There’s nothing in the article stating that she’s only running on one issue. She’s worked as an activist, but the article doesn’t really talk about her goals.

Competence maybe? The EDA supported her, so she clearly has something going for her.

All the parties have already pledged to training more tradespeople. Carney pledged to during the leadership race.

Carney didn’t say his government would encourage more skilled construction workers to immigrate, which I thought was weird.

BREAK IT DOWN

I haven’t gone as far as meeting with my MP, but I ran a mailer site so people could mail their three levels of rep. It sent a lot of messages and got some feedback from officials, but it’s hard to know if any of them cared.

Meeting in person sounds more effective.

I don’t care if it drops my house value — because my kids deserve to be able to afford to live.

Same. I think there’s a lot of (potential) homeowners who feel that way.

I’m with you.

Awesome! Please email your MP and ask them to address the housing crisis. I typically send something along the lines of:

• task CMHC with building the 3.5 million units necessary to return housing to affordable levels,
• restoring public housing construction to historic levels (20% of all new builds) with mixed income models to ensure sustainability and maintenance of public housing stock,
• removing income tax exemptions on the sale of primary residences,
• increasing the number of people in the trades through training and adjustments to the points system for immigration,
• increasing tax on foreign owners of Canadian property and implementing a beneficial owner registry for property,
• strengthening anti-money laundering laws and enforcement.

I’ve sent similar messages to my MP, MLA, and councillors over the past few years.

She clearly states there’s a climate disaster, and that we need to “put climate on the ballot” in the upcoming election. Considering she only had ten seconds until she was taken into custody, she did pretty well.

Given your concern about our environment, you’ll be happy to know that Extension Rebellion typically uses non-toxic and environmentally friendly dyes and paints for their protests. I’m guessing this protestor did as well.

It seems like we have lots of single bedroom starter condos at 500-900 sqft, but I think those are designed to appeal to investors. 😬

I think a lot of people would be open to smaller homes/condos (1200 sqft) if they were affordable and nice.

If folks suggest these as a stop-gap relief to the current situation and are also gonna build our way out?

Yes. I think that’s a pretty universal sentiment. I don’t think I’ve seen anyone say that we should just do GST rebates - we want construction and immediate relief.

It’ll probably be a generation or so until the proportion of homes to people gets back to affordable territory. That’s not gonna help me, but hopefully it’ll help my kids.

In the meantime, we need to adjust other parts of government to get money out of housing: remove capital gains exemptions on housing, implement the anti-money laundering stuff BC has been asking for; do all the zoning crap; train people for the trades; import trades workers (with a path to citizenship); increase density; etc etc etc.

So our govt will build homes across the country, employing Canadians and using Canadian products.

That’s exactly what I want. And I also want tax changes that stop homes from being a investment vehicles. That’s part of what has run prices up, in addition to the stuff we both listed above.

We need to build more homes. That’s it. That’s the thing we need to do.

We’re 3 million homes in the hole according to CMHC. Nobody is pretending we’re gonna get those built in the next five years. Along with building houses, increasing density, and reducing limitations on construction; we need to lower the cost of houses.

Like the Lemmite up thread says: tax unreasonable house gains, and disincentivize rentals.

We’re in a crisis, we can’t wait to build.

Reddit users attribute this boost in GPU performance to changes in Android 16. However, my Pixel 6a is running the latest stable release of Android 15, and it still saw a nearly 23% increase in the Geekbench 6 GPU benchmark. In fact, my Pixel 6a scored a total of 8252 points in the test, outperforming even the Pixel 9 Pro. Therefore, it’s unlikely that anything particular in Android 16 is responsible for this boost in GPU performance.

I’ve noticed that animations seem a bit smoother, but that’s hella anecdotal.

I haven’t noticed problems on my P8P.

I’m surprised the repair places don’t send you a loaner phone while they have yours. Then again, I guess nobody would trust a loaner with their personal info.

I’ve got a couple of side projects I’m working on, I’m running a game of Cyberpunk RED, and I always enjoy reading with my kids.

HI DOCTOR NICK!

Only talk about multiple hypothetical fridges. Checkmate, French.

These are hilarious, but I don’t think I’d survive in a country where the national sport is trolling.

Ultimately, yes. But I don’t think the self appointed trade negotiator for Ontario performing an about-face on language (and the threat to add an export surcharge on electricity exports) helps national resolve.

Inflicting maximum pain on US economy, while helping Canadians, is only path to make trade war short, or affecting US midterms, if US depression is ignored.

Agreed. That’s why I was surprised to see Ford back down on the energy surcharge so quickly. I’m really curious what happened during Ford’s meeting with Lutnick. I’m assuming Ford got schooled, but it’s hard to know. Regardless, he’s certainly changed his tune.

They hit us because they love us.

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