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zephyreks @ zephyreks @lemmy.ca
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Toronto’s rent crisis: Minimum wage would have to hit $40 an hour for workers to be able to afford to live here, report finds

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  • Let's blame how ass-backwards North America was when the Canadian dream was created.

    • China raises five demands during Yellen’s visit

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  • So... You don't have an argument?

    • Toronto’s rent crisis: Minimum wage would have to hit $40 an hour for workers to be able to afford to live here, report finds

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  • The single-worker dream was never going to work when economies in Asia and Europe were already shifting to having women work.

    • Russia halts wartime deal allowing Ukraine to ship grain. It’s a blow to global food security

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  • If the US would start dialogue with China it might actually stand a chance of taking on Russia and winning without destabilizing the region. Direct US intervention in the region would be akin to Vietnam, Iraq, or Afghanistan: it would serve to destabilize the region.

    The US will never consider this because it prefers a weak Russia to a strong China.

    • Toronto’s rent crisis: Minimum wage would have to hit $40 an hour for workers to be able to afford to live here, report finds

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  • Share the room? Someone sleeps in the living room? It's not like it's a studio.

    • I laugh at the Ford every time I see it. Today i got at chance to park next to it and the the size difference is comically large.

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  • I agree! These big pickups have purposes (just like large ambulances and fire trucks)... The only problem is, a lot of people aren't like you and they drive their pickup solely to commute or to shop at Costco.

    • I laugh at the Ford every time I see it. Today i got at chance to park next to it and the the size difference is comically large.

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  • Increase fuel taxes and it will reward smaller cars. Inflation has tanked below to within targets while interest rates are still high. The market is primed for tax increases as the BoC loosens it's monetary policy.

    • Sources say Justin Trudeau wants to transform the RCMP. Will he turn the Mounties into Canada’s version of FBI agents?

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  • On one hand, I don't like it. On the other hand, it would help increase the prestige of the RCMP and stop the bleeding of officers.

    • Statistics Canada says Canada’s inflation rate tumbled to 2.8 per cent in June, putting it within the Bank of Canada’s target range.

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  • There needs to be services that directly connect farmers with consumers. The grocery store serves as a middleman that's honestly become rather useless given that many people use another middleman (Instacart, etc.) to actually get their groceries.

    I'm open to building one and have a decent way of organizing logistics, but I have no idea how to reach out to farmers (who to reach out to, for what crops, and who is getting the most exploited by grocery stores).

    • Toronto’s rent crisis: Minimum wage would have to hit $40 an hour for workers to be able to afford to live here, report finds

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  • Economic think tank doesn't realize that a two-bedroom apartment would probably be shared between two people.

    The solution, as it always is, is to increase density everywhere. Increased density supports more transit, which decreases traffic and allows for faster commutes.

    • Chinese Canadians brace themselves for another Yellow Peril

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  • The same thing is true for the US (who, while more similar to us, are still so far from our way of life that a documentary on "what if the US invaded Canada" could be made by a leading US media outlet).

    The same thing is true for Russia.

    The same thing is true for India.

    The problem is that we are focusing SPECIFICALLY on Chinese foreign interference because it's an easy target to point at. We are under threat by many different countries around the world because of our massive swathes of natural resources and our tendency to somehow produce technologies that no one can compete with (Blackberry, Nortel (milked by Huawei), Bombardier (completely fucked over by Boeing through the US DOJ)).

    We need better protection against all foreign interference. Attacking a boogeyman today is just leaving us vulnerable to everything else. It's harming our international reputation and it's doing very little to actually protect Canadian democracy or the economy.

    • Canada excluded from Google's expansion of AI chatbot Bard

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  • Bing has like 5% market share lol

    And LinkedIn? The amount of link volume coming out of LinkedIn is negligible.

    Microsoft's core businesses are Windows, Office, and Azure. They might be "big tech" but they're not "big ad tech".

    • China raises five demands during Yellen’s visit

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  • the debate has always been about whether the US's response is commensurate and reasonable... I think you're just looking for any win you can find because you know you've lost.

    • Burnt out or jobless - meet China's 'full-time children'

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  • Turns out a lack of labour protections makes your economy more productive in the short term but less productive in the long term.

    Odd, that.

    • China raises five demands during Yellen’s visit

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  • You literally claim without evidence that I am using your argument, despite my argument to the contrary. Sounds like a troll who lost an argument to me.

    • Canada excluded from Google's expansion of AI chatbot Bard

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  • Microsoft doesn't have a dominant market position in anything news-related, though. Why would they get targeted?

    • Report: Canada saw over 30,000 tech workers immigrate while losing nearly 1,700 to the US

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  • A healthy startup environment in a country is basically an indiscriminate venture capital firm... As long as your average startup founder has a bust-out rate (99%) lower than the return on a success (>100x), you're winning.

    Thing is, there are no industries where this is viable relative to the US.

    • Canada’s plastic ban has a big hole in it. What can we do about grocery stores?

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  • Rural Canada is rough

    • China raises five demands during Yellen’s visit

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  • So... You don't have an argument against my argument that isn't your argument, because you don't understand the argument?

    • Report: Canada saw over 30,000 tech workers immigrate while losing nearly 1,700 to the US

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  • Canada needs a more competitive tech pay environment. For that, we need a better startup environment.