I’m planning to open a new chequing account in the near future, and I’m contemplating bailing on RBC. I’ve been with them for a very long time, and one possible outcome is that I’ll just open a new RBC account and be done with it. That’d be… fine....
Credit Unions are really bad on the tangibles like locations, hours and range of products offered.
They are great for intangibles like not hard selling you on high management fee mutual funds or people that just want drop the call as quick as possible. Really just feels like you’re talking to a real human being trying to help you.
An RBC report published earlier this month said that more than two-thirds, or 68 per cent, of Canadian households can’t afford to buy a home on earned income alone.
Critics, however, said the measure doesn’t address the key issues of insufficient housing supply and affordability, but it could hurt the credit scores of people who are struggling to pay their rent on time.
Putting more power in the hands hands of private companies and landlords is not a good idea. Good thing they aren’t actually required to do it.
An amendment to the Canadian Mortgage Charter would urge landlords, banks, credit bureaus and fintech companies to include rental reporting in a credit score.
For anyone paying attention it’s very clear the current federal government only meaning of “affordable” is figuring different ways to get people to leverage more into housing.
There’s a lot of people saying it’s the corporations fault which isn’t exactly untrue and they do have significant sway politically with lobbying.
But it’s the people who keep bringing back politicians that clearly don’t want to lower housing prices because a segment of a population is to heavily invested into it. If anything the current tax system clearly incentivize people to invest into housing, imagine if we treated water like housing and people would buy up then vote for anyone that’ll make the prices go up.
Air Canada is a crap company and I’m sure they wouldn’t care who does the job as long as it’s cheap. But if anyone actually doesn’t want to stop companies critical to our infrastructure from outsourcing stuff like this they’re going to have to put proper regulations in place.
Transport Canada confirmed HAECO is a certified foreign maintenance organization.
Aircraft maintenance technicians in China earn just over $10 an hour, compared to triple that in Japan and Australia, according to a 2023 study of the aviation maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) industry in Northeast Asia.
The general concept is good. The current way credit scores is handled by two private companies is really bad so hope they do it differently.
And credit history is only part of what could get you favourable rates or even qualification for a loan. Income, loan ratios, assets and history with the financial institutions all play a role.
TouchBistro recommends restaurants respond to the changing trends by changing policies to emphasize the human connection.
The articles bizzarely focuses on restaurants leaning on tech as the problem. As someone who used to spend $1,500 a month on food the tech changes is no where near the top reasons why I almost stopped eating out these days.
One of examples is grabbing a beef fried rice in Vancouver 90% of places has soggy rice due to being cooked in to big of a batch, barely enough rice to fill you up and essentially what is less than a tea spoon of beef. This doesn’t even account for most places asking $20 for it now.
This sounds significantly worse than the automatic filing system and somehow cost more.
The CRA announced earlier this month that — instead of piloting a new automatic filing system — it would be expanding an existing phone tax filing system called SimpleFile.
Under that program, the CRA sends out written invitations for taxpayers to call a phone line and answer a series of questions in order to file their tax returns. SimpleFile has been in place since 2018.
The NDP is doing the best job in the country for housing affordability but I don’t see any metric in the article that quantifies it.
In itself this statement is incorrect.
These policies are making housing more affordable in real time for British Columbians.
The issue with any regional housing affordability improvement is the fact that it is regional and the benefits are not limited to locals. If BC magically halved our housing prices tomorrow it would return to high prices within months with the induced demand. I don’t see a solution where affordability is not collectively fixed in this country.
The author view as portrayed in the title is rather bizzare. She also doesn’t justify it aside from her essentially day dreaming things would be that way.
As someone who grew up in rural Canada. It’s pretty clear that a significant amount of people would leave to seek better employment opportunities by the last few years of high school.
Work to cut down approximately one-quarter of the trees in Vancouver’s Stanley Park is facing growing opposition from advocates who say the city’s plan is doing more harm than good....
The individual mentioned in the article seems to have little to no credible sources to back up any of his claims. Reminds me of the people on Reddit that somehow manage to write a 10 paragraph essay about a post but didn’t even read the article.
That said I’d like to see the original assessment confirmed by some other sources before they proceed.
On Nov. 29, the park board announced in a news release that 160,000 trees would be chopped because of the Hemlock looper moth infestation and fears of a wildfire. In September, it secretly hired forestry consultancy B.A. Blackwell and Associates Ltd. of North Vancouver on an emergency, no-bid contract to manage the operation, estimated at almost $7 million.
Norm Oberson, owner of Arbutus Tree Service and a member of the Trees of Vancouver Society board, said it is standard to take inventory of trees needing removal or pruning.
”You don’t cut a tree down in a park unless it’s been assessed by a risk assessor, a provincially certified risk assessor or an [International Society of Arboriculture] qualified tree risk assessor,” Oberson said. “It sounds like they really haven’t followed the due process.”
Tiktok has some crazy propaganda accounts that show up in my feed, although in fairness so does Youtube and Instagram.
The amount of very clearly fake content being ingested is a significant societal issue especially for platforms with kids. There really needs to be some proper records attached to accounts with the amount fake things they’ve circulated. No one should wander onto the account’s of some of the biggest social media names and think they’re a credible person.
“It’s a real shock,” said Mr. Jobb, who worked as a reporter, an editor and a columnist at The Chronicle Herald for 20 years.
It really isn’t and this is at the very least a North American local news issue. Their advertising and subscription model hasn’t been viable for a decade now.
This is Atwood’s tweet from the article which is a pretty big cop out. You can’t just say whatever you want and potentially walk back on it because you preface it by saying it could be false.
If this account of the bill is true, it’s Lettres de Cachet all over again. The possibilities for revenge false accusations + thoughtcrime stuff are sooo inviting! Trudeau’s Orwellian online harms bill
This is the account\article she is referring, which references Jordan Peterson for credibility.
People should offer less credence and attention to people who heard something from someone then has a really significant opinion on something. The same article has a much better source and first hand assessment
former chief justice of the Supreme Court Beverley McLachlin said society is changing.
“It’s our responsibility as responsible citizens, it’s the government’s responsibility, to deal with new media, new harms, new things that develop in society. So I applaud the government for taking this on, as many other countries have,” she said.
But she cited potential problems with the bill’s proposed changes to the Criminal Code, such as an increase in the maximum punishment for four hate propaganda offences.
Someone found guilty of advocating genocide, for example, could face life imprisonment, up from five years in prison.
“I do predict that this is going to be challenged in the courts,” McLachlin told host Edward Greenspon.
“We have not seen this in speech law, expression law, to my knowledge — life sentences for sending out some words. That’s heavy. And it will, I suspect, be challenged.”
Not sure if this changes anything for you but with the constraint on space for mobile plus the possible future inclusion of the up/down vote counts per post it would probably mean the user vote counter will have to be a general visualization like a user name color gradient to reduce the clutter.
Since we’re on the topic and you’re the admin/mod the Communities I post the most on I kinda curious how you guys keep track of people you’ve banned. I was skimming through my list of people I tagged and you guys banned like half of them. I’d imagine you be very favorable to it since it could make moderating a lot easier.
With the ad adjustment came these banner ads on the top of comment sections and they are atrocious so much so I don’t bother reading comments anymore. They all have the obnoxious white backgrounds and they flicker since they move. It feels light no matter my phones britness they are blinding and since content doesnt get loads...
Xxxxx(redacted as per community rule) was $4.92 CAD to remove ads while Sync is $27.99. For the record I think Sync is the better app but like maybe 4-5 dollars better not nearly 600% better.
The Boost dev also didn’t abandon their app\platform for months during its infancy where it certainly needed the attention then comes back and drop more ads in the app.
I didn’t down vote you but to share the sentiment of why you’re getting down voted. While you make one of the best apps on the platform your pricing and availability is one of the worst.
Your time would be better spent improving those aspects your business. If you just want to be a niche high priced app that caters to people obscure feature requests and have erratic development cycles you should at least be transparent about it.
Who would you recommend opening a bank account with in 2024?
I’m planning to open a new chequing account in the near future, and I’m contemplating bailing on RBC. I’ve been with them for a very long time, and one possible outcome is that I’ll just open a new RBC account and be done with it. That’d be… fine....
Federal plan would count rent toward a credit score. Who will it help — and who could it hurt? (www.cbc.ca)
N.L.'s Liberal premier calls for emergency meeting with PM as anti-carbon tax protests snarl highways (www.cbc.ca)
Are ‘mom-and-pop’ investors pricing out first-time homebuyers? (globalnews.ca)
Air Canada's new Hong Kong jet maintenance deal amid China discord raises security concerns (globalnews.ca)
Protection fund, bill of rights for renters coming; 'renters matter,' Trudeau says (www.winnipegfreepress.com)
Non-Paywall Article
TransLink fares are going up July 1 (www.cbc.ca)
Transit fares for TransLink users will go up about 2.3 per cent this summer....
Trudeau says premiers complaining about carbon price didn't pitch better ideas (www.winnipegfreepress.com)
Non-Paywall Article
Doctors say unfair salaries driving them away from family medicine in Canada (www.ctvnews.ca)
Economic pressure has Canadians trimming restaurant outings: report (www.bnnbloomberg.ca)
Government falling short on promise to roll out automatic tax filing pilot, experts say (www.cbc.ca)
There’s one government in Canada that’s actually beating back the housing crisis, and it’s not Justin Trudeau’s Liberals or Doug Ford’s Conservatives (www.thestar.com)
Non-Paywall Article
I used to judge people who chose to leave Newfoundland for work. Then I had to leave, too (www.cbc.ca)
Plan to remove 160,000 Stanley Park trees faces growing criticism (www.cbc.ca)
Work to cut down approximately one-quarter of the trees in Vancouver’s Stanley Park is facing growing opposition from advocates who say the city’s plan is doing more harm than good....
Liberals say Poilievre 'doesn't care' about the housing shortage and mock his record (www.cbc.ca)
No concerns about kids' use of TikTok despite security review: industry minister (www.ctvnews.ca)
A Financial Crisis May Jeopardize Local News in Most of Atlantic Canada (www.nytimes.com)
A long-awaited change to Canadian banking is coming (globalnews.ca)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/17302131...
Virani defends Online Harms Bill after Margaret Atwood warns of 'thoughtcrime' risk | CBC (www.cbc.ca)
Tools for managing other users
As Lemmy grows it would really good if we have more tools to filter out low quality users....
Can banner we get banner ads adjusted? (lemmy.world)
With the ad adjustment came these banner ads on the top of comment sections and they are atrocious so much so I don’t bother reading comments anymore. They all have the obnoxious white backgrounds and they flicker since they move. It feels light no matter my phones britness they are blinding and since content doesnt get loads...
Historical sexual abuse charges filed against B.C. minister belonging to church with no name (www.cbc.ca)