Victor Villas

You can’t just ignore them and pretend they don’t exist.

That doesn’t seem what gp is suggesting, though

Hannam is my go-to, but for some stuff also sometimes Aria and T&T

lmao what

“making oneself difficult to invade” is quite an understatement of pursuing nuclear weapons but point taken

lmao thank you for the analysis and so valuable sage stoic advice

OK stupid Trump comments aside, I do think it’s a diplomatic blunder for Trudeau to say that the tariff would kill the Canadian economy. Even if it would, better not to admit it, because pleading with a demon is guaranteed loss while at least a bluff could get some result. So I just hope this is hearsay and not really how things went down during those talks.

If to protect ourselves from our enemies we have to become like them, I prefer to give up on Canada and go somewhere else.

So how are those two asset types tied so closely?

For 1 bd condos specifically prices did go down, because developers overshot the supply aiming for investors. But larger units are still very much underserved and there’s too much demand.

Houses aren’t expensive just because they’re houses. They’re expensive mostly because there’s a big plot of land underneath, land that eventually will be required for a big tower that will sell like hot cakes. It’s the same market because Canada has a market of land speculation.

plus paying condo fees forever

Isn’t it the norm for a property to generate fees forever? It’s a passive depreciating asset, just like a house

who gives a damn, wtf are you going to do?

They already promised to make a few key issues “their priority” and “fix it”.

For a large part of the voter base, that’s enough of a promise.

I get what they mean but… it’s in such poor taste.

Beyond insane. Every time Doug Ford comes back to mind I’m triple thankful for being represented by David Eby.

Has Singh called for this? Trudeau?

Eby did it, though. And maybe that’s what saved their majority in this very tight election. He surely knows it’s not the effective way to spend, but he also knows that it’s an easy hill to not die on because so few really care about this.

Welcome aboard!

That’s literally what almost every harm reduction activist has been saying for decades, but I’m not saying this to shame you. I barely did it sooner, I was beyond my 30’s when I finally got it. The fact that it takes so long for someone to encounter the rationale for all the effort going into decriminalization, destigmatization, safer-supply and supervised consumption sites… speaks volumes about who really is holding the megaphone of the media apparatus!

That’s my point. The far-right of this country is already working to destroy opposition and we’re closer to implementing climate change denialism policies and going backward on reconciliation than we’re close to having free speech at danger. And in any case, it’s not like the precedent doesn’t exist already or that the far-right needs the precedent to grow fascist.

The slope gets slippery at some point, though, right? I don’t think it’s a stupid thing to worry about

Sure. I wouldn’t like to see climate change denialism criminalized in this century and I’d be pretty worried if any government pushed for it - but we’re so so far away from something like that happening. We’re way closer to going backwards in reconciliation.

This slope is not slippery at all. Denying holocaust has been a crime since 2002 1994 in Germany and yet Germany had no issues with upkeeping free speech in the two three decades since.

edit: oops it’s actually older than I thought

:lolsob: tragically accurate joke

Public yes, but not nationalized.

What’s the distinction here? You mean that you want it to be federal instead of provincial? Or that a govt-owned company doesn’t count as nationalized because its governance is too similar to a private company?

What I sparsely understood from your comment is that these agencies need more govt funding and less reliance on fees, which I totally agree. Not sure if that’s what nationalizing transit means, though.

There’s Government Service, and there’s Public Service Badly Managed for Profit. Hint: if our ferry system tries to bill itself as a tour operator, it’s in the latter group.

So is the problem with BC Ferries that it’s badly managed and the way it markets itself… or is the issue that it receives too little govt funding? I think it’s the latter.

Most if not all transit agencies in Canada are already belong to the public (as opposed to private businesses) already, no? TransLink mentioned in the article sure is, BC Transit too. BC Feries too… (kind of, crown is the sole shareholder).

edit: lol what even does it mean to get downvotes for this