I’ve been saying this for years. These were simple, efficiently built homes to account for a huge influx in housing needs. Why it took us this long to remember a solution that already worked is wild to me.
Sure, there is less space to build in on cities proper, but with how much we have progressed with WFH, it shouldnt be as much of an issue to build outside the core.
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Good for them. I just hope both teams had fun.
The NDP already represent a lot of what the majority of Canadians want, but fearmongering about sOciALiSm, and the party having to move more towards the center to try and meet the Liberals halfway has diluted their brand.
The people who would never vote for them anyways think that they’re too far left, and the people who used to support them see them as too-eager-to-please to the current Liberal government.
If you could magically snap away people’s preconcieved notions and team mentality towards politics, and had them read party policies carte blanche, I think a large portion of Canadians would go NDP, especially if they went back to their traditional policies and mindset.
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Canadian grocery conglomerates acting unscrupulous? Unthinkable!
This is why the CPC are so vocal about alleged Chinese election interference instead of foreign interference in general. The vast, VAST majority of foreign political influence is pro-conservative and serves to undermine anything progressive.
Just a reminder that when given the choice of building afforable housing or paying a fine, every single developer in Montreal elected to pay a fine.
Developers. Can. Not. Be. Counted. On. To. Fix. The. Housing. Crisis.
Might be different in places like the praries, but where I am, the humidity can add another 5°C-10°C on those sweltering hot days.
And its not necessarily being by a big body of water that is a factor in humidex values. In fact, being by a big body of water tends to have a moderating effect on the weather.
So, yeah, it’s not the cost of having kids that turns people off from having them. The study that the article is based on even says this!
…Are you high? The article literally states that a third of young canadians are doing just that.
In a survey published last month, the agency found that more than a third of young Canadians were setting aside plans for a family due purely to financial reasons. Of Canadians in their 20s, Statistics Canada found that 38 per cent of them “did not believe they could afford to have a child in the next three years”
This might not be the best idea, as a lot of the extreme heat is due to humidity (at least in a lot of the country).
I can attest from personal experience, finances are 100% the reason me and my partner can’t have kids right now. Its very hard to justify brining a kid into this world when its hard to maintain stability for 2 adults, let alone with the costs required to raise a child.
We were evicted from our last home for no other reason than the greed of our landlord. That stress would have been tenfold if we had to go through that with kids.
We need to a) stop limiting the residencies available so we can graduate more doctors and b) start recognizing credentials from other contries that are up to our standards.
What an insanely asinine idea to cut and run from the federal CPP program.
Surely, the oil wealth will last forever and ever, right?
It still doesnt matter if its valued at $650,000 (average home price in Canada).
Even with “only” needing a 5% downpayment as a first time home buyer, thats still a $32,500 nest egg you need to save up for, which I am not convinced a lot of people can do without serious help from their parents or other benefactors.
A massive shift needs to happen to bring home prices back to reality. A 3 bedroom middle class family home should not casually be a million dollar property, as it is in many, many large cities across canada.
Until we can all agree that our goal as a society moving forward should be “sustainability and stability” and not “profit increases year by year at any cost”, its not going to get better.
We tend to consume a lot of American media, whether it be music, movies, tv, etc.
With the advent of social media, that got cranked up to 11. So, we have the same impressionable people being targeted by US-style far right propaganda and you can already see its effects.
Someone like Erin O’Toole was exactly what the conservative party needed to bring more people from the center to the Torys, but as soon as he lost one election, they booted him to the curb in favour of Alt-Right Milhouse, who was cozying up to the Convoy protestors and being called “a Superstar for the Far Right” by none other than InfoWars owner and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.
I just hope to god our apathy doesnt take over and allow that cretin and his cronies form government and keep carving up our country and environment to the detriment of everyone but the ultra-wealthy.
Cool, so people are interested in making it worse? Lol.
Thats… exactly what I’m saying?
“The the fine is less than the profits, then its just the cost of doing business.”