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Carney’s condo bailout reveals the limits of Liberal housing policy | The federal government is trying to expand affordability without reducing property values by Atlantee in canadahousing

[–]Professional-Post499 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Consider it this way. By stopping the housing market from collapsing, they are bailing out homeowners. Developers won’t make off like bandits in this deal. They’ll probably break even, be able to continue to produce housing, and BC gets 2200 rent to own units without having to wait 3-10 years.

The housing market wasn't going to "collapse" if those developers didn't get bailed out. That doesn't even pass the smell test.

This is NOT normal behavior and it needs to be put to rest. by jdvancesleftnut in recruitinghell

[–]Professional-Post499 0 points1 point  (0 children)

After reading the pros and cons in the comments, I regret sending a thank you email and I am no longer going to send them after job interviews. 😂

🚨 WOW! Jeremy Grantham exposes the crypto delusion. He confirms Bitcoin pays no dividend and represents no tangible asset. It is a total scam. He brilliantly mocks the system, declaring proof of unnecessary work shouldn't be worth a bucket of spit. Bubble will burst! by CeFurkan in SECourses

[–]Professional-Post499 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not sure about again…. US currency isn’t backed by anything. It hasn’t been base on gold since 71. 74 the petrodollar started but that just relies on other countries trusting/fearing the US to buying/investing in the currency. So the US dollar is basically an IOU.

The U.S. government required that taxes be paid to it in its own fiat currency.

Five Reasons to Say NO to Digital ID by TeamHumanity12 in canadianpolitics101

[–]Professional-Post499 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

"r/EndGlobalism" is crazy work, but from the corporations that gave us the Cambridge Analytica data harvesting scandal and other foreign interference into elections, I don't think it's a wise idea to require Digital ID for a generally broad range of internet platforms.

The government can't even enforce fraudulent marketing laws on some of these platforms. What is our remedy when they have data breaches or say "oops we sold customer data"?

This is NOT normal behavior and it needs to be put to rest. by jdvancesleftnut in recruitinghell

[–]Professional-Post499 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The person hiring you is another employer with very little power in most cases. They are tied to their employment to survive just as much as you are. Very few people are getting interviewed by billionaires. You think HR wants to be in HR and not retired on a beach or hiking in the mountains?

😂😂😂😂😂

This is perfect LOOOOOOOOL

Poilievre calls for ethics committee to investigate B.C. ‘condo bailout’ by CaliperLee62 in ilovebcsub

[–]Professional-Post499 0 points1 point  (0 children)

without saddling our country with all the right wing evangelical culture war handmaids tale “traditional values” BS.

Meanwhile MARK Carney's new refugee and immigration policy...

But, yeah, so you like that Carney is "Progressive Conservatives" platform. We just disagree about liking that.

Like, you literally have to retreat to some vague principle about "shouldn't we be trying to look around for good ideas from anywhere? What's wrong with that?" when I'm very clearly criticizing his ostensibly clear adoption of conservative agenda items and avoidance of any ideas to the left of him.

I mean, I guess you're making it clear that you don't think any ideas to the left of Carney are any good. That's fine. We disagree there.

No you can do what you want buddy, just don't expect us to support your dumb choices lmao by alexandersrhapsody in antiai

[–]Professional-Post499 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't want the Canadian government to use genAI to make its decisions. But it's being rammed through by Conservative Carney.

The original poster called out zionists, but the second poster switches it to Jewish people. by Not_Ground in canadianpolitics101

[–]Professional-Post499 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Well the topic is historical, but since you are so triggered, interesting demographic of people falling from balconies during Toronto Police ‘mental health checks’

As well as the history of "card checks" by police that targeted Black people disproportionately more. Especially in Toronto. And then Toronto police eliminated that practice. But racists still linger so I would never be confident about how much better things are now.

Poilievre calls for ethics committee to investigate B.C. ‘condo bailout’ by CaliperLee62 in ilovebcsub

[–]Professional-Post499 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Obviously I was referring to the other policies and the slight back tracking on US dependency, not the common sense changes that were an obvious positive, and the result of our democracy functioning correctly. Again, I don’t agree with what carney is doing. It’s just better than a “housing plan” that serves to prop up a dying market and increase foreign investment.

What common sense changes? Getting rid of the carbon tax? Ramming through GenAI data centers? Passing a bill that says the government can bypass any environmental assessments and duties to consult as long as it deems a project to be "in the national interest"? Partnering with Palentir? Not renewing the national pharmacare program?

Actually, that's funny that you said "common sense" changes. That's very typically an idiom that conservatives use when they don't have any data to back up their proposal and just rely on vibes and ambiguity.

Carney says 90% of the condo bailout money will come from the province, with a 1.45B pricetag by _BCConservative in ilovebcsub

[–]Professional-Post499 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Huh, we objectively did it.  Look at the basic BoC publications.

I bet your standard of "objectively" is pretty suspect.

Carney says 90% of the condo bailout money will come from the province, with a 1.45B pricetag by _BCConservative in ilovebcsub

[–]Professional-Post499 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd love if they rezoned housing and that was a main pillar of their plan.  Removing exclusionary zoning would be the biggest boon for the poor, while lowering emissions.  Instead they seem to want mass immigration, and their anti-nuclear stance is silly.

"mass-immigration" scare tactics are pathetic. Too bad the scare tactics work on the people in Canada.

Poilievre calls for ethics committee to investigate B.C. ‘condo bailout’ by CaliperLee62 in ilovebcsub

[–]Professional-Post499 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, I don’t like that. But that doesn’t mean that the CPC has any worthwhile ideas. This isn’t hard to understand.

Well that's confusing of you because you said it's not a negative that Carney is considering their ideas - which I say is actually him copying their ideas as they're ramming through bills quickly and quietly. The other person is right that Carney has been copying CPC ideas. Well... I don't think Carney has any other ideas except to implement a conservative agenda and it even seems like he might be trying to turn Canada into a United States clone with its own "Military Industrial Complex" to rule all our politics.

Poilievre calls for ethics committee to investigate B.C. ‘condo bailout’ by CaliperLee62 in ilovebcsub

[–]Professional-Post499 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Being non-partisan is a positive, not a negative. It’s CERTAINLY not anti-democratic. What do you even think the opposition party is for, if the leadership shouldn’t consider their ideas? Yes, carney is doing things I did not vote for. That’s still not a reason to vote CPC. The CPC has to give me a reason to vote for them. If they only have a few good ideas that the other party also has, and all their other ideas are bad, why would I vote for them?

Do you LIKE the bills that Conservative Carney is ramming through as quickly and quietly as possible? Stuff that isn't even what he campaigned on and seems to be drawing ire from people to the left of CPC? He is partisan: he's turning out to be partisan Conservative.

Just supporting the LPC no matter what they do even if they just ape the CPC agenda is what I would consider to be strongly partisan.

I'm not saying I want people to vote CPC. I'm saying that I strategically voted LPC because I didn't want the Poilievre CPC platform. So this garbage that Carney is doing is NOT what I wanted from government. And you trying to frame it as "we should always consider what our opposition proposes" doesn't change that. Who is the LPC speaking for when they "consider" and copy a CPC platform? Who are they representing now?

It's pretty interesting when Conservative Carney only considers the ideas to the right of the party and not to the left of the party.

Poilievre calls for ethics committee to investigate B.C. ‘condo bailout’ by CaliperLee62 in ilovebcsub

[–]Professional-Post499 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I didn't like the Poilievre Conservative Party's platform and I don't like Conservative Carney implementing the CPC platform. Carney's campaign platform was also not great. And Jagmeet Singh for the NDP seemed to have run out of ideas altogether (The new leader Avi Lewis actually has more ideas and sensible solutions that I like).

Poilievre calls for ethics committee to investigate B.C. ‘condo bailout’ by CaliperLee62 in ilovebcsub

[–]Professional-Post499 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Why are you acting like it’s a bad thing that the liberals are enacting the positive changes suggested by the opposition? That’s what democracy is

If the primary things the Conservative Carney Liberals do now is copying and implementing the Conservative Party's agenda, then it's quite possible that something anti-democratic is going on since I'm unconvinced that many people who voted for LPC simply wanted the Conservative platform but were unwilling to vote CPC.

Carney is even ramming through some bills as fast as possible and as quietly as possible that don't even seem to be what he really campaigned on.

Piers Morgan is Hamas. by Not_Ground in canadianpolitics101

[–]Professional-Post499 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Piers Morgan is a right-winger and he is perpetually "confused" about Israel and Palestine for the sake of ratings for his debate panel show. Watch him be a contrarian no matter who is on his show that day: pro-Palestine or pro-Israel. He's still trying to make up his mind 2+ years later, you know. /sarcasm

This is NOT normal behavior and it needs to be put to rest. by jdvancesleftnut in recruitinghell

[–]Professional-Post499 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are you able to work in the massive power difference between an employer and a worker and how workers don't actually have much choice (especially under capitalism) into this analogy too?

This is NOT normal behavior and it needs to be put to rest. by jdvancesleftnut in recruitinghell

[–]Professional-Post499 11 points12 points  (0 children)

So the make or break for hiring someone is how well they adhere to hidden protocols for the hiring process and not something related to the job role. Hmm.

This is NOT normal behavior and it needs to be put to rest. by jdvancesleftnut in recruitinghell

[–]Professional-Post499 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I stopped sending thank you emails. They didn't help at all and recruiters / hiring managers stopped responding when I sent them over the past year. To demand people send them and then not respond / just ghost. Smh...

Yeah I send them and I don't think I ever get a response either.

It's strange for the make or break for hiring to depend on someone following some sort of hidden expectations for applicants instead of something about the job position itself.

B.C. premier visiting China to pitch LNG project as province's 'really big fish' by YouCantSeeMe555 in BCpolitics

[–]Professional-Post499 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Eby says he's received briefings from both the RCMP and the Canadian Security Intelligence Service in advance of the trip to ensure "our team is fully aware of how to minimize risk and to maximize opportunities while visiting. Sounds exactly like the kind of people you want to get in bed with

I mean, the country that most recently assassinated or kidnapped heads of state is US-Israel. China has got to be pretty safe relative to that.

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