kyle

Increasingly measure the character of a person through the consistency of their position

It's not especially difficult to be on the right side of history

[kyle @notkent]

"Covid is airborne"

While not wearing a mask to announce the bill or pose for photos

This is what hypocrisy brings

We are no longer bound by truth or reality

You all have your justifications, this is what you've spoken into existence
https://t.co/tGg7f12zI0

[Kristyn Wong-Tam 🇨🇦 @kristynwongtam]

Covid is airborne. There will be future airborne pandemics in our lifetimes. If viruses like H5N1 are the cause, the costs of future pandemics on people, small businesses, & government could EXCEED those of COVID-19. We can prepare for that pandemic TODAY. https://t.co/W0xxSmh8l5

[kyle @notkent]

The best take I've read on the decision

https://t.co/Onbb93AFxf

[Nick Osmond-Jones 🇨🇦 @Nick_Decap]

Here is what should happen: the developers of these unwanted condos lower the price to what people are willing to pay.

The purchasers now have an affordable home, or a place they rent for cheap.

The developers lose money, sending the market signal that you shouldn't build that type of housing unless you can do it much cheaper.

The developers lose money. They might even go bankrupt. That sucks, but that is business.

Future developments are more suited to what people want and are willing to pay.

The taxpayer doesn't pay for any of it.

This is what the market is good at, and the government absolutely sucks at. Let the market do its job.

[kyle @notkent]

Resale homes represent an existing price floor

Subsidizing, as this is, new construction inflates profit margins with no incentive to reduce prices (as the HST cut has already prove not to)

Materials/labour also continue to rise, an impossible gap to close unless DCs go to zero

[Dr. Mike P. Moffatt 🇨🇦🏅🏅 @MikePMoffatt]

@canuckelhed @DanAlbas If you want to say the *municipality* is getting subsidized under this program, go for it, but how is cutting tax on homebuilding a "subsidy" to homebuilders?

Is the government entitled to 100% of our incomes?

[kyle @notkent]

May was the second lowest sale period EVER in Ontario

Home price to income ratio has rolled back a decade

We're 10-15% further price decline and newbuild becomes completely unviable

And we haven't even touched on boomer inventory yet...
https://t.co/dTPqE92iak

[Pierre @PHfloor]

Interesting chart from the OSFI report. I took liberty to annotate it.

Home price-to-income the same today as it was a decade ago.

I get it, people want it to go down to 2008 levels.

[kyle @notkent]

A refugee claiming a country which afforded them the opportunity to expereince a life so wonderful they feel taxation on their UNREALIZED GAINS is theft

Who also wails about "suicidal empathy"

Is either disingenuous or a thief, by their own words

[Gad Saad @GadSaad]

People are astoundingly stupid. My comments about the departure tax is not that I should be treated differently from anyone else. I am making a point about the extent to which taxes are confiscatory. As I have previously explained, there was a time when ZERO cents of income tax were levied in Canada and the US. Then bit by bit, that "temporary" measure, to be applied to only a few, and at a very low percentage rate of your income, becomes a mammoth monster that takes more than 50% of your earnings. It can occur because there are no repercussions if governments do not balance their budgets (other than voting them out). Hence, what starts off as a small temporary tax on a few becomes an existential theft that is orders of magnitude larger than the so-called illegal extortion tax of the Mafia. It can exist only because the great majority of people BENEFIT from this form of parasitic taxation. But someone has to pay for everyone else, and when you are that someone, you are not necessarily pleased to be funding the ultimate Ponzi scheme. I'm making a moral, philosophical, and ethical argument. It's not just about me.

[kyle @notkent]

@EricDLombardi @atRachelGilmore Rather than dither over which columnist's work you're willing to accept, why not go straight to the source?

There isn't a world in which a straight line to the UFC on the South lawn is an association that should be championed
https://t.co/P33HRH1QDA

[tobi lutke @tobi]

Incredible

[kyle @notkent]

There's enough wealth to solve global level problems without even materially affecting net worth

Instead, listing indices are changing inclusion criteria who's sole purpose is to protect pensions from getting rugged
https://t.co/vOnSVWZGJ0

[Lunwi @lunwi75]

Remember when Musk challenged the World Food Program to explain how he could solve world hunger with just $6 billion, they did, and he just completely ignored them?

[kyle @notkent]

@tobi had a wealthy father-in-law bankroll his entire existence and secure funding he would have otherwise never had access to

NONE of the technocrat "built" a fucking thing, they just had the right connections

Once at the top they seek to pull up all the same ladders they used

[Spencer @Bonthoux]

So absurd.

Tobi built a company that has created endless opportunities for countless people, including myself.

Building on Shopify has been life changing for me.

Wifey was pissed when I showed her this post too, we built a great life for ourselves in part thanks to Tobi.

[kyle @notkent]

Almost no one would have thoughts on this level of wealth if it didn't come directly at the cost of others

When the SpaceX IPO turns into a stock crashing Tesla purchase and wipes out pension funds, lets revisit the costs and who bears them

Deal?

[kyle @notkent]

Please don't delete any of these posts when the SpaceX IPO rugs untold pensioners and index funds

Then when it is used to buy Tesla, and the game is fully revealed, please keep the same energy when neither the cars nor internet are available

[Moses Kagan @moseskagan]

The next trillionaire will undoubtedly get there by solving some very important problems (like advancing electrification of global personal transportation by a decade or more, dramatically cutting the $/kg of taking stuff to orbit, or supplying wireless broadband internet to the entire planet).

I want to live in the world that person will help create.

[kyle @notkent]

Water carrying for billionaires is one of the four Horsemen of the apocalypse

https://t.co/Mtcy9fSEKB

[kyle @notkent]

You should personally thank him by ramming through zoning to have a data center built directly in your neighborhood, with your utility bill and property taxes tied directly to any needed increase

Surely you wouldn't NIBMY that right?

[Moses Kagan @moseskagan]

People blast "Billionaire Bezos" on here, but my mom fell & broke her leg pretty badly last week, &, in the time since, Amazon has delivered a walker, wheelchair ramp, a commode, etc., directly to our house, all for a total of <$1,000.

We would happily have paid a lot more.

[kyle @notkent]

The new billionaire technocrat class in a single tweet

Shopify's entire C-level suite are either in different provinces or the US

A company that is a digital entity having thoughts on physical work space is a deeply disturbing sign of the times

[tobi lutke @tobi]

No

[kyle @notkent]

I was assured this was racist, at the height of another recently localized pandemic

Travel isn't a right

Treating the planet like an amusement park, screening for "symptoms," will eventually bring our end

At this point it's wholly deserved

[Martha-JD, MBA, PCC-😷🇺🇦 @mryoung151]

🦠 ✈️Hong Kong Activates Ebola Alert Response Level Amid WHO Emergency Declaration
2026-05-17 18:56 Last Updated At：19:08

As a precautionary measure, the CHP will strengthen health screening for passengers arriving on flights from Africa at the airport. This includes arranging for port health officers to conduct temperature checks at the relevant flight gates, conducting health screenings for passengers exhibiting symptoms. Suspected cases will be immediately referred to public hospitals for isolation and treatment until specimens test negative for the virus;

[kyle @notkent]

A world does not exist in which people will be quarantined for 8 weeks

Hanta hits the perfect amplifier of high IFR and long incubation

The one thing we learned from COVID is you have 6 weeks to fix things or the villagers will begin burning the ground under their own feet

[Alyssa Schwartz @alyssaschwartz]

@TheMemeticist Agree. But allowing it to be sneaky is a choice. That the initial outbreak happened on a cruise ship and was identified before most passengers disembarked should have made some of this easier.

[kyle @notkent]

@MarkMcGrathCFP You clipped me by a little

Went down again for no discernable reason...

This feels like the "threat level" colour wheel of the aughts

[kyle @notkent]

@ParappatheAba 5/10 provinces have PC premiers, BC is teetering

We were 25 seats from a PC government even after jettisoning JT

We're continually on the precipice of the whole thing being burnt down, hubris will ensure it

[kyle @notkent]

Alberta is actively holding a referendum petition

Several supporting groups and a SENIOR MEMBER OF THE ALBERTA PREMIER'S OFFICE just illegally obtained the voter registry for the province

Doxxing the previous Premier in a presentation about the leak

Avoided? By what measure?

[Syntheticus Humanitus @TheChaosWeeber]

why arent more political scientists studying why Canada has avoided the right wing populism wave weve seen in most other developed countries?

RN it feels like Canadian Exceptionalism is real

[kyle @notkent]

This has the feel of a level of trolling I simply can't understand

If genuine, this is the precise worldview that continues to have us a few 905 seats away from a Poilievre government and has Doug building a private runway in the heart of Canada's largest city

[kyle @notkent]

Civil disobedience with promises to "overthrow the government?"

MONTHS of unlawful acts in the capital
https://t.co/SRQwqJIqVy