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hamie
Social climber
Thekoots
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Apr 25, 2017 - 08:39pm PT
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Ghost.
A point of clarification:
While the US may well have a category of forestry workers referred to as "lumberjacks", the Canadian equivalent is LOGGERS or FALLERS. :) :)
Cheers, eh.
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
Nothing creative to say
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Apr 25, 2017 - 11:17pm PT
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Perhaps there is glut of Pine soft wood in the U.S. due to drought and bark beetle? Which means we don't have a need to clear cut and or import it to grow the housing sector?
Now is an opportune time to make a sh#t show of it to renegotiate.
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AP
Trad climber
Calgary
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Apr 26, 2017 - 06:35am PT
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Trump and his administration remind me of schoolyard bullies. They stomp around yelling at everyone then find the weak kids to pick on. It could be undocumented immigrants or maybe Canada. Come on what are we going to do outfit moose with suicide bomber vests and send them south?
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clinker
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, California
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 26, 2017 - 06:58am PT
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Yeah Anders, its like being neighbours with North Korea, except we're fighting over 2x4's.
LOL !
That is funny. I would like to hear Bob and Doug's perspective though.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Apr 26, 2017 - 09:55am PT
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Rejoice, Snowflakes, the sky may not actually be falling!
Canada and the United States have made progress in recent days on a dispute over Canadian lumber exports "but we are not there yet", Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland said on Wednesda
Canada reports progress with U.S. on lumber, deal not in sight
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-canada-trade-idUSKBN17S1IG
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nah000
climber
no/w/here
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Apr 26, 2017 - 10:24am PT
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"Rejoice, Snowflakes, the sky may not actually be falling!"
and even if it is, given this administrations ability to send aircraft carriers in the wrong direction, to repeatedly sign presidential orders that are immediately struck down and to not even be able to get his own party to agree to the thing they've been campaigning on for a good half a decade now...
well.. you know the point.
just more bluster and blow from the huffy and puffy in chief...
as long as no american toddlers are killed by toppling lifts of canuck 2X4s we should be safe from about the only decisive thing he's actually accomplished, for now...
when ivanka starts giving speeches regarding how softwood is the world's newest wmd, that's when i start to worry...
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dirtbag
climber
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Apr 26, 2017 - 05:09pm PT
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Breaking news, the USS Nimitz (CVN-68) Carrier Strike Group is currently in-route to the waters off the Canadian Riviera aka Vancouver Island. At the same time the USS George H.W. Bush (CVN-77) Carrier Strike Group has sailed out of Norfolk VA and is currently traversing the St Lawrence Seaway in route to Lake Ontario.
That's now old news. The breaking news is that Trump has no idea where these ships are, either.
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clinker
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, California
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 27, 2017 - 06:24am PT
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I asked what the tariff affect was on prices at the lumber yard. They said at this time it was the price of cedar that was going up. A contractor has a bid for $82,000 dollars of cedar siding that will go up 17% if he doesn't order it by Friday.
I am sure that 17% will be used to make America greaterer.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Apr 27, 2017 - 05:44pm PT
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Well, you can look at the glass as half empty or, as the high ranking
Chinese diplomat I talked to last week said*, the President is proving he
is able to change his mind.
It was a surreal and stimulating conversation held in the shadow of the
Sipapu Natural Bridge in Natural Bridges NM, aka Da Bears Ears NM.
Dude was one of the funniest and most engaging people I've ever met.
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Ken M
Mountain climber
Los Angeles, Ca
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Apr 27, 2017 - 09:22pm PT
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"Today's ruling confirms that Canadian lumber mills are subsidized by their government and benefit from lumber pricing policies," Cameron Krauss, legal chair for the U.S. Lumber Coalition, said in a statement.
Oh, that's what it is, "a ruling"---of course, that is what you get from your RULER. Glad to know that new title for the President.
Nowhere in anything I've read, could I find what the nature of the "support" that Canadian lumber producers receive?
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clinker
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, California
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 27, 2017 - 10:39pm PT
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Canada is Tariffable
terrible spelling
next time just go with Terrific, you'll be right on 2 counts
Can you chuck wood? Can u chuck wood? Can-u-ck wood?
I never have been back to Alaska since my parents moved to Boston when I was one, but have made it to Canada once a decade and it certainly is terrific.
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Google Doodle praises Tom Longboar and rightly so, but Canada's greatest distance runner?
I'd put Ed Whitlock (RIP - 3/13/2017) up there with him. First sub-3 marathon by someone of 70 years of age (among others).
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Stock up on poutine and maple syrop, y’all!
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Jon Beck
Trad climber
Oceanside
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I can live without ever tasting poutine. But maple syrup? oh the horror.
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AP
Trad climber
Calgary
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Hey give us a break on lumber.
Thanks to our cold climate is takes longer to grow a tree here.
How else can we compete with Georgia?
The US govt doesn't support Boeing? All of the military technology and testing procedures that are then applied to passenger planes with much lower effective cost?
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wilbeer
Mountain climber
Terence Wilson greeneck alleghenys,ny,
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Down here we do not have enough good softwood to sustain the amount of growth in housing expected.
Do you know what happens next?
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AP
Trad climber
Calgary
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All of the latest trade moves will drive up prices
One more govt tax
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wilbeer
Mountain climber
Terence Wilson greeneck alleghenys,ny,
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Here we go,two weeks ago a 2x4 x96 inches was 3.25 per,today 5.75.
Thank you very little.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Lumber prices have been unnaturally low for decades.
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