@zanesloanbc IKR? I love my cosy telegram groups, but I think I've been in the cave long enough 😬. life is beautiful here in the interior of BC. Glad to connect again :)
LAX bound from Winnipeg in December 2019. But first a few month interlude in my father's stomping grounds to get "grounded" instead got ground down by Chiron. Bastard. At least he saved me from LA.
Louis Riel is executed by the state the next week, on November 16, 1885 - lest you think the building of the CPR is not connected to Canada’s history of settler capitalism. Too often we see these events (nation building and Indigenous resistance) as isolated, not interconnected.
NEW: The acquisition of rental properties by financial firms like REITs subjects our homes to the logic of finance capital. The places we live have become sites of exploitation, spaces from which increasing rates of profit must be extracted every quarter. https://t.co/0bVLTUnffK
Housing is central to everything today.
1 in 4 Canadians under 35 say they postponed pursuing higher education because of housing.
1 in 4 are changing careers because of housing.
1 in 4 are delaying starting a family.
These are millions of people whose life progressions is stalling or fundamentally changing because it's just expensive to rent or buy a home in this country.