Surging construction costs in Canada are putting new pressure on home prices, worsening a severe affordability crunch, says RBC. Read more
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Wealth has been concentrating at the top for the past few decades now in ways the modern world has never seen before.

This is US-centric, but Canada hasn’t been much better. https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2020/01/09/trends-in-income-and-wealth-inequality/

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Canada is ripe for the picking, we let our telecoms walk all over us.

I wonder how much of our “economy doing great” is just businesses generating GDP from crap like this…

That’s a fundamental problem with just relying on GDP. It measures economic activity, not the people’s prosperity.

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