[10% of Toronto population now rely on Food Banks]

30 minutes ago, QuebecOverCanada said:

 

And what you said about renovictions is so true. I'm very glad to be able to afford a rent increase and to be able to be a homeowner starting next year, but not everyone has had my luck.

Before I finally bought I was renovicted twice, the first time my rent went from $1000 to $3000.  Then I bought before I had to try to rent again...

31 minutes ago, QuebecOverCanada said:

 

I started sending more and more cans of non perishable food to the organizations in my neighborhood who help the hungry, I might start voluntary work on the week ends.

Good for you, you're inspiring me to do more.

[10% of Toronto population now rely on Food Banks]

1 hour ago, QuebecOverCanada said:

 Has it ever been this bad 8 years ago?

No.  Similar stories elsewhere but Canada seems particularly bad.  God forbid you should be renovicted in this environment.

[Obama is clearly a Muslim and that's a disgrace to America]

15 hours ago, impartialobserver said:

this thread shows just what a joke most political commentary is. 

I think you mean "on here".

[Looks like another political forum down the tubes]

2 hours ago, NYLefty said:

  I don't stop in here much anymore along with quite a few others. 

Post when you can.  1 show pony is more interesting than 8,000 vermin posts.

BTW @NYLefty you DO use ignore right ?

[Pierre Poilievre Press Conference]

26 minutes ago, OftenWrong said:

 Was that not informative enough the first time I said it?

I didn't interpret "There is no existing program" as you meant it.

20 minutes ago, OftenWrong said:

Or at least to do the job he's been given. Roll up sleeves and get to work. Something your guy Trudeau never did in his entire life.

 

Trudeau is not my guy.  I know lots of people who can roll up their sleeves and still can't get the job done.  

I hope Poilievre isn't one of those.

[Pierre Poilievre Press Conference]

3 minutes ago, OftenWrong said:

...whatareyougonnado? 🤷‍♂️

Elect Poilievre, apparently, to kick ASS 😂

[Pierre Poilievre Press Conference]

28 minutes ago, OftenWrong said:

There is no existing program. These things are new, and none in Canada yet.

Ok - was the link I posted just informational ?  

Based on this it seems like there is work starting now across organizations.

https://smractionplan.ca/smr-action-plan-full-list-actions#table

[Who are the 500,000 immigrants headed to Canada? A look at the numbers (and the problem)]

1 hour ago, CITIZEN_2015 said:

Strange!!!!. I thought the birth rate would make up for mortality rate.

Sorry you're right.

[Pierre Poilievre Press Conference]

1 hour ago, Queenmandy85 said:

A few minutes ago, Mr. Poilievre said his government will bring in SMR's to lower emissions.  I am just glad we are finally going to move on this. It is just common sense.

Ok found it.

 

SMALL MODULAR REACTORS.

 

I haven't heard about this, but sounds great.  Is Poilievre planning to expand the existing program?

https://smractionplan.ca/

[Pierre Poilievre Press Conference]

What are SMR's please, for the thread...

[Who are the 500,000 immigrants headed to Canada? A look at the numbers (and the problem)]

1 hour ago, CITIZEN_2015 said:

And where the replacement rate came from? 

If true then we need incentives within Canada for Canadians to have more children including huge tax incentives and family support programs.

Replacement rate equals the mortality rate.

The billions that such incentive programs would cost might still not work, is the thing.  Of we had ten years ' full salary for my spouse we would likely have had Four kids instead of two.  That would have cost EI $1M instead of $20K.

[Who are the 500,000 immigrants headed to Canada? A look at the numbers (and the problem)]

42 minutes ago, CITIZEN_2015 said:

Unfortunately the PC record on immigration was only slightly better though the Liberal really screwed up.

What Canada needs is

To reduce immigration to 150,000 a year. .

Where did you get this number?

It would be 1/2 the replacement rate.

[Who are the 500,000 immigrants headed to Canada? A look at the numbers (and the problem)]

3 minutes ago, eyeball said:

Why aren't they screening for ideology?

Maybe PP will. That'll fix everything. 

No, I already asked on here what PP is going to do to save us.  The answers were surprisingly in agreement: cut spending (?excess? Spending) and cut out the divisive woke talk.

😂

[If you keep bringing in Muslims, then you have to deal with the consequences.]

2 minutes ago, TreeBeard said:

How socially conservative are the children of immigrants?  The answer is no more so than any other Canadian. 
 

I don’t think Canada will be bringing in 30 million Muslims. 

There's a Pew poll I posted that showed Muslims become secular at a higher rate than evangelical Christians.

[If you keep bringing in Muslims, then you have to deal with the consequences.]

Ultimate irony=making a racist post that also warns about Nazism...

[Obama is clearly a Muslim and that's a disgrace to America]

1 hour ago, Rebound said:

I don’t disagree with Obama. He tried for eight years to work with Netanyahu, who gave him the finger the whole time, up to and including addressing Congress without getting permission or even asking the State Dept. It was a big F-you to Obama, and lo and behold, it hasn’t worked out well for Israel.  
 

Trump’s plan was to send an Orthodox Jew to create a “peace plan” with Israel, present it to the Palestinians and tell them “take it or leave it,” and if course that got him a middle finger too.  
 

Maybe it’s just not possible, but frankly, Netanyahu has been far far too antagonistic to the Palestinians  

 

Great post.  The hard of thinking will demand that Israel and the US take a hard line, when that is the strategic failure before us.

Netanyahu's arrogance and assumptions that the world will support them no matter what ... led them here.

[Which (one) G7 country does not have high-speed rail?]

1 hour ago, myata said:

Because of inertia of the past; mental inertia and laziness.  ?

 I'm sure if I did a little research on my own I could find some other reasons. Such as the cost perhaps?

[Which (one) G7 country does not have high-speed rail?]

11 hours ago, myata said:

We will forget what century it is and how things work in it. What, already?

 

Well why aren't we doing it?

[Impeach Florida Governor Ron Desantis.]

This is my favourite thread.

It's a preview to what's going to happen when Trump is elected and the problems that pile up are blamed on liberals still....

[Pro-Palestinian Supporters Admit They Didn't Even Know About The Oct 7th Attack]

Well, yeah.  Lots of stupid people out there...

[Quebec so far this week: • Synagogue firebombed • Imam says Jews should be exterminated • Pro-Palestinian screams "kike" at Jewish student • Professor calls Jewish student "a whore," says go back to Poland • Two Jewish schools hit with gunfire.]

49 minutes ago, eyeball said:

And the tension between right and left is even higher.  That's what's really fuelling so much of the anger.

Great point there.

[Pro Hamas LGBYQers]

5 hours ago, SpankyMcFarland said:

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/09/us/politics/river-to-the-sea-israel-gaza-palestinians.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Many insurgencies have similar sayings and songs. In Ireland, for example, people talk of Four Green Fields, A Nation Once Again, Our Day Will Come. These are perceived very differently by the other, Protestant, side in Northern Ireland. 

I read the article, and I don't think he belongs in the public sphere.  In other words, it's a statement that doesn't help any kind of dialogue

 

[Pro Hamas LGBYQers]

1 hour ago, SpankyMcFarland said:

 These are perceived very differently by the other, Protestant, side in Northern Ireland. 

Okay but the Irish did want the English out of their land, which is what the objection is to Palestinians using it right?

I will read this article thanks for posting

[Which (one) G7 country does not have high-speed rail?]

Ok but the US *barely had it...

"

Amtrak Acela train at Old Saybrook, Connecticut

Amtrak's Acela, which reaches 150 mph (240 km/h) over 49.9 mi (80.3 km) of track and Brightline, which runs at 125 mph (201 km/h) in a dedicated ROW between Orlando and Cocoa, are the US's only high-speed rail services. "

 

From Wikipedia

 

We don't like taxing at the level we would need to, to fund these things.  And we don't have two cities at Orlando-Cocoa Beach distance, at 58 miles, try this out

[Quebec so far this week: • Synagogue firebombed • Imam says Jews should be exterminated • Pro-Palestinian screams "kike" at Jewish student • Professor calls Jewish student "a whore," says go back to Poland • Two Jewish schools hit with gunfire.]

4 hours ago, myata said:

Such a paradise of multi-ethnic harmony. Just imagine what it will look like at 100 million mostly from abandon and forsaken places of the planet.

You can't assume that ethnic tension will continue at some level because the conflicts are situational.

We are much larger than when Pierre Trudeau introduced multiculturalism and yet racism and ethnic tension, it can be argued, have reduced.