Edmonton City Council sold us a lie: they claimed we had a "housing shortage" and pressured mature neighbourhoods to make way for so-called "affordable rentals" at 400 sq ft units renting for $3,000 a month.
Predictably, they’re not renting. Instead, these units are being flipped into Airbnbs, boarding houses, and hourly rentals.
The next chapter is already playing out in Vancouver, where the government is stepping in to buy these units to bail out developers. I’ll hold off on the following step for now, since it hasn’t been officially announced yet. But if you were paying attention during my campaign, you’ll remember I warned about this exact scenario years ago.
We don’t have a housing shortage. We have an affordability crisis and this approach will not solve it.
The most amazing fact I know of about how abysmal a failure socialism is, is that when things got really bad in Communist countries like the USSR and PRC, the way they made it so people didn't die in mass and collapse it all was by letting go of some of the socialism.
Any cursory examination of the Carney government's actual policy quickly leads one to conclude that it's essentially a Ponzi scheme. Every "trade deal" or "national strategy" or "memorandum of understanding" is ... nothing. There's nothing in them. It's just a Dilbert cartoon.
@JeromyYYC My small business went from paying $4k/mo to $6k/mo in property taxes. With no improvement in services. YOU need to do YOUR job, and Edmonton's Mayor needs to do HIS job! Represent the ratepayers!!!!!!
The Canada I grew up in was safe, clean, relatively fair, and a great place to start a family or build a business. Today it’s none of these things. If you care about Canada, you need to acknowledge this country’s decline and do your part to reverse it.
Happy Canada Day!🍁🇨🇦
I just heard on the radio with @bradcsmith that all the C02 Canada has removed over the last 5 years, with taxes and whatnot, China produces in 32 hours. 🇨🇦🇨🇳
Well done, Liberals. You're absolute morons.
I’ve been in Niagara Falls, NY for 2 days and here are my thoughts:
1. Every entry level job is filled by an American - young and old, black and white.
2. Young college aged men are cashiers and servers.
3. Older white men are security guards.
In Canada the bulk of our service and low level jobs are filled by foreign workers and foreign students. I rarely see security guards who are not recent immigrants/TFWs
When you see things the way they used to be the difference is stunning.
They have no problem filling their jobs with Americans, and tons of serving/cashier jobs are young people.
What have we done??
This is a disingenuous comparison, and everyone making it knows that. The more apt equivalent would be a church screaming through a loudspeaker that Christianity is the one true religion, and all others are false.
I’ve seen several RSM’s encouraged to call it a day before the usual 2-3 year appointment after being promoted one rank beyond their capability despite a couple of decades of honourable service & was at the incident in Kosovo that got the CO of 1VP relieved but I think having both the CO & RSM relieved of command at the same time is regimental history being made.
I’m pretty reliable told the incident happened when a sub unit of 3VP along with the CO & RSM got on a DND bus being driven by an MSE OP (transportation trade) who was a Cpl.
As the troops were loading the driver noticed that a couple of cases of beer were making their way onto the bus. He informed them that drinking was not allowed on the bus & that they’d have to wait until they arrived at their unit lines. At this point there are different versions of the story circulating. Some say, the rifle company commander agreed & told the troops to follow the rules until the CO & RSM overruled him & cracked a couple of beers which was enough for the troops to follow their lead. Other accounts say the CO & RSM told the bus driver to take it easy & told the troops to crack open the beers & then joined them in drinking.
The story comes back together with everyone agreeing that the CO & RSM were drinking alongside the troops & ignored the regulation against drinking on a DND bus. The driver, likely to prevent himself from getting into trouble, took a photo of the CO & RSM drinking & reported the incident to his supervisor after he dropped the 3VP troops off. His supervisor escalated the incident & eventually it made its way to the Brigade & Division Commanders.
It’s unclear who made the decision to relieve the CO & RSM just a few days before they were scheduled to formally turn 3VP over to a new Command Team.
So that’s the story as I’ve been told it happened.
Time will tell if my sources got it right, but one thing it demonstrates to me is that the Army is terrified of leaks to traditional, independent & SM about misdeeds or bad decisions that 2 decades ago would have quietly put careers on a very long pause or end them.
Now, the Army wants to be seen as being proactive so they overreact & publicly humiliate two senior leaders who have given their regiment, the Army, the CAF & Canada everything for decades. It definitely sends an internal message, sadly I don’t think it’s the message they hope it is.
After losing World War II, Germany lost 25% of all its territory and 14 million Germans were ethnically cleansed from Eastern Europe.
And yet, there hasn’t been a single case of Germans hijacking planes, blowing themselves up, or committing terrorist attacks like Palestinians.
It should alarm every Canadian that the primary use the Liberals have made of their new, backroom, bribe-bought majority has been to ram through legislation that censors the internet, spies on citizens, and lays the groundwork for a virtual surveillance state.
In @MarkJCarney's Canada, a 15 year old is welcome to inject fentanyl in a taxpayer funded facility, but can't have a Facebook account.
More evidence that Modern Liberalism is a mental disorder.
@DrCalumMiller You will find when you have young teenagers that it is perfectly fine for them to use YouTube for things like workout videos, which mine do. Or for cooking recipes, etc.
You won’t need the government to parent for you.
@SenWarren You could give “the typical American” 11 MILLION years and they still would not create PayPal, Tesla, SpaceX, OpenAI, xAI, Neuralink, Boring Company, Ad Astra, all while single-handedly saving free speech for all mankind.
🚨 HEARTBREAKING & INFURIATING CALL FROM LONDON 🚨
A terrified British woman breaks down in tears on TalkTV, exposing the nightmare ordinary people are living through:
"WE'RE NOT RACIST — WE'RE PETRIFIED!"
"What are these politicians doing to us? They're putting EVERYONE in danger!"
"I don't leave the house without a man anymore."
- Her local shop: 3 stabbings and 1 murder
- Her friend: murdered last year
- A girl she knows: murdered in the park
- Her cousin: murdered
- Now begging her son to flee the country
"OUR FRIENDS. OUR FAMILY ARE DYING."
This is what open borders, soft policies, and zero enforcement get you. Time to wake up and put citizens first — before it's too late. 🇬🇧
(Share if you want real leaders who secure borders and restore safety.)