Em Adespoton

Isn’t childcare a provincial responsibility? So it’s the lack of provincial regulations at play here. Still an issue, but the pressure needs to be applied in the right place, as the national guidelines are already clear.

…, which does almost nothing to “bust” the “myth”.

The City of Vancouver reported a larger share of vacant dwellings (7.1 per cent), and the vacancy rate was relatively higher for apartments in duplexes, and low-rise and high-rise structures, a trend also seen in Calgary, Edmonton, Montreal and Toronto.

The point about miscounting duplexes is a good one, as is the temporary housing that wasn’t in use on the day of the census.

But that article is attempting to defend against a different point than the one I was making; it was defending against the vacant houses being a result of the vacant homes taxes.

The point I was making is that it’s not the homes themselves that are an issue but their affordability/fitness for housing the unhoused.

Another point that neither they nor I made is that the market actually needs vacant homes in order for mobility to be possible. Again, the issue here is WHICH homes are vacant / unoccupied, and the census data and the other data doesn’t always go into enough detail there.

Either way, there are plans to build more homes in the next four years. And there’s a lot if rural Canada where people can live more affordably… especially if they do remote work.

Asylum seekers are often skilled and quite often in information roles.

That’s why BC went to a system where you have access to all your own data… so you can keep track of your own health.

…with even less of a personal voice on the global stage.

That’s great! However, if you move to Canada, that’s one less voice to resist a US slide into fascism.

Think about what happened to France when Germany took a turn for the worse.

Canada currently has over a million vacant homes. The housing crisis isn’t a lack of homes or even jobs… it’s purely a matter of inflated value vs income.

The NDP are really what I think most people want right now, many just don’t know them well enough to realize it. However, some will vote Conservative to keep the Liberals from gaining control, and others will vote Liberal to keep Conservatives from gaining control, and the NDP will continue to be a “third party”.

Glad someone got to interview the Regina tourist!

False accusations by a member of government no less. One who should know better because he has access to the evidence.

A strange promise, given Trump’s repeated accusation that the Democrats weaponized the justice system against him.

Trump doesn’t have issues with weaponizing the justice system; he has issues with being the target of justice.

Er… the Columbia river basin already has 274 dams. Another isn’t going to do too much, unless you’re thinking of flooding all of BC between the Rockies and the Cascades….

Tell me how that works for BC, who’s a net positive for transfer payments and is the source of the Columbia River whose water system travels through three states after leaving BC?

This is different from the most distinctively Canadian animals… which is why the Virginia Opossum is in the list, along with other animals that are common to other places, but evolutionarily isolated within Canada.

So… cleanup costs match the cash confiscated.

All this, and only a single person was arrested.

And it’s the largest operation busted — there’s probably numerous others across Canada that haven’t been discovered yet.

Or, it could lower the number of frequent flyers.

I did that years ago; makes no difference.

…and I’d get to stop clearing junk mail out of my mailbox.

1% is one in 100. How many US elections have there been with no tie in the electoral college so far?

This is to make him sound more reasonable/believable when he claims the election was rigged. He’s already said that when he wins, Americans will never have to vote again. So in his mind, he wins this election, and then never holds another one while alive.

UNRWA is terrorizing Israelis by telling them what’s really going on in their country.