CTV reporting housing affordability crisis increasing at alarming rate.

[CdnFox]

2 hours ago, herbie said:

Stepdaughter just got her first house and I saw it ofr the first time yesterday.
It was of what we referred to as late 1950s, early 60s "Jetsons" architecture, like you see on old Twilight Zone reruns.
Carried on about all the 'improvements' they 'needed' to do.

Damn thing's backyard joins a huge park with water park stuff, picnic area and summer Farmers markets. One block to the main intersection, 2 blocks from school and downtown shopping area. Fire Hall and Cop shop four doors away.

$350K, but the millenials aren't happy. The kitchen counter isn't their style, the huge new smart fridge is too big, the basement laminate isn't the right colour. The lawn isn't 100% level. It even has drinking fountains installed above the outdoor taps front and back...

What happened to buy the damn thing and fix it up later as you can afford it?

Not everyone has  a magic credit card that can triple it's value overnight

 

[Barquentine]

13 hours ago, CdnFox said:

no plans to tie immigration to the number of houses actually built

Of course not. That would be ridiculous. Immigration is tied to a country's needs.

 

13 hours ago, CdnFox said:

Well you can't put manufactured homes in the cities

Not downtown but in the suburbs you can. And developers are building apt. bldgs at a pretty good rate now.

 

20 hours ago, taxme said:

Canada is full and adding more thousands every year is going to cause all kinds of problems

Been hearing that fear-mongering for 60 years, and I'm sure it pre-dates me.

 

13 hours ago, CdnFox said:

Defense can exert a lot of influence over building homes in several different ways

????????

 

14 hours ago, CdnFox said:

One of the lowest population per square foot ratios in the entire universe, we're not full.

And we do need an increasing population. It has a large number of benefits not to mention the least of which is we are not taken all that seriously as a market because we don't have that many people. The reason the US has so much clout on the world stage economically is because they've got 400,000 people that buy goods. We have a tenth of that even though our country is technically larger.

As we expand our market base earning the right to do business with us becomes more and more important to other players and that's valuable. We also increase our own domestic market and it makes it more practical for businesses to start up and manufacture things to sell within Canada because there's more people to buy them.

But while it is an obvious benefit the simple fact of the matter is we don't need to rush to it at light speed.

Sounds like something I would say.

[CdnFox]

1 hour ago, Barquentine said:

Of course not. That would be ridiculous. Immigration is tied to a country's needs.

That is the most Pureile thing you've said and you have said quite a few Pureile things.

You would still have immigration. The level of immigration would be reduced to a point where it did not exceed our capacity to provide for the immigrants. That is nothing but good, that is absolutely intelligent in every way shape or form, there is nothing intelligent about bringing in so many people that it causes a housing crisis

Congratulations, you are officially dumber than a stump

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Not downtown but in the suburbs you can. And developers are building apt. bldgs at a pretty good rate now.

That's not where our housing crisis is

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Been hearing that fear-mongering for 60 years, and I'm sure it pre-dates me.

We have a housing crisis and inflationary crisis that is directly tied to the immigration rates. If you've been hearing it, it just happened so there you go. You've probably been hearing that if you jump off a cliff you'll injure yourself at the bottom since you were young as well and guess what, if you do that it's still going to be true today

 

 

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Sounds like something I would say.

You disagreed with the most important part earlier.

Immigration is important. Excessive immigration is completely destructive and is even worse than no immigration. You seem to feel that excessive immigration is perfectly acceptable and it would be stupid not to have it. This is considerably Dumber and those who say we shouldn't have any immigration at all

But correct answer is we should have modest immigration that does not exceed our ability to provide for the newcomers in the form of infrastructure such as homes, medicine, education etc. You can have as much immigration as you want provided it doesn't exceed that capacity and it has been exceeding that capacity for quite some time. According to the economic research done by various experts it's been happening since at least 2016. Which is why we are over a million homes short of where we need to be right now

[Barquentine]

3 minutes ago, CdnFox said:

That's not where our housing crisis is

Talk about puerile. You think the housing shortage is only downtown metropolitan areas?

 

5 minutes ago, CdnFox said:

The level of immigration would be reduced to a point where it did not exceed our capacity to provide for the immigrants.

Add naivete to your resume. Now you're talking about Soviet style '5-year plans'. Do you think the US got the large population you just said was good, that way? No. It was messy and not a result of central planning. Obviously now we need control over immigration, but it's never going to be a case of "Ok - we just built 5 million homes. Let's bring in 5 million immigrant families." You should be wise enough to know that life doesn't work out that conveniently.

 

14 minutes ago, CdnFox said:

We have a housing crisis and inflationary crisis that is directly tied to the immigration rates

Now you sound like you're ill-informed. Immigration was a small contributor to our inflation problems.

And your logic is fallacious. Just because 2 things happen at the same time doesn't mean one caused the other.

[CdnFox]

Just now, Barquentine said:

Talk about puerile. You think the housing shortage is only downtown metropolitan areas?

You think it isn't? That is without a doubt where it is the worst by farI didn't say downtown. You're sticking that in because you know you're wrong and you said something stupid.

But definitely out of doubt by far the vast majority of our problems are in urban areas not rural. And we are not going to address those issues with prefab housing, they're simply isn't the room.

Did you have some data that proved otherwise? That our housing crisis is mostly in the rural areas of Canada and the urban areas are doing great for housing prices and rent?

No? Then shut up and stop being such a useless twat

3 minutes ago, Barquentine said:

Add naivete to your resume. Now you're talking about Soviet style '5-year plans'.

I guess that's one way of saying your IQ is lower than 80. This has absolutely nothing to do with soviet style plans for 5-year plans or anything like that

This is very simple. Our capacity for homes increased last year by xML. Therefore the number of immigrants we import this year cannot exceed X capacity. If it does it creates a housing crisis and people can't afford to live. Which is exactly what's happening right now. People cannot afford their homes to live in and they can't afford good food.

I know this is hard for your brain to understand and counting is difficult unless you take off your mittens,  but if the number of homes exceeds the number of people who want homes, it drives prices up radically. And the people at the bottom are the first ones who can't afford anything. 

If you have two apples and three people somebody's going hungry. Which means everybody is going to bid more and more for those apples until the poorest person can't afford to bid any higher and then the apples go to the two wealthiest

That is our canada today when it comes to housing. And for some reason you think that's a great idea

[herbie]

14 hours ago, CdnFox said:

Not everyone has  a magic credit card that can triple it's value overnight

Yeah they do but those unable to figure it out after multiple years of dwelling on about it can't be helped.
The kids are like you though, already moaning how it will cost $30,000 to 'fix' the roof.....

[CdnFox]

1 hour ago, herbie said:

Yeah they do 

No they don't. Unless you were talking about your barbie dream home  

What everyone figured out was that you were lying your ass off, and it took about 6 seconds  

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The kids are like you though, already moaning how it will cost $30,000 to 'fix' the roof.....

I don't recall moaning about how much it cost to fix my roof?

30 grand tho, must be one hell of a big roof. I can get an entire pod of 4 townhomes reroofed by a good company for that.  If it's just a regular house i'd be pissed at that price too. 

 

[Barquentine]

6 hours ago, CdnFox said:

Did you have some data that proved otherwise? That our housing crisis is mostly in the rural areas of Canada and the urban areas are doing great for housing prices and rent?

I didn't say mostly, liar. But I don't keep the curtains drawn and post biased garbage 24 hrs a day like you do so I see that there are housing shortages in rural and semi-rural areas too.

6 hours ago, CdnFox said:

Then shut up and stop being such a useless twat

I've come to expect that level of conversation from you. Simple-minded....

 

6 hours ago, CdnFox said:

counting is difficult unless you take off your mittens

Remember you're the guy who thinks 120 divided by 4 gives a smaller number than 120 divided by 5.

6 hours ago, CdnFox said:

If you have two apples and three people somebody's going hungry.

Sorry you can't do fractions.

And:

"One of the lowest population per square foot ratios in the entire universe, we're not full.

And we do need an increasing population. It has a large number of benefits not to mention the least of which is we are not taken all that seriously as a market because we don't have that many people. The reason the US has so much clout on the world stage economically is because they've got 400,000 people that buy goods. We have a tenth of that even though our country is technically larger.

As we expand our market base earning the right to do business with us becomes more and more important to other players and that's valuable. We also increase our own domestic market and it makes it more practical for businesses to start up and manufacture things to sell within Canada because there's more people to buy them.

But while it is an obvious benefit the simple fact of the matter is we don't need to rush to it at light speed."

Feb 1 1, 2025. I said:

"And Canada needs a much larger population. (Largest country in the world with a population about the size of Tokyo) Needs to be done in a sustainable way, of course, but would create better internal markets..."

Do you ever actually think for yourself or just parrot other people and pretend you're being original?

 

 

[eyeball]

On 5/16/2025 at 1:07 PM, Barquentine said:

We will always be playing catch-up with housing and medicine. We aren't going to lower immigration to zero, or bring in a one family, one child law. But I think we are at the beginning of mitigating the housing problem. Going to take a few years.

The place next door to me is a single lot 130' x 60' with an old...let's say it's as much a contraption as a building its actually a house built around an old one.

Anyway it just sold for $755k. The previous owner took a bath having bought it for $890k the year after COVID.

So prices are down and now building starts are up.

https://www.cmhc-schl.gc.ca/media-newsroom/news-releases/2025/housing-starts-april-2025

From where I'm sitting things are going the way we want...what's all the whining about again? 

Edited Sunday at 01:35 AM by eyeball

[CdnFox]

2 hours ago, Barquentine said:

I didn't say mostly, liar.

I don't think you even pay attention to what you say. 

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But I don't keep the curtains drawn and post biased garbage 24 hrs a day like you do so I see that there are housing shortages in rural and semi-rural areas too.

I doubt your basement HAS curtains. 

But sure, post the data you've got on how housing shortages are substantial in the rural areas. 

I've come to expect that level of conversation from you. Simple-minded....

 

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Remember you're the guy who thinks 120 divided by 4 gives a smaller number than 120 divided by 5.

That was you kiddo  

 

 

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"One of the lowest population per square foot ratios in the entire universe, we're not full.

And we do need an increasing population. It has a large number of benefits not to mention the least of which is we are not taken all that seriously as a market because we don't have that many people. The reason the US has so much clout on the world stage economically is because they've got 400,000 people that buy goods. We have a tenth of that even though our country is technically larger.

As we expand our market base earning the right to do business with us becomes more and more important to other players and that's valuable. We also increase our own domestic market and it makes it more practical for businesses to start up and manufacture things to sell within Canada because there's more people to buy them.

But while it is an obvious benefit the simple fact of the matter is we don't need to rush to it at light speed."

 

Yes, and that's all quite true but has nothing to do with what we're discussing. Does it. 

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Feb 1 1, 2025. I said:

"And Canada needs a much larger population. (Largest country in the world with a population about the size of Tokyo) Needs to be done in a sustainable way, of course, but would create better internal markets..."

Do you ever actually think for yourself or just parrot other people and pretend you're being original?

 

Kid i wrote variations of what i wrote there dozens of times in teh last 2 years.   I"ve been 100 percent consistant. 

Which means if you're claiming that the person who posted that later is a copy cat, that would be you   

Even before PP first proposed his plan of keeping immigration tied to capacity (which was over  a year ago) we were discussing immigration here. And as everyone here knows i've always said immigration is necessary - but we do NOT require immigration to be in excess of what we can support with increases in infrastructure. 

 

So what was that you were saying again Mr parrot? LOLOLOL    

[taxme]

On 5/16/2025 at 5:43 PM, CdnFox said:

One of the lowest population per square foot ratios in the entire universe, we're not full.

And we do need an increasing population. It has a large number of benefits not to mention the least of which is we are not taken all that seriously as a market because we don't have that many people. The reason the US has so much clout on the world stage economically is because they've got 400,000 people that buy goods. We have a tenth of that even though our country is technically larger.

As we expand our market base earning the right to do business with us becomes more and more important to other players and that's valuable. We also increase our own domestic market and it makes it more practical for businesses to start up and manufacture things to sell within Canada because there's more people to buy them.

But while it is an obvious benefit the simple fact of the matter is we don't need to rush to it at light speed. Growing faster than we are capable of is even worse than not growing at all

Canada is growing way too much at light speed. Slow the hell down. Why do we need more new immigrants and refugees anyway? The more Canada brings in more new immigrants the more infrastructure Canada will need. We need more housing, not more new immigrants and refugees.

That old lieberal socialist line that Canada needs more immigrants is just plain nonsense. We have thousands of people unemployed in Canada and bringing in more new people will not solve that problem. We are full. Stop all new immigrants and refugees from coming into the country for awhile and that should help solve our housing and unemployment problems.

We are full. 

[taxme]

On 5/17/2025 at 8:00 AM, Barquentine said:

Of course not. That would be ridiculous. Immigration is tied to a country's needs.

 

Not downtown but in the suburbs you can. And developers are building apt. bldgs at a pretty good rate now.

 

Been hearing that fear-mongering for 60 years, and I'm sure it pre-dates me.

 

????????

 

Sounds like something I would say.

We have a housing shortage, and an infrastructure problem, and an unemployment crisis here in Canada. Massive immigration is not going to solve any of those problems. As we can see massive immigration has caused those problems mentioned above.

Bringing in approx. 400,000 new immigrants and refugees into Canada every year and maybe building approx. 200,000 homes a year, give or take, is going to cause an housing shortage. The old lieberal socialist line that we need more new immigrants is total bullshit. We need less bloody immigration. At least have a moratorium on immigration for a few years to try and help fight this so-called climate crisis. 

Btw, have you not noticed the traffic situation that seems to be getting worse every year? Toronto has about as many cars on the road as they have on the roads in the Maritimes. Talk about trying to solve this so-called climate environmental crisis when by adding more vehicles to the road is not going to solve the environmental crisis. It adds to it. It is very hard to try and figure out as to why our politicians want to fight a climate crisis, but yet, want to bring in millions of new immigrants and refugees to add to the problem. 

Uhmm, maybe there is no real climate crisis at all. It's all just plain bullshit? 🤔☹️

 

 

 

[Legato]

On 5/17/2025 at 7:30 PM, Barquentine said:

I didn't say mostly, liar. But I don't keep the curtains drawn and post biased garbage 24 hrs a day like you do so I see that there are housing shortages in rural and semi-rural areas too.

I've come to expect that level of conversation from you. Simple-minded....

 

Remember you're the guy who thinks 120 divided by 4 gives a smaller number than 120 divided by 5.

Sorry you can't do fractions.

And:

"One of the lowest population per square foot ratios in the entire universe, we're not full.

And we do need an increasing population. It has a large number of benefits not to mention the least of which is we are not taken all that seriously as a market because we don't have that many people. The reason the US has so much clout on the world stage economically is because they've got 400,000 people that buy goods. We have a tenth of that even though our country is technically larger.

As we expand our market base earning the right to do business with us becomes more and more important to other players and that's valuable. We also increase our own domestic market and it makes it more practical for businesses to start up and manufacture things to sell within Canada because there's more people to buy them.

But while it is an obvious benefit the simple fact of the matter is we don't need to rush to it at light speed."

Feb 1 1, 2025. I said:

"And Canada needs a much larger population. (Largest country in the world with a population about the size of Tokyo) Needs to be done in a sustainable way, of course, but would create better internal markets..."

Do you ever actually think for yourself or just parrot other people and pretend you're being original?

 

 

My ATV needs a new lower steering shaft bush, will increased immigration fix it?

[taxme]

On 5/14/2025 at 12:47 PM, blackbird said:

CTV News just announced they will have a special report this evening.  They said the housing affordability problem is worsening at an alarming rate.

This is all on the Liberal government (with NDP backing).  Liberals have been in power for ten years and now have a new mandate.  They are totally responsible for this mess.

What exactly are they doing?  What have they been doing the past year?  Why is the problem getting worse if they have been doing something about it?  Obviously they are not doing anything to seriously solve the problem.

Where was the CTV before the election when Canadians needed to know about this?

I know as to how to solve the housing crisis? Stop massive immigration for awhile. Take a break. Close the border gates for awhile. Why can't people see that immigration is the problem, and not the solution, for pretty much everything. 

Only buffoons and imbeciles will bother to listen to and believe anything that CTV, Global and the CBC will tell them. In their leftist lieberal media world and vocabulary, the word truth is no where to be found. Just lies and bullshit are all there to see though. Canada, what a joke. 👎

[CdnFox]

1 hour ago, Legato said:

My ATV needs a new lower steering shaft bush, will increased immigration fix it?

If it doesn't, that just proves we need even MOAR!!!!

[CdnFox]

1 hour ago, taxme said:

Canada is growing way too much at light speed. Slow the hell down. Why do we need more new immigrants and refugees anyway? The more Canada brings in more new immigrants the more infrastructure Canada will need. We need more housing, not more new immigrants and refugees.

That old lieberal socialist line that Canada needs more immigrants is just plain nonsense. We have thousands of people unemployed in Canada and bringing in more new people will not solve that problem. We are full. Stop all new immigrants and refugees from coming into the country for awhile and that should help solve our housing and unemployment problems.

We are full. 

Well the fact is we do need more immigrants. As I pointed out immigrants are important. Fun fact, they voted conservative last election by the way so don't complain  

The problem as you and I have both discussed is the rate. We can build X number of new homes, we can build X number of new hospitals higher X number of new doctors train X number of new nurses increase our road capacity by x amount etc etc.  If we bring in more people than that allows for it becomes a crisis very quickly. As we've seen. 

And here's a big one. One that doesn't get talked about. 

In addition, the reason the Canada has been the most successful country in the world with immigration despite having more than most historically is that we have a mentorship program that helps Assimilate people when they come And make sure they are in tune with our culture by teaching them the differences between our culture and their old culture. That is absolutely critical, it helps them navigate our systems and also make sure that they start to get work experience and meet other people an expand into the community rather than become isolated and segregated

We have now VASTLY outstripped the mentorship model, and ALL the problems that used to solve for us are now coming back to haunt us, as we've seen happen in europe. 

We need immigration, but it must be POINTS based, it must NOT exceed our increase in capacity to house and care for people, and it Must NOT exceed the capacity of the existing communities to help newcomers integrate and beccome productive members of our society. 

Right now we've blown past ALL of those things, and we're running into problems. 

[taxme]

28 minutes ago, CdnFox said:

Well the fact is we do need more immigrants. As I pointed out immigrants are important. Fun fact, they voted conservative last election by the way so don't complain  

The problem as you and I have both discussed is the rate. We can build X number of new homes, we can build X number of new hospitals higher X number of new doctors train X number of new nurses increase our road capacity by x amount etc etc.  If we bring in more people than that allows for it becomes a crisis very quickly. As we've seen. 

And here's a big one. One that doesn't get talked about. 

In addition, the reason the Canada has been the most successful country in the world with immigration despite having more than most historically is that we have a mentorship program that helps Assimilate people when they come And make sure they are in tune with our culture by teaching them the differences between our culture and their old culture. That is absolutely critical, it helps them navigate our systems and also make sure that they start to get work experience and meet other people an expand into the community rather than become isolated and segregated

We have now VASTLY outstripped the mentorship model, and ALL the problems that used to solve for us are now coming back to haunt us, as we've seen happen in europe. 

We need immigration, but it must be POINTS based, it must NOT exceed our increase in capacity to house and care for people, and it Must NOT exceed the capacity of the existing communities to help newcomers integrate and beccome productive members of our society. 

Right now we've blown past ALL of those things, and we're running into problems. 

Okay, so you believe that Canada needs more new immigrants? So, where should we get them from?

A bit off the topic but the last i read on the Canada immigration website was that the majority of new immigrants and refugees that are coming to Canada are coming from non-white countries. The website showed that approx. 80% of new immigrants and refugees to Canada are coming from non-white countries, and only 20% are coming from white countries. This i have a big problem with. I have a problem with the numbers of non-white people coming to Canada. It is way out of whack.

If this present day non-white immigration continues, as it has been happening for the past several decades, then i believe that it will only be a matter of time before my grandchildren will become a minority in their own white homeland. I don't want to see white Canada become a non-white Canada in the very near future. What appears to me to be a planed genocide of white people going on here. There are plenty of white people that want to immigrate to Canada and i believe that they are being pushed aside for other races of people. Just my opinion of course. 😷

[CdnFox]

5 minutes ago, taxme said:

Okay, so you believe that Canada needs more new immigrants? So, where should we get them from?

I believe we need new immigrants. We should at least have enough so that our population is not declining. As you know we're not replacing our self through birth rate or even coming close so that is going to mean immigration.

As to where they come from the question really isn't where, the question is more about who they are. Canada was most successful when it had a fine-tuned point system. For example the chances of an immigrant being successful here goes up exponentially if they speak english or french at a conversational level.

So , we should let in people who:  

1 Speak english at at lest a conversational or university entrance level. It's critical. And if it's more than one person (like a couple or family) they all have to.  Culturally similar nations are also a bonus because there will be less effort to integrate. Having an established community here is also a plus. 

2 Have skills we need who's certifications are easy to transfer to canada (side note try to set up programs with countries to make that easier, like the deal we have with south africa and doctors) 

3 Are young and either single or married without children, it'll be easier to integrate them and children born inside canada end to become more Canadian and more successful. 

4 Have mentors or contacts already in country that will help them to integrate and learn how we do things here. Bringing your culture from france or sweden or wherever is fine but you need to know how things work here.  

5, Give points if they're moving into areas which are not already overpopulated to expand population growth in suburban or semi rural areas

6 Are RICH, and willing to start businesses here (yes we've done that successfully before) so that they add to job growth instead of taking away.  BC for example had a fast track program for people who spent 500,000 dollars and started a new business in the province back in the 90's. 

 

There's probably a few more.  But the people who match all of that get let in first until we hit our limit. 

Where they come from doesn't make a difference, how easy they are to integrate and to start making money and contributing to our society is the important factor and the research is pretty clear on what's necessary for that to happen. 

 

 

 

[Barquentine]

17 hours ago, taxme said:

We have  an unemployment crisis here in Canada.

Toronto, November 29, 2023 – Small businesses in Canada missed over $38 billion in revenue opportunities last year because they had to turn down or postpone contracts or sales due to labour shortages, finds a new report by the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB).

15 hours ago, taxme said:

What appears to me to be a planed genocide of white people going on here

Paranoid racism.

17 hours ago, taxme said:

Talk about trying to solve this so-called climate environmental crisis when by adding more vehicles to the road is not going to solve the environmental crisis.

That's right. we need to build efficient train and bus routes.

17 hours ago, taxme said:

Uhmm, maybe there is no real climate crisis at all. It's all just plain bullshit?

Yeah the Arctic ice isn't melting and we don't have more floods, wildfires and heat then ever. Those are just liberal fabrications, right?

17 hours ago, taxme said:

Why can't people see that immigration is the problem, and not the solution, for pretty much everything. 

Only to scared white folks like you.

[CdnFox]

5 hours ago, Barquentine said:

Toronto, November 29, 2023 – Small businesses in Canada missed over $38 billion in revenue opportunities last year because they had to turn down or postpone contracts or sales due to labour shortages, finds a new report by the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB).

That's from 2023, reporting on 2022. Welcome to 2025 kiddo. 

Move over housing: Canada’s young are facing a new crisis

Youth unemployment is upwards of 15 percent and getting worse.  And our overall unemployment is going up. Our labour force participation is going down which is very bad news and means people are giving up on even looking for work. 

The rest of your statements are also wrong.  But when you start off being wrong to begin with people tend to stop reading. 

Read  a book for god's sake. 

[CdnFox]

3 minutes ago, CdnFox said:

That's from 2023, reporting on 2022. Welcome to 2025 kiddo. 

Move over housing: Canada’s young are facing a new crisis

Youth unemployment is upwards of 15 percent and getting worse.  And our overall unemployment is going up. Our labour force participation is going down which is very bad news and means people are giving up on even looking for work. 

The rest of your statements are also wrong.  But when you start off being wrong to begin with people tend to stop reading. 

Read  a book for god's sake. 

LOL awwww i've upset little @ExFlyer again, he's left a little passive aggressive "i'm too afraid to talk but i'm big mad" down arrow  

....  still crying in your basement, too afraid to try to make a reasoned counter argument? Just mad that your echo chamber was wrong?  Poor fella. You have a cookie and a nap, you'll be fine  

[Barquentine]

2 hours ago, CdnFox said:

The rest of your statements are also wrong.  But when you start off being wrong to begin with people tend to stop reading. 

Read  a book for god's sake. 

Hey, Toad-in-the-hole, does the light hurt your eyes?

https://magnetnetwork.ca/labour-market-insights-q2-2024/ 

Between Q2 2024 and Q1 2024, employment and job vacancies increased while job postings declined. Employment across Canada continued to stay above 20 million in Q2 2024 and increased 1.4% from Q1 2024. Job vacancies increased just above 620,000; however, they decreased by 197,000 from 780,000 reported in Q2 2023. In Q2 2024, online job postings reached 271,000 across Canada, declining by 44,300 from Q2 2023. These trends highlight the growing labour shortage across the country, with shortages to the Health care and social assistance and Accommodation and food services seeing the largest impact.
--
Statscan:
In the fourth quarter of 2024, over one-third (37.3%) of all businesses in Canada expect to face labour-related obstacles over the next three months, down from nearly two-fifths (39.5%) of businesses in the third quarter of 2024 and 43.2% of businesses in the second quarter of 2024.
Recruiting skilled employees, reported by over one-quarter (28.3%) of businesses, was the top labour-related obstacle businesses expect to face over the next three months,
--
https://explodingtopics.com/blog/labor-shortage-stats
With labor shortages on the rise, employers are understandably concerned.Yet some industries are suffering more than others.
75% of employers are not able to fill job vacancies
The US has a labor shortage of 70% (Canads's is 80%)
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https://www.benefitscanada.com/news/bencan/majority-of-canadian-employers-expecting-hiring-challenges-in-2024-survey/
A majority (89 per cent) of Canadian employers are expecting to face hiring challenges in 2024, according to a new survey from Express Employment Professionals. It found difficulty in finding qualified candidates (45 per cent) was the No. 1 obstacle cited by employers, followed by increased job market competition (25 per cent),

And you haven't heard of Arctic melting, you don't know about the floods and wildfires? Read a newspaper, for God's sake.

But I'm not surprised. After all, you're the id!ot who thinks they don't have conservatives in the US.

Take a couple of Midol and have a nap. You'll be fine

3 hours ago, CdnFox said:

The rest of your statements are also wrong.  But when you start off being wrong to begin with people tend to stop reading. 

How long ago did you stop reading?  10, 20 years ago? When the words got too big?

[CdnFox]

48 minutes ago, Barquentine said:

Hey, Toad-in-the-hole, does the light hurt your eyes?

https://magnetnetwork.ca/labour-market-insights-q2-2024/ 

Between Q2 2024 and Q1 2024, employment and job vacancies increased while job postings declined.

Oh dear.  I see we're having yet another math problem again.   Calm down, don't bother taking off your mittens, i'll do the counting for you.

The information you posted originally is from 2022. 

The second information you posted was from over 1 year ago. 

This is 2025.  That is THREE years more than your original data year, and a YEAR more than your last. 

So, it turns out when you do the math that 2025 is actually MORE recent than 2022 for example. 

And the data i posted was from 2025. 

So you're posting old data, VERY old in one case, and trying to claim it's somehow MORE relevant than NEW data. 

Here's some more. 

youth unemployment canada 2025: Once a haven for job seekers, Canada has now one of the worst job markets for graduates; what went wrong, and it could get worse? - The Economic Times

 

Here's a chart 

Canada's unemployment is RADICALLY higher than it was this time last year.  You quoted the first quarter, but ignored the last quarter where things got bad, 

 

Once again you've entirely embarrassed yourself.  You've got the brains and research skills of road kill. You should be deeply ashamed.