SamuelRJankis

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

I never really know with Conservatives voters, but I think the start of divergence of the Liberals and Conservative around June/July 2023 was around the time they decided to implement the Online News Act that temporarily dropped news from Google feeds and permanently from Facebook.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/google-canada-online-news-1.6892879

I think the Liberal incompetence at handling modern social media will end up costing them a lot of votes. Although I still stand by my prediction that by 2029ish Pierre will be one of the most despised Canadians.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

If I were point at one thing I think it would be how we handled social media as a society.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

One of safest Conservative ridings in the country.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

This post is also a good example of Lemmy clients not rendering things correctly. Sometimes the image is the full resolution sometimes it's the thumbnail resolution.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

The cheapest place to get a ~1-2 year loan would most likely be:

  1. Credit transfer promo at 0%(they get you with the transfer fee usually 2% these days.) and 6m terms.

  2. HELOC assuming they have equity for that.

  3. Shopping around for LoC's. Some places have way higher rates then others. For example my Scotia LoC used to be like 30k at 6.5% and TD was 11k at 11.75%. Also keep in mind that each LoC will most likely require credit checks.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 3 weeks ago (20 children)

A 2012 report from David Campanella, then the public policy research manager for the Parkland Institute, and Greg Flanagan, a public finance economist, concluded that privatization has led to Albertans paying more compared to public stores.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Rustad's promises, three months before the provincial election, also include compensating health workers who lost their jobs for refusing to get the COVID-19 vaccine.

Damn you gotta give it to the Conservatives for finding new and imaginative ways to piss away money.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

In this case is more about what you would get out of Biden, Harris, Vance or Trump.

As long as she's willing to strongly push for a ceasefire as American you got other things to worry about. And for the record I do agree it's a genocide.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

As a Canadian I feel like people who support our right wing politicians are very generous with the accuracy of what they say and their American counterparts are even more so.

Yet somehow the Progressive side is held to this unusual standard where they're constantly painted as the villain if they're off by the slightest bit.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

The man the many believe is the salvation to this country.

Jeremy MacKenzie, the leader of the Canadian far-right group Diagolon, made the threats over the weekend in a stream on the social media app Telegram while speaking with a guest, Alex Vriend.

"Let's rape her," MacKenzie said. "It's not really a sex thing. It's like we just want to show people that we can do things to you if we want to. It's a power move."

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/poilievre-threats-mackenzie-1.6595730

Because that's exactly what Pierre Poilievre continues to do, not just when you see him engaging with members of Diagolon but also when he refuses to condemn and reject the endorsement of Alex Jones."

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/poilievre-trudeau-carbon-protest-alex-jones-diagolon-1.7183430

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

assuming unaccountable emergency power

Logically speaking wouldn't you be against the person who said they'd use the notwithstanding clause running the country?

From a Conservatives perspective NDP is blocking them from taking over and saving the country. From Progressive perspective the NDP is preventing a bad government turning even worse.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 weeks ago

Our rates from a 90 year perspective for anyone wondering:

https://wowa.ca/bank-of-canada-interest-rate

 

Premier Danielle Smith in her letter acknowledges the CDCP has led to more Albertans becoming eligible for coverage under the new federal plan.

Take individuals seeking coverage under the Alberta Adult Health benefit, for example. To qualify, a couple with four children would have to see a maximum net household income of $46,932.

"I think [$46,932] is really low for a threshold," said Ameera Shivji with Vibrant Communities Calgary, a poverty reduction organization.

"That [$46,932] doesn't cover a lot of people that would be in real need for this program."

Given the CDCP's $90,000 adjusted family net income threshold, more families would be captured above the Alberta Adult Health benefit's cutoff.

 

Even Stephen Harper — a member of an evangelical church himself — avoided public association with evangelical Christians due to political considerations.

 

It said Wednesday the airline asked the government to quash its strike notice without notifying its negotiators.

 

 

With a joint review of Canada’s free trade agreement with the US and Mexico coming up in 2026

 

Just to make things easier for people.

The video talks about the glut of micro units having issues selling due to how undesirable they are for people actually living in them and not aligning with a more realistic price.

The numbers on why a lot of people can't hold onto these investments:

Shrinking units, the ones discussed in the video is around ~300sqft:

Substantially less of newer units are owner occupied:

 

Given his political leanings, it probably shouldn't be surprising that Poilievre has chosen to oppose the Liberal tax changes. Back in 2004, the Conservative leader seems to have been in favour of eliminating capital gains taxes entirely (the Conservative party platform that year called for a "reduction").

It's a hell of a thing to imagine housing flippers won't have to pay any taxes on their profits.

 

Renters make up 33.4% of households in Canada — the highest percentage it’s ever been. As expected, the largest share is represented by young Millennials still working out their balance up the property ladder by their mid-30s. The kicker is that senior renters over 65 are right at their heels.

 

https://archive.ph/JxZih

Also the source data since news articles seem to hate including them: https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/240613/dq240613a-eng.htm

 

May told a news conference the full version of the classified report does not contain a "list of MPs who have shown disloyalty to Canada."

May said one former MP accused in the report of proactively sharing privileged information with a foreign operative should be fully investigated by authorities. She said that former MP is not named in the full report.

Turns out Pierre Poilievre comments about being muzzled if he saw the reports might have been him talking about his hobbies. Hopefully he doesn't show in parliament one day in a full gimp suit.

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