tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post7024673813025429713..comments2024-03-22T05:20:44.167-07:00Comments on The Disaffected Lib: How Ottawa Ruined VancouverThe Mound of Soundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-90737474350760113502019-03-19T16:04:43.069-07:002019-03-19T16:04:43.069-07:00GOOD DAY AND WELCOME TO STANDARD ONLINE FINANCE LT...GOOD DAY AND WELCOME TO STANDARD ONLINE FINANCE LTD<br />Do you need 100% Finance? I can fix your financial needs with a lower back problem of 3% interest rate. Whatever your circumstances, self employed, retired, have a poor credit rating, we could help. flexible repayment, Contact us at: standardonlineinvestment@gmail.com<br /><br />Apply now for all types of loans and get money urgently!<br />* The interest rate is 3%<br />* Choose between 1 and 30 years of repayment.<br />* Choose between monthly and annual repayment plan.<br />* Terms and conditions of the flexibility of loans.<br /><br />Regards,<br />Mr. Abdul MuqseStandard Online Financehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10248659161829797519noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-80855120664096193502017-01-09T05:38:09.870-08:002017-01-09T05:38:09.870-08:00Good day Sir/Madam,
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It is a human rig...Is home ownership a human right?<br />It is a human right to have a home/roof over head as it is a right to heat and food.<br />Not all countries demand home ownership and for different reasons.<br /><br />http://qz.com/167887/germany-has-one-of-the-worlds-lowest-homeownership-rates/<br /><br />Owning a home in Canada,USA and the UK now take place of savings account as money in the bank earns little interest.<br /><br />Should Government build subsidised rental housing to accommodate the working poor?<br /><br />It is true that the infamous one percent and their five percent friends look to 'invest' in foreign homes to evade taxes.<br />These are also the same people that can buy elections and circumvent local regulations and law.<br /><br />Just thoughts!!<br /><br />TB <br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-31296176717448210972017-01-01T14:25:34.173-08:002017-01-01T14:25:34.173-08:00I have a bad head cold, so I'm not thinking cl...I have a bad head cold, so I'm not thinking clearly, but much of this seems to do with neo-liberals absolute fear of deflation. They fear it more than they do economic bubbles. They don't believe in bubbles, really. There's only growth, growth, growth.<br /><br />And, to them, the housing crash of '09 was an aberration rather than something predictable.Troyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10759047914577194212noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-39493238498077606912017-01-01T07:57:09.931-08:002017-01-01T07:57:09.931-08:00What they're doing seems to fit with their end...What they're doing seems to fit with their endless growth priority.<br />As if GDP and population can grow every year, infinitely.<br /><br />Vancouver traffic congestion is bad, yet you hear about plans to increase its population by 1 million in the next decade. Brilliant.Hughnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-39672617520419441562016-12-31T21:06:10.533-08:002016-12-31T21:06:10.533-08:00I suppose it's actually about class--and for t...I suppose it's actually about class--and for that matter partly about the distinction between immigration and just buying property to live in part time. Let's talk about the Syrians, for instance--I don't think they're causing any real problems; they're hard working middle to working-class folks. But if we had instead a bunch of parasitic Kuwaiti millionaires they'd be causing the same sort of trouble as the Chinese ones.<br /><br />As to this sort of buying property in which one hardly ever lives . . . Venice, for instance, has been totally hollowed out for ages because of all the rich tourists, mostly North American and European, who have bought up most of the property. It's become not so much a city as a tourist trap, sad fate for La Serenissima.Purple library guyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01930984683714519212noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-63723186849077375562016-12-31T18:33:35.036-08:002016-12-31T18:33:35.036-08:00The idea that BC was completely powerless is bulls... The idea that BC was completely powerless is bullshit. Premiers in Canada has extraordinary power, their Kings/Queens to the Prime Ministers High Kings/Queens. <br /><br /> The BC government had plenty of tools to deal with the housing situation in Vancouver, from price controls, building affordable housing, and other options. Heck it could have taken control of it's own immigration program like Quebec did. <br /><br /> So yeah Ottawa (government not the ordinary people of Ottawa) has been useless on the issue, but it's useless in most things, BC isn't special on that. The federal government usually doesn't intervene in municiple issues, that's the domain of Premiers.<br /> <br /> And while the issue is out of control in Vancouver, don't think its not a major issue in Toronto as well, its not at Vancouvers level, but its working its way there.<br /><br /> So central Canada doesn't hate Vancouver, or BC, so stop passing the buck.<br /><br />This is not an unsolvable problem, and honestly eventually the housing bubble will burst and all those assholes speculators whose selfish greed caused this nightmare will get what they deserve.<br /><br /> So this problem is not forever, either the BC gov or Ottawa will fix it, or more painfully a housing price bubble will burst it.Gyorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06773307017058386989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-58548297952473160102016-12-31T18:33:27.475-08:002016-12-31T18:33:27.475-08:00The idea that BC was completely powerless is bulls... The idea that BC was completely powerless is bullshit. Premiers in Canada has extraordinary power, their Kings/Queens to the Prime Ministers High Kings/Queens. <br /><br /> The BC government had plenty of tools to deal with the housing situation in Vancouver, from price controls, building affordable housing, and other options. Heck it could have taken control of it's own immigration program like Quebec did. <br /><br /> So yeah Ottawa (government not the ordinary people of Ottawa) has been useless on the issue, but it's useless in most things, BC isn't special on that. The federal government usually doesn't intervene in municiple issues, that's the domain of Premiers.<br /> <br /> And while the issue is out of control in Vancouver, don't think its not a major issue in Toronto as well, its not at Vancouvers level, but its working its way there.<br /><br /> So central Canada doesn't hate Vancouver, or BC, so stop passing the buck.<br /><br />This is not an unsolvable problem, and honestly eventually the housing bubble will burst and all those assholes speculators whose selfish greed caused this nightmare will get what they deserve.<br /><br /> So this problem is not forever, either the BC gov or Ottawa will fix it, or more painfully a housing price bubble will burst it.Gyorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06773307017058386989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-14912052484144336582016-12-31T17:00:45.035-08:002016-12-31T17:00:45.035-08:00I'm old enough to remember the wave of immigra...I'm old enough to remember the wave of immigrants Canada received from Hungary and Czechoslovakia during the Russian crackdowns. If there was ever a successful immigration experience I think that's it. Many of them came with little to nothing eager to find their place in Canada, make something of themselves and become fine Canadians. I knew several and those I met, without exception, were excellent citizens.<br /><br />Now immigration, of the sort we get in Canada, is a vehicle for wealthy newcomers to park their money. My old neighbourhood in the Arbutus area was once a place of modest but well tended bungalows. They're all gone now, displaced by McMansions with three, four or five car garages. Prices for what are now "tear downs" start in the 1.5-million range. But here's the thing. Research done by the Vancouver Sun found that my old neighbourhood is the poorest in Vancouver based on declared incomes. Many of those who now own those houses seem to have next to no income for tax purposes. About a third of them are said to stand vacant. For the community and the city that's devastating.<br /><br />I'm sorry, Rumley, if you think that sounds like a Kelly Leitch rant. It's anything but. This isn't about ethnicity except, perhaps, in your mind. It wouldn't be any different to me if these were a swarm of blonde-haired, blue eyed Swedes. The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-88754112224193751742016-12-31T15:48:43.173-08:002016-12-31T15:48:43.173-08:00Not all countries allow this sort of nonsense. Ge...Not all countries allow this sort of nonsense. German property is cheap because they aggressively keep it that way, with government agencies whose job it is to regulate and even bargain downwards the price of homes. In France, if you're a foreigner and you want to buy property there, you have to jump through hoops that can take years.<br /><br />As to doctors--frankly, Canadian medicine still has too much of a private component. The "doctor as small business" model is failing us, as is the "fee for each bit of piecework" model. They should have a system of clinics placed where they are needed, with the staff on salary. Salary wouldn't build in an incentive to maximize the number of tests and prescriptions; clinics should be integrated, with a few GPs, some specialists, a dietitian, physio etc. and facilities for tests and scans all on the same site, so you can take care of a patient all in one go and make general plans for improving and maintaining people's overall health.<br /><br />Also, the pay differential between GPs and specialists in BC should be considerably lower--nobody wants to be a family doctor because you can take 2 years more school to get a specialty and come out making 3 times as much. Even if you're not greedy, just considering the student loans you probably have to pay off it makes more sense to get a specialty so you can pay them off faster.Purple library guyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01930984683714519212noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-43297485048696856012016-12-31T15:32:52.446-08:002016-12-31T15:32:52.446-08:00One thing I'd like to note is the distinction ...One thing I'd like to note is the distinction on the right between rhetoric and reality. The basic ideas of the left tend to be very internationalist and of course anti-racist, so it's not surprising that it's very hard for the left to deal with situations in which pragmatism might call for slower immigration. The left wing instinct would be, rather than limiting immigration, to build enough social housing and create enough jobs to compensate. Exceptions might be made if it's about rich immigrants, though.<br /><br />But right wing politicians are always talking about the dangers of immigrants and immigration, and they do push to make the whole process more intimidating and precarious, but they never seem to actually lower immigration rates. The dirty secret is that the right at the elite decision-making level actually favours plenty of immigration. They're fine with rich people immigrating or fake-immigrating or whatever because they're firm believers in rich people being able to do whatever they want wherever they want, no matter what country they may nominally come from. And they like poor people immigrating because it provides more poor, desperate people and better yet, poor desperate people who can be divided against the other portions of the underclass. Makes the workers overall easier to exploit. But they want to keep those immigrants demonized, fearful, and lacking rights, hence all the rhetoric.Purple library guyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01930984683714519212noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-81078895170744876992016-12-31T14:51:34.651-08:002016-12-31T14:51:34.651-08:00Another Kelly Lietch article.Another Kelly Lietch article.rumleyfipshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03346146988416679423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-17008615447491770282016-12-31T14:41:05.957-08:002016-12-31T14:41:05.957-08:00Trail Blazer, the Liberal Party BC ain't liber...Trail Blazer, the Liberal Party BC ain't liberal. It's the reincarnation of Social Credit.<br /><br />BTW, Happy New Year.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-11499914588943392282016-12-31T14:34:30.483-08:002016-12-31T14:34:30.483-08:00The Liberal party ruined Vancouver starting with C...The Liberal party ruined Vancouver starting with Campbell.<br />Campbell was/is real estate centred./ driven.<br /><br /><br />TBAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-60451263724481564982016-12-31T13:42:38.317-08:002016-12-31T13:42:38.317-08:00And the same to you, Bill. We do, indeed, have a ...And the same to you, Bill. We do, indeed, have a "housing nightmare" as you put it. I've lost all confidence in our prime minister. He makes promises he has no intention of keeping but, in fairness, he's just the latest iteration of Ottawa politicians for whom British Columbia is out of sight/out of mind.<br /><br />You're right. We must stay as positive as possible to meet the challenges of 2017 but shying away from them is anything but possible. I used to consider myself Canadian first and British Columbian second. Somehow that polarity has become reversed.<br /><br />Happy New Year.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-48287153072215421892016-12-31T13:33:29.750-08:002016-12-31T13:33:29.750-08:00Yes this succinctly states our hosing nightmare. ...Yes this succinctly states our hosing nightmare. <br /><br />Bitumen, pipelines, opaque trade deals for corporations, unchecked immigration and run away housing prices... that's a least strike four for our Prime minister and government. Seems like a simple plan - using bad growth to make matters worse rather than better. <br /><br />It is hard to be optimistic going into 2017, nonetheless we need to keep as positive as possible to address all these issues. It is our only option. Alll the best in the New Year Mound.Billnoreply@blogger.com