Change the status quo now and stop buying cars. Move to walkable Transit orientated communities where you don’t need one. Stop supporting this shitty industry that’s always been pay to play with gas / electricity, insurance, maintenance, payments.
I’m 26 and I’ve been running my own IT and computer repair business for 6 years out of commercial space. It’s rough and I’m not doing well financially. I’ve learned a lot though, so maybe being 65k in debt was worth it?
Hard and risky to start a lot of businesses when retail rent is $7k-$10k per month and landlords want personal indemnity even if you’re incorporated
This would be a great step if the Libs and NDP could start having a heavy hand instead of making limp biscuit policies that help no one. Upzone this country, mixed use light commercial everywhere and start building and operating public housing to compete with private real estate.
I’m not a fan of Trudeau but I commend that he is one of the youngest politicians in the world and still listens (hopefully)
Bottom up action from working class citizens, unionize, form collectives, protest, start doing and shit for what you believe is important and matters. Break things.
I do get to talk to them and my MLA regularly as I’m on the board of a local business association which they or their representative attends. They will do on about a bunch of useless political empty talking points. Giving them any direction, they’ll thank you for your thoughts and say they’ll be taken into great consideration.
it doesn’t feel like any level of government is doing enough.
It doesn’t feel like they’re doing anything at all other then continually fucking over Canadians for the interests of the wealthy and their cronies.
While I still believe very strongly in voting, all the current parties feel corrupt and not in our best interest. Time for revolution.
Straight out of a dream. Very strange m
Maybe it actually will over time as that will likely be new doctors, nurses, paramedics, techs etc.
Where were these even sold? I don’t think Health Canada monitors the millions of other similar products with names like ZJDINY on Amazon that probably have similar or worse issues.
For all the Americans that own investment property in Canada 🙃
This makes it harder for local businesses in Canada to compete with those in China, hurting local ecommerce and brick and mortar shops. The playing field should be leveled and no one should be subsidized.
And ban Single Family only zoning, and upzone
https://policyalternatives.ca/publications/commentary/upzoning-and-housing-affordability
Since Archive.is seems to be down today :(
We can’t keep bulldozing farm land and natural ecosystems to build tax payer subsidized, non eco friendly single family suburban homes anymore. Families can live and do live very comfortably in missing middle sub 6 story low rise duplexes, triplexes, townhomes, and multiplexes. All of which can be built up on existing property at the will and freedom of property owners. https://www.canadianarchitect.com/editorial-finding-the-missing-middle/
Because its a limitation of personal property rights and freedom. Why can’t I as a property owner turn my single family home into a ground level cafe/bakery with 4 units above if I have the capital? It’s a government overstep that limits our supply, artificially increasing demand and cost, and gets in the way of entrepreneurship. Having relative freedom over property usage was only something recently taken away in the last 80 or so years due to racist white flight to the suburbs.
While populations hasn’t tripled in the last 5 or so years, we are experiencing growth pains that investors and speculators are taking advantage of limited supply, and relying on the fact we will have limited supply for some time to come as long as the zoning stays as the status quo.
It’s primarily the municipalities as this is a supply and demand issue, they have the power to end single family exclusionary zoning, incentivize and fast-track new developments to start gently densifying into missing middle townhouses and multiplexes, but don’t because they worry about losing the vote from older generation NIMBY’S. So a lot of cities and towns are waiting for the province or feds to do that for them so they don’t have to take the blame.
What the province and feds can work on the cities really can’t is funding more public housing/co-op’s which is also desperately needed. But as soon as we start creating more supply the cost and demand will go down.
since 1966? Are you both lifetime pals now?
I haven’t really configured a tagging system that makes any sense so it’s mostly used the search through documents through text. I’d like to figure out how to hook up a vector database to it to do really fuzzy searching