Stavro Stathonikos

[Stavro Stathonikos @imstavs]

@GadSaad The problem is not necessarily the level of taxation is how the funds are being wasted unproductively.

[Adam Zivo @AdamZivo]

Harm reduction activists claimed that “safer supply” would save lives, yet, after access was severely restricted, overdose deaths in the province have plummeted.

[Stavro Stathonikos @imstavs]

@brianlilley Maybe just lower personal income tax rates. Especially the highest bracket and watch the high earners come back.

[NPF-FPN @npffpn]

RCMP Members and Veterans were intentionally tricked into critical and humiliating interviews for a taxpayer-funded CBC/APTN production. We are calling for an immediate halt and a full inquiry into how this was approved, funded, and executed.

Read our full release: https://t.co/uYMGJSxxju

[Warren Kinsella @kinsellawarren]

Despite a $120,000 family income, @oliviachow lived in the publicly-subsidized Hazelburn co-op in Toronto and paid $800 a month for a three bedroom + den unit. According to the co-op, she should have been paying hundreds more. Thousands of people were on the waiting lists for the kinds of units Chow occupied. She moved out shortly after getting caught by the media.

All of that is verifiably true. And it is considered so damaging, Chow's campaign has done secret focus group research on what to say about it.

It reminds us all, inter alia, that people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

#topoli

[Stavro Stathonikos @imstavs]

@JoshDehaas @CDNConstFound Fantastic

[Stavro Stathonikos @imstavs]

@NickNemo17 In real estate the only reason to book depreciation is to shelter taxes. I’m not sure this is a smoking gun

[Jonathan Kay @jonkay]

Canadian here, with four (count em) points of clarification on the “MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+” thing, which has now escaped its absurdist Canadian genderwang containment chamber, and gone viral internationally:

1) the speaker here is @LeahGazan, a fringe minor-party politician. She’s not in the government. She regularly calls for dumb things, such as criminalizing anyone who dares talk candidly about the 2021-era unmarked-graves social panic. CBC types treat her as a serious person because she’s indigenous and because she always talks in the tear-drenched idiom of white-settler colonial evilness. But she’s not.

2) MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+ is a mashup of two acronyms (each unique to Canada). Her decision to run them together is hilarious, which is why this has gone viral, but it’s not a common practice, even in rarefied leftist circles.

3) MMIWG refers to “Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women and Girls.” The problem of violence against indigenous women is a real and tragic issue. Unfortunately, a couple of years ago, a bunch of activists produced a ridiculous report on the subject that called it a “continuing” (!!!) “genocide,”and demanded that we all call it that. The whole movement collapsed when it was pointed out that something like 80% of the indigenous women who are killed are killed by indigenous men, which is very much off-message from the whole white colonial G-word thing. But the acronym still gets name-dropped when people are indicting Canada for all its infinitely genocidey genociding of everybody

4) “2SLGBTQetcetc…” Americans always ask me what “2S” stands for. It stands for “2 spirited,” a term that white academics popularized 50 years ago to give expression to their mystical reveries about sacred indigenous elf-people living in some precolonial eden-like genderwang Nirvana where everyone has three penises and five vaginas. No one is allowed to ask what the term even means, but our government made it official policy to use ridiculous words like this under Trudeau, so we’re stuck with it. Basically, if you’re an indigenous guy who likes to wear eyeliner, or an indigenous woman with blue hair and sensible shoes, you call yourself “2 spirited” on your govt grant applications. No one is even allowed to ask whether it’s a gender identity or a sexual orientation. It apparently exists in some exalted state that defies this kind of rigid colonial typology, or something like that.

Back in 2022, I read a whole report about how to teach two spirited concepts to Canadian students, and it turned out that even the authors of the report admitted they had no idea what the term meant. I wrote about it for @Quillette:

https://t.co/qc2KcKFEpc

[Stavro Stathonikos @imstavs]

Roughly every dollar Canadians pay in sales tax gst hst goes to the indigenous. Think about that next time you use your credit card.

[Jim McMurtry @JimMcMurtry01]

Indigenous payments for 2024/25 fiscal year totalled $80-100 billion—3 times national defence.

[Stavro Stathonikos @imstavs]

This could be toronto. Let’s think about this and do the right thing in the October elections.

@integrity_to

[Nayib Bukele @nayibbukele]

Cuadra por cuadra... tardará un poco, pero quedará hermoso.

[IntegrityTO @integrity_to]

Last night it was a full house inside The 519 as Councillor Chris “Sankofa” Moise hosted a town hall. One questioner pulled back the curtains to force the Councillor to look at what was right outside the window.

Many residents expressed their frustration with a plethora of issues including the decay of several neighbourhood parks that have become unsafe for residents and dogs.

[Stavro Stathonikos @imstavs]

@JoshDehaas How to turn $1.3mm into $10mm. The grift is well known. The play here is to buy an undesirable building for peanuts. Get the government to do a luxury renovation … then lease it from you at inflated rent. Then go to the bank and put debt on it and get $$$ out tax free.

[Josh Dehaas @JoshDehaas]

Long, long ago, Toronto leased a small building to create a drop-in centre for homeless women.

It budgeted $3.7M for renovations. Five years later, the city has spent $13.5 million on renovations and $2M on rent. It might or might not open this year.

https://t.co/QFppbjhrAy

[Idiom @idiom_bytes]

Canada spent $5.1 BILLION fixing a broken payroll system (Phoenix). Now we're about to spend $4.2 BILLION+ replacing it with Dayforce.

I went through every lobbying record, every communication report, and every revolving-door hire to identify potential conflicts of interest.

Here's what I found.

1/🧵

[Stavro Stathonikos @imstavs]

@BillboardChris I donated but what is this site? these terms and conditions are offensive.

[Josh Dehaas @JoshDehaas]

Today, I wrote to officials in Durham Region warning them that their new Community-Based Hate reporting tool violates the Charter right to freedom of expression.

https://t.co/XEdoKy9L0j

[Stavro Stathonikos @imstavs]

Common sense.

[Brad Zubyk @Bzubyk]

The so-called culture war issues are not that hard to resolve. Here's my take which I believe would be supported by a majority of Canadians.

1. I don't care if you transition as an adult but children should not be allowed to make life altering decisions.

2. MAID was intended for people with chronic illness nearing end of life. It should not be available for mental health or financial reasons.

3. Reconciliation should benefit all people. Reconciliations is NOT reparations and cannot be open-ended.

4. Governments should use tax dollars to treat addiction, not feed it.

5. Immigration is a positive if it targets needed skills and rules are followed. Non-citizens who commit criminal code offences should be immediately deported. Canadian business should not use TFW programs as a source of cheap labour.

6. Repeat violent offenders should face lengthy mandatory minimums and no one should be released who still pose a risk.

[Stavro Stathonikos @imstavs]

@ezralevant Confessions of an economic hitman is a fantastic book that discusses this strategy.

[Blacklock's Reporter @mindingottawa]

DOCUMENTS: 889 foreign students hired by Gov’t of Canada in 2024:

• tour guides & gift shop assistants at fed museums
• researchers @CBC
• kitchen staff & stagehands @CanadasNAC
• clerks & IT staff @CanRevAgency
• @NRC_CNRC hired 135 foreign students
• @CMHC_ca hired 30 foreign students

@TBS_Canada: “The Public Service Employment Act gives preference to eligible veterans first, then Canadian citizens and permanent residents for all external advertised appointments provided that merit is met.”

Jobless rates for Canadian students increased after 2023 order allowing 1,040,985 foreign students unlimited access to the workforce.

[Stavro Stathonikos @imstavs]

@one9 @MarioNawfal That’s so interesting. This was it for me as well.