took delivery of 25-Kg of sodium sulfite and 25-Kg of sodium thiosulfate, and will be driving to Montreal in a few days to collect a parcel of assorted raw chemicals, all to keep my darkroom going.
The only thing we have that our friends in the US don't have is "free" medical care. Except it's not free, and it isn't what people like Michael Moore say it is. BTW, Enbridge has received approval from the feds to raise the cost of propane 45%...guess who's glad he didn't rip out the electric baseboard heaters when he had the propane furnace installed four years ago?
We are also faced with the possibility of a fall election, and there exists a chance (a SLIM chance) that the Liberals may get back into power, with a worst-of-all-worlds scenario, a minority government, propped up by the NDP and the Bloc Quebecois. The Liberals' so-called Green Shift plan will be implemented, and just watch the cost of energy, and everything else, skyrocket!!
So you don't have it as bad as you think, in the good old U.S. of A. Don't believe me? Why don't you move up here for five years; be sure to keep your US citizenship. That way, you can return home when you have had enough of high energy prices and inflated rhetoric.
