I don't know, they're a very American brand, maybe not as much as Tim's is Canadian (in the sense of brand perception/ cultural significance). Even though McDonald's is American, it's been here so long and is so global it doesn't feel American.

Crimea 2

The problem is that once you get into lifetime costs the variables go through the roof and any numbers you come up with are almost meaningless to anyone but yourself. (Not to mention needing to calculate increasingly volatile energy prices over decades) I tried to do a bit of basic math. I calculated with BC Hydro home rates at $0.12/kwh and fast charger rates at $0.40/kwh, and with gas at its (local) year low of $1.40/L as well as rounding up to $2/L. I also am taking my basic search for efficiency data at face value.

Cost/100km

Kia Niro EV ~17kwh/100km = $2.04 home $6.80 fast charger
Hyundai Kona ICE ~7.5L/100km combined = $10.50-$15

Nissan Leaf ~18.9kwh/100km = $2.27 home $7.56 fast charger
Nissan Versa ~6.8L/100km = $9.52-$13.60

There's no doubt there are many people saving tons by driving an EV, just as I have no doubt many people will never break even (and if they're ok with that I have no issues).

$45k+ still isn't what I'd call affordable, especially when their closest ICE equivalents (Nissan Versa and Hyundai Kona) are about $20k cheaper new.

At least it looks like used EVs with triple digit ranges are starting to show up around $10k. The state of EV affordability is improving but there's still a long way to go.

Not to mention bright mornings well before 4am all summer.

Circadian rhythm is personal, so I don't know if what the clock says makes as much of a difference as when things are scheduled. And time zones are so wide that being at the extreme east or west of a zone can make more than an hour difference in sunrise/set times anyways.

It's awesome we're sticking to daylight savings and not standard!

You definitely have bigger toast.

Maybe regionally. From the west coast I have never heard of Second Cup as anything other than making coffee flavoured granola bars years ago, and up until now I thought Robin's went out of business in the early '00s.

Once again they'll carve out exemptions for the stuff they can't get anywhere else. And for those things, we need to slap on an export tax.

That's a very nice way of describing legal slavery.

It really feels like they're trying to pull a Crimea. They've already been amplifying (if not outright fabricating) the voices of the very few sincere separationists to make it look like it's a majority position. Now they're setting up a referendum, which will likely be accused of being rigged if it fails or used as pretext if it passes, because it's obviously not legally binding.