Get fucked. It’s 3 seconds on google to find reputable articles about his threats to canada, videos of him threatening canada, or even his own fucking posts on truth social.
The only reason it hasn’t happened is because his people distracted him with invading Venezuela, then threatening Greenland, then Iran, now Cuba, or maybe still Iran.
I mean he’s clearly broken the first amendment more than a few times by ordering the government to pressure organizations over their right to free speech.
Also, constitutional problems with his deportation bullshit. Which he’s been ordered not to do, and yet they’re still doing it.
Oh, I’m not saying it’s going to be a good idea. I’m just saying it’s happening.
Microsoft does business with anthropic, it’s baked into multiple parts of copilot already.
This is going to get messy.
Lol, everything gonna be vibe coded here shortly. Good luck.
Sure, but if you know there’s a high likelihood of problems going somewhere, it’s a smart idea to avoid it.
As per the rule with cars: dead right is still dead.
I mean, if they rejected it by 99%, and it’s been forced through anyways, there’s going to be some people searching for new work and air Canada is going to have a hard time staffing.
It really isn’t. Those rocks are heavy, a light touch like what’s seen in the video would have very little impact.
Changing the friction of the ice on the other hand has significantly more impact because of how heavy the rock is.
Nothing is stopping it, it’s just not particularly convenient because it’s designed around the limitations of the phone system.
SIP could handle it all if you wanted though.
There’s always someone worse.
There’s nothing to scrap, Capital gains taxes are already already waived for selling your primary residence in Canada.
My preference would be a policy that taxes all properties (just the land, not the building) and then refunding that money to every Canadian citizen (and maybe people who are on a PR track working towards citizenship) equally. That way if you have a big property with a high land value, and only 2 people living there, you’re not getting most of your tax back, but if you’ve got 3 kids and 2 adults in a 5 bedroom house in a suburb, or the same in a townhouse closer to the core, you’re breaking even, and if you choose to live as a couple in a 1 bedroom apartment (low land value per unit) or a larger place but further out of town where property is cheaper, you may even get a little bit of extra money back each month.
That way people are paying everyone else for the amount of desirable land they want to consume. You want a mansion in downtown Vancouver, go right ahead, pay everyone else for that privledge. You don’t need as much and are happy to have a small apartment just outside the core? Thank you for your sacrifice, here’s some cash from Mr. Mansion.
This scales nicely and encourages people to only use what they need at a given time, and also encourages development of density of properties that have high land values because people want to live there.
It also directly taxes non-citizens who want to own land here. Paying every Canadian for the fact that they’re consuming land in Canada.
That’s what I’m saying, there’s too many people in houses that aren’t the right size for them. It’s not a supply issue, it’s a distribution issue.
If you make 1100 dinners, and there are 1000 people, but you give two dinners to 400 people you’re going to run out before everyone gets a dinner. There’s no shortage of dinners though, it’s simply a distribution issue.
People don’t have to stay in a house that’s far too large for them. Allowing or encouraging them to do so is actually a huge problem.
My parents are a perfect example of this, they have a house with 4 bedrooms, and a suite with 1 more bedroom. They had the suite rented out, but decided they didn’t need the money so they stopped. It’s literally just the two of them in a 5 bedroom house. They also have a one bedroom cabin elsewhere. Was that 4 bedrooms useful when they were raising my sibling and I? Sure, but we haven’t lived there in 25 years.
We need policies that encourage scaling house size to family size, so that the distribution issue gets resolved. We need policies that encourage essentially force density in desirable locations. Those are the only way we solve the housing issue. We cannot, no matter how hard we try, build our way back to affordable housing.
Except that’s not what the data says, there are more bedrooms in BC than people, not even accounting for the fact that lots of people are couples and share a room.
It’s true for every location I’ve ever checked in Canada, including Metro areas like Vancouver and Toronto.
There’s a lot of excess bedrooms that are not being used for housing people.
What? Nah, His edit is 11 minutes after I said it.
Did you even read what I said.
It’s not a supply and demand problem locally. In fact, it’s the opposite of that. It’s a local supply problem, with a national demand issue.
That’s why all this nonsense about supply building is so fucking useless. You can’t supply all of the houses in Vancouver that are desired from the 41 million Canadians across Canada.
By all means keep building more, but unless you tamp demand down it will not matter.
That looks like a list of major tour stops for sure…
Don’t forget Niki Minaj.
You can look up the data even for cities specifically, it’s not significantly different. You aren’t doing that because you don’t want to be proven wrong.
Continue tilting at windmills my friend. I’m going to go after the actual monsters.
Let me ask you a simple question. It has a very obvious answer too.
What if 5 million units magically appeared overnight in Vancouver and they were all available at “affordable” rates, so no more than 3x median annual household income. So around $150,000k for a 1 bed condo, and around $270 for a 3 bedroom townhouse.
How long would it take for those units to be snapped up by buyers?
I’ll tell you the answer, they would be sold as soon as people could talk to their bank.
People would straight up abandon their lives elsewhere for those units. From Halifax to Hope, there would be a migration like never seen before.
And the next day, Vancouver housing prices would still be higher than those new rates, because there would still be more demand and not enough available units driving the prices up.
This is the eternal problem with supply in desirable areas, there can never be enough of it.
Greater Tokyo has 40 million people, and even with the entire country losing something like a half a million people, Tokyo’s population is stable because of constant inbound migration from other areas. The moment costs drop, or jobs become available, someone else moves in to take it.
This isn’t a random side take either, Greater Tokyo has about 3x the density of Greater Vancouver. Tripling the current Vancouver population would be around 6 million new people.
Do you know how Tokyo stays somewhat affordable for housing? The per-person average square footage for housing is like 150-250 square feet. There are entire 4 person families living in 500 square foot apartments, and singles living in units so small you can touch the walls on both sides.
It’s not about a lack of supply, or rather, there is no possible way to reach a supply level that would reduce housing prices to affordable levels.
Instead, and here’s the genius trick, you change the demand. You introduce a tax on EVERYONE in Vancouver, not a small tax, a large tax, but you don’t tax the people, you tax the land they use. Maybe $100,000 a year for a detached house in the City of Vancouver, Maybe $10,000 a year for a condo in Vancouver. That money gets refunded to all Canadians equally, even to the people who live in Vancouver. This gives people an incentive to live outside of Vancouver, and the people who do get to live there subsidize the people who don’t get to live in such a desirable location. People who want a lot of land, pay for the privledge. People who are happy to share the land pay less, or even benefit from others who don’t want to share.
It won’t. The tech is far too useful.