mister914, to random
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When will ever encourage housing construction? Just look at this map! Toronto is only building more towers than almost every other city combined...wait...what???

https://cc-production-uploads-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2023/04/DCN-DW-Q1-crane-count-2-mainweb.jpg

npilon, to random
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https://www.nationalobserver.com/2024/05/28/news/PBO-carbon-price-report-Liberals - turns out the PBO fudged the numbers the CPC's been citing for how horrible the consumer carbon price is, then quietly retracted their fudged numbers over a month ago. I'm sure we'll see this reported widely any second now...

mpjgregoire,
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mpjgregoire,
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@npilon And now there has been prominent reporting: it was on the At Issue Panel this week. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncS9EqBOBis

For reference for the curious, the Parliamentary Budget Office has announced that they miscalculated the effect of the on Canadian citizens. A correction will be issued in Fall 2024.

mpjgregoire, to random
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The time Pierre Poilievre got a dressing-down from Stephen Harper
https://nationalpost.com/news/the-time-pierre-poilievre-got-a-dressing-down-from-stephen-harper

"“He was so deeply affected by it, and he really went soul-searching for a few weeks to figure life out,” says a friend."

There's a good chance will be PM in two years. We should be grateful a book has been published about his life.

interviewed the author, , last week: https://paulwells.substack.com/p/a-new-poilievre-biography-from-andrew



mpjgregoire, (edited ) to random
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mpjgregoire, (edited ) to random
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"Menzies said the fundamental problem with the CBC is that it’s not so much a public broadcaster as it is a publicly funded commercial broadcaster that is competing with private news organizations for eyeballs and advertising dollars."

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/liberals-cbc-advisory-panel-may-be-too-late

Here's my plan for the in the age of streaming. Keep as is. Keep the news. becomes the home for funding new video; the produces videos in house and CBC TV becomes the distributer.

1/4

mpjgregoire, (edited )
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as is; as is; CBC News as is [0]; TV as a repertory broadcaster, more like ; CBC Internet as a repository of Canadian taxpayer-subsidised videos.

No more direct competition with private networks for viewers and advertising; no more US game shows; no more CBC Sports; no quest to create a new hit show that also vaunts the Canadian identity.

[0] Maybe a few minutes on the hour every hour on CBC TV, similar to CBC Radio?

4/4

mpjgregoire, to random
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Canada Post loses $750M. Taxpayers may be on the hook
https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/canada-post-bleeding-money-will-need-big-change

"During the 2015 election, the Liberals promised to end a Canada Post program, which was then underway, converting addresses from door-to-door home delivery to community mailboxes." A bad — but politically popular — decision of the Trudeau ministry.

For more radical change, @acoyne proposed many years ago that we give to the postal union and let them find solutions.


gedeonm, to random
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Imagine if Republicans actually got on board with this awesome idea instead of painting it as the destruction of America like they undoubtedly will. Conservatives have lost their way and their minds, truly. https://www.threads.net/@potus/post/C607StBrwUy

mpjgregoire,
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@gedeonm Economists generally believe that the mortgage interest tax deduction in the US has increased housing prices. See https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.20141751

(This article is aimed at the general public and lists other problems with the policy: https://www.stlouisfed.org/open-vault/2018/may/why-economists-dont-like-mortgage-interest-deduction )

In Canada, we don't have a deduction for mortgage interest, and we have a higher homeownership rate than the US: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_home_ownership_rate

dmacphee, to climate
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mpjgregoire,
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@dmacphee The headline is misleading. It doesn't surprise me that the Fraser Institute, the Montreal Economic Institute or the Macdonald Laurier Institute say foolish things about , but environmental issues are a very small part of what they do. It's like describing U of T as a place to play soccer.

As for @acoyne personally, he believes climate change is real and that humans are responsible. He's told the public we should have a for 20 years or more.

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