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  • Canada’s Big Banks are a ‘culprit’ driving housing prices out of control

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  • This is an absolutely stupid take, especially considering the rough evidence we can literally see with our own eyes at this point.

    Vancouver's housing prices are down ~4% this year, and have been edging down since ~2022. Rents have also been coming down, ever since the liberals reversed their policy on immigration.

    "It's the banks!"... bullshit. It was the immigration situation, with 99% of our population growth from immigration, housing supply couldn't keep up, and locals got priced out. House prices and Rent prices have reversed course ever since they massively clipped immigration. We need immigration, of course, but not at the levels that the Liberals had jacked it up to for so long.

  • The Contemporary Reality of Canadian Imperialism: Settler Colonialism and the Hybrid Colonial State

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  • I don't think I've made any passive aggressive comments -- most/all of my replies are briefly noting the other posters aggressiveness, and then expanding on points I'd made to try and clarify, in hopes that the other poster would grow up, or to allow them to continue to lob personal attacks to highlight just how baseless their position is/was. After recognising the other persons a .ml, and the reputation .ml has, I realise there's likely not much point to it though.

  • The Contemporary Reality of Canadian Imperialism: Settler Colonialism and the Hybrid Colonial State

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  • All of your responses to me have just been thinly veilled passive aggressive insults that don't refute anything that I've said.

  • The Contemporary Reality of Canadian Imperialism: Settler Colonialism and the Hybrid Colonial State

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  • You seem overly triggered that I found the teaser off-putting, so much so that you're conflating what I'd initially stated and what I'd used later as an explanation of how teasers work.

    I basically noted that the person is padding in useless words, and that they were referencing highly contested concepts as though they're pre-defined/determined (twisting). It's the kind of stuff I used to see in first year student papers back in uni. Like even in the title, there's no real purpose for using "reality of" when you can just say "Contemporary Canadian Imperialism", the attempt to expand that out and tether what's fairly likely a subjective article to what most people consider 'objective' (reality) is just academic obfuscation. If this person had an editor, they should've been underlining stuff all over the place.

    Even more, it's a piece published by a US University that seems pretty clearly to try and foster animosity amongst Canadian demographic subsets and to paint Canada in a negative light. Funding for this sort of article, its publication and distribution, at a time when the US is aggressively targeting Canada with economic warfare and making statements about annexing the territory, is at the very least questionable.

  • The Contemporary Reality of Canadian Imperialism: Settler Colonialism and the Hybrid Colonial State

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  • Aw, are you hurt that I don't think your linked article is worth reading, based on having gone through and read the initial intro/'teaser' for that article? What did you think that initial teaser is meant to be used for, if not to gauge whether or not the whole article is worth a read?

    It's like providing a free sample of some food product in a store, and the person goes "yuck", and now you're getting all pissed off and saying "well you didn't eat a whole serving size before going yuck, so you clearly have no taste!".

    If you're involved in peer reviewed work, you should have thicker skin to criticism.

  • The Contemporary Reality of Canadian Imperialism: Settler Colonialism and the Hybrid Colonial State

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  • Man, even just the intro to that reads like the author's straining to sound theoretical/padding, like first year students who think adding as many big words as possible equals a "smart" paper. The base premises are so convoluted, and twist so many terms in weird ways, that I have absolutely zero interest in reading the rest.

  • Top US official berates Europe over cutting American industry out of defense buildup

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  • The orange man likely shouldn't have been broadcasting out that he'd sell sub-standard equipment to allies, because "maybe they won't be our allies for long" then.

    I know, if America wants to convince the rest of the western world that its arms are top notch, they should provide gear to Ukraine and allow Ukraine to use it without restriction -- seeing those arms actually defeat the Russian arms, would be a convincing case that US arms are high quality. Cause right now, that conflict isn't exactly a winning endorsement of being a US Ally, or buying US kit.

    Instead, all we see is the states vulture-circling its client while handicapping their ability to defend themselves with seemingly sub standard weaponry. We see countries like India shifting to Russian arms deals, likely in part because of this sort of thing. Why buy American, if American arms are not allowed to be used against an aggressor nation? Why buy American, if owning those weapons means that Russia can still steamroll you due to America siding with Russia and salivating over your resources?

  • Older people (30+) online, what would you advise younger generations in regards to life?

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  • Put effort into finding someone as a romantic / life long partner while you're young. Be critical and aggressive in the search (ie. don't just "be open and let things happen if they happen!").

    Most of the systems and life goals of society are tied to having two people or more in the family unit. Ideally aim for a partner that has similar economic outcomes as yourself, or at least positive ones overall, and who's personality is tolerable / you can see yourselves staying friends indefinitely. If you're a reclusive sort, find someone else who also values their space but is still willing to comingle finances/lives. Doing this young is important as there are more options and it'll generally be easier to find people that 'fit' with your lifestyle. Finding someone close to you in age also helps to keep your life-events (such as whether to have kids, when to retire, etc) better aligned.

    Everything from paying off mortgage debt, to income tax breaks, to even just having a secondary "fail safe" income stream from your partner, are really significant. Heck, with the right partner you even cut down the costs of things like Groceries (can buy in bulk = savings), chore-times, etc.

    The younger you get that leverage, the better the results later on. Consider something like the time crunch many adults feel, between work, chores, sleeping, etc. If you have a solid partner, you can do something like alternate chores and workouts, so that you both maintain better overall health as you age. Eg. one partner does a workout while the other buys groceries/cooks, then the first partner does the cleanup and some light cleaning around the house while the other hits the gym. Having that sort of balance in your 20s / early 30s, will give you a better chance of maintaining your health into your 40s and 50s. There're good reasons why single people die younger.

  • Ottawa, Alberta’s ‘pipe dream’ faces surge of resistance in BC

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  • who the heck is marlaina?

  • NDP Candidate Avi Lewis Calls for 'Public Options' to Fight High Costs of Groceries, Housing, and Telecoms in Canada

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  • I like some of what he's saying, hopefully he can reclaim some of the vote for the ndp if elected. I'm not sure who the other contenders are though, and itll most likely end up as a demographic politics type party again just pandering to different niche minority group interests.

    I'm not totally sure what the postal banking system he references is, specifically. I've never lived in a remote area, which it seems is where it was more commonly used. But like, 99% of what you need to do with a FI you can do online these days, hell many options are online only with no physical retail locations. I get a feeling that postal banking is basically just an old person "I dont wanna use that internet thing!" type of issue, in which case I wouldn't support it. The oldest generations who are most opposed to updating their skills are also the ones that pulled up ladders/profited from the younger generations current gong show -- they've had enough charity from the public purse.

    Besides, feds always seem to forget that many small communities have credit unions, or that credit unions are already there as an alternative to the big banks for most financial service needs. If this guys really about smaller communities/local financial options, he should be bolstering the CUs as an alternative to the banks (though cus are under prov jurisdiction).

  • Italy now recognizes the crime of femicide and punishes it with life in prison

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  • I don't see anything wrong with that second note, translating the position into one about race instead of gender.

    Equity-type programs often get started based off of aggregate differences in statistical data based on demographic slices, with good intentions. But I've yet to see any cases where they build in a process for removing equity support programs once a 'goal' is reached / more parity is visible in the data.

    So as an example from Canada, equity employment programs were introduced in the mid/late 1980s to address the imbalance between men and women in the workforce. You can see how this played out in the public workforce data. In 1990, shortly after the leg came in, it was at about 54% men, 46% women. By 2000, it had flipped in favour of women, at 48% men, 52% women. By 2010, 45% men, 55% women -- a greater imbalance than in the 1990s, the imbalance which had triggered supports to get put in place for women. That roughly 10% gap persisted through to 2020 at least. No legislation has been introduced to remove preferential hiring for women in the public sector, no legislation has come in to promote hiring men due to the shift in the gender imbalance.

    On a racial basis, the same pattern can be seen in our post secondary education grants, bursaries and scholarships. Funding for these sorts of initiatives in Canada allows for them to screen for specific equity groups -- what some term visible minorities. The roots of that being based on reasonable equity goals -- ie. there's a statistical gap in education levels for a minority group, so they allow people to target funding to minority groups. However, while these policies have been enforced, white men have become one of the least educated groups in Canada, with about 24% of white men attaining a degree, compared to 40% of asian guys (with the highest rate of attainment amongst chinese/korean guys, at ~60%). White men are still not considered an equity group, and so cannot have funding specifically targeted to them to try and address this equity issue. And we haven't 'removed' the 'disadvantaged' minority groups from receiving systemic advantage, even though they are out performing the supposedly privileged majority group. The system quite literally has race-based controls working against white men, with a justification of correcting an imbalance that not only doesn't exist in the data, but where the data shows white men as significantly worse off. The system is basically designed to kick them when they're down.

    I can highlight that education item a bit more using a personal example. A coworker of mine has a kid going to BCIT, one of our western province's "leading" tech-type schools. They're Canadian citizens, recent immigrants from eastern Europe, not wealthy by any stretch. They tried to get financial assistance for the kid through the school, but the advisor bluntly told him there were no grants/bursaries etc that he could apply for, since the kid was a white guy -- all the available funding was targeted to different racial sub groups. He would have more charitable funding options available from the system we've setup here, had he been a third generation millionaire visible minority.

  • Italy now recognizes the crime of femicide and punishes it with life in prison

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  • Dedicating time and effort to focus on a special category of murder and implementing harsher punishments for perpetrators based on the demographic membership of the victim, feels counter to the equitable application of justice for a country at large.

    Intentionally murdering a woman because she's a woman, is in my view little different from murdering a person for any of the other reasons that get lumped together under things like 'first degree' and 'second degree' murders. This legislation change isn't about making murder illegal -- it's always been illegal. It's about making the punishment more significant if the victim is a woman and the prosecution can prove the murderer had any anti-woman comments/viewpoints.

    There are examples of women killing men because they're men -- there are a few famous, and more less-famous, cases where escorts, for example, kill their johns because they're easy targets. There are examples of minority groups killing majority groups because of clearly racist/hateful motives, that get excused because of the demographics of the perp and the victim. The legislation change noted, basically says killing people is bad, but killing women is somehow worse -- ie. that the genders aren't equally treated, and women are worth more / require more protection. To apply harsher punishments unevenly based on demographics is not what I'd consider a fair and impartial system -- it's one that's been engineered to preference the protected group's interests over the interests of the broader whole.

    Besides, men get killed 2-5x more frequently than women in many western countries -- why are we trying to protect the gender that has far better overall results? This is sorta a gender equivalent to giving tax breaks to the rich -- they already have it better than others, why give them even more privilege? Add more supports to the demographic that has terrible stats in this area.

  • Italy now recognizes the crime of femicide and punishes it with life in prison

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  • Italy now recognizes the crime of femicide and punishes it with life in prison

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  • Feminism has a place, but it is explicitly about promoting women's interests -- something which if allowed to continue unchecked, leads to significant disadvantages for men. It leads to the sorts of toxic masculinity backlashes that you see in the states, especially because moderates who question women's privilege in advanced western economies start to support more extreme anti-woman positions, because there's a perception that left wing feminist leaning ideologies work against their interests. And they're right.

    An egalitarian approach is better, once you've gotten to near parity. Most western countries have been at near parity for generations at this point.

  • Italy now recognizes the crime of femicide and punishes it with life in prison

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  • Your note about disproportionate targets is misleading and inaccurate. Femicide is specifically about murders as far as I know. In the vast majority of countries, men are victims of murder more often than women (in Italy, men are victims about twice as often). They have higher rates of being assaulted/maimed at pretty much every age category in most western countries.

    What you're likely trying to gloss, is the oft repeated "victim of domestic violence" stats, which is a niche area of violence that gets used by feminist movements to ignore the arguably greater violence that men face on the regular. This sub-division is even more biased, given that men generally don't report spousal abuse / are less likely to get injured to the point that they get hospitalized by it. Even after the victims of 'violence' includes pretty well all categories, in many western countries the 'results' are roughly even between genders -- Canada for example is at about 48% of all violent offences being committed against men, and 52% against women. But again, not all those crimes are really equal -- men are over represented in fatal / serious violent assaults causing injury far more often than women. They both experience violence at the same 'general' frequency, but men are more likely to be left maimed/dead.

    Murder's murder, in the eyes of many. It's strange to provide additional protections for just one demographic, especially when that demographic is far less frequently the victim of murder.

  • Furious House Republican Warns More ‘Explosive’ Resignations Are Coming After Marjorie Taylor Greene

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  • Fairly sure this was predicted months ago, with the triggering event being the recent elections that were swept by the dems. The prediction was basically that if it looked like they were going to lose control of any of the houses, there'd be a ton of people trying to put distance between themselves and the govt as there's a higher likelihood they'll get prosecuted for crimes. So the early resignations, and attempts to "apologize" are mostly just about trying to avoid accountability for their actions -- rats fleeing a sinking ship.

  • IDF soldiers are doing speaking events in Canada. Some say they shouldn't be here

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  • If they're doing speaking tours, I hope the audience is treating it like "Interview with a war criminal" and asking questions probing the mental state of genocidal shock troopers.

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    As an asexual girl who still wants a male partner, would “scheduled sex” be a dealbreaker for men?

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  • For me personally, yeah, it wouldn't work. As others noted, it needs to be reciprocal attraction for sex to really feel good / get you that endorphin hit. Based on the number of replies noting it, it seems fair to say that men's needs aren't just a matter having an orgasm.

    Prolly better off looking for an asexual guy to partner with.

  • Update: Clinton says that Trump tried to stick finger in his butt during trash felattio extravaganza. (Read more)

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  • Clinton ought to just put this rumour to bed, and tweet out: "I did not have sexual relations with that Man"