MyBrainHurts

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[–] MyBrainHurts@lemmy.ca 10 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

Flaw 1) If Carney wanted to get richer, there are easier says to go about it.

Flaw 2) Party discipline is a norm, not codified. So if Carney does get his slim majority, a bare handful of the new, very tenuous MPs could easily stop them.

Flaw 3) Public polling in Quebec has shown approvals etc for pipelines ever since trump 2.0.

Flaw 4) BC and other provinces would demand similar handouts, which would be obvious at the start of such a program.

Flaw 5) Most of our pipelines etc have some degree of private ownership, that's how we build things in Canada.

Flaw 6) Come on.

[–] MyBrainHurts@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 weeks ago

Thanks, I chortled.

[–] MyBrainHurts@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 weeks ago

More garage rock than metal/punk but the Pack AD is a lot of fun.

[–] MyBrainHurts@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Terrifier 3 had me laughing harder in the theatre than I've ever done at a horror, so that probably wins for me.

Smile 2 was a pleasant surprise. I usually hate dream sequence horror moments as they feel like cheating but they work well with the themes/ideas of Smile 2 so I was less annoyed by them than usual.

[–] MyBrainHurts@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If chatgpt is good enough for American foreign policy, it should be good enough for the law!

[–] MyBrainHurts@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 month ago

"This is needed but elsewhere, not here!"

[–] MyBrainHurts@lemmy.ca -4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"But it's borrrrrrring when it's not an election! What, you want me to show up to vote in the primaries too? What are you, some kinda fascist make me vote guy?"

[–] MyBrainHurts@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You've hit the nail on the head: it's hard to make housing more affordable without reducing the amount of money people charge for housing.

Or, like any other commodity where there's a market imbalance, you address supply issues and prices come down.

I'm sorry but "everyone gets a free house" isn't particularly realistic or interesting. It's like when people say the trick to ending war is "no more countries are allowed to go to war!" Cool that's nice but...

[–] MyBrainHurts@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I think we're using realistic differently somehow. You seem to mean 'comprehensive' or faster? I mean it in the sense that this could happen and address the issue.

The link you shared is wild but while it has numbers, those are as real as Polievre's numbers to make his deficit projections work.

The stuff outlined is mostly hope and "I would like ot to be this way so it should be." Just some back of the envelope math, a fee years ago the value of Canadian residential real estate was some 7.5 trillion, just call it 7. Even a 10% drop in value means a roughly 700 billion loss. For the 40ish percent of Canadian households which own their home, the plan evaporates a large chunk of their retirement wealth. "Just teach people to be cool with it" isn't particularly realistic or feasible.

The lesson I thought we'd taken from our Southern neighbours was to watch out for anyone claiming simple problems to complex and significant problems.

Carney's plan is long term but actually looks to solve a similarly long term and serious problem, which is that housing starts have not kept pace with population growth. (All the talk of investors scooping up all the houses is a little silly, that works in a tight market but it's not like we didn't have industrial investors in the 90s when housing was affordable. Are people so ignorant they think capitalism just started in the last couple decades?) When part of your plan is to literally create a giant new government organization to do housing ina radically different way, only a very unserious person would put hard but ambitious numbers to it immediately.

Finally, Singapore is wildly different than Canada in a bunch of important ways, Denmark and Austria are doing social housing but suffer in actual housing

[–] MyBrainHurts@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago (5 children)

And then those changes in the rules are meant to spur developers

This was about the Canadian Housing accelerator fund. Though, also, yes, increased supply tends to lead to a reduction in prices.

I’m not saying that’s impossible, but it would require a concerted effort to build a huge number of units in a short period of time. No Canadian party has released a plan to do so.

I'd take another look at the Liberal's housing platform in detail.

https://liberal.ca/cstrong/build/#housing

Act as a developer to build affordable housing at scale, including on public lands. BCH will develop and manage projects and partner with builders for the construction phase of projects. Build faster, smarter, sustainable, more affordable homes by providing over $25 billion in financing to innovative prefabricated home builders in Canada, including those using Canadian technologies and resources like mass timber and softwood lumber. BCH will also issue bulk orders of units from manufacturers to create sustained demand. This will revitalize how we build homes in Canada, bringing forestry, innovation, engineering, manufacturing, and construction together. Support affordable homebuilders by injecting $10 billion in low-cost financing and capital for homes that support middle and low-income Canadians. This will include housing for students, seniors, Veterans, people with disabilities, and Indigenous housing, shelters, and more.

All of these are things that are government actually getting into the business rather than just handing money to developers while at the same time not miscasting the government as an actual construction company.

I struggle to think of a more ambitious but realistic plan released by any comparable party among any of our developed nation peers.

[–] MyBrainHurts@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Oh, I mean the 2% so far. Which was because of a program that is not yet 2 years old, which in itself is based on cajoling municipalities to change their rules. And then those changes in the rules are meant to spur developers. It's a bit of a Rube Goldberg process but given the timelines/scales on which construction projects operate, makes sense. But expecting to see drastic results by now is a fairly nonsensical position and doesn't really give the impression that the author is particularly serious or has given the issue any actual thought.

I'm not sure on the timelines but it seems a much more comprehensive plan with an appropriate amount of funding to get us in a good place not for now but for long term so that housing grows and we can eventually up immigration to offset our aging population.

[–] MyBrainHurts@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 month ago (10 children)

That's wild, the article just handwaves away the what, 35 billion the Liberals have pledged at new homes in a radically new way because previously a few billion, in one particular mechanism, raised home starts by 2 percent within a year or so?

That's uhhhh, interesting.

 

Just seemed like a kinda cute story. Apparently, Carney's been an Oilers fan since the 80s. Makes him seem more human and normal (remember that infamous Harper commercial were he assured us he was a normal human who liked human things like streaming television and he had several favourite shows? Goddamn weirdo.)

Apologies if this should be elsewhere!

 

Hi Folks, a lot of people had good thoughts about shows on CBC Gem and I realized we hardly touched movies. So, let's do that!

 

I figure a few of of us are trying CBC Gem, might help if we shared knowledge and recommendations!

 

For obvious reasons I'm trying to be more local and cutting out American produce, so I figured a CSA box (Community Supported Agriculture) would be a good move. Unfortunately, DuckDuckGo has given a bewildering collection of results and I've heard some CSAs are less good than others. Have any of you fine folks used any, have any recommendations or anything else that might help?

 

Seeing as they're getting targeted right now and are first on trump's chopping block...

I mean, it's not like we buy lumps of steel but... I dunno, I figure I'd turn it to the wisdom of the crowds. I know steel/aluminum are mostly input products but there have to be finished products from friendly countries/Canada which use steel and aluminum and thus support our industry, albeit indirectly, right?

 

Very well put. Saw it on bluesky, hadn't seen it here. Apologies if this is the wrong community!

 

I'm thinking of my friends and family who aren't on an alternative social media that loves Linux and Star Trek memes. I've been recommending stuff (I'll put in the comments) they can do that I think is easy and helpful but curious to see what your thoughts/recommendations are!

 

Was about to renew my Cypress pass and double checked this.

As far as I can tell, Cypress is owned by Boyne Resorts (Michigan based.)

Seymour seems owned by a local Vancouver family while Grouse is owned by Northland Properties Corporation which started in BC and is headquartered in Vancouver.

Looks like I'll be trying out Seymour next season!

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