I guess if a person wants to SHOP or DINE or stare out the window at the mountains from their indoor hot tub, it could get pretty boring !

However, I’ve camped outdoors in K-country with my children, regularly over the past 20 years. There are so many hikes, rocks to climb, waters to paddle, trails to explore, wildlife to observe, weather changes, and natural beauty to be appreciated … endlessly fascinating, never boring, and we were always sad to leave. Socially, we had great card games, conversations, and meals around the campfire. My fondest family memories are in those mountains.

Canmore is spectacular, like many other corners of the world. We tried to ‘leave only footprints’, we did our best. We were not perfect human beings, but we were thoughtful campers, and we respected the land.

We all need to be cognizant not to love our national parks, protected areas, and public natural treasures to death!

However, a simple reality is, acknowledging our dependence and appreciation for a certain portion of development. We filled up our gas tank in Canmore, bought groceries, beverages, took our kids to the candy store, bought maps and secondhand books from downstairs bookstore. And yes, occasionally we took our kids to McDonalds We were grateful to have those services nearby.

Long story short, the Canmore ‘window gazing condo’ wasn’t the experience we personally wanted, but we were gracious visitors and will always be enduring fans of Canmore’s outdoor offerings … so if some find it boring, that actually might be a good thing for Canmore, in a roundabout way, no?

Yesterday in the paper there was a report that came out and said that 25% of the children who live here, live well below the poverty level. How sad!!!!!!! Maybe an economic collapse will bring some balance to a very unbalance society.

I’m with you worrying about war. The boomer generation, who must take primary responsibility for this mess since they were the majority voting and fielding candidates, are too old now to go to the battlefield. So what a better use of Gen X and Y than to send them to die to obstruct and divert attention from the financial disaster the booms have created? Y’s more so than X’s because we are too old now too unless already serving.

I could also see the boomers becoming enamoured with a fascist as a way of trying to compel Gen X and Y into saving their sorry welfare state and wars. It won’t work though, as anyone familiar with Green Day’s latest album (American Idiot) will know. There isn’t a single Gen Y in North America and most of the English speaking world that doesn’t know the lyrics to “Holiday”.

Here they are for you boomers. Your kids and grandkids are listening to this and it accurately reflects what they think of your politics, and what they plan to do if pressed into unreasonable service or taxes.

Say, Hey!

Hear the sound of the falling rain
Coming down like an Armageddon flame (Hey!)
The shame
The ones who died without a name

Hear the dogs howling out of key
To a hymn called “Faith and Misery” (Hey!)
And bleed, the company lost the war today

I beg to dream and differ from the hollow lies
This is the dawning of the rest of our lives
On holiday

Hear the drum pounding out of time
Another protestor has crossed the line (Hey!)
To find, the money’s on the other side

Can I get another Amen? (Amen!)
There’s a flag wrapped around
a score of men (Hey!)
A gag, a plastic bag on a monument

I beg to dream and differ from the hollow lies
This is the dawning of the rest of our lives
On holiday

(Hey!)
(Say, Hey!)

(3,4)

“The representative from California has the floor”

Zieg Heil to the president gasman
Bombs away is your punishment
Pulverize the Eiffel towers
Who criticize your government
Bang bang goes the broken glass and
Kill all the fags that don’t agree
Trials by fire, setting fire
Is not a way that’s meant for me
Just cause, just cause,
because we’re outlaws yeah!

I beg to dream and differ from the hollow lies
This is the dawning of the rest of our lives
I beg to dream and differ from the hollow lies
This is the dawning of the rest of our lives

This is our lives on holiday

Yes, that’s right. Gen Y does not agree with the boomers politics and wars, and, since they are used to getting the short end of the stick anyway, they have a fall back plan. Think “ski bum”.

And the rest of you:

What’s the big grip against IKEA? It’s not the hand made stuff you find in a fine furniture store for $1000 a bookcase, but the average working man can get half decent looking stuff for 1/10 the cost and the packaging saves tons of fuel and cardboard, which is good for the environment.

And I’ve been to the Brick, their crap is worse crap. Plus IKEA has a $1.99 breakfast. You can’t even get that at home.

You guys must be boomers.

You sound like me in 1968. Relax. It’ll pass. — Garth

Plus, there really isn’t that much to see in Canmore. Once you’ve been there once, you’ve seen it all.

GenXer: There are many levels of quality, relative to price. Semi-custom kitchen mfg’s offer product at a variety of price points. Frameless kitchens with melamine base cabinets, lacquer, wood or glass door styles, full extension metal drawer boxes, blum hinges. If you research, comparing spec for spec,,,,,,,,,,,looking at similar or equal construction quality, for the price, and the fact you don’t have to wait 8-10wks for it – its hard to compete.

If “greedy” developers didn’t put their entire personal worth on the line every time they banked land, went through years of development process, and risked everything to build out a project, YOU would have nowhere to live.

virtually all developers, greedy or otherwise, operate as corporate entities.

they are not personally liable if the company goes belly up, or hits any snags; so outside of cash flow issues, drawing ’salaries’ from the company, driving a ‘company’ vehicle and things like that, i fail to see how their personal net worth is impacted (outside of seed dollars invested, which they have likely already pulled out via dividend income to themselves as shareholders).

please explain how their ‘entire net worth’ is put on the line ‘every time they bank land’….?

Can anyone post any recent realestate stories or experiences in the Toronto Area Market?

a couple i know listed their luxury rosedale detached home for sale about 6 weeks ago….held several open houses in the first few weekends, and are now only showing their home ‘by appointment ‘.

i spoke with them last night, and they said there have been zero offers and that they had gotten just one enquiry in the last 2 weeks and they were already thinking of other options such as renting the property, or re-listing in the spring if a buyer does not materialize.

the home is listed at $1.3M, so speaks to what is happening in that segment of the market place.