It’s because there is no nuance anymore. With every issue you have to either be 100% on my side or 100% on the other side. So many times people argue for and against things that aren’t mutually exclusive. It doesn’t mean we should “both sides” everything, but sometimes both sides each have half of a good idea.
Why would you assume they’re talking about a foreign election in a country that doesn’t even have a Conservative or Liberal party?
Hold on, you can get an apartment in a major city for under $2000? Is the minimum wage in Quebec $10/hr? I don’t live particularly close to any city and you’d be hard pressed to find anything more than a studio for $1500, you’re looking at close to $2000 for something decent. I wonder how many months it would take to break even after moving costs from BC…
Might-E Trucks are pretty awesome, but I’m definitely not going to be commuting on the TCH in one.
And even if this was one of them, it clearly can’t be that secretive if we’re hearing about it.
Didn’t Harper kind of screw us over by signing FIPA back in 2014? I haven’t heard anything about it but those Chinese EV companies will probably sue us over these tariffs.
If we had vacancy control, we could swing almost every other policy way closer to what the landlords want. There’d be almost no incentive for bad faith evictions, and at the same time the financial impact of having to find a new place to rent would be minimized (if not initially, over time).
Right now we’re so far the opposite way, we have to have all these protections in place. Of course landlords would love to toss their long term tenants to get double or triple rent each month, and at the same time it’s financially ruinous for a tenant to have to suddenly find themselves an extra $1-2000/mo to afford even the cheapest rental on the market.
I’m not sure exactly what your point is, but we do ship a lot of raw logs across the Pacific right now. If China had good logs maybe Japan wouldn’t import them from BC.
Positive pressure hallways/staircases would make a huge impact on the spread of smoke. Smoke would still be an issue if the fire was in the hall itself, but no amount of staircases can help you if you can’t access them. The quote from the Fire Chiefs Association really makes me think we’re using the second staircase to skimp on every other aspect of fire safety.
A friend of mine went to get a vasectomy after his second kid was born and the doctor either talked him out of it or refused. He now has a 3rd kid and went to a different doctor.
No, it is binding, just neither of the parties agreed to send it to arbitration. Which I’d say is worse but arbitration always ends with an outcome that’s shitty for both sides.
The law just changed to 4 months notice for landlord/family use (3 months if it’s for a new buyer) and the landlord/new buyer/family must live there for 12 months (actually live there, not just keep it off the rental market).
Temporary foreign workers are supposed to fill skill gaps in the economy when not enough qualified workers exist, not to supply cheap labour when employers want to improve their bottom line.
Even then it seems like the “temporary” part gets ignored. There should be some requirement to invest in local training for any specialized position that’s needed long term/multiple times.
So if/when rates go back down the tenants can apply to have their rent lowered back, right?
Man, Montreal sounds super affordable! I live about an hour outside Victoria and rent here for a 1 bed starts around $1600. If I could easily find a nice 2 bedroom for around $1500 it would make my life so much better, I could actually afford to risk being rennovicted so my landlord can fix all the issues in my suite.
Yeah, I got excited for a second.
But on the flip side, if you’re rarely filling your tank because you drive so little, does an EV really make a lot of sense? The people who will see the biggest impact (financially and environmentally) are the ones who use most of their EV’s range every day.
Most, if not all, of the new apartment complexes in my area heavily advertise they have EV charging on site. Problem is they usually only install 1 or 2 chargers for a complex that has parking for 50-100 cars. That sort of ratio is fine anywhere else, but it’s not a reliable option if you and your neighbours (who were also sold by that promise) all need to get to work in the morning.
I don’t have confidence in the Liberal government, but I am confident the Conservatives would be worse.