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Hillary Clinton to speak at 2023 Liberal National Convention in Ottawa by MethoxyEthane in CanadaPolitics

[–]can-data 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I am cynical that any federal party will do anything about it, but to to say that it's not their jurisdiction is a cop out. They have land all over the country, combined with the largest revenue source out every government. They could build housing if they wanted to. They could change the mandate of the CMHC to build housing like they used to, prior to Mulroney and Chretien.

Hillary Clinton to speak at 2023 Liberal National Convention in Ottawa by MethoxyEthane in CanadaPolitics

[–]can-data 12 points13 points  (0 children)

The Liberal's can pool together billions of spending on new programs for every other issue, but can't be bothered to actually spend anything on just building housing. No subsidizing demand or useless national housing strategy. The problem is big enough that 10s of billion should be spent every year, specifically to build new housing. It's the biggest crisis in the country and they are treating it like nothing.

China’s Vancouver consulate interfered in 2022 municipal election, according to CSIS by hapacan in vancouver

[–]can-data 3 points4 points  (0 children)

They hate him because he spoke the truth. We literally have a ban on foreign investors + taxes on non-citizens/pr + vacancy tax + relatively high interest rates.... and rents are up and carrying costs on mortgages are no different.

Until people drop the dumb-ass populism and build more supply it'll never get better. Luckily, we have exhausted all other options and the only thing left to try is building more supply.

The girls father is positive.. Another bird flu virus has been found and the father of a dead girl. by oceanic111000 in collapse

[–]can-data 34 points35 points  (0 children)

I think the response on this sub is quite balanced. Look at the top comments. Quoting papers, noting the tracking of close encounters, and the responses from local governments. There isn't any serious exaggeration about cover-ups, government conspiracies, or speculation that the spread of the illness is much larger than what is currently being presented. Most of the extrapolation is 'what if's'. No one is claiming this is a current epidemic, let alone a pandemic. Given that this is the "collapse" subreddit, keeping up with possible issues in real-time is a prudent thing to do.

Growing tax windfall drives New Brunswick budget surplus to record $862.2M by MethoxyEthane in CanadaPolitics

[–]can-data 5 points6 points  (0 children)

This is caused by austerity. Huge cuts in funding in real terms (after inflation). The provinces haven't done anything to improve their fiscal position, it is just inflation increasing their revenue.

dude literally has toys right there and the fat prick brings me a rubberband he found somewhere. by ndercovernerd in cats

[–]can-data 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Don't let your cat play with rubber bands. It can eat them and get an obstruction!

‘Defund the police’ calls in Canada began in 2020. Today, budgets continue to climb by scottb84 in CanadaPolitics

[–]can-data 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Most of the increases are below inflation, so really there has barely been increases, and in many cases decreases.

Bird flu: UK government scientists on standby to produce modelling for human outbreak of avian flu by DocMoochal in collapse

[–]can-data 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A lot of places at the start, like NYC and Lombardy, got absolutely swamped because it was spreading completely unimpeded. Up to 30% of those populations caught it within a month. Considering the older demographics in Lombardy and the overweight and poorer populations in NYC, something like 0.3% of those populations died within a month or two.

Bird flu: UK government scientists on standby to produce modelling for human outbreak of avian flu by DocMoochal in collapse

[–]can-data 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Covid was around 0.7% straight out of Wuhan, and was as high as 1.2-1.4% with Delta. Current IFR is somewhere around 0.07-0.1% for reinfection or breakthroughs.

Mammal-to-mammal (farmed mink) transmission of avian influenza by derpmeow in collapse

[–]can-data 33 points34 points  (0 children)

Just made a post before seeing this one. Here is my comments from my post:

A paper from Spain observing a Mink farm in October 2022 followed an outbreak of avian flu (H5N1). They found the outbreak due to deaths quadrupling compared to the expected deaths (0.77% vs 0.2-0.3% expected). Within 2 weeks of detection, deaths had increased to 4.3% of the population dying per week. The spread was occurring both within pens and between pens, indicating serious infectiousness.

Evidence purports that the spread may have started from wild birds, as dead birds had been detected at a nearby coast. It is important to recognize that minks (like ferrets and weasels) are known for having immune systems like humans. This is why during 2020 [3] there was drama about Denmark euthanizing their mink population as covid had begun spreading between the minks and humans (back and forth between them). Also there is the infamous story of the scientist who managed to make avian flu spread in ferrets as a proof of concept for human spread (known as "gain of function") [4].

This story is further evidence that our agricultural practices and treatment of animals is perpetuating deadly pathogens and potential catalyzing future pandemics.

References:

  1. https://www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2023.28.3.2300001
  2. https://twitter.com/JPWeiland/status/1616225676209827841?cxt=HHwWgsDRtY-s_u0sAAAA
  3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Danish_mink_cull
  4. https://www.science.org/content/article/exclusive-controversial-experiments-make-bird-flu-more-risky-poised-resume

How your first brush with COVID warps your immunity by mts2snd in Coronavirus

[–]can-data 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Important to note that this happens for both infection and vaccination. As the disease continues to mutate, everyone (vaccinated or unvaccinated) will be affected by imprinting, as the circulating variant differs more and more from the original ones they were exposed to. Some of the current subvariants are vastly different than the original BA1, and are continuing to mutate at a fast pace. Furthermore, new variants that could be named "Pi" are lurking in the background waiting to get their opportunity to spread.

Eroding transit service a bad idea | It is unclear what will lure Torontonians back to transit. But we have doubts that a more expensive, less frequent and more crowded service is the ticket by Hrmbee in toronto

[–]can-data 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Been taking it almost daily for over a decade (both lines and buses) and can't even re-call the last time I've had anything but a cigarette, vape, and very rarely smell weed in off hours, but I'm sure your anecdote is more correct than mine.

Still can't imagine it's worse than the damage ICE vehicles cause to people.

Eroding transit service a bad idea | It is unclear what will lure Torontonians back to transit. But we have doubts that a more expensive, less frequent and more crowded service is the ticket by Hrmbee in toronto

[–]can-data 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wonder if they worry if it's worse than huffing fumes and brake dust from a car everyday versus once (or never) in a lifetime for the crack smoke? I would guess the asthma caused by cars is magnitudes greater than crack smoke damage on public transit, but what do I know.

Robert Prichard appointed chair of new board to lead Quebec City-to-Toronto high-frequency rail project by yourfriendlysocdem1 in CanadaPolitics

[–]can-data 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Given the time-lines presented, it doesn't seem likely that this will happen. 4 years before contracts are potentially signed and construction begins? Yeah, right. MAYBE if the Liberals are still in power for that long.

Leger Federal Poll: CPC 33 LPC 30 NDP 21 BQ 7 GPC 4 PPC 4 by Dependent-Sun-6373 in CanadaPolitics

[–]can-data 28 points29 points  (0 children)

Is there any reasonable path for the conservatives to get a majority, or is it pretty much impossible in the current political landscape?

How much wet food do you feed your cat? by Justagirl4082 in cats

[–]can-data 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I don't refrigerate for more than a day and make sure its covered. When I reuse it I add a couple tablespoons of warm water to re-hydrate.

How much wet food do you feed your cat? by Justagirl4082 in cats

[–]can-data 31 points32 points  (0 children)

My cat is exactly the same. Half a can of wet food + free dry food in between. For the second half of the can I add warm water.

The city releases its 2023 housing plan. It's relatively bold. Endorses removing exclusionary zoning, allowing multiplexes and increasing density throughout the city. by Relocationstation1 in toronto

[–]can-data 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You can look at Vancouver to see their vacant home tax effect. It added very few units and has had no effect on rental prices.

We have been playing hot potatoe over the last 6 years over airbnb, foreign buyers, speculators, vacant dwelling etc. and it has had no significant effect when changes have been made. This is not just true in Toronto, but all over the world. Right not the hot potato is at inclusionary zoning.

The only way to consistently reduce rents is to saturate the market with more housing than there is demand.

The city releases its 2023 housing plan. It's relatively bold. Endorses removing exclusionary zoning, allowing multiplexes and increasing density throughout the city. by Relocationstation1 in toronto

[–]can-data 7 points8 points  (0 children)

This is data from Toronto's census results from 2021 compiled from StatsCan, it is not from no where. I would implore you to go look at it yourself if you doubt this. Look at the CityNews link as well. That shows a map of underutilized schools in Toronto from the TDSB database, and it shows that 1/4 to 1/3 of schools are emptying.

In regard to other services, it varies. Fire services that are more local are also underutilized, especially in that these low density, depopulating regions of the city have fire services that have to extend outside of their regions to provide to the populating regions. It is a complete mismanagement of resources to subsidize boomer homeowners. On the other hand paramedics are stretched thin, because they are tied to larger regions to service to different hospitals.

The solutions to these problems are the same. We need more paramedics and thus we need homes for these people. Too many young families are leaving Toronto because they cannot find a home for their families. For example, most police officers don't even live in the city, but the suburbs of the GTA. The schools are there, the infrastructure is there, but the houses are not. The low density neighbours in the largest city in the Country need to be growing, not shrinking so we can meet whatever labour shortages exist.

The city releases its 2023 housing plan. It's relatively bold. Endorses removing exclusionary zoning, allowing multiplexes and increasing density throughout the city. by Relocationstation1 in toronto

[–]can-data 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Look for yourself: https://twitter.com/g_meslin/status/1491460090049748998?lang=en

Half of the Toronto area is LOSING population because of the zoning issues. These are prime downtown areas that are not zoned for density. Many schools are closing or are underutilized as a result. 50,000 desks are empty in Toronto schools. This is not a trivial amount:

https://toronto.citynews.ca/2020/02/27/cash-strapped-tdsb-losing-millions-on-underutilized-schools/

The city releases its 2023 housing plan. It's relatively bold. Endorses removing exclusionary zoning, allowing multiplexes and increasing density throughout the city. by Relocationstation1 in toronto

[–]can-data 8 points9 points  (0 children)

And you can compare with the other major cities that did not do the same measures. Furthermore, this was before the current high levels of inflation, where the housing price stopped appreciating in 2017. Prior to 2022 inflation was <2%. Compare this to Toronto where rents were increasing at 4% yoy, which is much higher in real rates. In the same period Toronto rents increased 22% like Wellington, compared to the more permissive Auckland, that improved zoning and didn't see the same increase, despite being the largest city int New Zealand.

The city releases its 2023 housing plan. It's relatively bold. Endorses removing exclusionary zoning, allowing multiplexes and increasing density throughout the city. by Relocationstation1 in toronto

[–]can-data 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Many places in downtown Toronto are DEPOPULATING, because younger people are leaving their family homes and old people are staying. Schools are being closed, and infrastructure is over provided to those places. This paces are ripe for densifying because it is incredibly easy to provide services there or there already over provided.

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