BeaverFever

Yes the Nazis were known for promoting diversity, progressive inclusive policies and discrimination against straight white males ? Go back to grade school, dummy.

What a fascist thing to say

What are you talking about interest rates and mortgage were WAY HIGHER in 2008 than later years much less 2017. Rates rook a nose dive in 2009 and depending on the specific rate and date they were easily 2% or 3% lower for most of the next decade And it’s not just the loe rate that feeds demand but a PERSISTENT low rate, which fuels speculation and people buying “investment properties”. Inflation isn’t just about today’s prices it’s also about what consumers expect for tomorrow’s prices and next year’s prices. One of the reasons that the recent rate hikes weren’t as effective as intended is because consumers continued to expect things would soon improve, and that the interest rates would go back down and so they didn’t slow down their spending which continued to fuel inflation. Yeah we’ve seen especially in the GTA prices don’t really go down much when the market slows, home owners don’t sell during those market pauses if they have a choice, and will instead just wait until the next feeding frenzy. I’m not denying that supply is an issue I’m denying that immigration is the issue. I think you underestimate the importance of low interest rates in this equation. HC also says it expects housing prices to decline despite lower supply due to rate increases https://www.cmhc-schl.gc.ca/blog/2023/lower-house-prices-less-supply-projected-2023

Christian in past centuries had the values of those centuries they did not have your modern 21st century values. If you could travel back in time to meet you medieval Christian ancestors they would probably have you raped, enslaved and then burned at the stake simply because of your some slight difference in your actions or speech that they perceived as heresy or the devil’s work. Pagans OTOH accepted that different people worship different gods in different ways and as long as you steer clear of some important taboos there was no such thing as a heretic. There are probably ev more people throughout history who could say that what they think of as god is pagan and what they think of as evil is Christian. Except you miss the hilariously obvious point that the Nazis and the actual holocaust was carried out by actual Christians Plus don’t gloss over all that transatlantic slave trade and genocide of indigenous peoples stuff your dear Christians did either, Protestant and Catholic alike. Humans are humans in every religion always capable of the most unspeakable evil and always with holy men to legitimize their deeds as ordained by the deity of the moment.

Nonsense

Point of fact: Nobody ever found there was no obstruction of Justice. His own AG (the third to serve in one term which ought to tell you something) had sole authority to authorize the investigation of a sitting president and simply declined to do so. It’s like if Gerald Butts declined to investigate Trudeau

Well first of all the city of Rome is not the same thing as the entire Roman Empire which spanned from Britain to North Africa to Mesopotamia Second of all you’re granting yourself a lot of leeway by not defining the time period that is “rise of Christianity” Third of all the implication of your suggestion is that Christianity destroys civilizations and wed be better off as pagans. Many historians consider Rome in the first century AD to be one of the best periods of history to live in (other than modern times of course).

Freedom of speech doesn’t mean Freedom from consequences. You absolutely have freedom of speech to publicly call your boss a dumb ugly c-nt and say that you hope their kids die in a fire. Your Freedom of speech doesn’t prevent your boss from holding you accountable for that.

I considered that also but why stage the plane crash INSIDE Russia where Russian authorities could investigate? And he would still need to escape from inside Russia. Its Russia though: anything is possible and all news/information is suspect and untrustworthy. For all we know Putin staged the plane crash to hide that Prigozhin was taken alive and is on a stretching rack in Putins basement, or had his eyes ears nose and tongue removed with a rusty box cutter then was sent to work for the rest of his life in a Siberian salt mine.

It was a Private jet so they were probably other Wagner thugs, I wouldn’t worry about mourning them.

Wagner mercenary boss Yevgeny Prigozhin killed in plane crash with nine others, Russian authorities say The chief of Russian mercenary group Wagner, Yevgeniy Prigozhin, is believed to have been killed in a plane crash, Russian state media reported Wednesday. The aircraft, a business jet, crashed northwest of Moscow, with all 10 people onboard killed, according to Russia’s state news agency TASS. Prigozhin was on its list of passengers…. https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/23/wagner-mercenary-boss-yevgeny-prigozhin-killed-in-plane-crash.html Was it ever going to end any other way? Given Putin’s well established murderous appetite how could he have expected a different outcome?@Michael Hardner you owe me a coke, my friend

Lol What point are you trying to make here? Follow along: they donated generously to his campaign and in return he made a secret deal that if they bought protected greenbelt land under his watch then he would un-protect it He did not make that deal with other developers I’m saying they KNEW it would become available because they had had an illegal secret insider deal, which they purchased through generous campaign contributions. ALMOST ALL of it, not “some” No, that’s the opposite of the facts. T AG actually said there is NO evidence it will be developed in the near future. The AG also said this land deal was NOT part of the land parcels included in the million home plan which was already finalized at time this dirty deal was done. That doesn’t align with any of the known facts or timing of events Whataboutery and subjective Corruption is always a bad deal for democracy n He didn’t sell it, the land was already privately owned, just had restrictions.

Why would some salaried staffer be secretly rigging this land deal for no reason? The developers gave handsomely to Doug and even attended his daughter’s wedding. Much of the land given away under this deal was bought as soon as Doug was elected. Doug refuses to revisit the deal despite seemingly admitting it was rigged. Doug tried to prevent the AG from examining the deal. Doug was caught on tape telling developers he was going to do this then tried to explain it away to the public as some sort of misunderstanding….the he went and and did this after all.

And now the Housing Minister’s Chief of Staff has resigned….the first patsy has been offered up for sacrifice in the hope that this scandal will just go away. Of course nobody’s fooled, this corruption clearly goes all the way the Premier’s office and a criminal probe has now been referred to the RCMP (at OPP request, to avoid any potential conflict of interest or political interference).

Ukraine had a pro-western government elected 2005-2010, and Putin unsuccessfully tried to poison the president. Then Russia rigged the 2010 election and a pro-Russian dictator came to power, who jailed the prominent pro-western politicians, murdered journalists and opened fire on his own unarmed civilian population, Russian-style, but don’t expect the Putin-apologists on this thread to acknowledge those facts.

Your argument is going all over the map here and in your arguments one minute you’re talking about general inflation and in another you’re talking about just housing market inflation. Let’s start with housing. Just housing ok?The long run up in housing costs is due to an extended period of low interest rates, which went through the floor. Housing prices absolutely SKYROCKETED in 2020. That’s just a fact. Rate increase have moderated prices, there’s just a lag you’re not perceiving and the occasional dead cat bounce, whenever the Fed has held the rate instead of increasing, buyers think the rate hikes are over and open up their wallets again Canadian Real Estate Association “July continued along the same trend we’ve seen emerge in recent months, with sales levelling off and new listings returning in more normal numbers,” said Larry Cerqua, Chair of CREA. “This has been giving buyers more choice and balancing the market, which as of July was also slowing the rate of price growth. If you’re looking for information and guidance about how to buy or sell a property, contact a REALTOR® in your area,” continued Cerqua. "Following a brief surge of activity in April, housing markets have settled down in recent months, with price growth now also moderating with its usual slight lag,” said Shaun Cathcart, CREA’s Senior Economist. “Sales and price growth are already showing signs of tapering off further in August in response to the Bank of Canada’s mid-July rate hike and messaging regarding above-target inflation for longer than previously expected. We’re probably looking at another round of ʻback to the sidelines’ for some buyers until there’s a higher level of certainty around interest rates going forward.” https://stats.crea.ca/en-CA/ Now regarding general inflation there are different measures that the BOC looks at, some of which include things like housing and fuel prices, others don’t The interest rate hike decision is made after considering all these factors Core inflation of everyday goods which is already appears to be waning is due to supply chain, war in Ukraine and post-covid excess savings:pent-up demand and TIGHT labour market ie general shortage of workers and high workforce churn rates which immigration helps minimize

Made up nonsense

I think you have your timelines mixed up. it’s along way from the alleged Jesus story to the so-called fall of the western empire. And of course the eastern empire endured for another thousand years after that so the narrative you’re weaving doesn’t really make sense

You’re just copying and pasting stuff you don’t understand. And are irrelevant to the discussion. My original statement stands.

Canada is exploited whether you personally feel it or not

Even artificial intelligence has managed to surpass conservatives. .

Military officer AWOL from Ukraine mission returns to Canada; DND confirms he has been released from the Canadian Forces The Canadian Army leadership decided not to charge the officer with any offence. Published Aug 21, 2023 • Last updated 47 minutes ago • 3 minute read Troops from 3rd Canadian Division ship out for the Ukraine as part of Operation Unifier in 2017. Photo by Bloom, David /Postmedia A Canadian soldier training Ukrainian troops disappeared for at least six months before resurfacing back home and has now been released from the military, according to documents obtained by this newspaper. Despite the captain admitting he had gone absent without leave, Canadian Army commanders have decided not to lay charges. The officer, originally from a Toronto-based military unit, had been in Ukraine as part of a Canadian Forces training mission there and had been transferred to Poland for a return to Canada in February 2022. Story continues below This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. But the soldier told his commanders that, since he and his wife had family in Ukraine, he wasn’t going to follow orders to return and would instead stay in Poland to help relatives. “Member has disobeyed a lawful command and is AWOL from his parent unit,” concluded one report obtained through the Access to Information law. The officer had a specialized passport issued to people holding office, such as members of Parliament and people employed by the Canadian government in non-diplomatic capacities travelling on official missions or to posts abroad. In addition, he had his Canadian Forces uniform and some equipment. National Defence spokeswoman Jessica Lamirande confirmed Thursday that the officer later returned to Canada and was released from the military. The Canadian Army leadership decided not to charge the officer with any offence. Lamirande said the identity of the soldier cannot be released because of federal privacy law. The specific date the soldier returned to Canada was not provided, although the military said it was last fall. Lamirande said the soldier “was subject to release” from the Canadian Forces, but, due to privacy laws, she could not provide any other information about that process. Story continues below This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. “As the former member is now a civilian, we have no knowledge of their current whereabouts,” she added. The records released to this newspaper noted that, shortly after the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the officer asked his commanding officer if he could release from his Canadian Forces duties in Poland so he could help family members in Ukraine to cross the border. That request was denied and he was ordered to return to his home unit, The Governor General’s Horse Guards in Toronto, where, after a short period, he could then go on leave. But the soldier never got on the return flight or showed up at his Toronto unit, with military police brought in to search for him, the Canadian Forces records showed. At one point, the soldier phoned the commanding officer of his home unit and said he was in Krakow, Poland. He “expressed that he has no intention of leaving Poland or re-entering Ukraine,” that report noted. “Mbr (member) understands that he is AWOL.” The soldier was part of Operation UNIFIER, the Canadian military training mission in support of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. It was launched in 2015 and training took place in Ukraine until the Russian invasion in 2022. Now the training of Ukrainian troops is conducted in the United Kingdom, Poland and Latvia. Story continues below This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Other documents also show a concern among Canadian military leaders that the news media might find out about former or still-serving Canadian Forces members who have either gone to fight in Ukraine or have travelled to that country during the war. Chief of the Defence Staff Gen. Wayne Eyre issued a directive on March 24, 2022, prohibiting military personnel from travelling to Ukraine, Belarus or Russia unless it was for military-approved business. The documents also detail other issues with the training mission in Ukraine, including the theft of military equipment. Around $100,000 worth of helmets, bulletproof vests and computer hard drives were reported stolen in a report on Dec. 15, 2021. A U.S. military training contingent also had equipment stolen, the documents added. Most of the equipment was eventually recovered, and most of the hard drives had been previously wiped clean. But the report noted that, among the stolen items, there were also computer servers from the Canadian training mission to Ukraine in 2019. Although an investigation determined that no classified material had been compromised, it concluded that the personal information of some Canadian soldiers who previously served in Ukraine “may be compromised.” https://ottawacitizen.com/news/national/defence-watch/military-officer-awol-from-ukraine-mission-returns-to-canada-dnd-confirms-he-has-been-released-from-the-canadian-forces

No the OP presented the details of the AG report accurately whereas the most recent post right above this one did not. The developers didn’t just happen to “already own” this protected land: they bought much of it recently, after Ford came to office some of it just months before it was removed from the greenbelt even though Doug had vowed publicly not to develop it. Obviously it was an inside deal. This greenbelt land was also not part of the Ford government’s plan to build a million homes as that plan and the land involved was already finalized prior. Furthermore the AG and municipalities confirm that they have plenty of non-greenbelt land available for development and nobody was consulted on these greenbelt deals.

Colonies are exploited. It seems Boudica didn’t care for the fact that her Roman allies subjected her to flogging and her daughters to gang rape as punishment for simply inheriting her husbands tribal chieftain title. The Romans eventually abandoned Britannia to Anglo-Saxon, Irish and Pictish Barbarian raiders who were attacking from all directions, ignoring pleas from the Romano-British locals. They were too busy fighting their own civil wars and barbarians on the continent to worry about the distant and insignificant colonials.

You don’t know what you’re talking about. Mortgages wee NEVER as cheap as they were in 2020 ams 2021. The prime rate was 0.25%!!! You could get a 5-yr fixed for less than 2% As someone who refinanced a cottage in 2021, sold a house last year and closed on another house this year I cam tell you first hand that cheap financing definitely drive up prices once the BOC dropped the rate. Our cottage valuation more than doubled and I assure you there were no immigrants snatching up properties in rural Muskoka. As a buyer in the GTA it was discouraging to see every home receive 30+ offers and sell for 50% or more over asking with no conditions and that was not something that happened before the pandemic. As a seller we benefited and sold our house for WAY more than it was ever valued prior to the pandemic. Our neighbour, who had the larger model of our home with an extra bedroom and nicer amenities sold for $720k in March 2020. We sold for $860k in July 2022, having paid $240k in 2007. For reference our 2018 valuation placed the house at $590k. We eventually bought a house for $1.3M, double the price that identical houses on the street sold for in 2015.