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- horton0
The Economist's World's Most Livable Cities 2009
City Country Rating
1 Vancouver Canada 98.0- This doesn't mean shit to the common man. Vancouver is expensive a fuck. How does that translate to livable?bort
- buddy asked about the weather.horton
- A lot of Canadian cities are in the top. It's awesome.juhls
- It's based on stability, health care, culture and environment, education, and infrastructurejuhls
- Liveable is about as subjective as anything else in life. These lists never make sense to me.CyBrainX
- Salarrue0
I hope this guy becomes Canadian Prime Minister in the future :
Wab Kinew
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wa…- former rapper in dead Indians_niko
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- Nice!Salarrue
- Him being elected premier on a province that can’t stand natives is saying something._niko
- Gnash0
Canada Will Legalize Medically Assisted Dying For People Addicted to Drugs
- https://i.etsystatic…hotroddy
- Ahh the death cult is rejoicingHayoth
- Hail Satan!pango
- nb1
Holy fuckin housing bubble
- it's been a bubble for the past decade_niko
- really driven by Vancouver and Toronto, which has tons of new people coming in. and no place to put them. so I don't think it'll burst_niko
- No room for new homes in Toronto really because of the greenbelt and Vancouver is just sea and mountains so land is at a premium. plus Chinese and Iranian $$_niko
- but the bank of Canada put a pause on rate hikes and lenders use all kinds of tricks to still keep mortgages reasonable like super long terms._niko
- 20% of borrowers are paying a mortgage that doesn’t even cover the interest!!! I understand variable rates & recent rate changes. But this is still insanity.nb
- https://www.theglobe…nb
- Also, when the banks got called on it, their response wasn’t “this is fine”. Instead they refuse comment or “we’re under no obligation to disclose this”nb
- So let’s assume this 20% is all just the variable rate mortgages in the country. Another 60-70% are due to refinance within 4 or 5 years.nb
- Let’s hope all the Canadian homeowners have a ton of extra cash on hand. Oh wait, they don’t.nb
- The $1T question: of those 20%, how many are choosing to pay the maximum lump sum payment each year?nb
- Unless they want to refinance for a longer period or can afford a huge monthly increase, they’ll be forced to sell or walk away from the mortgagenb
- utopian1
- cutting interviews out of context to support one's narrativepango
- 1 demographic they need to have more in the interviews are the people going through that shit.pango
- It not at all one of the wealthiest cities in North America. It has inflated real estate but very little moneynb
- “40 people are responsible for 6300 incidents” amazing statnb
- Not an amazing doc but he does talk to former addicts near the end. Makes a good pointnb
- Few. Disproportionately more of those inconveniently annoyed by it.pango
- Yes the housing market is stupidly inflated. People here don't make more or same amount of money compare to other city with similar market.pango
- I agree with the point that safe supply isn’t truly compassionate and is never going to solve the problem. Most addicts don’t want be addicts, we can do better.nb
- Most people I know who support safe supply would also freak out if affordable housing was built near their house.nb
- It’s not really compassion. It’s more “keep them drugged and contained to that street so that my house doesn’t go down in price.” Sad but true.nb
- safe supply is only a band-aid. shit not gonna change if other shit dont change. and yes it is hypocritical not wanting affordable housing near them.pango
- i for one welcome affordable housing near me and make my house price go down. fucking tax is stupid high cuz stupid inflated market.pango
- if affordable housing makes the neighbourhood housing market to go down we should have more everywhere to make housing market to calm the fuck down.pango
- if safe supply doesn't exist, they are still going to get drugs. and more likely to die from it. also drug dealers makes money from it.pango
- alternative to "keep them drugged up" is to let them die i guess.pango
- Gnash0
New analysis of wooden artifacts shows Viking voyagers were living in Newfoundland as far back as 1021
https://www.wsj.com/articles/vik…
We’re gonna start doing our land acknowledgements in Norwegian now
- it's interesting that they weren't wiped out by native diseases - or viceversa - like what happened in south america with spaniards and aztecs, etc.grafician
- Perhaps they were wiped outGnash
- Their living conditions and knowledge of medicine is as much, if not more, to blame than the bringing of new viruses from the west. Many other ppl than whitezarkonite
- europeans were regular visitors and brought their viruses too.zarkonite
- i_monk1
Love the thrashing Ford is getting.
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- lol. didnt know about itVectorMasked
- i_monk1
https://www.npr.org/2020/10/19/9…
Wendell Potter spent decades scaring Americans. About Canada. He worked for the health insurance industry, and he knew that if Americans understood Canadian-style health care, they might.... like it. So he helped deploy an industry playbook for protecting the health insurance agency.
- i_monk1
By Canadian standards, Kamala Harris could run for the Conservatives
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business…
(Would Bernie even be NDP?)