adespoton

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[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago

.., which does almost nothing to “bust” the “myth”.

The City of Vancouver reported a larger share of vacant dwellings (7.1 per cent), and the vacancy rate was relatively higher for apartments in duplexes, and low-rise and high-rise structures, a trend also seen in Calgary, Edmonton, Montreal and Toronto.

The point about miscounting duplexes is a good one, as is the temporary housing that wasn’t in use on the day of the census.

But that article is attempting to defend against a different point than the one I was making; it was defending against the vacant houses being a result of the vacant homes taxes.

The point I was making is that it’s not the homes themselves that are an issue but their affordability/fitness for housing the unhoused.

Another point that neither they nor I made is that the market actually needs vacant homes in order for mobility to be possible. Again, the issue here is WHICH homes are vacant / unoccupied, and the census data and the other data doesn’t always go into enough detail there.

Either way, there are plans to build more homes in the next four years. And there’s a lot if rural Canada where people can live more affordably… especially if they do remote work.

Asylum seekers are often skilled and quite often in information roles.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Not painted or bleached… just its natural “off-white”.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

Tell me… how many of those bureaucrats are going to “slow things down” when they stop getting paid and their workplace is sold out from under them?

They can sue in court… and those lawsuits will be rejected.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago

That’s why BC went to a system where you have access to all your own data… so you can keep track of your own health.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago (3 children)

It’s all a matter of perspective; when you’re that far right, ultra-conservatives are way more liberal.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Only problem here is that Trump is famous for not paying his debts.

He doesn’t play bureaucracy games; he just stops spending money in certain areas and lets the bureaucrats scramble to make it OK.

In other words, I see the US stopping all engagement with NATO and a EU/US tariff war in the future — IF he can pull it off in four years.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

Oh, he’s fine with OTHER people paying his debts.

Notice he’s not calling for his campaign to pay Harris’ debts — he’s calling for the American People to do it.

And I think you’ll find there will be a lot of strings attached to that money, and it will pass through a lot of friendly hands before some would ever make it to Harris.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 22 points 1 week ago (4 children)

“Perfect teeth” to me look an awful lot like bad dentures.

Give me a nude tooth any day.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I’d settle for Congress doing anything beyond squabbling and trying to pass bills that are unconstitutional. Setting the budget would be a good start, and then possibly taking some government “traditions” and encoding them into law.

Passing a law banning omnibus bills would also be great.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago

…with even less of a personal voice on the global stage.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago

That’s great! However, if you move to Canada, that’s one less voice to resist a US slide into fascism.

Think about what happened to France when Germany took a turn for the worse.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

Well, how has it been done successfully in other countries?

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