There isnt much discourse to be had when everyone on here already agrees, and I don’t mean I miss right wing voices. Just that I dont need to talk about politics with people who think virtually exactly the same as me about these things.

Yes. There’s little or no novelty here. I’m not surprised by something new or interesting. I get a lot of nostalgia hits because we’ve all experienced similar things.

maybe it’s the same Greek

One person makes a proposal. The other either says it’s okay, or makes a counter-proposal. Revisit after a month or two, and adjust as necessary.

It’s like the other parts of a relationship: identify problems, seek agreement, make suggestions, back off when necessary, check to see if changes have improved anything.

I don’t think this is an age thing:

fixation on trivialities about a client’s appearance or something funny he did instead of getting directly to the point

I see this a lot on political comments on Lemmy and Reddit. People call politicians they don’t like weird pet names and insult their appearance. It’s like they’ve been classified as “other” so the normal rules don’t apply.

There’s value in referring to everyone respectfully. It’s easy to throw clients into the out group because they’re relatively transient. Don’t. Have empathy. Focus on what you have in common and shared goals.

What happened between the Rebel asshats and guy from the Hill Times? The first set of reporting I saw said that was the reason the scrum had been cancelled.

Ricochet links to a podcast. It’d be nice to be able to read it.

The final cost to the buyer is more relevant than the cost to the builder. It looks like that’s closer to 5-7%.

There are lots of small things that might take a few percent off the cost of housing, if developers and landlords are feeling generous. But we’ll need systemic reform if we’re going to get prices back to affordable.

You assumed by, “save you a click,” they’d read and summarized the article?

Not at all. But it never hurts to be polite.

Yes it will, assuming they get rented out then of course it will.

In enough volume, yes. But that volume is massive. 3.5 million units by 2030. We built something like 240k houses last year. We’re nowhere near the supply/demand balance that you’re describing.

If an insufficient number of homes are added, prices will remain the same or continue to inflate.

The problem is zoning and developer fees.

That’s tens of thousands of dollars on units that cost over 700k. So 5-10% of the sticker price on new builds. Removing those charges does little to lower the price of existing housing.

There are a host of other factors: expensive materials, not enough labourers/trades, money laundering, etc. But a huge issue is the amount of money in housing.

The feds and provinces could address that through tax changes, but politicians don’t have the guts. 🤷‍♂️

I agree wholeheartedly with the sentiment of ditching FPTP. But this is not acceptable.

Our system can accommodate the protest with no difficulty. It may take poll workers and scrutineers a little longer to tally to vote in these polls, but that has no overall effect.

You’re right that some people may have a harder time with the ballot. That sucks.

It doesn’t have to. But the CPC and LPC are setting low targets for production, so we shouldn’t expect many units to be built. On top of that, neither are suggesting tax changes to discourage the financialization of housing.

So it’ll take a long time to get out, because there’s little political will to change the current system.

Where did you see the thing about quality? All I found was:

They also had to overcome the “zeitgeist around prefabrication in Canada” which assumes factory builds are poor quality, Chicoine said.

That’s no longer based in reality; some studies have argued prefab projects can catch potential defects during the design phase, yielding higher-quality builds.

if I get banned from one instance then I can make a new account in some instance too?

Yes. You can always create a new account on a different instance.

Mmm. I love me a good fact check.

A huge part of journalism is avoiding lawsuits. Saying someone is lying (without proof) opens the journalist to defamation suits.

There’s always a reason to exclude the Greens: no seats, not running enough candidates. What’s next? Not enough room on stage?

Nukes? Canada needs to close the Eldritch horror gap.

Kory Teneycke, Ford’s campaign manager, has been publicly critical of Poilievre’s campaign.

Given Ford’s history, and the timing of the last Ontario election, it wouldn’t be surprising if he wants to make a run for PM. That would be much easier if he could run against a Liberal in 2029.

We progressives are great at purity tests. IMO it’s part of the reason big tent populists do better than us.