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Brian Graff

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4 months

@alfranken CHEATER. He cheats on his wife, he cheats on elections, he cheats on his taxes... Where was Merrick Garland? Why was Trump not charged on obstruction over the Mueller Report? If Biden was really out to get Trump, he appointed the worst possible person as AG to do so.

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@floydmarinescu So, we we be like Russia in 1918 and force people to share their homes with strangers?

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@jedwinmok Look, we all understand the concept, but do they all live in the same building and are they all going to a wedding? The reality is most people would need to transfer twice and it takes more time to get from point A to point B. Outside of rush hour there are not the volumes.

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@Noahpinion Noah, do you know anything about Canadian immigration levels?

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@MarcMillerVM End birthright citizenship. If citizenship passes to offspring regardless of where they are born, why should Canada give citizenship to the kids of tourists or illegal immigrants with no lasting ties to Canada? 2 roads - pick one, not both.

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@BonnieCrombie Why didn't the province just buy The Beer Store from the brewers, since we need it for bottle recycling. Why are we paying for layoffs and handing profits over to the Westons/Loblaws and other grocery chains, and to the convenience store chains? Neoliberalism is a failure.

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@Concern70732755 We didn't need the first one.

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@fordnation At least she won't wreck Ontario Place or the Science Centre. Listen to the people, Dougie... Wynne didn't.

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@JesseBWatters Is there LSD in the water at Fox? You guys had it wrong on Dominion voting machines etc. too, but you never mention the $billion fine ever.

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@TDotResident What about drug dealers terrorizing neighbourhoods? Oh ya, wasn't he a drug dealer? Find other scapegoats.

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@JohnPasalis They also come here thinking this was a back door way to get in instead of the slower normal way. The whole thing was sleazy, and the foreign students are not innocent either. If they leave, they can still apply... but if they do not leave, they should not be allowed back if

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@fordnation I buy beer once a year these days. But most people are shocked at paying $225 million to the beer oligopoly - for so little. You should have just bought The Beer Store chain instead, Doug.

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@DannyDrinksWine Nothing beats this for dancing... and laughs.

The Producers - Springtime for Hitler and Germany

The Producers is a movie about failing producer Max Bialystock (Nathan Lane) and his accountant, Leo Bloom (Matthew Broderick), who scam a group of elderly w...

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@OntarioGreens More people means more cars and the need for more highways. So when will the Green Party start calling for lower immigration to reduce demand for roads and highways? Reducing population growth was one of the key parts of the environmental movement, yet the GPO is afraid to raise

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@SeanFraserMP The federal government should not be telling elected local councils what to do. The problem is high immigration. Cut it.

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@DannyDrinksWine I love the Broadway Melody sequence in Singin in the Rain - great variety, Cyd Charisse is sexy and perfect, and it has everything including crowd scenes. But of course, the Singin' In The Rain sequence with Gene Kelly doing just that is perfect. If you had pick a dance sequence

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@ATRightMovies Leon!

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@coteau Michael - total GDP is not the way to look at things, what matter is GDP/capita, and Canada is in a population trap. I was a Liberal since the 1980s. We had a great immigration policy under Pearson and Trudeau, but Mulroney changed it to high constant immigration, then since

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@TheAgenda @ericalenti Come on - the only flags that should be flown at schools are those of Canada, Ontario, the city and school board itself if they have one... if on a reserve, then indigenous flags if any. Non-government or foreign flags have no place on the main flagpole - if there are other

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@valdombre This is what happens when large areas of suburbia become ethic enclaves dominated by people coming from one country/region. The solution is lower immigration, but also more diversity in immigration, ensuring that people from any single place disperse across the country instead of

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@ProgIntl Barbados, Costa Rica, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Trinidad - North America is not just 3 countries.

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@HistoryMuppet I wonder, did the Muppet Show have Malcolm McDowell on singing it too? He did a marvellous version in a Clockwork Orange! 😜

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@jevon Do you not realize that we have too much immigration?

Canada In A Population Trap, Say Bank Experts - Canada Immigration and Visa Information. Canadian...

Canada is caught in a “population trap” that only exists in up-and-coming markets, according to National Bank Financial Inc. report, wherein the booming population of a country starts clashing with...

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@SeanFraserMP Only cuts to immigration will make housing markets affordable again.

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@dmrider The City has accepted that changing the name of the road makes no sense and would be disruptive. That is a start. Second, it is unclear is Dundas is any kind of villain - there is still a town named for him. I have no problem with renaming just the square, but Sankofa is

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@givepeazachance It is high population growth, driven by an immigration policy designed to benefit the wealthy. This creates the opportunity to profit... Nobody I know who opposes high immigration blames immigrants, as we blame the politicians.

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@JustinTrudeau Nothing will solve the housing crisis except cutting immigration to the bone.

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@JoshMatlow I think half of Toronto hates the Leafs... and the majority of Canadians.

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@DylanBurns1776 The referendum was so close that the Conservatives should have ignored it and instead tried to negotiate a better deal, and if that failed, to try to reform the EU from within by finding other countries unhappy with it. The Conservative Party messed up Britain, and turnout for

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Trudeau is absolutely tone deaf on housing and immigration - stating that PRs are only 1/4 of the current total, and saying we are all to blame. Who let in 2 million million people? Why should companies be allowed to bring in so many TFWs? Makes me madder!

No ‘silver bullet’ to fix housing as population rapidly grows: Trudeau - National | Globalnews.ca

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says it will take all levels of government working together to address the housing crisis as Canada's population crosses the 40 million threshold.

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@TheoMoudakis Trump is a man of his convictions, 34 and counting.

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@PhilipSoos Cutting immigration is a sure fire solution.

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@acoyne Sharp as these bent tacks maybe. Kinda useless.

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@gurgavin Dollarama has the dollar store market almost all to itself in Canada, while there are multiple competitors in the US in the same niche.

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@AngusReid Frankly, none of the replacements are worthy. Freeland and ministers do not represent change, Carney is no politician and also doesn't represent change. Better they elect a likeable nobody who was not a major player or even in cabinet... like a Michael Coteau! @coteau should have

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@fordnation Beer sales are down all over, and corner stores are not cheaper than the LCBO.

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The problem is high immigration, not a lack of new housing.

Sean Fraser

@SeanFraserMP

7 months

Pierre doesn't care.

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@Scribulatora @rudydotca The federal government did have mandates for air travel and federal employees, but the majority of mandates were by provincial governments.

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@UrbanNomad Because it is what most people want... a big home with a backyard and a garage, if they can afford it. AND many people with high incomes will move to the US or somewhere where they can have this lifestyle.

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@RodKahx France has run off elections. Australia has ranked choice voting. Alaska has an open primary where the top 4 go to a ranked choice runoff final election. Any of these would be better than FPTP, and proportional representation is never going to fly, despite the left pushing for

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@acoyne The Trifecta of blowhards: Black Murphy Carlson Add in Giuliani and it would be like 4 Aces!

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@mindoverdata Brian Mulroney increased immigration, then Trudeau doubled it. We cannot take any more growth. Bicycles will not solve this.

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@CI2100 @JohnLorinc "a continued failure to build family-sized homes" The problem is the high immigration policy you guys pushed since 2015, plus we have rules against susuburia/sprawl and the YIMBY policies of densification. We have no shortage of housing construction. We have an excess of demand.

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@theurbangeog Blame commercial landlords. Cadillac Fairview hacked into pristine granite blocks for seating at the TD centre to stop skateboarders. They don't want people having fun, or undesirables hanging around.

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@mattyglesias Why do governments subsidize a lot of things, like education? Because they believe more of it is good and the market is not doing enough without subsidies. Why do we have lots of tax breaks for oil & gas?

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@SeanFraserMP When will you Liberals cut immigration?

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@CI2100 So, you guys urge the government to let in massive numbers of immigrants out of blind speculation that "bigger is better" and we might possibly be better of in 2100 if we have 100 million people, even though the global population will start shrinking long before then, and only

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@DrCameronMurray Interesting? Funny how Japan and Korea seem to do just find in terms of GDP/capita with almost no immigration, particularly compared to Canada and Australia. The Conference Board of Canada did an economic study in 2018, looking out to 2040 and comparing a zero growth policy with

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@valdombre What is happening now is that the uproar is over unskilled NPRs/immigrants taking low wage service jobs, but the real problem is that our policy of the points system and bringing in high education/skill workers is limiting upward mobility. Economists believe having more skilled

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@DavidColetto Immigration is a policy choice made mainly by Trudeau and it was something they never campaigned on. Canada is in a population trap, but the housing problems in the US have different causes than Canada but this still influences debate here.

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@acoyne So he is going to defund CBC, now he is making enemies at Bell/CTV... What's left? TVO? True North?

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@GRCinemaTicket 4, maybe a 4.5 The over-the-top violence at the end ruined it. Pulp Fiction is a 5, this wasn't.

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@MPelletierCIO @nationalpost Singh was not elected to open the door to a Conservative majority either... this is how minority governments worked, under Pearson and other minority Liberal government PMs.

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@PHfloor Better than most I have seen - but a little tall.

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@PierrePoilievre Cut immigration! Slash it. Selling off government land is a one-time solution does not actually solve the problem, just prolongs it.

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Canada is about the same - 61% want immigration cut. YET in 3 major democracies, Canada, UK and Australia, government crank up immigration despite what voters want - only corporations and developers benefit and their interests seem to win out.

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We wonder what %'age of this 35% who want a bigger population have #property portfolios?

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@mattyglesias SoMa? South of the Mall?

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@Concern70732755 Immigration, and the cult of immigration that positions Canada as being post-national and that hold up immigrants as being superior to the 75% of us born here (immigrants as being harder working, more entrepreneurial, that diversity is our strength, etc.). Immigration is seen as

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@Concern70732755 Stupid... there are a lot of very very rich retired people. Spend the money to train more doctors or something useful.

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@TdLeaker Hey, I did a meme for that!

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@classic_film Brynner, McQueen, Bronson, with Coburn as 4th... I'd prefer the Bynner robot from Westworld!

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@mattlundy33 @MikePMoffatt BUT it isn't just housing - we are in a population trap. The Liberals never ran on massive increases to immigration or the Century Initiative's foolish "100 million in 2100" idea. More of a good thing is not always better. Housing, jobs/GDP per capita, education,

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@JamesFallows The philosophy of the US Supreme Court majority seems to be big government is bad. First, that Congress should be making decisions, not bureaucrats, as a time when Congress is polarized and very little gets done. Even where Congress has decided to delegate powers, the Court

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@SeanFraserMP How about cutting immigration instead?

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@MarcMillerVM You idiot, what matters is GDP/capita growth, unless you are a shareholder in a bank or huge corporation, or a member of the 1%.

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@CanadianPolling Not until after Canada Day... but he has to go. The longer he stays, the more damage he does to his party. There is still time for a leadership race and a new leader to establish themselves before an election.

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@JamesFallows Maybe it is masculine to have the balls to look like such a clown in public with the dyed blonde comb-over and silly orange bronzer. Then there is the long ties that he could trip over.

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I really disliked the original version of the YIMBY cartoon meme, and did my own updated version. Nobody I know calls themselves a NIMBY, but I'm certainly Anti-YIMBY. It is disrespectful to call someone a term they reject, particularly if it alleges hypocrisy without any proof.

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@DannyDrinksWine Timing is everything... in 1975, it was just after glam rock and androgynous rock stars were in - it is a mix of movie genres, decent rock music and essentially its message was hedonism. It flopped but found life in rep cinemas that attracted a young hip audience. In a way, it

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@olivi_eh Partly it is double taxation... partly inflation or other factors. Say I buy shares in a company At $100. They make $15 after paying interest on debt. They pay $5 in taxes, and $5 in dividends, and put the other $5 back into growing the company. So if the shares are worth $105,

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@fordnation Stop the damn spa thing, Doug.

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@AngusReid Here is a question - who would you rather have as head of state: Trump or King Charles?

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@TheHubCanada @EricDLombardi Entitlement and falsely blaming Boomers. Reminds me of this film clip:

Deserve's got nothin' to do with it

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@CI2100 None of the above. You guys are responsible for sprawl, GDP/capita dropping, and underemployment since JT did what you wanted - 500k PRs per year.

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@brianstelter No debate unless Trump's microphone is turned off when Biden is speaking, and vice versa to be fair.

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Really? "All possible tools"?

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Homes are for Canadians to live in and should not be used as a financial asset class by foreigners. We are using all possible tools to make housing more affordable across the country—including by extending the ban on foreign ownership of housing in Canada.

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@acoyne Ontario is even worse.

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@ginadalfonzo Jean Hagen in Singing in the Rain was so great and memorable. So horrible and so funny.

singing in the rain

A somewhat contrived scene follows after Lena finds out about yet another deception (Don and Kathy’s hidden romance) and blackmails the studio to have Kathy ...

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@LindaFrum Canada has continued to be far more pro-Israel in votes at the UN or in other ways, though a little less than under Harper. But Netanyahu is a likely war criminal who needs to go.

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@valdombre Every demographic group wants lower immigration.

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@nickw84 There should be quotation marks around the 2 "quite a good... " statements.

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@valdombre Immigration is the only thing Bernier gets right - his party is far too right on everything else and he cannot even win his old seat. Had he stayed with the CPC he might have been their leader. Bad judgement

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This is true of Canada: "All these supply schemes do is just put a band-aid on top of band-aids while also punting the costs onto taxpayers as a way to keep this Big Australia mass immigration policy going when really it should be cut."

Sydney's housing crisis is unfixable

In this week’s Treasury of Common Sense with Mike Jeffreys from Radio 2GB, I ran through the latest annual capital city population data from the ABS and what it means for Sydney, especially the...

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@the_transit_guy You would expect any medieval city, even if it is mostly rebuilt to be the same, to be walkable and "15 minute" city. D'uh. The problem is you can't easily do this to post-WW2 urban areas.

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@TdLeaker Other than the exchange rate, there are TWO reasons why Houston is cheaper: 1. Houston allows lots of suburban sprawl, so land prices are cheap. 2. The US doesn't have the points system, but has lots of unskilled immigrants (legal and illegal) to keep construction labour costs

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@RBReich Presidential immunity? If it is possible to take a bribe for anything the President has the power to do, then there can be no immunity. Corruption should never protected from prosecution.

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@wa6218693 @gunsnrosesgirl3 Uh but the seeds will also be "this kind of melon".

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@JohnIbbitson Best in G7 handling of the crisis? He had a terrible budget, prorogued and them came back with a better one because he was forced to, and survived only because Dion was such a terrible leader... even Martin would have handled it better. There was the census thing too.

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@SteveSaretsky Wrong. The other chart shows that demand increased so much that it created a sudden shortage relative to demand. Starts are not plummeting.

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@MikePMoffatt This is not a housing crisis - it is an immigration crisis. 1. Canada is building record numbers of units - because they are mostly apartments, they take longer and use more labour/materials. 2. There is a clear relationship between housing prices and population growth. 3.

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@LindaMcQuaig Why is nobody thinking of Al Gore to replace Biden either? Compared to Biden and Trump, he is just a baby at age 76. Biden has to go... no way can he lead the US for 4 1/2 more years given he is bound to decline even more.

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@weather_forkast I always thought "pencil crayons" was another term for coloured pencils, with wood in them, unlike the normal all wax crayons with paper.

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@beynate Well, Trudeau has said admiring things about China and Cuba, and was friends with Castro... but then China is really a fascist country not communist, and the US is wrong on Cuba which it treats harshly while it is now friends with Vietnam where they were actually at war, PP is an

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@harrylitman Be careful? So after the election, maybe Biden will call up Seal Team Six and tell them to go to the Supreme Court Building? Or send 6 of them to Guantanamo.

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@Sean_Speer @trevortombe And what about Scandinavia? As I understand it, municipal taxes are higher in the US, though many people move out to the country. More Americans also have to pay health insurance, and send their kids to private schools, not public. The question is value - what do you get for you

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@mattyglesias Naaaa... Season 5 was the classic L&O cast lineup. But I also had a soft spot for Paul Sorvino.

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@DrJacobsRad Some of these problems are due to the stupid immigration policies - housing and rent. Inflation is now low and the US and nearly all our peers had high inflation with supply chain issues, world oil prices, etc. - and this is true of food prices as well. Then interest rate hikes

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@daniel_foch Are you no longer middle class if you are a police officer or firefighter with an amazing pension, equal in value to owning a cottage or income property?

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Fantastic article in the Vancouver Sun on astroturf "YIMBY" groups in the US. I suspect the same here: that YIMBYs are funded by developers or other wealthy interests who want high immigration & benefit from it. It's like magicians use of "misdirection".

Douglas Todd: The movement opposing NIMBYism is powerful, but morally baffling

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No. Cut immigration and population growth. We built a 40 year record number of units in 2022. Come on Mike, stop representing the development industry's interests and stop taking their money.

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