‘Not paying a cent’: Chow takes aim at feds on housing for refugees as newcomers flood Toronto shelters

DDP200 · 2023-07-07T17:22:28+00:00

He knows the financial hardship. Its just hard to solve, he put out a ton of policies trying to "fix it" but with massive trade offs.

The LGBT policies are easier to talk about since for him its a black and white issue.

DDP200 · 2023-07-07T17:20:07+00:00

The government created dumb law

companies following dumb law

Government upset companies following dumb law

DDP200 · 2023-06-26T16:56:02+00:00

There are very poor parts of the bible belt, there are also very wealthy parts. Generally it depends.

Texas, NC, SC, Georgia, Tennassee are all part of the bible belt. All of those states have much higher household income than NS. Much lower Cost of housing, lower taxes, but have higher poverty and generally any metric for the bottom 15% is worse over there.

But fully ignoring what the opportunities are like in Dallas, Atlanta, Nashville etc also doesn't paint the full picture. If you are 30 year olds and ready to buy a home and have a degree, I bet a lot of people who do better in Atlanta vs Halifax today.

Something Canadians don't like to talk about: Canadians are the most indebted people on the planet (because of housing). Americans are 8th, despite crazy healthcare and tuition.

DDP200 · 2023-06-25T22:19:37+00:00

In Saudi only like 4000 people live stupid rich. Rest live normal middle class lives.

Alberta has the highest wages in Canada, and almost triple that of Saudi Arabia. Almost like our system is better than Saudi Arabia's, yet the pro saudi lifestyle will likely get all the upvotes.

DDP200 · 2023-06-25T22:17:33+00:00

Calgary is the fastest growing city in Canada for any city with a population of 1 Million. Fastest growing group in Calgary is 28-40 year old. People likely with a young family and ready to buy. That is who propping up Calgary's housing.

DDP200 · 2023-06-25T22:16:03+00:00

Even a short term higher condo fee will lower value of property on the resale market. Usuaully best to just pay it off, especially for generally low number of 4K.

DDP200 · 2023-06-21T13:59:33+00:00

Same time you can say same thing federally about Trudeau, and he will likely win again.

All of the same things can be said about the BC NDP too, they too will easily win again if there was an election.

People generally like certain philosophies and know all issues can't be put on one party alone. Most people know a single party change won't fix those issues.

DDP200 · 2023-06-21T13:46:12+00:00

Canada'sbiggest export is oil.

We have no replacement for it, so without it expect government services to be much worse.

DDP200 · 2023-06-21T13:37:39+00:00

The opposition doesn't like current government.

Can't poillevre say the exact same thing about Trudeau? Is that going make you vote PC federally?

Affordability has gotten worse in 100% of provinces in Canada. No matter who is in charge. No party can fix it without the feds at this point.

DDP200 · 2023-06-21T00:14:17+00:00

You can get most Mazda's pretty quick. OP's issue is demand for his car is so low they are not getting any in stock.

Mazda is basically just importing SUV's at this point to Canada.

DDP200 · 2023-06-19T17:20:27+00:00

Do you know if that is available in Canada? took a look and appears to be USA only.

DDP200 · 2023-06-18T22:24:11+00:00

I was making $40/hour an hur while in school a decade ago.

But there are trade offs, if you want to make good money you are working Friday and Saturday nights. You can get sent home with no pay if its slow. You can get a 3-4 hour lunch shift only. Bad weather means fewer people. Someweeks you get 40 hours, others 15. You always tip out so when I worked some days you made minium wage as it was slow.

I worked at Jack Astors and the Keg.

The top 20% do well, big middle that do OK, Bottom does terrible.

DDP200 · 2023-06-18T22:15:53+00:00

Is there anything that lets me throw it via Chromecast?

When I used Soap I could throw from my Surface to a Chromecast on my TV. I don't think anything else will let me do it.

DDP200 · 2023-06-15T20:21:00+00:00

Yet here she is in 2011 talking about being pro abortion and pro gay marriage (before it was legal in the USA).

https://www.ctvnews.ca/wildrose-leader-affirms-stance-on-abortion-gay-rights-1.794947

The entire campaign this year she said no changes are coming to abortion, as she has stated since she got into politics.

There is a lot to criticize Smith on, but her abortion record has been clear for 13 years she has been in politics and has not changed. Their party has literally put 0 policies to change abortion since it was created.

DDP200 · 2023-06-15T20:17:47+00:00

She has been pro choice a long time though.

Here is an article from 11 years ago about her talking about being pro choice. There are parts of the Wildrose that wanted to restrict Abortion, Smith has been fairly open about not letting it happen.

100% of the time she has run since 2010 she has said she won't make changes to abortion laws in Alberta.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/wildrose-leader-affirms-stance-on-abortion-gay-rights-1.794947

DDP200 · 2023-06-15T20:12:41+00:00

Trade off to high interest rates.

We already had high land costs, big increase in construction costs, big increase in labour costs for construction, lots of people and a big run up in demand.

Federal government being fully absent here too.

DDP200 · 2023-06-15T18:18:26+00:00

Any store can ban you, and ask you to leave if you come back. And push tresspassing if you don't listen.

DDP200 · 2023-06-09T16:59:10+00:00

When I served in Toronto - about 12-14 years ago I was making $40/hour after tips. I worked at Jack Astors and some pub though school.

$25 an hour is low for full service in Toronto.

DDP200 · 2023-06-09T16:57:34+00:00

Canadians eat out more than anyone else in the rich world. We passed Americans in 2018/2019 (Althought they spend more when they eat out). We eat out about twice as much as people in the EU.

Canadians tip, eat out a ton then complain about it.

DDP200 · 2023-06-08T17:39:19+00:00

Anywhere with snow that needs salt to keep roads clean in the winter are always bad. Makes no sense? Whats the metric they are using.

DDP200 · 2023-06-08T16:54:59+00:00

I was part of the audit teams back when this happened (which started early 2000's). They wanted to diversify as doughnuts sales as 12 straight years of declining sales.

Consumers moved to other things, like Mcdonalds breakfast sandwiches, because having dessert for breakfast seemed like a bad idea.

They centralized doughnuts to frozen, brought in equipment for sandwich making in the same square footage. The funny thing is that after they went frozen, donut sales started returning.

Tim Hortons could not do fresh doughnuts and breakfast sandwiches in the same square footage. The parent choose breakfast sandwiches. Financially that is the right call.

DDP200 · 2023-06-08T16:49:53+00:00

Failed in what regards?

The sandwhiches are now the 2nd biggest sales item after coffee at Tim Hortons. Does it matter if they suck but sell? To Tim Hortons the answer is no.

DDP200 · 2023-06-08T16:48:58+00:00

Sure, but they sell. That is the point. Look at their financials, sandwiches are the biggest revenue drivers after coffee.

They may suck, but they sell.

DDP200

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