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From a recent article in the Financial Post about the effects of housing prices due to COVID-19: Razia Husein, a Toronto realtor whose clients comprise mostly wealthy foreigners or permanent residents residing abroad, says that she’s had trouble selling downtown condo units that some investors would buy in bulk in a typical year. “I sell 8 to 10 units, either pre-construction or newly built, to one buyer (in different properties). Some are from India, some are from the United Kingdom, some are from Trinidad. I tell my clients to not put all their eggs in one basket.” This year, Husein says she’s trying to facilitate sales on the phone, but it’s proving to be difficult. “They need to get on a plane and come and see a unit, or see the area. So I’m just doing a lot of rentals right now, I usually manage these investors’ properties, and find them renters,” she added. https://business.financialpost.com/real-estate/the-theory-of-immigrants-and-foreign-investors-driving-canadas-property-market-is-about-to-be-tested So the wealthy foreign investors travel to Canada to look at the condo properties to buy here. Then they leave Canada. They buy condos in bulk, and then have their real estate agent rent them to people in Canada. How in world is this legal? Canadians are getting screwed. Foreign investors are helping to drive up Canadian real estate prices.

This'll make you guys melt down. https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/29/21304947/reddit-ban-subreddits-the-donald-chapo-trap-house-new-content-policy-rules I think what's happening is a course correction from a lot of the mis-information and "Real" Fake News that came out of 2016. Facebook is seeing a boycott campaign that could force its hand on Propaganda from #45 etc. https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/facebook-ad-boycott-canada-1.5631054

And in Canada the slave trade was abolished in 1793. And in America they fought a war. All kinds of reasons and methods everywhere it was being stopped. For Britain the West Africa Squadron captured 1,600 slave ships and freed 150,000 Africans between 1808 and 1860. For America Thomas Jefferson created the United States Marines and with France put a stop to the North African slave trade. (They were enslaving whites. Millions of them.) Since the beginning of civilization there have been slaves. Then it was for the most part stopped worldwide. Who was responsible? Hint: It wasn't the Muslims. You can lasso one of the many motivating factors as to why the abolishers of slavery might have done it if you like. Go ahead, blow that factor up and present it as the only thing that matters to you but it won't change the answer to the question. It was the white Christian West that brought an end to slavery after so many millenia.

This is a kindergarten response. You've demonstrated you're entirely clueless on economics, and your response is "NO YOU ARE" followed by "I don't take kindly to ur big-city learnin' words!" My background, education and profession form the basis of my understanding on the topic. You have none. You know nothing about it. Every thought you utter on the topic is embarrassingly uninformed and amounts to little more than clueless one-liners. It doesn't matter what I reference. In your small little world, everything that goes against your fantasy-reality is blithely excused for being "minor" or "a lie" or "MSM fake news". It's a limp and pathetic mental crutch that leaves no room for intelligent debate, but you can use it on LITERALLY anything. Though it fails spectacularly to convince anyone else, it does help you make sense of the world and how everything you see and hear doesn't match up with your world view. I mean you ACTUALLY believe the Seth Rich conspiracy. It's some of the dumbest, most idiotic and poorly-sourced BS that's ever come out of Fox News, and you're telling us there's "video footage" of Hilary doing it herself? Really? Did you read that on 8chan, or from Q-anon? Fox News has retracted the story and are fighting a lawsuit on it, but please don't let those facts jar you out of your comforting version of reality. As for Rebel Media, no, it does not do anything important, and it does not serve any purpose other than to reassure people like you into thinking that you're less ignorant than you really are.

Falling asleep happens when you’re naturally tired. Passing out is from alcohol or drugs. There’s no big media/government effort, just a bias. Usually an unconscious bias. After all, 90% of the mainstream media are liberals.

You clearly are obsessed with homosexuality. Why? Now for some coded messages: J. Edgar Hoover. Cary Grant. Batman and Robin. Robin and his Merry men.The Friendly Giant. Mr. Dress Up. Mr. Rogers. Wayne and Shuster. Laurel and Hardy. The Rat Pack. Sky King. Dr. Kildare.

Right - but rents are not an investment, and higher rents are a problem for working people who don't have a 5% downpayment, which is around $40K plus closing costs.