That’s because they keep trying to build houses whose primary objective is to be profitable for developers and/or investors. They keep building either suburban subdivisions or isolated condo towers. We need to be building to house people, not to create profit, i.e, we need to be building off market housing. And to make it work, we need to be building housing in transit oriented, mixed use walkable neighborhoods, not in car centric suburban sprawls.

Yes, there is a massive labour shortage in sectors such as healthcare and the skilled trades: https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/corporate/transparency/committees/cimm-nov-25-2024/labour-shortages.html

Youth unemployment has to do with the particularities of students looking for temporary jobs in the services sector and the lack of training opportunities https://lmic-cimt.ca/the-state-of-youth-employment-in-canada/ https://policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/november-2024/youth-employment-opportunities/

That’s silly. Canada needs more people, and we will probably be forced to take in people from down south soon enough, if they have a hot/violent summer. We need to build up out of the current crises, not pretend we libe on the moon.

Build up:

• More walkable, transit oriented mixed use, dense and off market housing.
• Fast track recognition of credentials of newly arrived professionals
• Invest in interprovincial infrastructure: trains, renewables, smart grid, fast internet
• A civil defence corps to prepare for climate resilience and emergencies
• A civil service corps to rebuild and revitalize rural and indigenous communities

That’s cute!

I missed a comma before “algorithms” it seems.

The kind of “extreme authoritarianism” you’re pearl clutching about is literally the age ratings system that was in place in the late 90s. Get a grip.

I like the way you think.

Being the menshevik that I am, I would think that it’s OK to let little small time capitalists play with their sand toys, let them set up little lemonade stands and juice carts and little tavernas and what have you, so long as they’re not anywhere near society’s critical path. Low tech, low impact stuff is OK.

At this point, the guy could be a rabid neonazi pedophile for all I care: he should still not have been deported without a trial. People are presumed innocent until proven guilty in court. Do your fucking job.

The more technology advances, the more convinced I become that capitalism should not be let anywhere near it

“We live in a society where foreign alien terrorists have unlimited free legal representation,” Stephen Miller posted.

Did I stutter, bitch?

This is totally a diffusion of social media issue. Twenty years ago, the media that kids had available for consumption was age rated. We had agreed as a society that certain things should not be visible to children until they grow up. It was possible to do because it was centralized (TV, movies, radio, print) and it was accountable to regulatory bodies and the rest of society. If a TV channel showed something as shitty as Tate style propaganda, there was institutional pushback, there were letters to the editor, there was someone specific to be targeted for accountability.

With social media being dominated by US style “freedom of speech” algorithms and US style acceptance of the impossibility (or even undesirability) of regulation and with completely unaccountable megacorps running them while giving very minimal if non-existent attention to who is watching what, we have a complete lack of age rating. We have given up on the idea of protecting childhood it seems.

Coupled with every fucking other issue being brought up in this thread, from COVID, to economic issues, to cultural misogyny, there is a perfect storm…

Poilievre is a fucking idiot.

Ever seen a movie called V for Vendetta?

LMDE because it’s Mint and a recent Debian stable.

I don’t think anything in the ruling hinged on the semantics if the world “means”. That said, there is nothing ambiguous in saying that a logical relation is not symmetric. Symmetry, like reflexivity, transitivity etc, are well defined in algebra.

Rapist doesn’t understand that “No means no”.

The American mind cannot comprehend this.

Only if you assume that the word “means” defines a symmetric relation.

Next: German authorities name Haaretz an antisemitic publication.

Honestly and unironically the quebeckification of the ROC would be awesome.

Really? Just google “Poilievre deport” and the first two hits are literally:

https://www.timesofisrael.com/canadas-tory-leader-vows-to-deport-foreigners-for-antisemitic-crimes/

https://m.jpost.com/diaspora/article-850082

It’s barely a dogwshitle at this point.