Will Salt Bae open his Steakhouse in Vancouver?

One day, when i am walking down around the Granville street, i see a guy is wearing a white shirt, holding a cigar from his mouth and has a round shaped sunglasses on him, wait, did he just toss some salt to the street in style? Is the snow coming sooner than i thought? 

Nope. 

I gradually realize that it is Salt Bae! Holy cow! He arrives in Vancouver! I will definitely run into him to take some picture with full of my excitement, but hold up, it is Halloween, that guy is nailed with that costume and he totally earns my reward for sure. Seems like that guy really want to stand out to the crowd with those Squid Game costume…

But hey, i am still wondering how Salt Bae has become so popular? 

From a butcher to a businessman, opening multiple fancy steakhouses over Europe, no jokes, i have been following him on Instagram and all i can see is that he is flexing with all his golden wrapped tomahawks and squeezing all those juicy steaks. 

To be honest, he always make me hungry every late night! But i love how he shows his contents to over the world, the way he creates his tossing salt in style to season those juicy steaks and he does all of them with all his whole-hearted. Besides, in every early morning, he did a lot of heavy-lifting workouts and cardio, so that he always take his clothes off and also squeezes all of his sweat out like a fall! 

He is such an icon living! 

To that point, i started to discover deeper to his personal information on Google. Well he is a Turkish guy and his real name is Nusret Gökçe, he became an internet “meme” star with that style in preparing and making all his foods. He owns a chain of Nusr-Et, which is his luxury steakhouse all over in Turkey, Greece, United Kingdom, United States, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Qatar. Maybe sooner, with the high volume of fanbase he created, why does he not open a one-of-a-kind steakhouse in Downtown Vancouver?

I mean it will bring a lot of hypes over there and the traffic is also going to be jam for sure! Hopefully, some real estate persons have to inform the issue to him and recommend to a better places like in the middle of Stanley Park? It is going to be a brilliant ideal location for everyone to drive there in peace and enjoy the view with all the deliciousness from his food. 

Wait, did i read it wrong? From when he has coyotes steak in the menu… oh my bad! It is a freaking lamb chop! *cough* 

I think it is a bad joke… but he must feeds those steaks leftover to them!  

 Now, shall we look up to his menu a bit! 

First of all, there are so many special selections like beef carpaccio, Fillet Mignon steak, Toscana, Tomahawk and what is even a Lokum in his beef fillet selection!? His dessert menu is also on point, especially, the Baklava, it is his favourite dessert and you know what? He also does it in style too! From cutting the baklava into pieces and spread the vanilla ice cream between the pastry. It is going to be epic to wrap up the night! 

But one thing i notice that, why his menu does not show the price out? Personally, i will definitely have a trust issue to a restaurant that does not include the price in the menu or else i am going to spend all the good time with the food to my bottomless belly. I think i am not the only one to realize about it, so i have to take a look on social media to see if someone took a photo of their receipt. 

Before i let you know the truth, please hold up your jaw, the cost of it is surprisingly high! 

Literally, one meal has to be at least 3 numbers in your receipt i must say! Does he overly pump his price up too much? I would be surprised that after enjoying the goodness in his steakhouse and come up some hundred dollars to my bill, seems like he purposely hide the price of menu under his reputation so well that could make you spend the time with his food endlessly. 

However, his steakhouse is not a regular one, do not miss the word “luxury” before the steakhouse or else you will end up washing the dishes for him!

Personally, i think with all the talent and the passion he put into his steakhouse, from a little boy dropped out early from the grade 6 to work as a butcher’s apprentice for helping his family’s finance and now he finally becomes one of the famous chef in the world, he serves well as a fair trade to me. 

On the other hand, if he opened his steakhouse somewhere in Vancouver, i would definitely go for once in a lifetime, unless, i am going with someone i consider that person is a very important person. Like come on, who is going to pay for like a hundred dollar for a meal just to eat out regularly? That person must be like Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos to enjoy a life like that! For me as a second year student in BCIT, i would rather eating out in Cactus Club or Earls since they also have a really tasty steaks though!

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About Nusr-Et Steakhouse, many celebrities have visited to enjoy their steaks with their friends and family, they even show off their golden wrapped tomahawk that costs like almost $1500 and they love it! They love everything about the service, foods and a performance of tossing salt in style from him. What do we expect more from him? Having him is such an honour already and i would be down for spending my time with my loved one on some occasions, unless, he actually would open his steakhouse around here or else i would spend another round-trip ticket to visit him! 

What does Meta can change the future?

First of all, Mark Zuckerberg had officially announced that the name of Facebook will be replaced by the name of Meta. The reason behind of creating this name is for providing a new aspect of using social media by using AR (Augmented Reality) and VR (Virtual Reality). Both features will be combined to develop a new world for the users called Metaverse, it packs a huge futuristic perspective for everyone a new way to connect and have fun.  

Seems like many people still can not get used to the brand new name at this point and maybe they might get mistakenly called them Facebook because it has been with us for a while and they might get sometimes to get along with the name Meta.

But our biggest question is why Zuckerberg named it Meta? Changing the name for a company is difficult, but from the explanation of him, he said that it means “beyond” in Greek. It also indicates to the “Metaverse”, which is an online virtual oasis that he dreams about. 

However, the change does not apply on other social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp. Those well-known social media will remain the same as nowadays, properly they will use them as a bait to lead users to the new world of Metaverse since the marketing and advertisement on there is bigger than we expected. 

The users can create their own avatar to put into the metaverse and there 3 separated rooms for the users can choose from.

  • Horizon World: this one could be an exploration room that can bring the real world to their Virtual Reality, it also allows them to join with their friends as well and it is the time people can enjoy the world together at their own home. 
  • Horizon Home: it is the metaverse home that users can be creative to build up their home however they want it, it is literally you are living a second home. 
  • Horizon Workroom: the room has to be like Zoom or Bongo meeting, but in Virtual Reality. I think this meeting is more versatile since it can be easier to be specific in the meeting room like writing on the board, feel like you are talking in person and it could turn any physics items to put in the room. I think it is a huge thumbs up for the school to open a class or any kind of presentation on their room. 

That is such a life-changing movement, although, the project is still working on progress and plans to be publish in 2030. Meta is just a commitment of a challenge ahead for Zuckerberg since he realizes that Facebook is getting boring and he feels attacked from the other social media platforms like Tiktok, Youtube, etc. 

Thinking about the growth for future, Zuckerberg has the reason to stand out and be different from the others. Running Instagramd and Facebook is no longer his mission anymore, creating a virtual world is the next goals for him, which transforms into the human experience. Additionally, it could give him the ability to generate more excitements and curiosity for the users. 

On the other hand, Facebook is currently has so many strikes to its reputation about keeping privacy of the users following of the overuse tactics to track some internal informations in every users. Zuckerberg has defined the reports as a “coordinated effort to selectively use leaked documents to paint a false picture of our company”.

You read that right, Facebook is silently tracking you anytime and anywhere in order to help them understand more about the users, so they can throw some appropriate advertisements to them and Facebook can grab more effective attentions to them. 

For instance, one day you saw your friends had a really nice sneakers, clothes or bracelets, etc and you might definitely come to them to make some compliments and ask where did they get it. That point, Facebook heard that you are interested in those items and they will try to look for the right advertisement to you, but how did Facebook hear about that? It is from your phone! The one that you always carry with you anytime, anywhere! Facebook has been laying low about running the apps at background to listen to you and that’s why it takes a lot of battery from your device! 

That’s why the users have spoken about the insecurity of using with Facebook, since  Facebook automatically track them without a specific permission. Besides, it also showed some harmful to teenage mental health following the lack of right information or a specific kind of advertisement. 


I am also indeed with the same issue, since most of them are having it nowadays and i also have some false advertisement that it is not necessarily to watch them and inappropriate somehow. Let me give you a thought exercise, a little girl is very lovable person, she always tell her dad that she love him so much, the word “love” has been recorded and send to Facebook’s head, then Facebook will bring some advertisements relate to that word and one day her daddy found out that his daughter’s facebook has full of advertisement about sexual stuffs and dating apps.

 That’s the reason why the users have to get their hating speech about it and more people are not comfortable using it gradually. 

Fun facts, they earn a lot of profit for selling advertisement on Facebook and Instagram since those platforms have the most users comparing to others, which means the effect of advertisement is more outstanding to help other small businesses growing. 

Zuckerberg has a full justification to change the name not only for announcing about the new virtual reality world of Meta, it is also a form of easing the users out, so they could have some faith in them again. 

Overall, it is all make sense for him and bring another solution for the whole world, some experts said it could be a backfire on him since the guilty is still there, but he keep building up for his future plan, seems like he is escaping more than fixing the problem, but we shall see if people still stick with him furthermore. 

Expect the unexpected: Squid Game’s aftermath

The stardom of Korean series movie, Squid Game, has been taking the world by storm upon its story about surviving through all the deadly matches from the tournaments based on children’s game for a substantial prize that could change a people’s life, which originated a one-of-a-kind series movie and i am amazed how visionary they are since they released them on September 17th, which is before Halloween and they know their fans are going to wear a costume like a pink soldier, creepy doll, player, frontman, salesman or even the creator of the game in order to increase the trend traffic.

Smart move!

But wait, before we jump right into further, there are some spoiler alerts to discuss about the upcoming of Squid Game.

I am truly say that the whole show is an absolute piece of art, It is literally like a speech that unveils the untold truth of life. It is not about the plots, characters or games, if you really pay attention to the every details in it, you might see a bigger picture of it and it is the jaw-dropping moment that you might have to discover it by yourself. So that i do not want to ruin your good time so please skip it to this point and carry on to watch the entire series if you wish and mark my word, it is worth the time to spend on it. For real!

Now, let’s get back on track!

  • Will it be a season 2 of Squid Game?

No brainer, it has to be released soon regardless since the kinda cliff hanger at the end of episode 9, the decision of dyeing red hair colour, it represents the anger, a desire of vengeance from the appearance of the “winner”, Gi-hun, really want to blow up the entire organization since he thought that was the end of the game, but sadly, he would find out the truth behind of it and the game would keep continuing for the business of gambling.

Even though, the director Hwang Dong-hyuk told the Hollywood Reporter that it was an opened ending to finish the show without keeping on any further seasons since he made it all up by himself and it is always a pressure when he thinks about it.

However, the enormous volume of fanbase keeps growing everyday, he might pull some ideas based on the fans to create for the next season. “I think that’s what I’m wrestling with right now — that I shouldn’t just view it as a huge amount of pressure, but think of all of this love and support I’m receiving as a big box of inspiration that I can leverage for season two.” he said.

Additionally, there are famous pros basketball, Lebron James, with his teammate Anthony Davis were caught on camera criticized about the end of Squid Game was not that reasonable for James following of leaving the airport to track down the organization in Squid Game after a call with them after planning to reunite with his daughter in USA.

Get on the flight and see your f****** daughter” he joked

From that point, in an interview with The Guardian on Tuesday, Dong-hyuk fired back to James with the question: “Have you seen Space Jam 2?“. He said: “LeBron James is cool and can say what he wants. I respect that. I’m very thankful he watched the whole series. But I wouldn’t change my ending. That’s my ending. If he has his own ending that would satisfy him, maybe he could make his own sequel. I’ll check it out and maybe send him a message saying, ‘I liked your whole show, except the ending.'”

Personally, i would say James did some libel to the director Dong-hyuk and both did not want to ruin each other’s reputation, so they had to defend for their own thoughts about it since Squid Game officially became one of the biggest Netflix shows ever.

  • Which characters could be returned?

Maybe some new characters will be appeared that have a bond relative to the previous characters like Ali’s wife could replace Ali to search for her justice.

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Kang Sae-byeok’s younger brother, Cheol, could also appear and there are rumours that he will help Gi-hun to be a worker like the policeman, Hwang Jun-ho. Lottle people know about the part when the policeman climbed down from a secret exit, he found a random button that only made for the VIP to explode the entire organization, which could be an easter egg that younger brother or the policeman might push the button to wipe them out.

Oh Il-nam’s son could show up as the leader of the worker? Or also come to help Gi-hun for what Il-nam be careless to his own son? He must be likely as wealthy as his dad for sure, but he could be a substitution of his dad to carry on the story of making this tournament.

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Frontman will absolutely be in the next season, it could be a detail story of how he was becoming a frontman for the organization. Besides, he used to be a winner in 2015 as a player 132 and we will dig deeper into the reason why he could go home with the price, but instead he chose to be the frontman. Is it the rule that a winner can choose to be a frontman voluntarily? So that Gi-hun could replace him and changed the whole system into a charity fund since Gi-hun realized that money can’t buy happiness or else they had to conflict together to take place of.

The policeman, Hwang Jun-ho, the brotherhood with the his brother had been unveiled and we all know that the shot just on the left shoulder, so no way he could be dead like that after the fall into the ocean. However, he called back to the police station for the help already, which he could be rescued from that point, but seems like the game still keep going or else he could be dead already from loosing too much blood then. I personally think that some magical would happen to him because the character had so much potentials to discover more about the secret behind the organization.

Well, Squid Game left so much energy to all the fans to be excited for the next season, we shall see what it would be happened next and we all hope that next year is the earliest comeback of the show.

Expect the unexpected: Apple’s strategy

The making of Apple’s logo

Talking about technology, most of people would think about Apple first, then later on they would think about Samsung, LG, Sony, etc. It’s a common sense about psychology that the word “Apple” will instantly pop up in their mind since it was one of the first word when they learn in English language and it is literally one of favourite fruits for everyone.

But why Steve Jobs did not choose any names beside Apple? It could be Orange, Pear or even Durian!?

Obviously, Steve Jobs loves eating apple, it was one of his fruitarian diets and fun fact that he could not come up with any better names. So, essentially, Apple was named, designed by him and he never felt regretted about it.

However, before he replaced the logo into an Apple with a bite taken out of it, it was a logo represent Isaac Newton sitting under the apple tree, who identified gravity after an Apple fell on his head. Additionally, he also wanted to show respect to Newton that he was the one who created a movement for the world about Physics, so that Steve could also be the next one of Newton to take the world by storm as well.

“I remember I was driving Steve Jobs back from the airport along Highway 85. Steve was coming back from a visit to Oregon to a place he called an “apple orchard.” It was actually some kind of commune. Steve suggested a name – Apple Computer.” According to Steve Wozniak.

And the simple name of Apple becomes one of the biggest tech company in the world and achieves a whopping number of loyalty customers.

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Apple has been making their products flawlessly about their smartphone, tablet, laptop, PC and accessories, even though, there are many competitors out there also invent some unique ideas on a new design, new features, develops higher performance on their new chipset, one-of-a-kind products, etc.

Apple still let others sniff up a winning air from it and there are some reasons to clarify those brilliant ideas behind of it:

  • Synchronic

There are small amounts that other competitors focus on the synchronism for their products to associate with other devices, instead, they keep making more and more new products come up with some wow factors without knowing the important of customers’ usage.

Imagine when you upgrade to a new iPhone 13, you have worried about spending the time uploading your data from your old phone to the new one and it might take a lot of time doing that. Luckily, Apple has some exclusive features to help customers transfer data instantly and it also has iCloud to store data from there without a support of hard drive memory, also they have Airdrop to let other Apple products transfer data together in a second as well.

On the other hand, when the customer uses a Macbook and they can also use iPad to work as a second display called “Sidecar”. Additionally, all the accessories like Airpods, Homepod, Airtag, etc can be connected rapidly without having to reach for setting a turn on the bluetooth.

How convenience it is!

Then again, the strategy generates customers to buy different products from Apple so they can be obsessed with it, since it helps the workflow and reliable for them.

  • Quality > Quantity

Just like how Samsung made to their phone became foldable, hide their front camera under the display, along with the fingerprint password is also located under it in order to create a fuller display for a distinctive experience and appearance. Of course, the price has to be match with it as well, so it is kind of a “money can buy”.

The outstanding strategy here is they think different and know how to play in customers’ curiosity, so i can tell that they really want to try to sell as much as possible for a short term. That means they just focus on quantity not quality, every year they always change to a new design and create a momentum that stands out to others.

For instance, the new foldable phone from Samsung, Xiaomi, etc they all mostly from plastic, which can easily be scratched, dented and even an internal damage.

But why they use plastic?

In order to be able to make the screen foldable, plastic is a much more flexible material than glass and they invented the very first foldable phone ever, but the durability might be considered again since it lacks of the toughness comparing with glass. Well it is a new revolution of smartphone anyway!

Let’s throw back to Apple, they know what the customers actually need and works the best for them, so they just want to upgrade what already had on the older models like replacing into a tougher glass for the iPhone 13, better battery life, more powerful performance on the A15 bionic chip, huge improvements on camera quality, smoother 120hz refresh rate displace and yes, a smaller notch does exist. Not really…

Anyway, Apple is trying to go deeper for the quality not just brainstorming for a complete new product, they all are just human-made, the more friendly-user it is, the more customers be loyal to it i would say.

  • Becoming more friendly-environment

Not only Apple respects to their customers, they also have a high regard for the planet as well, they know the circumstance of being one of the biggest tech firms, so it might be using a large number of environment materials to make their products.

Nowadays, the climate change has become worse, animals are gradually loosing their homes and one day, we could lose our home as well.

Are we really trying to eliminate each other so we can live a better life?

Well, Apple is raising its awareness to support and helps the planet healthier by recycling all their products and in 2030, their products would be a carbon-neutral using only natural materials like sunlights, water and winds!

In their latest products, like iPhone 13’s lineup, it does not have a plastic wrap anymore, it removes charging brick and encourages customers to trade-in their old product to recycle.

That’s the reason why Apple is always being top-notch to other brands, even though how expensive their products are, like a $20 piece of cloth that they just secretly published to the website, customers still be loyal and satisfied what they invest into them since Apple cares about customers and do what they need to be done.

Expect the unexpected: the meaning of successful

First of all, have you ever been having lots of ups and downs in life? Or even worse if you only see the bad things around but rarely having some goods time? It is all about the perspective in each of us putting in our life surroundings, thinking positive in their life and will be reflected the same way.

However, each of us has a totally different story of life, so they might have unique angle of aspects, some of them are born poor and may end up a financially freedom of life and some of them born rich and may end up a miserable life.

We all know life is already tough, when you keep being in a comfort zone, but things might change when you put some efforts in it, think outside the box and life turns easier on you. Many people also think that they are not in the comfort zone, but they actually in that red flag zone. Although, they think that it is enough for them to be outside the edge of it and they still have a failure or a slow process.

Living a life is giving, not just only receiving, we support each others by our knowledge, we are innovating into a superior life, where life is never be a wonderland, it becomes a reality that many of us should be awaken.

“Gracious acceptance is an art – an art which most never bother to cultivate. We think that we have to learn how to give, but we forget about accepting things, which can be much harder than giving…. Accepting another person’s gift is allowing him to express his feelings for you.”
—Alexander McCall Smith, Love Over Scotland

Johnny Dang

He is the great example for the circumstances that he started from the very bottom of the city Buon Ma Thuoc in Vietnam and now he is one of the most successful jeweller in Houston, Texas.

Little people know that, when he was around the age of 12, he had lived in a very poor village, even though, he did not have a chance to go to school, so he had to work for his family as a silversmith. He said that time was a remarkable moment to his childhood, especially in the night time, there were no physical lights or anything and only the candles and some fireflies shined the night out for him.

In 1996, Johnny and his mom with 2 other brothers were sponsored to United State by his dad to start a new chapter for them. When he began with some experience on jewellery repair, his first paycheque was $500 and he was fired up with all the motivation to take care of his family until he met a rapper, Paul Wall, who was willing to collaborate with Johnny since Paul was impressed by Johnny’s technique on creating grills.

Now he is the most well-known Vietnamese jeweller, who customizes fine luxury chains, grills, rings, eyeglasses and watches to catch a major attention to many famous hip hop artists like Snoop Dog, Drake, Cardi B, Post Malone, Justin Bieber and many countless more.

He had been building up his brand name Johnny Dang and Co by all of his dedication, patience and belief by putting up the hard work from a small store in the mall to the point of owning an enormous building, travelling to the right place by the request from buyers in order to make a deal in person, making some inspiring vlog videos for many people around the world on Youtube and he even created his own cryptocurrency, Diamond Boyz Coin, and the value itself was going for an uptrend pattern following of his reputation.

Khang WTM

His name is Khang Le, he is also a Vietnamese and grew up from the very bottom of society, where it was never been easy to survive through days and only dirts and muds surrounds him.

Fortunately, he had a chance to come America at the age of 9 to find the opportunity and reach for freedom, however, he dropped out of high school at 17 and lived into a little shed  beside the home park for 5 years.

He used to be called a loser by some of his friends and even family, so that, he took it as a trade to his motivation to step out and make a change to hustle like no other.

From all of the small steps, meeting with many others to inspire him, so he finally discovered about real estate at 27 and became a millionaire at 32 making 6 figures per month living a healthy and joyful life.

Right now, he is doing a virtual class to give his knowledge for others especially for young generations to learn about real estate wholesaler. He has been supporting and helping for his fanbase on Instagram, Tiktok, Youtube and i am amazed about all of his quality contents to create such a huge movement and signature quotes as well.

Let’s go get this monaaaayyy! ” 

In my point of view 

To be honest, i was one of them being lost about life when i was still in Vietnam, thankfully my parents gave me a chance to study abroad in Vancouver and that was the point i started to step up a new chapter.

It was never be easy at first when i started a new job in a Vietnamese restaurant, choosing the right career to grow from Radio Arts & Entertainment program at BCIT, finding a stable job and be accountable at spending, saving and investing in stocks market.

Even if i failed at anything, i would learn from my failure and i have to be consistent for my right path.

Some said youth should be having fun at this time but how about i keep learning from many successful people out there, stop being attracted to go partying, get reaching out for a mentorship and once i became financially freedom, i might be having a greatest time of my life at the young age as i could.

I believe in myself and so do you. Don’t waste anytime, just do it. Your time will come earlier than you might expected.

Get vaccinated to keep being eligible with EI.

Those who lose their job following a vax status to be expected not eligible for EI (employment insurance) according to Employment Minister Carla Qualtrough.

“It’s a condition of employment that hasn’t been met,” Qualtrough said in an interview with CBC’s Power & Politics. It is reasonable for being ineligible since the employer choosing to terminate someone.

“I can tell you that’s the advice I’m getting, and that’s the advice I’ll move forward with.”

Qualtrough said the rule will not be applied to those have a medical exemption or a “valid reason” for not being vaccinated. However, Qualtrough stated that the policy is not yet a firm public decision following the recent federal election and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has not unveiled a new regulations yet until October 26.

“We’ll have to wait and see what the prime minister does next Tuesday with his cabinet,” she said.

Paul Champ, an employment lawyer in Ottawa, disagrees with Qualtrough’s position on EI and vaccines.

“I think it’s very arguable about whether employees terminated for not getting the vaccine requirement is just cause for termination,” he said in an interview.

“I think it’s reasonable that some employers may and will terminate employees for not being vaccinated — I don’t take issue with that — but it’s different to say that it’s just cause, meaning you pay them nothing.”

Champ said he always advice clients in the same way.

“My first piece of advice to clients is, ‘Get vaccinated,'” he said.

“That interferes with bodily integrity and at least my opinion — and I think the consensus among most employment lawyers right now — is that it’s not just cause for an employee to refuse that, at least in most circumstances,” he said.

Besides, there’s is always a simpler way to be hired for employers to figure the issues, he “Employers could, when they’re making hiring decisions right now, make having a vaccine a requirement of employment,” he said.  “An employee’s accepting a job knowing that — that’s a job requirement.”

The inflation is taking over in Canada.

In September, Canada’s inflation increased to a new 18-year high of 4.4% with a growth prices for transportation, shelter and food contributing is the highest jump in the cost of living.

Including gasoline had been risen more than 9% according to Statistics Canada said Wednesday about the transportation indication. Additionally, the majority in the cost of transportation is the price of a car, which rose by 7.2% in the past year for new cars.

“The global semiconductor chip shortage, leading to limited supply, contributed to higher prices in September,” Statistics Canada said.

Food at a grocery store in Toronto in Tuesday also increases significantly beyond to everyone’s budget.

“I stopped buying beef a few years ago because it’s just too expensive,” Martin Rolin told CBC News in an interview. “I usually try to get [groceries] during sales but they’re getting reduced less and less.”

However, fresh veggies have gotten cheaper for 3.2% in the past year, which is giving quite a relief to shoppers.

After the pandemic, economists Doug Porter with Bank of Montreal expected the high prices keep following around for a while.

“The big picture is that inflation continues to march higher, with pressures broadening out,” Porter said of the numbers. “Suffice it to say, that strains the definition of transitory.”

 

Amazon faced retaliation and unfair tactics from workers

Since the high demand of online purchases, the conditions are getting worse from pandemic that affects to the employees.

There are two men, Arash and TK, who don’t want to show their last names for the fear of reprisal, who is working as a deliver packaging for Amazon in the Greater Toronto Area, tried to organize unions in 2017 and 2018.

“When the company realized I had started to talk to the other drivers about having a union, they started an anti-union campaign,” said Arash. “The company called an all-hands-on-deck meeting. In that meeting, the owner of the company, he said that Amazon has a problem with unions so if you decide to go unionize they’re just going to cut off our company and give the work to one of the other companies.”

Some employees are also trying to explain about the difficulty in working conditions has been getting tougher, they seem like Amazon is trying to neglect the circumstance and showing the unfair practices and retaliation behaviour to them.

The delivery company “fired me and 14 other of my colleagues,” said Arash.

However, Amazon has policies to track deter workers from staying around too long without doing nothing. For instance, they won’t have any annual raises after 3 years unless employees are promoted.

These are mechanisms “to kind of turn the workforce over to make sure the work force doesn’t get entrenched and disgruntled,” Stone said, and there is “an allergy to unionization.”

He used to work shifts of 10 to 12 hours and Amazon’s targets are intense for expecting to deliver around 17 packages per hour. Amazon put a handheld GPS device to him called a rabbit that tracked his package deliveries.

Even Though, he has to keep delivering all the packages from 7 to 9 days continuously and there wasn’t much time for lunch or bathroom breaks, which made him feel overworked and underpaid.

“If we had an issue, we’d talk to the company and the company would say, ‘It’s out of our hands, it’s in Amazon’s hands.’ And if you talk to Amazon, they’d say it’s out of our hands, it’s in the company’s hands…. That’s why I reached out to the union.”

Arash and TK say it was important for them to try to hold Amazon accountable.

“Me and Arash are not the only ones,” said TK. “I’m sure there are so many others that are feeling what we felt and are continuing to feel that. Maybe all this awareness kind of brings out what is to light, what is happening at Amazon.”

Kids 5 to 11 years old need to get COVID-19 vaccine.

It is the first COVID-19 vaccine submission Canada has received for younger children aged 5 to 11 years old.

As soon as the regulators allow to do so, providers might be able to start offering the vaccine to kids, but new child-sized dosed need to be acquired. The doses are about one-third the size given to adults and teens age 12 and up.

More than 46 million doses has been delivered to Canada to date by Pfizer, there are more than enough Pfizer doses in Canada to vaccinate kids between the ages of 5 to 11 according to an analysis of the available data from provincial and federal governments.

At a media briefing late last week, chief public health officer Dr. Theresa Tam said Canada already had a stockpiled of smaller doses across the country may not be advised.

We also understand from Pfizer that this actual formulation has shifted,” Tam said Friday. “This is a next generation formulation, so that is something that needs to be examined by the regulator.”

“Health Canada will only authorize the use of Comirnaty if the independent and thorough scientific review of all the data included in the submission showed that the benefits of the vaccine outweighed the potential risks in this age group,” the statement said.

According to Tim Sly, a Ryerson University epidemiologist with expertise in risk management stating that the risk appears to be low.

“Of course, no one considers any complication in a child to be acceptable, and a tremendous amount of caution is being taken to look for and identify all problems,” said Sly in a recent email exchange with The Canadian Press.

Besides the benefits of vaccination to prevent COVID-19, the vaccine helps the children to reduce the risk of associating the virus to another and a better environment for school without stressing about transmission.

Instacart ‘shoppers’ are struggling on paycheques

Since the complain from many Instacart shoppers, the company is still not taking any better but worse for them.

However, Instacart has been one of the delivery favourite jobs during covid-19 pandemic to collect online orders and drop off grocery goods to customers’ home. But now, delivery people are frustrating about how the company calculates the earnings for them, seems like their earnings are getting lower gradually and hits below minimum wage in the last few months.

“I’ve probably analyzed 3,000 to 4,000 batches of orders from Instacart, just trying to figure out how they establish their pricing model, and I can’t,” said Daniel Feuer, 52, of Whitby, Ontario. one of six Instacart delivery people from across the country who spoke to Go Public

“I’m making much less money, and it’s not about the number of orders going down, it’s about the actual payment for those orders decreasing.”

They are not alone. In some private Facebook groups, they are tons of them also commenting about the reduction of the fees as “a trap”, “gross” and “ridiculous”. Additionally, they used to make approximately around $40 to $50 an hour, but currently they are earning less than minimum wage.

Other than that, there is a person named “Mark” who managed to support his wife and three children with his Instacart earnings for over $1000 a week, making $25 to $30 an hour. Although, the fees are getting lower and it is not even worth his time to work for them anymore since his current week he made under $400.