“afford fewer and fewer things” needs correction: most “things” are being turned into “services” so people end up owning nothing and being forced to overpay for “service” they never asked for

Based on experience south of border or in AB - all the dissent goes out the window and everybody falls in line come election time. I’d like to believe that any of the major Canadian parties has members genuinely caring for their constituencies but given our electoral system and governing system that is out the window as hyper-partisanship is a natural step in current system’s evolution. Parties prevent democracy by forcing their members to follow party line and not their electorate needs.

they can have PP we can even gift-wrap him and send as a Xmass gift, just please no returns.

well, it’s not just Teams and not just MS. Have you worked with Zoom lately? I do agree that Teams occupies that very special dark space in my heart right next to hate and loathing.