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I’ve said this before, but coming up with no ideas of your own except to crack your whip at other people until they do something is bad McDonald’s manager level of leadership. Housing is an issue country wide, expecting municipalities to each individually come up with solutions for you instead of developing a country wide strategy is going to lead to extremely uneven results at best. Most likely it’s going to be a disaster everywhere because municipalities don’t have the power to deal with root causes like land speculation the way the federal and provincial governments do.
I also would bet money that if municipalities start getting homes built in ways the Conservatives don’t like, like public housing, they will be punished for that as well.
You’ve dragged us into more wars than you’ve defended us in. This idea that there are hordes of hostile countries just salivating at invading us across three oceans is a joke.
In fact, the most significant threat to our safety is your trainwreck of a country deciding it likes fascism actually and doing a Sudetanland to us.
Alongside banners commemorating missing and murdered Indigenous women and the victims of Canada’s residential school system, Confederate flags flap gently in the wind.
Wow, I hate everything about that.
With a little research these culture vultures could have used an actual local “rebel” flag, this one:
But of course they appropriate a white supremacist flag from American history.
“We believe that the province’s commitment to fiscal discipline and stability has wavered in recent years as B.C. has materially increased its spending for both operations and capital investment to unparalleled levels, while economic growth is slowing,” S&P said in its analysis.
So, punishment for Keynesianism? Is this that foreign interference I’ve been hearing about?
Surely Moody’s would never utilize it’s credit ratings dishonestly.
To illustrate, one previous president of the organization was none other than former Conservative MP and UCP leader Jason Kenney.
According to a news release, the SIU says the incident began at around 1:30 p.m. when police made a traffic stop in the area of Churchill Avenue and Avondale Avenue. A 25-year-old woman got out of the car and ran away, the SIU said. An officer followed.
“At some point, the officer discharged his firearm and the woman was struck. She was transported to hospital for treatment. The woman is in critical condition,” the SIU said.
Doesn’t sound like she presented a threat to anyone. I don’t think stopping a suspect from running away is a reasonable excuse to shoot them.
I agree with a lot of what you’re saying here, but the author of the article doesn’t so much, I think. His thrust seems to be that we need to embrace urban sprawl, and in the course of doing that, rather than densifying urban residential areas, instead de-densify downtown cores and go all in on suburbs and exurbs.
Concerns over immigration are mostly about the economy
https://davidcard.berkeley.edu/papers/new-immig.pdf
It is incorrect to think of economic activity as a limited resource that must be defended against the rapacious outsider. Economic activity is not only consumed by people, but also created by them. Value is a product of human labour. In fact, Canada should be looking to increase it’s population rapidly so that the market that exists here can develop enough of a gravity of its own that we aren’t so reliant on the US market.
Outsourcing and automation have been far, far more impactful with regards to wages. NAFTA (now CUSMA) as well has hollowed out a lot of our economy so that the only real growth sectors are resource extraction which feeds the US market, and real estate. Protectionism is a bit of a dirty word however I think it’s necessary to develop industries where we can create value-added products out of our own natural resources, and ultimately build a much more varied and healthy economy. And we need far more people than we are birthing locally to do that.
What’s going on in Palestine is a genocide. But trying to diminish what this guy experienced is pretty ghoulish. Should he just get over it and focus on more important matters? Should we all not put any time aside to feel empathy for this person because we apparently can only find that empathy for one thing at a time?
Time and a place.
I will bang the drum for social housing every time. The housing crisis is a solved problem, we just need the will to bring that solution here. Vienna, Austria, is the most livable city in the world and it has achieved this through extensive social housing where the majority of residents in the city live in it.
https://thetyee.ca/Solutions/2018/06/06/Vienna-Housing-Affordability-Case-Cracked/
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/23/magazine/vienna-social-housing.html (archive)
https://www.politico.eu/article/vienna-social-housing-architecture-austria-stigma/
Burnaby, BC has recently created a municipal housing authority tasked with creating housing like this. I am very interested in moving there as a result.
This ruling applies country wide so don’t sit on it if you’re outside of BC.
Class members who make claims on the $14.4-million settlement can expect to receive between $17.50 and $150 each, depending on how many people submit a claim for the settlement money, he said.
Not a princely sum, but no reason to leave it sitting on the table.
In fairness, Canada has called for a ceasefire now. But putting it into effect is out of our hands. Realistically the ball is in the USA’s court and our ability to help directly is going to be limited.
People have been treating a Conservative majority as basically foretold for the last while, but the election is still over a year out. Personally, I’ve been much more reserved with my feelings about our current political trajectory. Recent events from south of the border should make it very clear that even a few months is forever in politics. We’re not in what I would consider an ideal position, but it’s much too early to assume the sky is going to fall.