What's true, and scary, is that while 60% of Canadians own homes, almost half are Boomers and more than half are Boomers and elder Xers, and they're looking to cash out because the death of the defined-benefit pension (and frankly, pensions in general) combined with low interest rates on bonds, shrinking dividends in favour or stock price growth and repeated recessions that sapped their investment holding means that house equity is the only way these people can afford to retire.
I work at a company that sells to LTC and private healthcare, and let me tell you, the executives that run those businesses are looking to make huge amounts of money by soaking old Boomers for every red cent.
When enough of them cash out, and with younger Xers, millenials and zoomers priced out, expect the market to crater.
The best time for the governments of this country to do something about this was twenty years ago when things started to get overheated in the GTA and GVA. But the money was too good, so they let the tumour progress a bit, and now they risk killing the patient.
This is like healthcare, which every other nation has mostly solved, but the Americans bend over backwards to find the most byzantine “solutions “ for just to avoid taxing the rich and/or implementing a functioning welfare state.
The latest hysterical example was importing drugs from Canadian pharmacies because apparently buying from a (barely) socialist country is okay, but basic bargaining is somehow immoral.
To safeguard national security and economic sovereignty, I believe Canada must re-evaluate its strategic industries through the lens of contemporary global challenges
Yes, but have you looked at how much money the rich can make by further selling our futures out?
The frustrating part of this is that the reason these kids were brought here in the first place was because our respective governments wanted to strip-mine them for every cent of value they were worth: rent, tuition, cheap labour and eventually tax revenue--all because our governments would rather strip-mine Indian students than either a) do something about the housing market, and/or b) ask ultra-wealthy Canadians to shoulder their fair share.
The back half of "Blue no matter who" was supposed to be primarying out regressive Democrats. Much like Labour in the UK, the party is doing its best to disenfranchise and disengage with actual progressives, so this is slow going.
It's not impossible, though: Republicans, to their current horror, let the inmates run the asylum and it shifted their political alignment from "capitalist" to "fascist".
Hamas is considered a terrorism organization by Canada
Doesn't matter. Telling medics who they can and can't treat is a war crime.
There's a reason we have international rules and standards for conflicts, and a huge number of them have to do with how medics and aid-workers operate. If you start perverting that, then medics dies and war gets worse than it already is.
Similar things apply to how civilians and prisoners are treated, and for the same reason: mistreat non-combatants and you can expect the same in return. When the Americans brutalized Iraqi combatants, it resulted in American troops and civilians, both in and out of conflict zones, dying. All because of Bush's "You're either with us or with the terrorists" absolutism that not only didn't end the war sooner, it wrecked American soft power for the following quarter-century at least.
War is awful, but at least it can be less awful is basic rules get followed. This is one of them.
Israel is finding this out the hard way, just like the Americans did when they flushed their reputation after the second gulf war. Netanyahu probably knows this, but because he's not the one who's at risk he's happy to put targets on doctors, aid-workers and the Jewish diaspora world-wide to save his cowardly political skin.
No one says Hamas isn't a terrorist organization, but that's not what's being argued, here, and if Netanyahu hadn't shot his wad Israel woud enjoying broad international support and sympathy right now, with help and aid and assistance and lot of goodwill. But if he did that, he'd probably be unelected by his own supporters, because his staying in office and out of jail on corruption charges depends on the support of Israeli neo-fascists.
Look, it's only a war crime if it's done to "white people" (depending on your definition of white people, which Israelis seem to be at the moment, subject to change without notice)
Maybe this is just me, but aren't payroll taxes a thing? How do you "not know" someone isn't who they say they unless you're already paying people under the table.
Australians are basically US americans of the south (think food: originally british, cannot be healthy, no good car manufacturers, afraid of foreigners…)
They're really more like Canadians than Americans, although I've heard it said that New Zealand more accurately fills that role
they don’t care. Their intent is to use the power of the state to suppress everyone else. They already have an answer for your concern and it’s an awful one.
You aren't going to get meaningful progressive change by just asking for it, and certainly not by hoping for it. The powerful need to be afraid that a worse alternative awaits them before they'll acquiesce to sharing what they have.
"Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.” ― Assata Shakur
We're actually at the lowest since the dotcom crash, and it's been dropping steadily.
What's true, and scary, is that while 60% of Canadians own homes, almost half are Boomers and more than half are Boomers and elder Xers, and they're looking to cash out because the death of the defined-benefit pension (and frankly, pensions in general) combined with low interest rates on bonds, shrinking dividends in favour or stock price growth and repeated recessions that sapped their investment holding means that house equity is the only way these people can afford to retire.
I work at a company that sells to LTC and private healthcare, and let me tell you, the executives that run those businesses are looking to make huge amounts of money by soaking old Boomers for every red cent.
When enough of them cash out, and with younger Xers, millenials and zoomers priced out, expect the market to crater.
The best time for the governments of this country to do something about this was twenty years ago when things started to get overheated in the GTA and GVA. But the money was too good, so they let the tumour progress a bit, and now they risk killing the patient.