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Lexicon posted:So what's going on with this? Are there vastly more renters (for some reason) or far less rental stock? If the latter, why? Is it getting converted to condos or something? Every business in Whistler feels entitled to minimum wage employees, and the nearest place you can live on minimum wage in the next town over. It is amazing that the city/resort has sat on their hands because this was 100% predictable.
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namaste faggots posted:HOly poo poo if you hate canada as much as I do you should read this whole thing Jesus christ 
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PK loving SUBBAN posted:Jesus christ Banana republic companies practice banana republic accounting, invest 100% outside of Canada.
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Sep 26, 2016 14:56
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that non-GAAP poo poo is amazing "our actual financial numbers are bad, but these OTHER numbers -- man, you gotta see these numbers we made up"
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ocrumsprug posted:Every business in Whistler feels entitled to minimum wage employees, and the nearest place you can live on minimum wage in the next town over. But, like, that was presumably true 3, and 5, and 10, and 15 years ago, right? So why is this year in particular so bad?
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namaste faggots posted:HOly poo poo if you hate canada as much as I do you should read this whole thing Clearly the solution is to deregulate further and just let the free market sort itself out.
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Sep 26, 2016 16:18
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Lexicon posted:But, like, that was presumably true 3, and 5, and 10, and 15 years ago, right? So why is this year in particular so bad? People buying properties to launder money or quickly resell after it appreciates 15% a year don't need to mess with renters?
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Sep 26, 2016 16:22
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Yeah, property speculation and airb&b usual story.
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Lexicon posted:But, like, that was presumably true 3, and 5, and 10, and 15 years ago, right? So why is this year in particular so bad? Honestly the real reason is that they aren't allowed to import cheap Filipino cashiers anymore, and are willing to destroy their businesses in a fit of spite.
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So my wife got all interested in the AirBNB we stayed in Vancouver recently. The building says it's affordable housing for the hard to house, yet this lady has 3 suites in it she rents out. Is someone gaming a homeless shelter and renting out rooms??
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Baronjutter posted:So my wife got all interested in the AirBNB we stayed in Vancouver recently. The building says it's affordable housing for the hard to house, yet this lady has 3 suites in it she rents out. Is someone gaming a homeless shelter and renting out rooms?? One of the new things the CoV is trying to do is have mixed usage, so some building have some floors designated for low-income with the luxury suites above them. (Complete with separate entrances and everything.) You probably were staying in one of those buildings.
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ocrumsprug posted:One of the new things the CoV is trying to do is have mixed usage, so some building have some floors designated for low-income with the luxury suites above them. (Complete with separate entrances and everything.) You probably were staying in one of those buildings. Nah this had one very busy/noisy entrance for the whole building. Our unit had its own tiny mini kitchen but I think a lot of the other units were just rooms because the building had public showers and laundry and a common shared chicken space. The whole thing's just a little 100 year old wood frame flop house.
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Can you post the details here? I'm gonna report them
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namaste faggots posted:Can you post the details here? I'm gonna report them We're looking into it. It looks like the lady's dad might own the whole building and he lets his daughter AirBnB a few of the rooms to help subsidize the affordable housing in the rest of it.
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Lexicon posted:So what's going on with this? Are there vastly more renters (for some reason) or far less rental stock? If the latter, why? Is it getting converted to condos or something? For one thing, a bunch of people who are zoned residential (ie. not allowed nightly rentals) are still putting their places up on AirBNB instead of renting out to locals long-term. But more importantly, a lot of the people whose properties are zoned for long term and nightly have in the last couple years realized they can make way more money by renting out nightly, and so they've taken their units off the long-term market and are now renting them out nightly. Also, there's a bit of a real estate boom here right now price-wise, so a lot of people are buying up the old, lovely houses in Alpine that are like 6 bedrooms and house 10 people long-term, tearing them down and putting up a vacation home that they use for 2 weeks of the year. Finally, for some reason there is literally nothing being sold in Whistler right now. There's 200 listings on MLS right now, and they're almost all for timeshares and hotel rooms, or >$1.5 million chalets. There's about 5 properties in the $300-$600k range that are suitable for people who want to live here long term. I have no idea why this is happening, but it's also driving prices through the roof, since no supply means prices go up. There's just nothing available. The Facebook page for locals looking for housing recently had to disable comments, but until last week whenever someone would post something for the winter season - including a studio apartment at $2000 a month - they would get literally hundreds of replies. ocrumsprug posted:Every business in Whistler feels entitled to minimum wage employees, and the nearest place you can live on minimum wage in the next town over. This is only part of the problem. There's places now offering >$17 an hour not getting applicants at all. There are not enough people that are able to live here for the number of jobs being offered.
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Baronjutter posted:We're looking into it. It looks like the lady's dad might own the whole building and he lets his daughter AirBnB a few of the rooms to help subsidize the affordable housing in the rest of it. Except affordable housing is subsidized by the government not the noblesse oblige of landlords.
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people are paying too much capital for rental housing and the rental market cant sustain the prices that would make it profitable so instead of not being retards and not buying a rental house that's unprofitable, landlords are doing airbnb the crux of it is, the rental market is less sticky than the housing market, and depends way more on what people can actually afford than whatever ridiculous loan the bank will hand them
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Sep 26, 2016 18:30
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Sounds like the banks need to start offering monthly rental loans, then!
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namaste faggots posted:http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/bc-premier-urges-ottawa-to-speed-up-visa-processing-for-tech-workers/article32043575/ lmao. amazingly the answer is never "pay better wages". businesses in this country can get hosed. they've never met a problem whose solution wasn't to kick and scream until the government solves it for them.
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leftist heap posted:they've never met a problem whose solution wasn't to kick and scream until the government solves it for them. Truth.
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We should just bring in thousands of foreigners and have them work for tiny wages, permanently assign them to a Canadian "manager" who takes 90% of their incomes, can ensure they get room and board and ensure that they behave as good Canadians.
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Sep 26, 2016 19:53
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Just give all White Canadians a mincome and mandatory participation in citizen patrols.
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cowofwar posted:We should just bring in thousands of foreigners and have them work for tiny wages, permanently assign them to a Canadian "manager" who takes 90% of their incomes, can ensure they get room and board and ensure that they behave as good Canadians. This the Agrisector
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jm20 posted:This the Agrisector yeah it's like modern slavery in those greenhouses out at boundary bay. i overheard a supervisor at one of them bragging about making a guy cry because he was holding his passport and the guy wanted to go back to honduras to see his sick mother
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but guys how will we have ~~~food security~~~ if we don't support our farms
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the talent deficit posted:yeah it's like modern slavery in those greenhouses out at boundary bay. i overheard a supervisor at one of them bragging about making a guy cry because he was holding his passport and the guy wanted to go back to honduras to see his sick mother He was probably lying to get away from all our organic greenhouse farms spraying the 20+ chemicals on their crops. namaste faggots posted:but guys how will we have ~~~food security~~~ if we don't support our farms are economy  CI did you buy any rape lately? Saskatchewan is selling lots of rape.
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https://www.thestar.com/business/2016/09/26/shomi-is-shutting-down.htmlquote:It began as the video-streaming stepchild of Rogers and Shaw when it launched just under two years ago, but Shomi, a Canadian-made streaming video service, announced that it will be shutting down on Nov. 30.  why can't Canadian tech ideas go anywhere?
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OSI bean dip posted:https://www.thestar.com/business/2016/09/26/shomi-is-shutting-down.html This is legit annoying- Canada Netflix doesn't have Justified...
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leftist heap posted:lmao. amazingly the answer is never "pay better wages". businesses in this country can get hosed. they've never met a problem whose solution wasn't to kick and scream until the government solves it for them. If you listen to the Canadaland podcast, you'll know that the owner there Jesse Brown, who funds the network through Patreon was invited to a "roundtable" abut how the government should start funding failing Canadian media corporations. So if you wanted your tax dollars going to support Margaret Wente's latest plagiarized column, you're in luck because it will probably happen. namaste faggots posted:but guys how will we have ~~~food security~~~ if we don't support our farms We could do literally so many other things. Actually almost anything other than what we do now would be better.
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Professor Shark posted:This is legit annoying- Canada Netflix doesn't have Justified... Wait and see what titles get rolled into Netflix once their "competition" stops paying for exclusive rights.
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Professor Shark posted:This is legit annoying- Canada Netflix doesn't have Justified... Yeah, this is probably the case because one of the Shomi parents had the online distribution rights. I'm really hoping that with the demise of Shomi Always Sunny will turn up on Netflix.
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Yes, it's like a lava lamp.
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One of these bastard services had better carry The Grand Tour or I'll cut a bitch.
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PT6A posted:One of these bastard services had better carry The Grand Tour or I'll cut a bitch. You think Amazon is going to even think about letting that happen?
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surprise surprise our canpol rodeo c-u-c-k loves a bunhc of retards who think jaguar and aston make the best cars in the world
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SpannerX posted:You think Amazon is going to even think about letting that happen? I think Amazon wants to make money. I can't see them not selling the rights to someone at least until Prime Video is available in Canada.
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http://business.financialpost.com/news/economy/canadian-workers-can-forget-getting-a-raise-next-year-says-new-pollquote:Canadian workers can forget getting a raise next year, says new poll but christy clark says there are so few workers that she needs to get PMSELFIE to let more call center indians into the country
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Ceciltron posted:Son, that was some kind of wendigo. The Wendigo is an accurate topical metaphor for Canadian politics. quote:The Wendigo is sick because it’s cut off from its roots. It’s a ghost with a heart of ice. It eats everything in sight. Its hunger knows no bounds. When there is nothing left to eat, it starves to death. When it sees something, it wants to own it. No one else can have anything. This illness feeds on a spiritual void. Canada and US are presently in an advanced stage of the “Wendigo Psychosis”. The Mohawks call it the “Owistah” disease. ... The Windigos continue to attack our people and our environment. They relentlessly destroy our vast territories, forests and wetlands. They crave ‘bitumen’, a tar like substance that is turned into oil through an energy intensive process that causes incredible environmental damage. It will pollute the Athabaska River, fill the air with toxins, and farmlands will be wasted. Large boreal forests will be clear-cut. They want rare cancers and other diseases to kill us and breakdown our society to get rid of us. The Wendigo is always hidden up around the bend of the river in secret. To surprise warriors on spirit quests and send their canoes drifting back down the water, empty and blood stained.
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