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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/nl-pensioners-cost-of-living-1.7036277

The average cost of groceries is up 20 per cent from three years ago, TD Bank economist Leslie Preston told CBC News recently, the largest increase in 40 years.

On Tuesday, Statistics Canada reported that the consumer price index rose by 3.1 per cent in October, down from a 3.8 per cent increase in the previous month.

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People ask me why I'm always happy, laughing and joking.

It is because I have been to the lowest most Hellish points in life. I have been in the deepest darkest pits of misery and despair - lower than the points at which many start drinking, taking drugs or even escape from by suicide. I have been to the lowest points.

I'm still here - never committed suicide as that would have been letting the bad guys win. I didn't care about my winning - I wanted o deny them the pleasure of winning.

I never did drugs nor abused alcohol. Instead I rode the storm out and emerged victorious after a brief battle in which the opposition appeared to have forgotten how to fight (presumably because they had never expected me to survive to a final battle)

After that I recovered by myself - sure I have PTSD and cPTSD but it surfaces seldom.

Above all... I won. I am here to prove it and my opposition did not!

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Then again, most shows I see on streaming services these days, speaking of seeking those small comforts, seem to be about people hanging on by a single, fraying thread and how there's only one thing saving them from the abyss, and that the plot is about the hunt to find out what that one thing is.

@Jedigirl

too real

@Jedigirl Only for David Zaslav to cancel that show for tax purposes.

The machine is murdering itself through sheer shortsightedness.