BreathingUnderWater @ BreathingUnderWater @lemmy.ca

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Gen Xers are part of it now

Yeah she's an embarrassment

It may come as a surprise for you, but Canadians were once mostly British

Sorry I'm too dumb, I don't get it

Wow haven't even heard of this shooting. Where did it happen? It's not in the news here at all.

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Are you a colonizer too? Unless you're 100% First Nations (you aren't) then you are by your own logic a colonizer and doing harm.

Fucking Russia gov't

Who would’ve thought? Just like everywhere else, I guess .. (Humans are terrible)

Who are you? I've seen your post history (now) since you mentioned mine. Interesting. I'm not trolling, I'm a genuine person. It honestly feels like you were the one who is trolling. Sorry you were so offended. Hope you have a better life sometime.

I remember our high school history teacher beginning our lesson on WWII. A few days into the lesson (explaining the Holocaust and such) We thought we all knew about it already. Then she asked us how many Jewish refugees Canada as a country took in?

We made guesses. A million, one hundred thousand? Canada is a welcoming multicultural country afterall, as we've been taught, so we must have taken a lot!

And then she said Canada took less than a couple thousand Jewish people in. That was quite a shock. The room was silent when she said it. She explained the anti Jewish sentiments of the time. We didn't want them because they weren't Christian. It was so strange to us at the time. Why wouldn't we take them? They needed help. Definitely a strong teaching moment, I've remembered it to this day.

Looked it up and this is the official number I guess: Between 1933 and 1948, less than 5,000 Jewish refugees were allowed into Canada - the smallest number of any Allied nation.

Pitiful.

Can we really blame people for being upset about human beings taking shits and urinating in their spaces? We find it offensive when dog owners don't clean up after their pets, imagine seeing giant human shits and smelling piss stained walls when you go out your door... I can understand people not being sympathetic anymore to others willing to violate their space like that.

Jeez this completely changes everything. I went from thinking what a waste of police and court house resources to 100% agreeing with the victim's decision to call the police.

The woman who has been harassing the man and his family saying she would only ever say "Hi" to him, and he would ignore her, as though that's some sort of crime. Gives me "men catcalling women in the street and then getting pissed when the women ignore them" vibes.

That guy doesn't owe her entitled ass a Hello or Hi. Especially if he and his family have been continually harassed. But even then if someone doesn't want to respond to you that's their right.

He should be able to mow his damn lawn without some dickhead neighbour staring him down and making him uncomfortable. It's like she was intentionally trying to provoke him into a reaction.

People of all races love pumpkin spice lattes, what are you talking about? It's not a white person only thing

No they aren't all bad. I've had good ones. They were there for us at the drop of a hat to fix things, they didn't over charge. We paid rent on time and they gave us good references for the next places we would move to. My friend currently rents a 1 bedroom apartment for 800$ in a six unit building. They asked the landlord why they don't charge more when they could easily ask 1500$ plus. He said he knows he could but he also is aware that's not in the budget for a lot of Canadians right now. So he only asks for what he needs to cover his own costs. Would you say that landlord is bad? My friend can't afford the upkeep of unexpected home maintenance and utilities on her current budget.

I used to rent, and then decided to buy my own home right before it became impossible to do so for most people. I wouldn't be able to afford to buy a house nowadays. I lucked out.

Renting was better in many ways because Jesus Christ there's so much shit I have to pay to fix. 5000$ furnace in the middle of -25 weather. AC 3500$ died in summer. roof leak repair 1500$.. , rotting deck 5000$ DIY. Foundation repair, crawlspace encapsulation, toilet replacement+flooring (35 year old terlet was leaking for years and had rotted the boards underneath). Fridge broke and had to buy our own to replace it, same thing happened to the stove. Back when I rented I would call the landlord and they'd replace it at no cost to me. It's a good thing we have credit to put this shit on, because without it we would be fucked. We used a mini fridge for 6 months because we had to save for a full size fridge when ours broke.

House maintenance is a killer. I can't just call my landlord up and tell them it needs to be done. Or if I had a shitty landlord who doesn't want to fix shit, like I've had in the past, I can't NOT care, move out eventually and it's not my issue once I'm gone. It'll come back to bite you when it's a house you have invested in and own. Owning houses is expensive. Renting has a lot of perks and one of them is you aren't required to keep up the house. All that falls on the person you are renting from.

Now the frigging cost that some landlords are charging is criminal and a whole other story.

When I click that, I only see the right side from the eye outward, of what I assume is a cute red panda. On mobile

The other one

Truer words never spoken

I've done the same thing once, except it was saying Vancouver instead of British Columbia 🤦‍♀️