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You might have a case if this was a rental building, but my understanding is that the units were owned by the people who lived in them. In Canada, such buildings are called stratas and a group of owners called councils oversee the operations, including making decisions on repairs. Major repairs require majority of owner approval and, if approved, are paid either through special levy or, if there are enough funds, out of the contingency fund. Owners have been known to vote down needed repairs for years, creating dangerous conditions for residents and court cases forcing stratas to make repairs. A few years ago, in BC, all stratas were required to have a depreciation report created and updated every two (?) years and are required, by law, to carry out needed repairs. In the States, condos are run by homeowners associations, comprised of resident owners and have similarities to the way stratas are operated in Canada. It could be that the resident owners themselves were the ones delaying the repairs, simply because enough of them didn't believe they were necessary and voted down any motion for a special assessment or any other financial option they have down there. Or other HOA rules specific to Florida may have delayed the repairs too long. It's tragic, and likely the result of many small failures over time, rather than a single event or some kind of plot.

Routine safety inspections for many things have been placed on hold during the time of covid. If the building had been inspected between 2019 - 2021 it might have been declared unsafe, and people evacuated. Contractors were not allowed to take on any new work, but emergency repairs were still allowed in specific cases. Therefore the building collapsed, and they died of Covid -19.

A British man took great lengths to look like his idols who sing and dance in front of thousands of fans. According to him, he felt connected to the Korean group so much, that he felt he was not belonging to his original ethnic background -British White- but was indeed, according to him and many activists on the Left on twitter, a trans-Korean. By great lengths, he meant taking plastic surgery, to make himself look asian. It goes as followed; Him on the left before surgery, him on the right just after. His name is Oli London. He received lots of death threats after appearing on Twitter with this appearance. https://www.tmz.com/2021/06/30/oli-london-british-influencer-identify-korean-plastic-surgery-death-threats-bts-singer/ Do you feel like this is the next big cause of the Left?

That's "bread and brioches" already, ne c'est pas? Like, you get $185 plus allowances, or all expenses picked up no question asked has nothing to do with "choosing"? Congrats you made it, too. And it always comes to that from "hard work and fair entitlements" in a system that controls itself and rewards itself, not so? Surprises.

You are the signal jammer in the forum. Your purpose obviously is to scramble the signal so no real message could be received. So you are telling me that: 1. The homeless and impoverished saw a 17% real gain in income and everyone else saw the same 17% gain? 2. The homeless and impoverished saw a 30% real gain in income most middle class saw a 17% increase and the super rich saw a 25% decrease? 3. The homeless and impoverished saw a 75% real decrease in income, middle class saw a 50% decrease in income, the super rich saw a 250% increase in income. Average for all of the above scenarios is a 17% increase. Which of the above scenarios best represents the actual situation in Canada? I hope you stop scrambling the signal with your meaningless posts.

Can't disagree any more with that. If it was going to take you 25 years to buy a middle class detached house on one income with your wife staying at home and now it is impossible even over a 40 year period with two incomes, how are you better off? If it took you 15 minutes to get to work; now you are stuck in traffic jams for an hour each way, how did your standard of life go up? If you ate tasty domestic fruits and vegetables you could afford and now you are forced to buy hard tasteless almost inedible ones, how is this better? If you could go to river and catch fish for dinner before, now you cannot because there are very few fish and fishing is closed, how are you better off? If you had moderate temperatures and you could enjoy life and now you are stuck either in 49'C heat or with a hydro bill for your air conditioner which is higher than your winter bills, how are you better off? No, it has been going down all this time.

This person is no trendsetter for the left any more than buddy here is a trendsetter for the right...

I will grant that what was done with residential schools resulted in "cultural genocide" - but this was done with the belief of the time that this would (and many would argue DID) facilitate aboriginal assimilation into this country. The implication that these graves represent some kind of physical genocide is way off base. EVERY institution that was to house a lot of people of any age over much of the past century was likely to have a graveyard, as death from disease was very common. On top of that, aboriginal immune systems were not well suited to the addition of European infectious agents and no doubt suffered far higher death rates. Markers would probably have been wooden if used at all. Hopefully, when some of the cult's records are revealed, so better idea of who is who, how the died, etc. can be produced.

Who you voting for?

Please do not disturb the sleep of the most privileged and entitled, white,, Canadians on this board.

"In 1972, the compensation for MPs could be divided into three categories: basic salary (sessional indemnity and incidental tax‐free expense allowance); salaries for additional responsibilities; and a pension plan. An MP’s basic sessional indemnity was set at $18,000 per year." Basic MP salary, 2021 is $185,000. It does not include additional allowances and compensation for responsibilities. You can do the math, but sorry I have to be excused from further discussion. Please have it your way: life is getting ever better with $17 juice and Joe with Jill can have their 17% more wealth if only on paper in the report. By the way, Joe in case you were wondering, this is what 1028% growth in prosperity looks like. Wonderful, no?

I'm very nice and helpful. Also time on my hands lately, of course...

1. "Income in Canada 2009 published by Statistics Canada." showed a 17% real gain in income over 40+ plus years. So your cherry-picked evidence doesn't measure up. 2. I changed from GDP to real income rise for my evidence. Maybe that will help convince you to not use anecdotal evidence.

Double cost of education, more than double rent, double taxes, public transit, public healthcare in crisis, food prices up 50%, license sticker 60% everything up xyz%. House tax up 2-5% annually, on the clock. Municipal service, same. Same position, same salary trifle more or less, depending on the specifics. MP salary up 50%. GG all expenses paid, who cares. No-no Joe, you got it all wrong! Look here, see these letters "G-D-P" the numbers can't lie! Just have to take a different look on the reality. Here, put on these "hurray we are all wealthier!" glasses and all be OK... at least till the next budget crisis.

Basic economy. So there are two types of consumer for $17 glass of juice. The first is a private millionaire. She or he made gazzillion of lalabies sold them at fair market price, paid workers, paid all expenses paid taxes and for the profit, the juice. All is fair - juice exchanged for lalabies at the market freely and voluntarily. Want more juice, make and sell more lalabies and no other way. The second type is GG, public CEO and MP. CEO got a golden parachute, GG got lifetime expenses and MP, basic salary plus allowances. They haven't made lalabies or anybies; they didn't pay market costs or anything. They can buy $17 juices simply because there's a convenient magic well called "public budget" that exudes whatever is asked and no questions asked. Not to everybody though, need those letters. See, the difference? Who measures the contribution GG made to the economy? Who decided that it costs no less than lifetime expenses? And that's one of the reasons why there are more super-expensive juices sold. And the price of juice for a regular Joe goes from two bucks to five. With same salary. Hurray, look we have GDP growth here! now make it per capita, see Joe numbers don't lie: same salary $5 juice from two you just got even wealthier!

You are mixing up the natives and the woke fads. The real natives are no woke. However, the fake natives that only care about the free skidoos would do.

1. I don't think I said anything about that. I just find your anecdotal data to be suspicious. I don't even disagree with you really, I just want a better discussion from you.

Wait...that didn't take long. Looked it up. THORIUM.

Would be nice, but I'm not optimistic. Seems to me, every couple of years, somebody comes up with some "breakthrough" that's going to make hydrogen the new savior of the energy crisis. Then it doesn't. I'm more curious about that other one you used to hear about a lot. It's kind of faded from memory. I'm blocked on it. Something about nuclear energy that used a safer fuel than what they're using. What was that? I had hope for that one.

Some, perhaps most, of these discoveries were made long ago because the communities knew people were buried in or near the schools. The news release of this information seems carefully choreographed. We don’t know how these children died. We do know that over a century ago many families lost children to illness and disease. There’s no evidence presented of murder in these burials so far. So, was there neglect? Yes. Was it universal across schools and classes? Again, there’s currently no clear evidence of that, though we can say it was common. Were publicly-funded Indigenous boarding schools rife with other problems like malnutrition, underfunding, abuse? How prevalent were such problems compared to non-Indigenous publicly funded boarding schools, if there were any? If honest research and investigation takes place, we may find out. We all have to be open to whatever facts emerge and give the information a just response. Individual accounts do add up, but what does the sum total tell us, honestly? If we proceed with assumptions instead of facts, there can be no reconciliation. The problem now is that we hear a lot of strong emotional positions that don’t answer the questions above. If that continues people will eventually tune out the headlines. If people feel that they are being manipulated, they will eventually push back. Right now people are petrified of saying something that might appear colonial or racist, even if they are merely seeking facts. The perceived victims are given centre stage because people feel guilty and sorry for past mistreatment. I guess we have to ask what’s the endgame or purpose of all this. If it’s to learn what really happened, allow families to say goodbye, and apologize for the misguided practices of past government and church members, that’s fine, but most of the people involved are gone. It’s hard to know how good many of them were. Publicly funded education was a progressive idea in its infancy, and only the “settler” taxpayers were providing it. The schools represented their values. It’s not radical or unreasonable to say that there were good things about early public education relative to what existed before public education, and it’s not a stretch to say, that there were even some good things for some Indigenous to some extent. This is reasonable, but I don’t think that there’s any guarantee that reason will prevail. People who say such things are vilified today in the kangaroo court of social media. This is a time of strong opinions and knee-jerk reactions, I’ll venture to guess partly because people are raw from pandemic hell, but there is definitely an ignorant mob looking for scapegoats. Hopefully cooler heads will prevail, objective facts are revealed, and there are sensible reactions. Not sure though.

It's nobody's job to 'save' or 'protect' native cultures other than those communities. Tons of people have come to Canada with hundreds of different cultures. Most assimilate into the Canadian mainstream - as they should. I don't wear a kilt or eat sheep's stomach and I don't want to. Be aware of where you come from but it's silly to try to relieve ancient cultures today except as a hobby.

People are so ignorant about our history. about all history, really. And so they read the breathless accounts of 'mass graves' which suggest some horrific slaughter and are appalled. But that's not what has been found here. What was found were unmarked graves. And you will find the same anywhere there were institutions like this, be they natives or not. Similar such graves have been found in the UK, Ireland, Scotland and the US, as well as Canada. Orphanages, except those in big cities, all had them, as did homes for unwed mothers, prisons and mental institutions. People don't realize how poor Canada was when this school went into operation. If you've ever been in an old house, a hundred years old, in the winter, and thought about how drafty it was, well, that was where the better off lived. Except there was no furnace or boiler back then. Most people had very substandard housing which was cold as hell in winter, shacks and cabins with little or no insultation. And most people scrambled to get enough to eat. And if they didn't, no one cared. The very concept of government taking care of people hadn't even occurred to anyone yet. There were no social services and if you didn't have money you didn't get a doctor either. As a result, waves of deaths swept the country every year from Tuberculosis, Scarlet Fever, Measles, and even Influenza. A third of Canadian children died before their tenth birthday. So yeah, in a very large school which operated for a very long time in a rural area you're going to find graves. Kamloops was a tiny fort and railhead back then. Even up to 1950 the population was under 2,000. So when a child died, it was buried there. The government didn't think it could afford to ship the bodies home. And likely didn't care anyway. Government rarely cared about poor people and they didn't come any poorer than natives. I'm sure they'll wind up exhuming the bodies and they'll find all or virtually all died of various diseases. Just like the kids in orphanages etc. This is no different than you'd find at similar institutions anywhere in the world that date from that time. So no, this isn't some kind of horrible crime of mass murder, just how the world was back then. Nor was it racism, just the callousness of government. Hell, look up the Duplessis orphans some time and see how cold and callous government can be to white kids. They were wrongfully transferred to psychiatric hospitals because the feds paid more for mental patients, and then the Quebec government let the CIA do mind control experiments on many of them. And that was in the 1950s! Some of them are buried in unmarked graves too.