Poutinetown

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[–] Poutinetown@lemmy.ca 3 points 8 months ago (6 children)

It has nothing to do with capitalism. The housing crisis is created by ignorant or lazy stakeholders looking at short term gains instead of long term prosperity.

Costco plays the same capitalist game as Loblaws. Why is it that the former is so appreciated while the latter is hated by many?

We can look at housing the same way. Why isn't anyone providing high quality housing for a low price, focusing on accessibility and efficient use of funds instead of building expensive luxury apartments. Sure that'd drive down prices for existing homeowners, but the revenue would be much higher since they can now sell to a much broader group that can afford to take a smaller mortgage. They could build in low density area (e.g. Milton is 1/10th of Toronto), and bet on the growth that would go with creating self-contained areas easily accessible to Toronto via the Go train.

Instead, we get the Weston's of developers: price gouging, expensive developments, low appeal to newcomers/younger folks.

[–] Poutinetown@lemmy.ca 13 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Most Canadians are not anti immigrants, they are anti housing crisis and anti healthcare strain. The former is the results of capitalist decision making/lobbying, latter is the results of cuts in government budget for healthcare (a favorite policy of libertarian/conservative parties) and extreme bureaucracy and aversion to innovative healthcare management designed for efficiency (this is a problem in many parts of the world, and we all know Canadian governments, provincial or federal, are not known for their efficiency).

The lack of technocrats in government is a massive issue. Holland (fed) and Dubé (QC) both worked in financial services before going into politics. Dix (BC) worked as a journalist, and it's unclear what Jones (ON) was doing before politics. Why aren't doctors, nurses, healthcare management experts (i.e., people who actually ran hospitals and worked with doctors) getting elected and taking those positions?

[–] Poutinetown@lemmy.ca 12 points 8 months ago

Clearly the gap is closing considering Intel is only 60% of the share compared to AMD's 40%.

[–] Poutinetown@lemmy.ca 36 points 8 months ago (28 children)

The real story:

Just 10 per cent of Canadians who think there is too much immigration say their concern is that Canadians will become “a minority” in their own country. Only eight per cent say new immigrants don’t adhere to Canadian values and just four per cent believe that immigration is bringing criminals to the country. Eighteen per cent worry that immigrants are taking jobs from Canadians.

[–] Poutinetown@lemmy.ca 5 points 8 months ago

Squarez Ritz: gourmetz editionez

[–] Poutinetown@lemmy.ca 5 points 8 months ago

I'd add another cracker on top too, but that's optional

[–] Poutinetown@lemmy.ca 1 points 8 months ago (2 children)

They can't increase local tuition since it's set by the government.

[–] Poutinetown@lemmy.ca 13 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Honestly this would be pretty gourmet if you spread the mayo, go with two square Ritz instead one a round one, and cut the cheese/spam into square.

[–] Poutinetown@lemmy.ca 1 points 8 months ago

No mention of other schools. Shouldn't they be protesting in solidarity with their fellow students? Pretty sure ROC students protested the tuition hikes in 2012 too even though the main targets were QC students.

[–] Poutinetown@lemmy.ca 5 points 8 months ago

Maybe we could use a single huge heatsink to cool it off! we could even use 3 fans instead of 1!

[–] Poutinetown@lemmy.ca 11 points 8 months ago

And stop answering on GitHub after 7 years on v0.1.1

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