It sucks but this isn’t new. The wiki page for Canadian Passport also notes other countries which often aren’t listed, including: Israel, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

The reason why is because other countries might not accept a passport with those countries listed as place of birth. China has stated they will deny entry to anyone with Hong Kong, Macau, or Taiwan listed as a country on their passport. So you can put Palestine as the place of birth on your passport, but you might not be able to travel to any countries which don’t recognize it as a country.

For Israel and Palestine, it depends on your year of birth and city of birth. Certain years and certain cities are accepted. Tel Aviv, Isreal is allowed Jerusalem, Isreal is not. Jerusalem, Palestine is allowed if you were born before Isreal was created and it was still a British territory.

International geopolitics is complicated. Canada doesn’t want its passport holders to be banned from entry into other countries over wording in the passport.

A $15 gift card to Dollarama. Whew.

He’s doing the typical conservative move of saying one thing to reporters and then his office releasing a statement saying another. That way the people who don’t like porn can refer to his answer to the question and those who do can refer to his office’s statement.

it’s not going to be politically feasible until a lot of homeowners feel a lot of pain and give up on the idea of housing as an investment

This is the biggest issue. It’s fine to say we need to stop treating houses as investments, but most people own houses and it is their largest investment. Yes, billionaires and megacorps are profiting off it too, but if the government passed legislation tanking the prices of houses, the billionaires would be fine. Everyone 50+ who was getting ready to retire will loose most of their life savings. It needs to be a slow process, unless we’re all ok going through a market collapse like 1990s Japan

Only slightly better than “Don’t forget, you’re here forever”

My brother works in accounting for a municipal government. Government officials love spending money but hate filling out forms explaining what it’s being spent on. 90% of his job is emailing people asking them to itemize their $5,000 credit card bill. Typically the response is “I don’t have time to do that. I’m a very busy and important person. Just mark it down as ‘miscellaneous’”.

“Parents should have the right to decide what their children are allowed to do!”

Alright, I consent to my child taking puberty blockers.

“No, not like that.”

Where did Pierre get his medical doctorate?

This keeps the US corpos out of residebtial real estate here right?

Kind of? The definition of a residential real estate in the law is narrow. It’s essentially a single detached home. Property that is divided into units aren’t considered residential real estate. So foreigners can still buy townhouses, duplexes, apartments, etc and rent them out for exorbitant prices.

Property that is considered “recreational” is also fair game. What is a recreational property? If it could be listed on Airbnb, it’s a recreational property. So if a single detached home is nearby a ski resort, it’s also fair game for foreign buyers.

Foreigners are also still allowed to buy residential property if they intend to live there, or have a Canadian visa for things like work, school, etc, or are married to someone who isn’t affected by the ban.

If it kind of sounds like this doesn’t do much to deter foreigners from buying property. It’s because it really doesn’t. But don’t worry! Even before the ban, foreign buyers only accounted for 1%-6% of purchases depending on the province. The greedy corpos buying up all the residential real estate have always been Canadian.

Poilievre has been laughed at since he started in politics and now he’s got a shot at being PM. He hasn’t changed, we have, and it’s disappointing to see.

Companies actively making their product worse and being rewarded for it killed a bit of hope for humanity I didn’t even think I had.

Declare an emergency. 2 years later, after careful deliberation, a judge decides it wasn’t actually an emergency.

Maybe if the judge had truckers outside his house blaring their horns while he decided on the case it would have come out differently.

But experts and economists say that targeting immigration broadly won’t bring the cost of housing down. What’s required, they say, is a more nuanced approach.

These damn experts and their complicated answers to problems! I don’t understand any of it! I just want someone to give me a simple answer!

“It’s very simple math. If you have more families coming than you have housing for them, it’s going to inflate housing prices,” Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre told an audience in Winnipeg recently.

Ah! There we go!

This comic is right. Many Canadians are receiving social services, and few are receiving medical assistance in dying.

Just checked my account. $122 from the government.

Canada tried to get social media companies to pay a tax for Canadian news articles and the response from companies was simply to block access for Canadians. Any regulations would likely go the same way.

The EU can force sites to comply with their regulations because they’re a huge market. Unfortunately, Canada isn’t really that big of a market. If Canada decided to punish companies for spreading disinformation, they’d probably just block Canadians from accessing the sites and claim its because the Canadian government are evil dictators against free speech, and everyone would believe them.

Staples Canada has posted a job opening related to this, one is for a Regional Services Manager-ServiceOntario. The posting says the successful candidate will be responsible for “Monetization of ServiceOntario traffic” and will need to “Drive sales and profit results related to ServiceOntario traffic.” A statement from the premier’s office earlier this week stated that impacted ServiceOntario employees will be given a chance to continue employment with Staples Canada.

The article gets worse the more you read. Not only is the government privatizing a government service, but they’re giving it to an American corporation, using canadian taxpayer money to upgrade this corporations storefronts, and the corporation is turning the well payed government position into a crappy retail job.

Please don’t let Ford do this to my healthcare.

Wait, did you say Monters Ink or Monster Rancher?

Talk about taking friendly fire

This is why I listen to CBC, no ads (and probably why the CPC wants to defund them)