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Has JDMDreams ever met Hondaracer in person? Something tells me they would make good friends, travelling companions, and future neighbours in Portugal. |
https://financialpost.com/news/canad...cline-40-years Canada's standard of living on track for worst decline in 40 years Slump in GDP per person threatens to be longest and largest since 1985, says study For example, between 2000 and 2023 Canada had the second highest rate of aggregate GDP growth in the G7, but one of the lowest growth rates per person. Not only does Canada lag most developed economies, Canadian provinces also fall far behind almost all U.S. states, said Trevor Tombe, a professor of economics at the University of Calgary, in a column last year for the Hub. Ontario last year had a per-person level of economic output similar to Alabama, said Tombe. The Maritimes were below Mississippi, and Quebec and Manitoba lag West Virginia. Canada’s strongest economy, Alberta beat the U.S. average, but ranked 14th overall. “It’s roughly comparable to New Jersey and Texas, but 13 per cent below California and nearly one-quarter below New York,” wrote Tombe. Yea things are going great, taxes is gonna make us great again to be #2:fulloffuck: |
From Bad to Worse: Canada’s Productivity Slowdown is Everyone’s Problem https://economics.td.com/ca-productivity-bad-to-worse If Canada does not play to win on labour productivity, it risks a continued drop in living standards, worsening wage stagnation and a dangerous deterioration in public services. There's no way you can say things are going to be great in Canada with a straight face for the next 10 - 20 years. |
lol this is how gross our justice system is.. https://vpd.ca/news/2025/01/16/vpd-s...anada-wide-17/ This guy was the guy who stabbed the Mexican tourist in Tim Hortons, was granted early release, INSTANTLY violated parole conditions and was in a Canada wide warrant, arrested again and charged And then tonight the guy once again just walks away from half way house, another Canada wide warrant :lol |
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/chr...ader-1.7434083 Chrysler Freeland running for Liberal leader. Yeah I dunno about that :lol |
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So this whole Dunsmuir house demolition is quite interesting when you look at this saga. Firstly I didn’t realize Holburn, the same company that fucked the city with the development of that huge property at little mountain they they made hundreds of millions off by just holding onto ultimately forcing the cities hand to remove the social housing aspects is chaired by the son of one of Malaysia’s wealthiest families: https://vancouversun.com/business/lo...r-developments After buying dunsmuir house in 2006 they say there was political pressure to use it those homeless to get them off the streets during the olympics, and ultimately somehow won a settlement after the fact due to the conditions the building was “left in” after they had been taking rent etc. from the tenants.. They’ve then left the building to rot until ultimately CoV determined it was in such a state they had no other choice but to force demolition https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/l...olborn-9982896 If you left a single family home deteriorate to the point of being demolished, you’d be forced to do insane amounts of abatement, recycling of materials, and slapped with fine after fine Yet.. for a building that encompasses an entire city block a city order allows you to demolish it over a weekend?… There also seems to be a loophole where when you demolish existing social housing, you could he on the hook for $300,000 per unit in fines. However, given this building was not inhabited, there likely isn’t recourse to seek these fines from Holborn.. Just yet another sack of shit overseas investor just toying with local govt. ffs.. |
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Holborn's CEO Joo Kim Tiah sounds interesting...outside of his work persona. An acquaintance of mine is a friend of this CEO. Apparently, Mr. Tiah's favourite hobby is being a drummer in a heavy metal band. He's on Instagram. :suspicious: |
The con lead is drooping. https://www.ekospolitics.com/index.p...11-point-lead/ Quote:
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^ That sounds about what I would expect really. Depending who the Liberals get to lead, PP might just end up with a minority gov't and we lame duck for another 4 years. |
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PP's catchphrases and taglines show he doesn't understand how to fix the problem - he's just tossing out typical Conservative ideas (cut tax and regulations) that have largely been discredited (it makes the rich richer and that's about it) We need a plan that improves the skill level and availability of our workforce, provides them with the modern tools, equipment, and infrastructure to leverage those skills, and provides them the support to go work (healthcare, childcare, social services). PP doesn't give a shit about any of that and Trudeau dropped the ball too much of it during his time. (And Jagmeet has no creditability here). Quote:
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/alabama https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/west-virginia https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/mississippi It's not all about GDP per capita - the money needs to be put to good use. More money in pockets doesn't do us much good if we keep dying young from bad healthcare and pollution. More money in our pockets doesn't mean much if we can't get help during hard times. More money can't help if we don't have infrastructure. More money doesn't matter if we don't have human rights (say abortion? lack of gun violence?). Cons talk about the world in one dimension - more money in their pocket, less in everyone else's. Some for thee but none for the rest of us. |
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It is almost funny how the Cons instantly jumped on attacking Carbon Tax Carney. For me, the incessant name-calling is really getting old, esp when Carney has already heavily hinted he plans on dropping (the consumer portion of) the carbon tax. Against Carney, I honestly don't think Freeland has a good chance to win the leadership race. She carries too much of Turd's baggage with her, and that would not be popular among mainstream voters regardless of who the Liberals membership support. But all of this really highlights how much Turd's late stage resignation is hurting the Liberals brand. Had Turd been willing to resign much earlier, the Libs would have far more time to go through a proper leadership race, and build up the national level recognition of their next leader. |
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Liberal or NDP more likely? |
I dunno what Freeland is thinking running.. either she understands the party looks like a joke if it’s only Carney running or she’s that delusional that anyone would be dumb enough to support her |
She probably has very high internal support. |
You’d be a fool to support her. Of course I wouldn’t put anything passed the current party members but if you don’t understand that the perception of the general public is that she is just Trudeau lite, you’re oblivious. She’s also just not a personable/likeable person in terms of charisma and persona Christy Clark looks like JFK in comparison |
So sick of hearing "hurr durr CaNaDa is WoRSe OfF thAn MiSsIssIppI!!" Have you guys been paying attention to our dollar lately? Yes it's fucking 40% less of course we would look shitty under a GDP measured in USD. They say the same thing about the UK, Europe now, but no one is saying life in Birmingham, MS is way better than life in Birmingham,UK (Maybe it is I dunno) Individual States don't exist as independent economies. It's often stated the economy of California is the 5th or 6th largest depending on who you ask but if it were to suddenly separate and build a wall around the rest of the US it would fall precipitously because demand would drop off a cliff, defense industry would exit, etc. It's not an Apples to Apples comparison. |
Those GDP and productivity numbers posted previously are measured against all the G7 countries. |
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It's just like when these retards saw 10 deaths of vaccinated people and 10 deaths of unvaccinated people in BC and were like HIRRRRR SEEEE VACCINES NO WORKY SAME DEATH! Without having the slightest fucking bit of comprehension to realize there were 9x more people that were vaccinated than unvaccinated, never mind the demographics on top of that. |
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Every single dollar the gov spends on infrastructure for rural / SFH suburbs is a dollar we can't invest into shit like high speed rail. Guelph almost went bankrupt cuz SFH means crazy low tax revenue and crazy high expenses. |
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On one hand, I'd expect them to go hard on the "drill baby, drill" mantra. But on the other hand, when you're land-locked on all sides, how would your delivery costs (of petroleum products) not go through the roof? |
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It's insane to think that this somehow benefited people more than shareholders and bezos. We are talking about a company that's under scrutiny for making workers piss in a fucking bottle, who also would pay probably 2% of the taxes that all those businesses would pay individually if they were operating at those sales across thousands of independent retailers. |
We’re so past trying to change peoples habits and shop small/local there’s no point in even wasting your breathe on that anymore, the ship has sailed. I don’t really blame people, and maybe if we didn’t pump Amazon full of TFW it would be different but yea.. that’s long gone. I went to a book store today to see if they had a book in stock, fairly common, new, travel book, Amazon has it on for $38 and it’s here tomorrow morning. The local store has it for the same price but it’s somehow going to take 3-4 weeks to arrive.. I walked away from the counter thinking fuck it I’ll just order it from Amazon but ultimately I want the store to survive so I begrudgingly ordered it through them, paying up front, for a book I’m not gonna see for a month. There’s very little incentive to fight the Amazon model anymore other than getting on your high horse. |
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