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Helsing posted:Maybe BC really does have the worst provincial government right now. I didn't think that you could get anything worse than the Quebec Liberals but I'm starting to reconsider. We've been on an accelerating downward slide since 1979. No respite, no uptick, even the Maritimes had better leadership for a while. 
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Feb 10, 2016 07:17
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Wait people in other provinces don't know about the BC government? We're not famous nationwide? Guys this government is number 1 garbage government for life. They're gonna be running this province until the end of time and there's nothing anyone can do to stop it.
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Feb 10, 2016 07:53
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ChairMaster posted:Wait people in other provinces don't know about the BC government? We're not famous nationwide? nobody ever thought the conservatives would ever lose power in alberta. 
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Feb 10, 2016 08:08
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If we're following the Alberta example then BC has another 24 years left before it gets fed up enough. I'll probably be dead before we see a regime change.
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Feb 10, 2016 08:37
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Feb 10, 2016 10:02
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I can't stop laughing at this. Also in housing chat: Today out of morbid curiousity I looked up what the house I grew up in sold for most recently. AUD$1.2 million. My parents bought it for 109k back in the day. 
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Feb 10, 2016 13:38
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froglet posted:I can't stop laughing at this.
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Feb 10, 2016 14:14
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ChairMaster posted:Wait people in other provinces don't know about the BC government? We're not famous nationwide? Almost everybody else has their own sharks circling the boat and while we would like to sharpen our pitchforks in support, almost everybody else in the country lives under their own stupid dumb gently caress politicians that need skewerin' (to say nothing of the long term interests that put them there, or the short term ignorance that keeps them there).
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Feb 10, 2016 14:36
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ANIME AKBAR posted:What's to laugh at? Seems like an example of someone learning a harsh lesson, and trying to warn others to not make the same mistakes? If anything, buy them an account. She's shamelessly promoting her stupid book to help pay off her self-imposed debts. I guess it's "empowering" to have idiots pay off your debt for you? Gonna need to sell a lot of books, lady.
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Feb 10, 2016 15:16
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Helsing posted:Maybe BC really does have the worst provincial government right now. I didn't think that you could get anything worse than the Quebec Liberals but I'm starting to reconsider. Nuh uh  
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Feb 10, 2016 15:35
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Does any province actually like their elected Premier currently?
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Feb 10, 2016 15:43
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If you don't live out here, it is pretty hard to keep track of how bad BC really is. When Glen Clark was forced out of office for bribery, he was eventually criminally cleared because the court found he was too stupid to realize he was being bribed. :cryingBCflag:
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Feb 10, 2016 15:55
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But hey, keep voting bcndp sjws
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Feb 10, 2016 15:59
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DariusLikewise posted:Does any province actually like their elected Premier currently? I think Saskatchewan voters like Brad Wall, and I think goons like Rachel Notley.
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Feb 10, 2016 16:13
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vyelkin posted:I think Saskatchewan voters like Brad Wall, and I think goons like Rachel Notley. As an outsider Brad Wall always looks like an idiot to me, but I guess I can see how the conservative-rural population of Saskatchewan would love him.
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Feb 10, 2016 16:28
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James Baud posted:That would be a typo of $76,000 ... And that's why cities are so gung ho for (re)development. The larger Vancouver-area cities are sitting on many hundreds of millions.
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Feb 10, 2016 19:45
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A significant portion of those development cost charges go towards the significant cost of upgrading municipal infrastructure to support densification. I guess Christy's solution is to make condos cheaper by having us all disconnected from the sewer and water system. Maybe pooping in buckets is the new microsuite?
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Feb 10, 2016 19:55
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Might work given the culture of the buyers
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Feb 10, 2016 19:59
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Why not have toilet-free condo towers? Why not let the buyer/market decide what expensive amenities or structural/engineering standards buildings are built to? The government could solve affordability in a second if they stopped distorting the market.
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Feb 10, 2016 20:02
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The Manitoba Liberal leader is running on the promise of eliminating the Land Transfer tax... To make home buying more affordable
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Feb 10, 2016 20:09
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Winnipeg RE prices are going down sooo
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Feb 10, 2016 20:20
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Franks Happy Place posted:A significant portion of those development cost charges go towards the significant cost of upgrading municipal infrastructure to support densification. Also any sort of money you make from the Land Transfer Tax or permits fees are easily wipe out by the city having provide additional infrastructure and local schools. Remember that article on how Albertans bought homes far away from the core and got mad learning that the city had to cancel plans to build schools in the neighborhood?
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Feb 10, 2016 20:37
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THC posted:Is it? My immediate interpretation was that the Liberals and the Sun used French decimal notation to make $76.00 seem like a significant amount of money compared to $450,000.00 It's a typo, the $76,000 number has been trotted out before. https://www.biv.com/article/2015/6/city-condo-costs-half-million-dollars-its-even-bui/
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Feb 10, 2016 20:49
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etalian posted:Remember that article on how Albertans bought homes far away from the core and got mad learning that the city had to cancel plans to build schools in the neighborhood? I do remember that, it gave me a boner.
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Feb 10, 2016 20:50
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Subjunctive posted:It's a typo, the $76,000 number has been trotted out before. No one in vancouver currently gives a poo poo about $76k.
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Feb 10, 2016 20:52
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Cultural Imperial posted:No one in vancouver currently gives a poo poo about $76k. Lot of people crying about it in these articles.
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Feb 10, 2016 20:54
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Subjunctive posted:Lot of people crying about it in these articles. Developers aren't people. 
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Feb 10, 2016 21:05
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For real, no one in Vancouver in the hunt for real estate cares about $76k. It's loving play money for everyone. If a 500sq ft apartment can cost almost $1000/sqft, that is defacto not giving a poo poo about value.
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Feb 10, 2016 21:15
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Cultural Imperial posted:
A cautious and deeply considered weighing of the costs associated with Vancouver homes is top of the mind for every resident of the city.
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Feb 10, 2016 22:37
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Subjunctive posted:It's a typo, the $76,000 number has been trotted out before. This is hilarious, because a significant portion of that money is calculated as a fraction of the land value increase due to the zoning change. So the developer is actually coming out ahead for densifying. Buying land already zoned for the occupancy type would have even *greater* costs to the developer but would have significantly lower government fees. A headline of "Land is probably overpriced!" Wouldn't be an excuse to bitch about government fees, I guess.
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Feb 10, 2016 23:03
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Ccs posted:The bust on the other end of this VFX/animation boom is gonna be fun. We're just here for the cheap subsidized loonies.
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http://www.theglobeandmail.com/repo...rticle28711928/quote:
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Feb 11, 2016 04:53
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Lol "considering warning realtors to play by the rules". I swear to God this loving country.
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Feb 11, 2016 06:32
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quote:Your Investment Property
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Feb 11, 2016 06:57
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Side effects of the Canadian recessions will include Cultural Imperial dying from priapism.
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[quote="CBC: Atlantic Canada in financial ruin within 10 years, predicts economist ]A New Brunswick economist is warning that Atlantic Canadians will become second-class citizens because of its aging population.  Richard Saillant, director of the Donald J. Savoie Institute based at the University of Moncton, is predicting financial ruin for the eastern provinces within 10 years, with drastic implications for government services. "Health care, free, universal as we know it will no longer exist," said Saillant, because the health care spending as a percentage of GDP will be twice as high as it is right now." "People are already saying that it's straining public finances, it's 40 per cent of the provincial budgets at this point. Imagine when you double that amount of money as older individuals cost much more to the system," Saillant said. One in five Atlantic Canadians is a senior citizen, he said, but in 20 years, that proportion will be one in three, which is why he is calling for a new way to transfer federal funding for health care. "Equalization only takes into account revenues, not needs," he said. "Our needs will be greater." Saillant is recommending some tough medicine for New Brunswick, including closing some schools to reduce the teacher-to-student ratio and taking advantage of every economic opportunity, including shale gas development.[/quote] I listened to this guy's interview on CBC the other day. As well as taking any type of regulation off oil and gas extraction, a large portion of his solution involved cutting teaching positions, which the article sort of gleams over. He wants schools with low numbers shut down, which is a contentious topic for rural areas because it means sending students long distances on dangerous roads during the winter.
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Feb 11, 2016 13:01
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Why not just work to reduce the cost of healthcare? Less interventional care and more hospice/palliative care. Just because we can treat stage 4 metastatic cancer doesn't mean we should treat stage 4 metastatic cancer in a 95 year old to gain 2 months.
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Feb 11, 2016 13:39
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Whatever the solution is, I don't think the Maritimes are going to pull out of their situation by firing teachers and closing schools. Where I live young make students already miss quite a bit of school because they have work to do, and that's with a 10 minute round trip from home to school. If you start sending them an hour away on winding rural roads littered with little wooden crosses and wreaths many students will just stop going to school.
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Feb 11, 2016 13:50
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School closure and students traveling long distances is already an issue that has come up in NS: last year in the Chignecto board there was some outcry over a school review process that would have students travel to the next closest school, which was only ~40 minutes away according to the committee, and when a parent filmed themselves driving from the old school to the new one and it turned out to be over an hour the committee refused to hear their complaints
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The best part about the Maritimes' inevitable doom is that all their problems would be solved if they were just less racist, but instead all the old white Maritimers got together and decided they would rather let their provinces suffer a slow and painful death than let any nonwhite immigrants in.And when journalists go and ask them about it, they have no justification for it. They say stuff like "Oh yeah, I'm very concerned about the aging population, who's going to pay for my healthcare after I retire???" and then the journalist asks them about immigration and they say "gently caress off we're full" in slightly nicer language.
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