Lol an AR15 for protection you can't make this **** up

No one wants your dumb hunting rifles or whatever. Trudeau ran on more gun control and the vast majority of Canadians support it. Lol at the process not being Democratic.

Amazing you get excited about the collective sitting home getting government cheques.

Imagine we took a tenth of the money wasted on fighting climate change and prepared for pandemics like COVID-19 rather than moving all manufacturing and relying on communist China for everything.

I don't know about vast. Most gun enthusiasts say it doesn't make any sense at all. The RCMP did allow an evil man shoot and burn people for 12+ hours while not sending out an Emergency Alert (costing lives) and shooting up a community center full of people hiding. I think it's fair some people aren't happy to have their guns taken away and to rely on there protection.

um I'm talking about trudeau's promises of new covid-19 related supports to the oil and gas industry, so save your old talking points.

I do feel the broader take-away here is that we as a society are capable of significant change with personal sacrifice for the greater good. But COVID-19 is an acute crisis, the exact opposite of climate change. We clearly can do so much more to tackle climate change (and yes, carbon taxes are OBVIOUSLY a piece of that puzzle improves the climate) but lack the political will.

Wat.

or, ya know, do both?

The entire BC squad horgan/henry/dix have been pretty elite throughout everything. Ford is only impressive graded on a curve where everyone thought of him as dumb as trump (still is) but since he proved actually capable of having empathy for other human beings we're rushing to give him an A-.

Oh its a win win situation for him to bring in a policy that may not save one life

Im shocked he didnt ban handguns as well Id support that.

Kudos to him he kept a campaign promise and Scheers an idiot to push this issue.

id say 9 out of 10 premiers have done great jobs. Id put Horgan up there with Kenney and Ford

Man you are you a socialist. The fact that your are indoctrinating young adults for a career is pretty scary. Increasing political will to sacrifice people for the greater good.

It's pretty easy to lock everything down and throw money that isn't your at things. Re opening and solving the problem is where we will see who the true leaders are.

Yeah Scheer (and Mackay) played this really really really badly

Lol, no buddy thinking we should tackle climate change more seriously doesn't not make me a socialist, just massive lols at you. What's this nonsense about "indoctrinating young adults for a career" bit, some translated alt-right anti-university talking point? Are you REALLY worried about canadian math professors indoctrinating students?

But I think the icing on this cake is that little "sacrifice people" part. Of course there is zero problem with building political will to tackle societal problems, that is absolutely appropriate. So you throw in this nonsense that I never said - and never implied - about "sacrificing people" which makes it sound bad.

I hate Ford but I feel he's come across (in the media anyways) as pretty effective during this crisis

I don't feel Kenney is in the same boat but whatever nbd

Lol Quebec though what a trainwreck. Same with Northern Saskatchewan. I think everyone north of Prince Albert has the covid.

I'm confused: is sacrificing people for the 'greater good' a good thing or a bad thing? Or is it only good when it's profit-driven?

The one thing I think BC has done poorly at is testing. They rank near the bottom. Though many do not realize Canada at a whole is testing at the same rate as the USA

Wow the unemployed numbers are huge and how many of those jobs just do not come back for a while. No one is bringing back full staffs to anything that is locked down and partially opening

Any fiscally conservative person is going to be aghast at the cost of this pandemic moving forward. The spending is going to be through the roof - and a please-everyone attitude held by those who control the purse strings isn't going to help.

It'll be interesting to see how cities handle it: apart from going begging to the province and feds, they are screwed unless they double property taxes.

Yup look at my city Edmonton our mayor wants tons of money from the province yet hasn't cancelled a 2.2 billion dollar west LRT expansion or a 130 million dollar velodrome. Sadly one of the worst mayors yet no one challenges him as city politics can be a hrad crappy job

Property taxes are due will see how good that goes collecting that and how many businesses go bankrupt.

Like the Alberta Government is rolling in money right now

Oh yeah Thanks Justin for buying a pipeline

What should be scaring everyone in power at all levels of govt is housing prices. With the amount Canadians are leveraged, if we get a sizable correction, it'll be ugly.

The other issue is home builders that are sitting on inventory. I own a small company that does infills and we are not building at all unless we presell something. I am sitting on the land but I see other builders on the verge of bankruptcy and some just building spec and rolling the dice

I am reading about some of the dumping of real estate in Vancouver and 1.9 million properties selling for 1.4 million.

So my brother bought a 1.1M townhouse in van in March. Like they closed on Sunday and on Monday the stock market circuit breakers tripped for the first time. Legit chance he cost himself north of 100k if it corrects

I am not sure why it cost him a $100? Did he have to cash out for the purchase?

Curious what 1.1 million gets you in Vancouver?

So currently he is down only about 20k in the sense of offer accepted on the sunday, market crashed on the monday and by the time they cashed out the equities portion of their down payment they are down about 20k. However, if the real estate market corrects, say, 10%, then the fact they bought on literally the market peak day could mean well over 100k loss.

It got them a 1300 sqfoot 2013 townhouse 2.5 bedroom thingy with a roofdeck and shared garage in a middle quality neighbourhood. I can't decide if I should be happy or not. I spent half the amount on 2000sq foot townhouse in victoria instead which feels cheap....except that it still FAR more than I would have spent in cincinnati where I was living a year ago

Anyone else confused by a reported 13% unemployment rate? According to Statscan, we had a labour pool size of around 18 million in 2011. There's been far more than 13% of that labour pool who've signed up for CERB - mid-April and that number was 6 million. I wonder what'll cost the government more in the long run: people applying for CERB when they aren't supposed to be getting it, or the army of RevCan workers they'll need to hire to claw it back.

With AirBNB bookings collapsing and people not paying their rent, I can see a bloodbath (or buying opportunity) for those small condos that have sprung up everywhere in Toronto.

Tough to gauge as I don't see them fudging the numbers. I have a feeling you may have some folks claiming it that do not need it. Revenue Canada is so badly depleted for workers thanks to Harper I just do not know if they catch them all.
Lots of folks claiming EI and the CERB