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After talking to some people I know who work in the Vancouver real estate industry, I have some thoughts and wonder what you think. The 15% Foreign Purchase tax was implemented in a huge hurry to go in effect on August 2nd. This tax seemed to come out of nowhere, something which people even discussed in the thread. The thing is, August is the slowest month for real estate sales every single year. Two weeks after the tax went into effect. I was sitting on a BC Ferry that was playing CTV news (which I would normally never watch without a gun to my head) which praised the Liberals for decreasing purchases by a huge percentage in August, comparing it to July sales numbers. So, was the huge rush to implement this tax a response to the huge pressure to do something, but at the same time do nothing? They now have their dumb statistic proving their new tax immediately cooled the market, meanwhile foreign investors are apparently laughing that this is the huge controversial attempt to stop them. This might seem super obvious to some here, but I sure had an "AHA!" moment when it seemed there was a reason for the incredible rush to implement the tax. In other news, a rare example of Libs not Libbing for once: the "Teacher and Early Childhood Educator School Supply Tax Credit" has been put into effect for this school year and will refund teachers 150$ if they spend 1000$ on supplies for their classrooms. Better than nothing, but it's pretty depressing seeing first hand how much of their own money a teacher (specifically elementary) has to put into their classroom to make it a nice place to learn in.
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Giving a tax credit for teachers buying supplies instead of boosting the education budget counts as "not libbing"? Maybe I need my definitions checked.
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Sep 11, 2016 02:21
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Lol a tax credit. That's libbing so hard.
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Sep 11, 2016 02:29
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I'm just saying they did in fact do it. Obviously they can do so much more on that file.
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Sep 11, 2016 02:37
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THC posted:Lol a tax credit. That's libbing so hard. A tax credit for an area of provincial jurisdiction, no less
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Sep 11, 2016 03:56
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ARACHTION posted:I'm just saying they did in fact do it. Obviously they can do so much more on that file. Education is a provincial responsibility, they should be doing exactly nothing (or sending the provinces more money). The net effect of this is, what, a $12.50/month maximum raise for teachers if they're scrupulous about keeping receipts? It's complete bullshit.
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Sep 11, 2016 04:02
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REAL CHANGE
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Sep 11, 2016 04:37
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vyelkin posted:Sit them down in a locked room and make them watch the full run of their choice of Corner Gas, Flashpoint, or Little Mosque on the Prairie, and then if they still want to come to Canada let them. I pick trailer park boys and sons of butcher. But not the corky episodes, we're not cruel.
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Sep 11, 2016 05:05
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Scaramouche posted:I pick trailer park boys and sons of butcher. But not the corky episodes, we're not cruel. gently caress you all: Beachcombers.
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Sep 11, 2016 14:06
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Make them watch Littlest Hobo. If they don't love that dog, they can't come here.
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Sep 11, 2016 14:18
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Found this nugget buried on the CBC news site: http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/politics/mulcair-trudeau-leadership-stead-handy-1.3755188 Given the recent Mulcair talk, it's good for a laugh or two.
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Sep 11, 2016 21:02
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Forced watchings of Danger Bay, if they call him Doc Cottle they're immediately deported.
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Sep 11, 2016 21:10
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How about Kenny vs Spenny? Bonus: it teaches Canadian values
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Sep 12, 2016 04:03
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Super bonus points if they mistake Justin Trudeau for Passe Montagne.
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Sep 12, 2016 12:25
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Giddy upquote:Hunter Tootoo’s inappropriate sexual liaison with a young staffer spiralled out of control when the former fisheries minister broke off the affair so he could pursue a committed relationship with the young woman’s estranged mother, sources say. Postess with the Mostest fucked around with this message at 14:57 on Sep 12, 2016 |
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Sep 12, 2016 14:50
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:Make them watch Littlest Hobo. If they don't love that dog, they can't come here. Everyone loves Littlest Hobo. quote:Christopher Dew: There was an episode where the dog has been accidentally poisoned. I asked Chuck how we're going to make the dog stagger? He told me he had an old dog who used to be the lead but had hip problems. The way he walks, although he's not in pain, looks weird. We shot a sequence that pulls my heart out of my chest where the dog is staggering through the woods, gets to a log and jumps up on it with his front feet and drags his back feet over the log and falls in a big heap and starts to walk some more till he finally makes it to a ranger station. The amount of mail and phone calls we got the following day, the switchboard lit up. "How dare you drug the Littlest Hobo! How dare you hurt him just for showbiz!" We got ripped on by our audience, because of what they perceived we did to the Littlest Hobo. We had to issue a press release and we turned it into a positive story, about the last hurray of a great grandfather dog that had sired a bunch of the dogs on the show. http://www.vice.com/en_ca/read/an-oral-history-of-the-littlest-hobo-canadas-greatest-tv-show-144
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Ikantski posted:Giddy up It's just like some lovely TV show
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Sep 12, 2016 15:23
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Ikantski posted:Giddy up I came to post this because jesus christ ... At least Trudeau gave him a hug right?
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Sep 12, 2016 15:26
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Seat Safety Switch posted:Everyone loves Littlest Hobo. 
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Sep 12, 2016 15:27
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Ikantski posted:Giddy up To be honest why should we care?
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OSI bean dip posted:To be honest why should we care? Because he offended the laws of man and nature.
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vyelkin posted:You place in front of them four plates. One of them has a heaping mound of poutine. One has a large pile of back bacon. One is just covered in maple syrup. The fourth is their favourite food from their home country. Which plate they choose determines whether we allow them entry into the country. You know they have Canadian values when they mix the first three together into a million calorie abomination and then scarf it down in two bites. That's when you let them in.
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Sep 12, 2016 18:05
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A list will be provided of 100 values and the immigrant will be asked to identify which ones define Canada. If they pick "better than the US" as the only one they get handed citizenship status right then and there.
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Sep 12, 2016 18:08
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TC0tAdR_b3U Watching this series will be required for all immigrants. Edit: It's from the guy who Milhouse was modeled after. McGavin fucked around with this message at 18:20 on Sep 12, 2016 |
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Sep 12, 2016 18:16
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All immigrants must survive a year in Regina before being allowed anywhere else in the country https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74B5kMLNd5Q
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Sep 12, 2016 18:25
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quote:This should be called what its like to be a rich white guy in a Canada. Even youtube commenters can be astute now and then.
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Sep 12, 2016 18:26
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:By measuring pupilary response to a set of morality questions. By making the rookie mistake of using the canal after it was frozen, the lumberjack failed to correctly perform the Log-Driver's Waltz and thus satisfied the girls only incompletely. The penalty is death.
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Sep 12, 2016 18:36
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DariusLikewise posted:All immigrants must survive a year in Regina before being allowed anywhere else in the country "gently caress it, we're going back to Aleppo."
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Hexigrammus posted:It gets interesting when you have First Nations communities pointing out that they are a) not Canadian and b) have a right to govern themselves by their own traditions. Getting these groups signing on to "Canadian Values(tm)" should be interesting. All joking aside, Canada does have a set of values that are expressed in its constitution, laws and government. We can joke about how shabby or unimpressive or hypocritical those values seem to be and we can point out -- correctly -- that trying to create some kind of citizenship test smacks of futility and pandering, but actually denying that anything resembling Canadian values exists at all is kind of silly. And we don't need to get people to sign onto these values because our ancestors did that in the past when they violently conquered the continent and imposed their political will on the survivors and subsequent generations of migrants. Whether the thin gruel of "Canadian values" can be formulated into some kind of test and usefully administered to immigrants is, of course, doubtful. And it's pretty clear this policy is about PR and not any kind of substantive proposal. We have a weakly defined sense of national character compared to most other 'First World' countries, which is both a strength and a weakness, depending on how you look at it. Still, I find it a bit silly when we are so quick to deny anything resembling Canadian values exist. Whether they can be fully articulated or whether they're even particularly coherent, there are obviously some norms (some of them even expressed as codified laws and regulations) which guide our collective life and which help shape our collective moral intuitions. Circling back to my earlier point, I would generally oppose creating distinctive and separate legal systems for Canadian citizens or creating religious exemptions to law. I understand why first nations want those exemptions and to some extent I guess this is just a situation where for once I'm happy I have no power because its so tricky and complicated I'll just let other people agonize over it, but there's certainly something tragic about situations where a young girl dies for preventable medical reasons because her parents exploited a loophole in federal law to deny her lifesaving medical treatment. Still, I can see it from the other perspective and understand why first nations aren't in any kind of hurry to give up their hard-won independence form the federal government, so I really have no claim to know what the proper solution here would be. quote:A cynical observer such as myself would note that the coastal traditional economies seemed to be based largely on murder, pillage, rape, slavery, and salmon. The colonial forces were less reliant on fish and arguably more focused on taking other people's stuff. An even more cynical observer might say that all economies are based on murder, pillage, rape, slavery and [natural resource extraction] or on capital generated in the past by those activities. What's your point? quote:The TPP is dead. Long live the TPP. The TPP is the product of a particular moment in our economic and social history. It's hard to imagine a bill like the TPP being drafted in 1970 and presumably a massive trade bill written in 2040 would also look different. Maybe better, maybe worse. But if you far enough down the road you're on then you become one of those stereotypical newspaper selling Trots who insists that the only relevant political question is when the Revolution will begin.
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Speaking of murdering, pillaging rapists, the OLP will stop collecting the 8% provincial tax on electricity that they started collecting in 2010 with the HST switch and some sort of bonus to rurals. I don't trust it.quote:Ontario’s Liberal government is promising to take the 8-per-cent provincial portion of the HST off electricity bills for homes and small businesses. Postess with the Mostest fucked around with this message at 22:22 on Sep 12, 2016 |
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Sep 12, 2016 22:19
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https://twitter.com/mackaytaggart/status/775445140676546560
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MA-Horus posted:"gently caress it, we're going back to Aleppo." I'm with them, I refuse to experience Regina.
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Sep 12, 2016 22:37
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My 90 year old grandpa still tells stories of his arrival in Canada and first year in Calgary. He tells his Calgary stories with the same grave and regretful tone as his worse war stories. Actually sometimes there's some levity and lighter moments in his war stories, sometimes there's stories involving humans being decent and helping each other. His Calgary immigrant impressions are about pure misery and a land with nothing but uncultured and horrible people.
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Ikantski posted:Speaking of murdering, pillaging rapists, the OLP will stop collecting the 8% provincial tax on electricity that they started collecting in 2010 with the HST switch and some sort of bonus to rurals. I don't trust it. Know what would be even more helpful? If the government owned the utility and could adjust the rates directly. That'd be swell.
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Sep 12, 2016 23:00
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Sep 12, 2016 23:08
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Baronjutter posted:My 90 year old grandpa still tells stories of his arrival in Canada and first year in Calgary. He tells his Calgary stories with the same grave and regretful tone as his worse war stories. Actually sometimes there's some levity and lighter moments in his war stories, sometimes there's stories involving humans being decent and helping each other. His Calgary immigrant impressions are about pure misery and a land with nothing but uncultured and horrible people.
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flakeloaf posted:Know what would be even more helpful? If the government owned the utility and could adjust the rates directly. That'd be swell. The Government already does set the rates, all rate increases from public and private generators and distributors need to be approved by the Ontario Energy Board. quote:The Ontario Energy Board is responsible for regulating natural gas and electricity utilities. This includes setting just and reasonable rates.
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Ikantski posted:Speaking of murdering, pillaging rapists, the OLP will stop collecting the 8% provincial tax on electricity that they started collecting in 2010 with the HST switch and some sort of bonus to rurals. I don't trust it. This is stupid. This is a handout to people who use more electricity (i.e., wealthier people), and it's generally a bad idea to start poking holes in value-added taxes like this. The right thing to do is increasing HST rebates and assistance for lower-income families. That said, electricity is not particularly expensive in Ontario.
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tagesschau posted:That said, electricity is not particularly expensive in Ontario. But but but my sprawling house is uninsulated and I have the heat cranked to tropical levels all winter!!!!
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I can't wait for Doug Ford to prove Canada is just as vulnerable to a Farage or a Trump as anywhere else.
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