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MonsieurChoc posted:Lol she's my MP. She probably just forwarded it to CSIS
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Arc Hammer posted:https://twitter.com/journo_dale/status/1745918123113414899?t=T125JpA-Bs1P48HRgRaFjg&s=19 i hate this stupid country
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"u tryin to kill urself motherfucker????? ill fuckin kill u for that!!" - all cops, chanted in unison at training session
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seriously though. the only time to call the cops is when you need someone dead. that’s all they know how to do.
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I really hope that the homeless in Alberta can find somewhere warm this weekend. Those temperature reports I'm reading are bleak.
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My heart breaks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCByljAtro0 e: If only there was something that could solve both the "excess" short term rentals, and the people who need homes...
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Frosted Flake posted:My heart breaks drat that sucks i guess, they should pay me thousands of dollars for my consulting company to tell them to lower the price
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In Edmonton, it's -42 at 7 a.m. tomorrow morning. Luckily, our brave boys in blue took down the homeless encampments so that they didn't accidentally set themselves on fire or use their katanas and bat'leths on innocent citizens to steal their warmth. Edit: Tristin Hopper is a loving moron Ansar Santa has issued a correction as of 05:02 on Jan 13, 2024 |
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Ansar Santa posted:In Edmonton, it's -42 at 7 a.m. tomorrow morning. Luckily, our brave boys in blue took down the homeless encampments so that they didn't accidentally set themselves on fire or use their katanas and bat'leths on innocent citizens to steal their warmth. Jesus loving christ
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yippee cahier posted:I love countries lining up to offer support for one side or another in a court case. Imagine if coverage of other trials centred around whether a random third party really wanted to see the defendant walk instead of the evidence and arguments. they can apparently also pontificate to the court as a party nominally bound by the same law. "your honour, I insist you free this defendant lest I wish to commit the same crime in the future and have precedent on my side"
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Housing is so complicated!! So let's talk about the vibes around housing instead. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/housing-immigration-trudeau-poilievre-1.7082624 quote:There are no simple answers to the immigration and housing question Cool, so if that's true, we should look into the housing supply, right? Check whether what Freeland is asserting is true or not?  quote:But how the problem is framed — as a matter of too much immigration or too little housing, or some combination of the two — matters a lot. While it might seem like a straightforward issue of supply and demand, the question of immigration and housing defies the desire for simple answers. Oh I see, the problem of people having nowhere to live is fundamentally a problem of framing. Population has gone up! Are there enough houses to house all these people? Alas, framing. There's simply no way to know. Now we're getting to the heart of it: the real problem is what all of this means for public sentiment. People might start getting funny questions about the social order. quote:When Environics asked in 2022, 69 per cent of respondents disagreed with the idea that there was too much immigration to Canada, while 27 per cent agreed. By last September, disagreement was down to 51 per cent and agreement was up to 44 per cent. quote:Solving the housing problem is therefore doubly important. Canadians need to be able to live comfortably — and social cohesion could be threatened if they can't. In conclusion: quote:In an ideal scenario, Canada would have both markedly higher immigration and more plentiful housing. And it would be a mistake to assume the current problem can simply be blamed on one or the other. So... does Canada have plentiful housing or not? Do material conditions matter even slightly when considering what the "acceptable" level of immigration is? Who can say, I guess?
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At a housing announcement in Hamilton on Monday, Trudeau said the issue is mostly provincial jurisdiction. "I'll be blunt as well — housing isn't a primary federal responsibility. It's not something that we have direct carriage of," he said.
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RealityWarCriminal posted:At a housing announcement in Hamilton on Monday, Trudeau said the issue is mostly provincial jurisdiction. it's like he wants to lose the next election or something Karach posted:Housing is so complicated!! So let's talk about the vibes around housing instead. I mean the thing is, it isn't immigration's fault that housing is so expensive, and we probably could house everyone in the country and more if we treated housing like a human right instead of an investment commodity, but that might harm property values and decrease the value of the HELOCs we use to buy our next SUV before we've even paid off the previous SUV, so it's important not to mention it
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RealityWarCriminal posted:At a housing announcement in Hamilton on Monday, Trudeau said the issue is mostly provincial jurisdiction. Sure, we're in charge of governing the country but we can just let certain parts of society completely collapse and it's not our fault. Jurisdiction you know. This mother fucker is trying to lose the election. The federal government has so many levers to pressure provinces to do what they want. Mostly big piles of money. You don't let a national crisis proceed because of administrative details.
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Healthcare is also an area of primary provincial responsibility, and yet somehow previous federal governments figured out one weird trick to force provinces to give people healthcare (premiers hate him!)
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vyelkin posted:I mean the thing is, it isn't immigration's fault that housing is so expensive, and we probably could house everyone in the country and more if we treated housing like a human right instead of an investment commodity, but that might harm property values and decrease the value of the HELOCs we use to buy our next SUV before we've even paid off the previous SUV, so it's important not to mention it Is there something actually preventing Aaron Wherry from analyzing things in these terms? Like is the big bad CBC editor going to shake his head and send the draft back to him with a note that says "sure, maybe, but what does it all mean for Our Democracy?"
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Karach posted:Is there something actually preventing Aaron Wherry from analyzing things in these terms? Like is the big bad CBC editor going to shake his head and send the draft back to him with a note that says "sure, maybe, but what does it all mean for Our Democracy?" he is eating trash from the dumpster of ideology
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less facetiously, his tiny baby thoughts pointing vaguely towards that direction come right at the end of the article, after 90% of people have stopped reading:quote:But there also remains the risk that immigration will be unfairly scapegoated for a problem that would be better pinned on federal, provincial and municipal governments that have failed to ensure enough houses get built in Canada. and the solutions he comes up with are "invest in social housing" and "change local zoning" which are pretty far from the decommodification of housing. It's the exact kind of thing you come up with when your understanding of the economy begins and ends with an Econ 101 supply/demand graph
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I'm pretty sure Trudeau does want to lose the election so that when everything goes to poo poo under Skippy because he thinks he can use the tried and tested "miss us?" routine on voters and then we do the same goddamn cycle again.
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vyelkin posted:he is eating trash from the dumpster of ideology Is ideological indoctrination part of going to J school? Or do they get it in the workplace? Is it imposed from above? Listening to Canadaland's poo poo about how reporting on Palestine forced Canadian journalists to confront Ethical Dilemmas and Make Tough Calls, you can't help but walk away with the sense that journalists think of themselves as the unsung heroes of civilization, irl Harpers working thanklessly to preserve Order in the face of Chaotic Evil Populism. All of this is happening as newspapers are closing and journalists being fired everywhere, which I suspect contributes to their sense of being embattled guardians of the good.
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Arc Hammer posted:https://twitter.com/journo_dale/status/1745918123113414899?t=T125JpA-Bs1P48HRgRaFjg&s=19 I'm sure this carefully worded statement will please both sides
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pokeyman posted:they can apparently also pontificate to the court as a party nominally bound by the same law. "your honour, I insist you free this defendant lest I wish to commit the same crime in the future and have precedent on my side" 🇩🇪: As the nation that perpetrated the Holocaust, we Germans have a unique perspective we would like to share with the court. 🇨🇦: Hey, that's pretty good. We would also like to add our unique experience as a genocide nation to the conversation.
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RealityWarCriminal posted:At a housing announcement in Hamilton on Monday, Trudeau said the issue is mostly provincial jurisdiction. Neither is healthcare and yet...
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vyelkin posted:HELOCs we use to buy our next SUV When I discovered my mortgage had a HELOC clause (mandatory btw) I was so pissed. Here's a free sword of damocles with a bag of money attached to it. Enjoy! It is perfidious but, I'm sure, a fantastic way to keep the economy throbbing.
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flakeloaf posted:I'm sorry it had a what now? I wasn't told by the agent that sold me on the mortgage but effectively the mortgage loan came with a ready line of credit to the tune of like 40k or something (i have 900 dollars of credit card max credit btw, because i dont want or need more). It adds to the mortgage loan amount, I believe? Perfect for entrapping people into forever debt. When I called them back they said it was perfect for remodeling the kitchen. Edit: All mortgages from this cooperative have this clause lol
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"here is some free* money. you can use it to buy things. you like things, don't you?"
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Money isn't real, only labour. And your labour is being loaned back to you at 5.69%
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Testicular Torque Wrench posted:I wasn't told by the agent that sold me on the mortgage but effectively the mortgage loan came with a ready line of credit to the tune of like 40k or something (i have 900 dollars of credit card max credit btw, because i dont want or need more). Oh yeah my first mortgage had one of those too, I mentioned it in passing at the realtor and she lost her complete poo poo on me and my financial illiteracy One of the good ones 
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Virtual Russian posted:I will maintain that Soylent Green was by far the most realistic of all the depressing 70's dystopia movies. If you're only familiar with the twist, and haven't actually watched it I'd recommend it. All about what climate change and lack of housing will do to our society. Obviously it is a B movie, but a well made one. I really want to rewatch this one. I watched it so long ago in the 1990s when it was probably just something they had on loop on cable. I suppose it's a zeitgeist film that stems somewhat from The Population Bomb book that was enormously influential around this time. Unfortunately I think people missed the environmental message of the film and focused on the wrong part, the over population part. Overpopulation fears, more driven by the Population Bomb probably and less this B movie, took over boomer thinking and had had disastrous outcomes on the direction of our policy for the last 50 years. Instead of thinking about how to directly preserve environment and animal habitat and lower CO2 emissions, the only problem people focused on was Too Many People and so they directly tried to engineer less people around them, resulting in direct bans on apartments as a way to restrict population growth, which only lead to people moving elsewhere, leading to more suburban sprawl which meant more CO2 emissions and more habitat loss. Useless feel good endeavours like the Back To The Land movement resulted in even further limits on where people could live. All of this leads to the present day of Boomers with their "we're full go somewhere else" mindset and Millennials and Zoomers having nothing.
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Ansar Santa posted:In Edmonton, it's -42 at 7 a.m. tomorrow morning. Luckily, our brave boys in blue took down the homeless encampments so that they didn't accidentally set themselves on fire or use their katanas and bat'leths on innocent citizens to steal their warmth. There's gonna be so many frostbite-related amputations in the next few weeks 
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At -50 I'd be worried about washer fluid and coolant freezing solid. Most washer fluids aren't designed to handle these temps because it starts needing consistency like syrup to avoid crystallization that low. Same with coolant, the standard stuff the majority of cars use will start to underperform a lot. Sucks about the block heater, though. I'd check the contacts if it's a corrosion issue and try to get it working again. I know in the territories at these temps you keep the engine going whilst shopping and leave the block heater running nonstop whilst parked at home.
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Karach posted:Is ideological indoctrination part of going to J school? Or do they get it in the workplace? Is it imposed from above? Yes to all. When I went to uni for journalism, we were taught that we had to be objective, not subjective, which meant we could not come to any conclusion of any kind OURSELVES, we could only report what others said. If no government agency is framing it that way, then you'd be reporting your opinion instead of objective fact. Ostensibly the idea is that it's factual to say that Person Said Thing, but that very easily and rapidly becomes "government institutions are infallible." See also: black people not being allowed to report on BLM because their lived experience would "interfere with objectivity."
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