Don George

Market Appraiser covering: EDMT & surrounding counties within 2 hours of Edmonton. Designated Appraiser & Certified Appraisal Reviewer. Residential.

[Don George @dgeorge7007]

@jordanbpeterson Hello from Edmonton. I get up and work hard everyday as a self employed professional. Despite the extra harnesses I have, living here vs the USA, I'm still moving forward, just slower here vs elsewhere. Determination cannot be stamped out, no matter where one is. 👊

[Don George @dgeorge7007]

@jkenney A structure built in the 1850's has out lived it's useful lifespan. Teart it down and build new to today's standards.

[Don George @dgeorge7007]

@Martyupnorth 👊

[Pierre Poilievre @PierrePoilievre]

Sure, Liberals say, Canada is the only G7 country in recession.

Sure, two back-to-back quarters of shrinking GDP is the textbook definition of a recession.

But, they say, it is just a “technical recession”. A fluke. Everything else is great.

So let’s look beyond the back-to-back quarterly decline: Canada’s unemployment is now the 2nd highest in the G7—a third higher than in the U.S.—as Canada lost 112,300 jobs in just three months, leaving 45,800 more Canadians jobless since Carney became Prime Minister.

The economy contracted in three of Carney's four quarters in office, something unmatched in the G7, as business investment fell another 0.7% for a fifth straight quarterly decline, and more than $20 billion in net investment fled Canada.

Meanwhile, insolvencies hit their highest levels since 2009, up nearly 19%, with 1.5 million Canadians missing debt payments in just three months and mortgage delinquencies rising 32%.

Canadian households carry by far the highest debt in the G7, while food bank use continues to surge. 1 in 10 GTA residents are now relying on them and visits are hitting a record 4.1 million last year—up 340% since 2019. Nationwide, food bank demand is up 100% in 7 years.

Almost all these measures are worse than when Carney took office and worse than any other G7 country—so blaming world events or tariffs won’t cut it.

Stop the excuses. Own it: This is a full-blown Carney Recession.

[Don George @dgeorge7007]

@DemosKratosCA Not where you're coming from, but welcome. 48 of 58 years here, has treated me well. Never should have left for the 10 years between 30 & 40. 👊

[Don George @dgeorge7007]

@alphaman_111 Miss my parents immensely. Was adopted - could have ended up anywhere. Could not have landed in a better place.

[Don George @dgeorge7007]

@Breedlove22 I've been doing 16 hour fasts since July 2023, started working out again - weights - dropped 70 pounds in 18 months and have kept it off. Huge consumer of Heart & Soil products. At 58, I'll never get to where you are, but feel way better. 👊👊💪💪

[Keith Wilson @ikwilson]

Imagine having a political leader seriously suggesting we abandon trade with the largest economy in the world--our closest neighbour, lowest-cost partner, and biggest customer.

Canada sends ~75% of its exports to the U.S.
For Alberta it's closer to ~85–90%.

That’s not a minor relationship you can “pivot” away from overnight--it’s the backbone of our economy.

You don’t strengthen a country by picking fights with your primary customer. You don’t create jobs by making it harder to sell what we produce.

Albertans understand this. We rely on access to U.S. markets, and we have no interest in reckless strategies that gamble with our livelihoods.

Strong countries don’t act out of impulse. They act in their economic self-interest. That’s what an independent Alberta will do. Vote yes on Oct. 19. #AlbertaIndependence

[Don George @dgeorge7007]

Just found this on a $2.00 coin. Not sure if this was put there, or if this is part of the circulating coins.

[Don George @dgeorge7007]

@MarkJCarney You could not win a majority, fairly in a general, election. So now you're making back room deals to get floor crossers. Pathetic. I hope Canadians see this for what it is. I sure do.

[Don George @dgeorge7007]

@AnaPoilievre @StevenBartlett Pierre is MP in a riding where I grew up
...farm near Killam, AB. Crowfoot is lucky to have Canada's next PM as their representative in Parliament. 👊

[Don George @dgeorge7007]

@EricRStPierre My grandparents or great grandparents (depending on which side of the family) were Americans - absolutely yes.

[Martyupnorth®- Unacceptable Fact Checker @Martyupnorth]

This is interesting.

Where Americans get their oil from, compared to where they think they get their oil from.

Alberta is their biggest supplier...by far.

[Don George @dgeorge7007]

@Martyupnorth I signed today at the intersection of Hwy 43 & Yellowhead. 👊

[Don George @dgeorge7007]

@mitchellvii 2025, was my year of vehicle repair expense. Finally threw in the towel and bought newer in September.

[Don George @dgeorge7007]

@RodneyRemix @The100Club100 👊👊. Congrats. At 55, I decided to do the same thing you did. I'm now down 65 pounds at 58, and in the muscle build stage.

[Don George @dgeorge7007]

@RetroWallSt Congratulations. 👊

[The Curious Tales @thecurioustales]

🚨 JUST IN: A migratory bird just shattered world records — flying 8,425 miles (13,560 km) NON-STOP across the Pacific without landing once.

The bar-tailed godwit doesn’t stop to eat, drink, or sleep during its migration across the Pacific Ocean. Its journey from Alaska to Australia takes roughly 11 days of continuous flight, covering over 13,000 kilometers through storms, headwinds, and open ocean with zero land beneath it the entire time.

Before departure, it does something almost surgical to its own body. It shrinks its digestive organs down to almost nothing, converting the stomach, intestines, and liver into raw fuel. The bird essentially eats its own gut to make room for fat reserves that will power its wings for nearly two weeks straight.

The brain doesn’t fully sleep either. Half of it stays active while the other half rests, alternating in shifts mid-flight at altitude over the open Pacific. The godwit is simultaneously unconscious and navigating with magnetic field sensitivity that no human instrument in the 18th century could replicate.

What makes this genuinely staggering beyond the physical record is the navigational precision involved. The bird leaves Alaska and arrives in New Zealand with accuracy that would embarrass early GPS systems. It reads Earth’s magnetic field, atmospheric pressure gradients, star positions, and potentially quantum-level compass mechanisms inside its eye that literally let it see magnetic field lines overlaid on its visual field.

Evolution spent millions of years building an aerospace navigation system inside a 300 gram animal.

We spend billions engineering machines that do what this bird does on instinct, fat reserves, and half a sleeping brain.
The longest recorded non-stop flight by a commercial aircraft is around 20 hours.

This bird does 11 days.

Without a runway.

[Don George @dgeorge7007]

@AprilHuggett Congrats. 👊 🇨🇦

[Don George @dgeorge7007]

@Martyupnorth Mussels (my wife's allergic), oysters (I finally learned how to open the shells properly), clams ...all good protein.