That’s horrific. I hope the kid is able to make a full recovery. And that we take this as a wake up call - stories like this feel like a warning about the state of our healthcare system.

I agree, but we also need to lower our GHG emissions. Since we refuse to improve urban planning or transit, EVs are a step in the right direction.

That’s definitely a thing too. I’m not sure it changes the trajectory of his career though.

If the PRC hadn’t meddled, and O’Toole took the 10-ish ridings he alleged were subverted (which seems like a bit of a stretch), the Conservatives still wouldn’t have been able to form government.

I think Poilievre’s revolt did more to turf O’Toole than the PRC.

From what I’ve seen, Poilievre hasn’t been nearly as hawkish on China, so the PRC certainly got lucky on that one.

Singh wasn’t the intended audience for the letter, voters were. I’m guessing it was mostly aimed at Poilievre’s base, but maybe it was intended to catch some others too.

Compared to most of the leadership alternatives, he was good. I appreciate that he didn’t want to pander to the Poilievre base.

His overthrow was inevitable. In retrospect, at least.

His resignation tour was really interesting. He went on a rant against social media-led politicking and (iirc) kinda/sorta called for a return to big tent parties.

AFAICT the federal daycare deal, dental care, measures to address the housing crisis, and price on carbon were implemented by negotiating/cajoling the provinces. Generally speaking, I believe those were mostly successful initiatives that help Canadians.

FWIW, this announcement deals solely with temporary foreign workers - I don’t believe there’s an easy path for a TFW to become a permanent resident.

The expansions in TFW policy are definitely corporate-friendly, in the sense that they suppress wages. They also discourage businesses from improving productivity, which has long been a problem for the Canadian economy.

Rail workers were not on strike. They were locked out by their employers.

Edit: I stand corrected

My kid says “bro” a lot. I guess I’ll call CSIS now. Maybe I should spend an hour staring at social media first.

After approaching the man on his own initiative and explicitly introducing himself as a “Canadian journalist,” Zivo says he began to notice “red flags.”

He claims the man told him he once lived in the Ottawa-area, had an Ontario driver’s license, was covered in tattoos and also “said ‘bro’ a lot.”

Acting only on this bad “vibe,” Zivo says he looked the man up on Facebook and began compiling a dossier on him which he later sent unsolicited to CSIS. The National Post columnist claims he “spoke for an hour on the phone with CSIS” about what he found on the man’s social media profile but was told the spy agency would not accept a PDF of his dossier for “cyber security” reasons.

Frustrated, Zivo claims he took a taxi to a Ukrainian military checkpoint surrounded by sandbags and was led to a “little wooden shed” by armed guards where he spent a full day using Duolingo to walk a perplexed group of soldiers through his suspicions about the stranger whom he had approached at the shopping mall.

In a subsequent meeting with Ukrainian intelligence agents, Zivo says he volunteered to wear a wire and record himself dining with the man at a restaurant called Kompot, which he describes as the “Olive Garden of Ukraine.” Zivo says his handlers expressed concern for his safety but he insisted he would ultimately “feel safer” if he caught the suspected spy himself.

It sounds like Zivo thinks he’s an MC and wanted to play James Bond. From that explanation, it sounds like he got a polite brush off from CSIS, but the Ukrainian intelligence agency gave him some rope.

I’m not a fan of the National Post, but I’m not sure they’re to blame if one of their content creators goes off their chain.

Zivo probably should be limited to writing op-eds after this.

They can apply all they want

Cardy laid out five policy planks on which he says the new party will be campaigning: reforming government programs, increasing Canada’s defence spending to two per cent of its gross domestic product, reforming immigration through “better gatekeepers,” making life more affordable by “dismantling protectionism” and increasing competition in the airline, telecommunications and agricultural sectors.

Climate change? Cost of living? The housing crisis? Collapsing healthcare?

“Increasing competition” without lowering prices is meaningless. Protectionism is fine, so long as we generally benefit from it.

The new “unofficial estimate” of 234,000 homeless people is almost 1.5 per cent of Ontario’s population of about 16 million. If accurate, it would mean that for every 10,000 people in Ontario, nearly 150 are homeless — nine times more than the auditor general calculated.

Fuck.

That’s awesome! I’m glad that progress is being made. In theory, government measures meant to increase builds will start kicking in soon, so that will accelerate.

Price/cost is another story and I’d never live in a new build because its not rent controlled.

This is really important. If we don’t have units people can afford, the number of available units doesn’t really matter. The CMHC estimate of 3.5 million new units by 2030 may be one way to get there. Governments building low cost/rent units is another.

With a stick of dynamite clenched between your teeth giving your local billionaire a final bear hug?

I don’t think you’re wrong, but housing is a massive issue that contributes to a bunch of other problems (cost of living, drug crisis, homelessness). If governments don’t step up, the next few generations are going to have a shitty time.

that should be okay as long as the country didn’t put all its eggs in the real estate basket cause and we are too smart to do that right? Right??

Yeeeeeeeeees…

A correction would either

1. lower prices. Builders failing build doesn’t seem like it would lower prices in any way.
2. increase supply. Builders failing will leave supply low. Since demand is increasing (partially due to a growing population), this should cause prices to rise.
3. decrease demand. There are still lots of people trying to buy, and we expect the population to grow, so builders failing will not reduce demand.

This does not appear to be a correction, it appears to be a continuation of existing problems.

“There’s a lack of access to physicians,” Shoppers president Jeff Leger says. “One in five Canadians don’t have access to a primary care provider. There’s lots of great solutions, but they take time to mature, and get more doctors. So people are turning to pharmacists and other professionals to help fill those gaps.”

The people who fixed the price of your bread are now practicing disaster capitalism on our healthcare.

Hundreds of Loblaw’s own pharmacists have told the country’s largest pharmacy regulator that they have felt pressure to put the bottom line ahead of patient care.

Shockingly, they aren’t even doing a good job at it.