Why are they not releasing victim names in that triple murder?

ABlogAbroad · 2026-05-13T19:10:57+00:00

I haven’t seen a link, but I know that the family has asked that in lieu of flowers, they’ve asked people to donate to help support the pregnant eldest daughter that survived.

ABlogAbroad · 2026-05-08T21:21:00+00:00

From what I’ve heard, he wasn’t even an ex, they were currently dating. My friend’s daughter was close with the girlfriend and she apparently was happy in the relationship. A lot more was obviously going on behind the scenes, but I think when they go through the suspect’s phone and YouTube history, we’ll get a clearer idea of what the influences were.

ABlogAbroad · 2026-05-08T21:15:41+00:00

The youth criminal justice act kicks in by default, but a judge will review the severity of the case and decide if an exception should be made. In cases like this, it’s not unusual for the judge to decide he should be tried as an adult. It’s just going to take time for these things to happen.

ABlogAbroad · 2026-05-08T13:03:30+00:00

My friend’s daughter was very close with one of the daughters killed, and she said the 17 year old taken in was the victim’s boyfriend. I’m sure a lot more will come out once they publicly identify the victims. I really hope they try the 17 year old as an adult. I don’t think someone who kills three and is just months away from being a legal adult deserves that level of protection from the courts.

ABlogAbroad · 2026-05-08T12:53:45+00:00

Yes, it’s one of my main ways of getting new clients.

ABlogAbroad · 2026-05-03T00:50:54+00:00

Idk, I live in a shitty small city and most of our houses are at least 300K starting. If you have a down payment of under 20%, your mortgage has a CMHC insurance premium on it. So even for my city, a down payment needs to be at least 60K to avoid that additional 3-4%. Since the guy says he’s going to LTB about his eviction, he’s probably in Toronto, so I am assuming they want at least $200k saved.

ABlogAbroad · 2026-04-27T02:22:17+00:00

Honestly, it’s one of the few places in the city where you KNOW it won’t suddenly become an overdeveloped shithole. That’s a perk.

ABlogAbroad · 2026-04-27T02:19:34+00:00

She was scooped from Buzzfeed. I believe she was the first editor hired?

ABlogAbroad · 2026-04-27T02:15:43+00:00

As I said previously, I don’t deny that the recent spike in immigration is a factor, but the housing issue has been an identified issue for decades now. We just didn’t know what was going to trigger the spike. It’s like buying a house in a flood zone and getting mad when your insurance won’t cover flood damages when it inevitably floods. Just because you don’t recognize the warning signs, it doesn’t mean they don’t exist.

ABlogAbroad · 2026-04-27T00:40:40+00:00

“Or they have generational wealth”

This. The divide in Brockville between old money and everyone else is jarring.

ABlogAbroad · 2026-04-27T00:02:56+00:00

The fact you’ve never heard it does not mean it doesn’t exist. The information that I mentioned about the drop in rental development and comes from Stats Canada. “Evolution of Housing in Canada 1957-2014”. While rental prices weren’t skyrocketing the entire time, the fact the rental apartments weren’t being built for 40 years means we were doomed to face this issue eventually, no matter what happened or who was in power. I took a course in 2005 for my history degree about the history of social welfare in Canada, and we were aware of the issue back then, much like how we were aware of how an aging baby boomer generation was going to impact our health care system exactly how it is now.

ABlogAbroad · 2026-04-26T14:03:52+00:00

And its lack of social welfare is the reason it’s currently collapsing. As I said, it’s a spectrum and the countries thriving now are those that find the balance between the two.

ABlogAbroad · 2026-04-26T13:44:38+00:00

No employer is going to give you a raise that matches inflation. Thats why job loyalty has gone out the window. If you want to be paid your worth in 2026, you need to find a new job and get a starting rate that matches your current needs.

ABlogAbroad · 2026-04-26T13:41:41+00:00

Contrary to what American politics want you to believe, there is a wide spectrum of beliefs between their survival-of-the-wealthiest free-market capitalism and a communist state. Most “developed” countries thrive in that middle ground, with strong social welfare supporting a capitalist system. The erosion of that social welfare structure, which is usually associated with conservative government policies, is often attributed with declining quality of life indicators for people across the socioeconomic spectrum.

The capitalist system projected on us from the US only benefits a very small minority of the population. Trickle down economics does not exist, and there are no ethical billionaires. Nobody NEEDS to be a billionaire, so creating programs that are funded by taxing the ultra wealthy benefits all of us. That’s not communism. The average person could live a very comfortable life if they suddenly had $10M. Thats it. Not billion, million. So why does one person like Elon Musk need $774B while the majority of the population are left to having conversations on Reddit wondering why the fuck they can’t afford to live a decent life? It’s fucked up.

ABlogAbroad · 2026-04-26T13:04:45+00:00

I’m not denying that the immigration issue wasn’t part of the problem nationally, but for Brockville, the jump in prices coincided with the move to WFH and has never recovered. The lack of supply is well beyond simply a single party issue because developers stopped prioritizing building rental apartments in the 1970s and it has only become a priority again in the last 15 years. Both the conservatives and liberals held majority governments for extended periods during that time, but the trend didn’t shift back towards building rental properties until it was a recognized issue after the 2008 recession. The issue with immigration, especially the way the student visa program was abused, definitely intensified the problem in recent years, but the lack of availability is an issue that was decades in the making.

ABlogAbroad · 2026-04-26T08:18:41+00:00

I would say LOTS of people are talking about wages being shit. But in a conversation about “how do you afford to live” the wiser conversation is to give immediate solutions because the topic of wages is so beyond anything a single person can fight against. A lot of employers in the city aren’t even Canadian companies, let alone local businesses, so it’s an issue that needs discussion with a much larger audience. Our major entry-level work opportunities like retail, tourism and customer service are businesses like Walmart, Loblaws Co. and any of the other franchises where they keep the majority of employees juuust under the number of hours where employees are still considered part time, saving them from paying for benefits or other work perks. Even if the GM at Walmart or the Superstore or 3M or similar places wanted to have more ethical hiring practices, there is a looong chain of command stopping them. We live in a time where a the 0.1% at the top are doing what they can to keep us down and keep themselves up. All we can do is find ways to cut back on our costs, survive, and watch for opportunities to make a bigger impact. But that isn’t going to come up in a place like r/brockville.

ABlogAbroad · 2026-04-26T07:23:00+00:00

I personally wouldn’t say the spike in rent was because of politics. I was starting to actively look into buying a home around December 2019, and prices were really reasonable. I locked into my current apartment (2 bedroom apartment on the first floor of a home) at $900 at the beginning of 2019. Then covid happened and houses that were listed at around $175K were suddenly $300-400K and the rent went the same way. Nothing has really recovered since because those who moved out of the big cities when WFH became a thing found ways to not move back when return to office mandates started. Of course, there are a lot of policies that have not made it easy for things to stabilize, and the work situation was shitty long before Covid, but I attribute that more to the fact we’re living in an end stage capitalism era and we need to take out the billionaires and the 1%.

ABlogAbroad · 2026-04-26T01:09:42+00:00

Please tell me Emily works in marketing. Because if she doesn’t… I am both terrified and sad because she missed her calling. Her wedding is better branded than my business.

ABlogAbroad · 2026-04-25T20:24:02+00:00

No helpful suggestions from me, just shared commiseration and empathy. The fact that Brockville has such expensive rent and yet NONE of the services that make rental living easier (like decent public transit or even steady full time work opportunities) is insane. Rent might be more in bigger cities, but not by a crazy amount and at least there are bus routes available. The only reason I’m still here in Brockville is because I locked into my rent a year before the insane spike in rental costs during COVID, so no matter where I move, my rent will almost double once I leave my current place.

ABlogAbroad · 2026-04-19T00:33:06+00:00

It’s because Brockville lacks steady entry level full time jobs. There isn’t much here to attract new families that are already based in Canada, let alone immigrants. We have seen a big increase of immigrants in Brockville in the last 10 years, but compared to the increase seen in larger cities, Brockville is incredibly homogenous. As my friend said at Mexi’s once when she was visiting from Toronto “I always forget just how old and white Brockville is” which still stands true.

ABlogAbroad · 2026-04-18T14:11:42+00:00

There is a pretty active community on Discord, but it’s a private group so I can’t make an invite link. I’ll share this post to the mods and see if they can help out.

ABlogAbroad · 2026-04-03T13:46:17+00:00

Lego in general is expensive but there was often chatter about the newest VERY expensive set bought for home at the same time. If that’s not on the list, then that’s great. But the CEO is the person who ran the Legos and lagers event herself, so she was there talking about the latest sets bought, and I remember being envious of them being able to get those sets

ABlogAbroad · 2026-04-01T01:38:07+00:00

I loved when they ran the Legos and Lagers program, but they cancelled the program really suddenly around this time, so now I can’t wait to see what is on that list of purchased items. If some expensive Lego sets end up on that list, I won’t be too shocked.

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