No,

yeah.

No, it's all good.

Leighton, I think everything you're saying is, I mean, it's something that most people don't know.

And the problem is, is that they don't know.

Yes.

Canada is a neoliberal hellhole.

By the way, America is named after an Italian guy named Amerigo.

Can you tell us a little bit about Sharon and how you first found out about her diagnosis?

Yeah, so Sharon sadly has lost a couple of children and her last one passed away about two years ago.

And then she was suffering with her voice getting like sort of choking feeling and that.

And then she'd gone to the hospital.

They thought that because of all the stress of losing the kids and stuff, that this could have just brought something on.

And perhaps she just needs a bit of therapy.

So she wasn't quite happy with that.

What can people expect when they go along?

Is that kind of the idea even with like America with its many faults, the world is safer when you have someone like America in charge?

100%.

If you take America out of the picture, it creates a power vacuum.

Russia and China have a long relationship.

They've never trusted each other, particularly the Russians trusting the Chinese.

The, the Russians have never trusted the Chinese.

This goes back as far as Mao and Stalin, right? They've never really liked each other.

Yeah.

And, you know, the, the Carney and, uh, EB, uh, and gregor robertson line is we're going to convert these into affordable units there's so much that doesn't make sense but that that's the story in a nutshell the condo bill

so to put this in perspective for people just really quickly the average family in vancouver brings in 76 000 a year my family we're one of the fortunate ones we're bringing in roughly double that And we had to apply for co-op housing because we could not afford to live in Vancouver while we were there.

So if they turn thousands of condo units into affordable housing, even if they did that, which Sam, you and I both know they're not going to because nobody wants low-income residents as their neighbors when they've paid $1.2 million for a 600-square-foot box.

But...

even if they did, you have over a million people that are desperate for affordable housing.

So it's not going to solve the demand whatsoever.

And Sam, I have a theory and we'll move on from this in a second because we have to talk about Toronto as well.

I think that's a very direct and live concern, certainly in Vancouver that I know of.

You often ask me, you know, is there a point coming when the U.S. government is going to start to take off the gloves and say enough's enough with Ottawa's rhetoric and lack of contributions to defense? And I think that was the first major sign of that happening.

Yeah, I mean, what's been really obvious is the asymmetry in Mark Carney's messaging, depending on where he is and the circumstance.

And one minute he's saying that – Canada strong will make America great again, that we're going to repair this relationship.

Of course, there's a, a review of the USMCA trade agreement coming up on July 1st, Canada day of all days.

And, you know, things aren't looking good.

And then on the other hand, he does things like he gives a nationwide public address with general Brock, a figurine of general Brock from the war of 1812 on his desk.

And he, in not so eloquent ways, connects himself to General Brock.

We shouldn't have to explain this, but What is wrong here? Again, everything pointing back to Mark Carney's government making all the wrong moves.

Can I ask, do you think you see then the continued segmentation of roles between design, as you said there, who may be use magic patterns, but still a segmented role, and then eng, who, still a segmented role, but use Cursor to be more efficient? Do you think we have the sa- or do we, we see the bundling where all of them come into one product engine design, and we have this kind of uni superhuman being?

So the way I see roles evolving is really towards what I think has been, like, more natural and organic all along.

When I think about early days of tech, it's, like, engineers, and then they were building, and all of a sudden, like, UX actually mattered because we had, like, graphical user interfaces.

And some of them could design, and some of them, like, couldn't design.

You know, they couldn't imagine it and, like, make it usable.

And so a design as a field, UX design as a field emerged.

Then what happens is product emerges because someone needs to understand the business requirements, why we're doing what we're doing, um, and articulate and prioritize that.

How do I know if they're shit if they say alignment a lot? Like, what are the buzzwords?