I recently bought a home, and even though I get screwed in a sense if prices plummet, I completely agree they should. Homes should be primarily to live in, not an investment mechanism. There’s nothing wrong with owning an appreciating asset, be it a home or anything else, but it’s not the government’s place to guarantee that (other than bonds they issue, obviously). The Prime Minister represents the people of Nepean in Parliament, whether they voted for him or not, and he heads the Canadian Government on behalf of the citizens of Canada. A more correct title to your post would be “I disagree with the Prime Minister”. It’s absolutely right that this cabinet is trying to have their cake and eat it on housing: increasing supply and magically preventing prices for existing units from depreciating. That being said, and even though it’s besides the point: the Cons would done worse.

Florence Girard, a woman with Down syndrome, weighed about 50 pounds when she died in 2018 in the Port Coquitlam home of Astrid Dahl, a caregiver funded through Crown corporation Community Living B.C. (CLBC). After the week-long inquest into Girard’s death in January, a jury made 11 recommendations to CLBC, including better pay for front-line caregivers and changes to support family members of a vulnerable individual who want to care for their relative in their home. Now, the province says it is commissioning an independent review of the organization’s home-sharing program, to be conducted by contractor Tamar Consultancy. Tamara Taggart, the president of advocacy organization Down Syndrome B.C., said the province didn’t need to hire a consultancy firm to make changes at CLBC, given the inquest’s recommendations in January. “I have no idea how much money this is costing, but whatever it is, it’s too much because we know what the answers are,” she told CBC News.

Only direct democracy fully represent people

A First Nations chief is calling on the Manitoba government to use the Emergency Measures Act to free up hotel space in Winnipeg to help house thousands of wildfire evacuees. Pimicikamak Cree Nation Chief David Monias wrote a letter to the provincial government Monday, imploring it to use emergency legislation to order hotels to prioritize accommodations for evacuees. “This is about protecting lives, keeping families together and ensuring our people are not subjected to further trauma or indignity,” Monias said in a statement.

Maureen and Greg McBratney didn’t have many options for places to stay when wildfire forced them to leave their home in Denare Beach, Sask., late last week. Maureen, 65, has kidney failure and usually receives dialysis three times a week across the border in Flin Flon, Man., but that city has also been evacuated due to an out-of-control fire very close to the community. “We’re staying at a hotel right now because we don’t know anyone in Yorkton,” Greg said. “We’ve tried to contact Red Cross and our house insurance [to pay for a hotel].” “We have nowhere to go after Friday. We’re getting kicked out of the hotel because they’re fully booked,” Greg said. “If you know anyone in Yorkton who wants to put up with a couple of old people for awhile, let us know.”

Good to know McLean still has thier head up thier ass.

Wow he can talk about this but can’t talk about his time in the northern front.

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They should be put away for perjury. Lock them up. Even if we did need cops in our communities, we don’t need cops like THAT! ACAB

The Toronto Star is not the Toronto Sun. The Star is owned by TorStar Media and is based in Toronto, Canada. Delete this. It’s misinformation. Leaving it up is a disservice.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/35887823 Archived The Czech Republic has issued a rare and sharply worded rebuke of the People’s Republic of China, formally attributing a long-running cyber-espionage campaign targeting its Ministry of Foreign Affairs to APT31 — a notorious hacking group directly associated with China’s secret police, which has systematically targeted U.S. politicians, election candidates and campaign staff, journalists, corporations, and critics of the Chinese Communist Party, alongside similar assaults on Canada and democracies worldwide. […] “These activities undermine the credibility of the People’s Republic of China and contradict its public declarations,” the Czech government stated. “They are contrary to the norms of responsible state behavior in cyberspace as endorsed by all UN Members.” […] The BIS, Czechia’s domestic intelligence service, also addressed the issue in its 2024 annual report. The agency warned that cyber operations are only one facet of the threat posed by Chinese state actors, writing: “The Chinese embassy logically focuses on gaining information about the Czech political scene.” The campaign drew swift and strong expressions of solidarity from the European Union, NATO allies—and from Taiwan, which many officials and experts now view as the front line of China’s cyber and cognitive war playbook. […] “These allegations pull back the curtain on China’s vast illegal hacking operation that targeted sensitive data from U.S. elected and government officials, journalists, and academics; valuable information from American companies; and political dissidents in America and abroad. Their sinister scheme victimized thousands of people and entities across the world, and lasted for well over a decade,” said U.S. Attorney Breon Peace for the Eastern District of New York. […] Canadian intelligence reported by The Bureau alleges that regional MSS bureaus across China competed for impact in Canada’s 2019 federal election, suggesting the brute force that decentralized MSS teams seek to impact upon foreign nations to achieve high-level objectives for MSS bosses in Beijing. In Canada’s case, The Bureau reported, MSS teams sought to win the release of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou, rather than having her extradited to American justice, which would pose a catastrophic risk to Beijing’s security arms. […] At a 2024 conference in Ottawa attended by U.S. and Taiwanese officials, Shun-Ching Yang of Doublethink Lab and Eve Chiu of the Taiwan FactCheck Center warned that Taiwan has lived for decades under this form of “cognitive warfare”—a term used to describe China’s deliberate campaign to reshape perceptions, sow division, and disable democratic defenses through information dominance. […] To conceal attribution, the [Chinese Communist Party] CCP now routes many of its bot-driven propaganda operations through servers and agents in Cambodia—a proxy state for Chinese intelligence. Sophisticated, automated accounts flood WeChat, Twitter, and other platforms with disinformation dressed in local political commentary, targeting ethnic groups and migrant workers to provoke tension. […] “China has a very sick skill in reframing thinking of the society,” Yang said. “We have to be very careful about their sophisticated brainwashing of ideology, which we call cognitive warfare.” “We have been facing this for decades, ever since I was a child,” Chiu added. “I think China’s government is trying to colonize Canada, because you are an ally of the United States. So they are trying to manipulate Canada against the U.S., because now is a very big competition between China and the U.S.” The Czech Republic’s investigation shows how far this competition now extends—from the neural networks of fake social media posts to the physical servers of foreign ministries.

Bro… But frankly, this isn’t what I wanted to hear. I wanted to hear that prices are going to plummet. So you are upset because fixing a national housing crisis won’t happen the way you want it to? Your article is naive.

I don’t pay anyone. Contractors do. At higher wages nobody would be working. See what’s happening in the US.

What a terrible article. Just good goddamn.

A world leading housing bubble, and wages lower than the poorest US state, I assume. As bad as the US is they didn’t have the second worst per capita GDP growth in the OECD while they imported a massive number of UN wage slaves to depress salaries and hide falling GDP during a housing crisis.

Hundreds of wildfire evacuees who were allowed to carry only one bag with them as they scrambled to get out of northern Manitoba are in need of donations, as it could be weeks before they can go back home. Roughly 240 evacuees from Mathias Colomb Cree Nation, also known as Pukatawagan, have been sheltering at the Winnipeg Soccer Federation North complex on Leila Avenue, along with about 400 people from Pimicikamak Cree Nation. Thousands of people in both northern Manitoba communities were put under mandatory evacuation orders last week after separate out-of-control wildfires moved closer to the First Nations. Mary Sylvia Caribou, an emergency measures co-ordinator with Pukatawagan, said each evacuee was only allowed to bring one bag with them from their homes, and donations are needed. If you’d like to help you can donate money through this website … https://redrivermetismarketplace.ca/product/emergency-response-contribute-now/

mmmm… smells like money and wanton environmental destruction.

But my province literally is on fire - that’s not hyperbolic. We have 20,000 people being evacuated as their towns are (your favorite!) literally burning down. The guy I replied to is the one who started using the word “literally”: Because the world wouldn’t be literally on fire, that’s hyperbole. My province is literally on fire. “Nothing is literally on fire.” “My province is literally on fire.” “You’re being hyperbolic because you used the word literally” ???

::: spoiler screencap of profile [image: 09ec54dc-ca12-436f-b599-cab04b3143fa.jpeg] ::: To give you a better idea, the comments for these were like: they deserve it bad choice carney no they should lol Without elaborating beyond that.

Same thing happened to Thunder Bay’s hospital. Built on the Fort William flood plain, on what was marsh at the time, it didn’t take long for the slabs to start shifting. There were safety cones all over the place warning people to watch their step.