LostWon

Exactly. Very little relation, when people chart out the timings of even just the larger waves of immigration vs. house prices. I think The Breach was one of the ones who had articles and/or videos about that in the past. Millennial Moron (don't mind the name - he does great analysis) has also shown there's been lower and lower net migration for a while now. (Conservatives are cherry picking numbers from early in the year and pretending numbers stay that way all year on social media, but the long-time trend-- which I've also seen on StatsCan's site myself in the past-- is that the first half of the year always has more people coming in and the second half drops off.) So if the TFW population is dropping, why aren't jobs getting easier to come by? Could it be our young people are struggling with today's unfair barriers and requirements to job applications (and wasting time on phantom job postings)?

It seems LPC and CPC "swap" policies (or probably more accurately, reveal what they really feel on TFW labour) depending on who's in power. Media is also captured by the ownership class that drives policy and wants cheap, easily-exploited labour. Governments especially like getting a boost to tax revenue from TFWs who get little to nothing back in services. Maybe the owner class will eventually stop all this... by replacing workers entirely with AI and/or robots.

If the wealthy aren't adequately taxed to balance the economy so it's not just a relentless upward flow (and thereby make our democracy more responsive to most of the people), we will lose our middle class to a collapse of white collar prestige jobs, combined with rising asset prices from wealthy people buying everything up with the excess piles money they have after buying our politicians and media. Rising poverty is gravy to big investors like them, after all. The more workers have to stay in debt rather than pay off houses/cars/student loans early, the more somebody gets out of their securities investments.

Only a fourth playthrough of Hollow Knight? I'm waiting on Silksong too for now, but I'm sure I easily exceeded that, just getting the achievements back when I first got into HK. 😅

I've definitely heard of RCMP basically being on call to oil corpos in the past.

While I recall seeing some columnists who seem to have a specific agenda to back certain industries, I think what most people are concerned about is not that breaking reports are done by cartoonishly evil journalists, but that foreign interests have undue influence over editorial decisions. (As I see it, billionaires from our own country are equally as bad and media concentration in general should also be addressed, but it makes sense to have reasonable restrictions on foreign-ownership of media.)

Sounds like the start of Cory Doctorow's book Radicalized.

The UN has expressed concerns about Canada designating the US a safe country and asked our government to stop this. I'd be surprised though, if either major party listens to them about it. :/

There are grassroots support movements and even legal assistance. You just won't likely hear about them in establishment media (probably because they don't expect their intended audience to be in a financial position where they might need it). Even with smaller news sources that focus on talking primarily to activists and/or the actual people affected by the issues (like Status Coup News), folks only briefly touch on it. This is where local news has an opportunity to shine (even if it usually doesn't).

I was following this and was sad to hear about this happening despite excellent counterarguments from people like Zarah Sultana. These are scary times, but I was encouraged there was at least this response yesterday (just watch the first ~45 seconds): Invidious | ~Youtube~

It's up to us, since it seems more and more every day that Carney really can't be trusted. Either outright avoid US online services or do NO financial transactions and block all ads.

*edit - Also, I wonder how long it will take Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" to properly bankrupt the US? I hope the US people can do something about him for their own sake, and ours.

Unfortunately, he would probably do well for them at this point, so I wouldn't even cheer for him to be federal party leader.

2010 was too long ago. :')

(Rest in peace, Paul Vasquez. Thanks again for sharing the beautiful sight you saw that day.)

What ad hominem argument? I directly responded to the substance of your comment (specifically the premise that we start with immigration even though your comment contained an acknowledgement that was not the cause of Canada's economic troubles). I said nothing about you directly or your motivations. If you're going to ignore relevant criticism, there's no point continuing this conversation.