there isn't much to say

Okay, well then.

It is raining on this day of Halloween.

Municipal elections across Quebec are happening on Sunday.

An STM strike is starting tomorrow to span all of November. I have an opinion about this; bus drivers in Montreal earn on average 114k$ (the average salary in Montreal is between 50-70k) and are asking for a big pay increase while at the same time the ARTM is under extreme stress due to not having enough income for the operations of the transit agencies. I do support the idea of labour unions to combat the excess of corporate greed; but in this particular case I am on the ARTM's side.

The Blue Jays are playing the LA Dodgers in game six tonight; if Toronto wins, they win the world series. If they don't, the deciding game 7 is tomorrow night.

On Tuesday the Mark Carney government will be releasing their budget. He is dividing the government finances into operations and capital projects with the goal of lowering the cost of government operations and increasing the investment in capital projects. As I understand it, the government expenses have been rising about 7% per year; if that can be reduced to 2 or 3% per year it would be more in line with inflation. 

Felix Auger-Alliasime is playing in a quarter final match in Paris, his match begins in about half an hour from me composing this post. It is an indoor tournament, perhaps in the future I will see if I can attend this tournament in person.

Over night this weekend we are to change our clocks to move back to standard time. I am of the opinion that we should do away with the time change. I am indifferent if we should keep standard time year round or day light savings time year round.

The Quebec government introduced a reform to how Quebec doctors are paid and the doctors are very angry about this new law. At the same time the Alberta government introduced a law that affects teachers, and in that province there is talk of a general strike.

Ontario premier Doug Ford had his government pay for a TV commercial to play in the United States with a minimally edited speech from Ronald Reagan touting the advantages of free trade; this in opposition to the Orange Cheetoh Buffoon's tariff heavy trade policy. There has been back lash, the ongoing talks between Canadian and US trade negoticators were terminated, and now it isn't clear what will happen. I have an opinion about this. I feel we should ignore the US, continue to trade under the CUSMA deal, do nothing about the sectoral tariffs affecting aluminum, steel, automotive, lumber and so on but do what can be done to support those industries from projects built in Canada.

I'll end off with Mark Carney being in south Korea presently and has met with the Chinese president. At this moment we have 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs and China has set tariffs on Canadian canola very high also. I have an opinion about this; if we can lower the tariff on incoming Chinese EVs to 50% and lower Chinese tariffs on our canola and other goods, we can increase trade. Ontario premier Ford would hate this idea, of Chinese EVs coming in to Canada; but with the US trying to break up the integrating automotive sector between Canada and the US, I get the sense the days of a Canadian automative industry are beginning to close. 

I guess that's about it for now.