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The other parties "talked about those problems" but they weren't able to focus public anger like the Conservatives did. None of them have provided policy proposals to quickly address the cost of living crisis.

The Conservatives ran with cost-of-living issues after the Pandemic restrictions eased - so late 2022 or 2023, I think. They showed potential voters that they understood that prices were rising, and that Canadians were hurting. The Liberals initially dismissed concerns (IIRC Freeland or Trudeau said something about vibes vs. the GDP), and didn't really start moving on it until 2024ish; but they couldn't shake the credibility problem. I'm not really sure where the NDP were - I think they were focusing on the supply and confidence concessions. I'm not aware of messaging from the Bloc or Greens that got consistent coverage.

Of the five, only the Conservatives were effective in that messaging. This is Lemmy, so I have to say that I'm not a Conservative, but I can appreciate that they did an excellent job understanding the public sentiment and speaking to it. The other parties did not.

There weren't many policy proposals before the election - certainly nothing that changed public perception or meaningfully pushed prices down. The policies from the Liberals focused on the supply side by providing improvements to the development process (and maybe some loans?), while the Conservatives proposed doing something similar, but on a more limited basis (?!). They were insufficient. And yes, I'm focusing on housing, because that's what I've been following.

During the election, the Liberal housing proposal was more grounded, but it didn't address how the country will reach the goal of 500k starts/year (other than loans and factories), nor does it provide a goal for housing costs. The Conservative proposal was undeniably worse, since it didn't provide a mechanism to reach their much more aggressive goal.

I'm fully on board the Conservatives-bad bandwagon, but it really doesn't make sense to

1. ignore the cost of living issues that many of us are facing,
2. pretend that the CPC/Poilievre didn't do an excellent job of parlaying anger about cost of living into votes,
3. credit the other parties with addressing cost of living issues in a way that speaks to voters.

The CPC are doing well because they're tapping genuine concerns that voters feel on a daily basis (amongst other things). The other parties weren't doing that, and I don't see much evidence that they'll improve. As someone who really doesn't want the Conservatives to win the next election, I think we need to call out where the other parties are failing so they can get their shit together.

In the lead-up to his 2025 campaign, Poilievre repeatedly called Canada “broken.”. He cited increased crime, addiction, high grocery prices and more as evidence of Canada’s brokenness

This buries the lede: before Carney got the Trump bump, there was a bunch of legitimate complaints about the skyrocketing cost of living, increases in homelessness, and availability of healthcare. Poilievre was definitely stoking and using it to his advantage, but the problems existed and persist.

It's an incredible shame that other parties didn't pick up on the public sentiment and provide constructive policies to address the problems.

The latest publicly-available numbers from the Toronto Regional Real Estate Board (TRREB)'s May 2025 report show a brutal 25.1 per year-over-year cent decline in condo sales across the board, compared to a 13.3 per cent drop for all housing types (including condos).

The number of active listings soared by 41.5 per cent compared to the same time last year, with properties spending 44.4 per cent more time on the market.

nice

Over 20 years. We probably met through mutual acquaintances 30ish years ago, but that is lost to the mists of time.

I felt a great disturbance in the Roadmap, as if millions of unit tests suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.

They're building a system that allows you to avoid censorship that you don't like. I'd focus on that part.

Unfortunately, I can't read the article due to a paywall. Given my current experiences, however: no.

It'd be fair to say we aren't building enough decent inexpensive housing, but I don't feel like there's enough decent expensive housing, so it's moot.

In that order, right?

Probably not. I don't really want to be around people who act like me. I've done a decent job of reigning in my most asocial behaviours, but they still get through.

On the flip side, other people seem to like the version of myself that I currently project, so I think I'm doing a good enough job.

I'm hoping to move back to the town where my friends and family live. I've been in my current place for a few years, and it's fine, but I feel like my life is on hold.

I'm kind of looking forward to my kids getting a little more mature. Parenting lil kids is not what I'm cut out for. But it's bittersweet - that gets them closer to moving out and starting their lives without me.

Good luck on the job hunt. I hope you manage to find something in vfx.

I really like dbrand cases. They still stock Pixel 6a cases.

reading text isn’t the easiest with all the colors and blurs everywhere

Agreed - I like the look of these things in an abstract sense, but it makes the text really hard to read. I assume hope there's a way to disable it in accessibility settings.

"And we're sooooooo evil! We don't have any friends, family, loved ones, children, pets, or other responsibilities! Here we are, a victimless crime waiting to happen!"

10 months is enough of a cool-down time for this meme.

The rogue did it. We all saw her. She's always burning things.

As a player, I loved it when the DM would have secondary fires burning as part of the effect. It's really fun when your actions change the world.

But then the building might collapse. 🤷‍♂️

(Which is also fun)

I feel like Rust would be some complaint from the compiler saying that some apparently unrelated struct can't be Send/Sync for some inscrutable reason. Or something about pinning a future.

What about charades? If your family is too shy for that, you can get them to draw instead of acting things out.