Ah......SPB........posts like this make me wish we could give a thumbs up and a thumbs down. The up one was for your acknowledgement of young Quentin. The down would have been for what followed.
There is so much wrong being said by both sides about the Gerald Stanley trial
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Ah......SPB........posts like this make me wish we could give a thumbs up and a thumbs down. The up one was for your acknowledgement of young Quentin. The down would have been for what followed.
Actually- considering the war on cops and the rule of law being waged by anti white bigots- with the full support and encouragement of our Tecumseh bonehead- it seems pretty clear HE DID NOT TURN OUT FINE!
LIE-berals clearly feel compelled to behave like crazy cat ladies- collecting illegals like stray cats because their traditional voter base is no longer reliable- LIE-berals NEED to buy new voters- ones who lack the ability to survive in Canada without getting LOTS of govt aid in exchange for their votes! Those who are strong enough to make their way without massive political patronage simply cannot be relied upon by greedy LIE-berals- as the article below illustrates!
Here is an article illustrating the massive and un-solvable problems facing utterly muddled and entirely selfish LIE-berals. With some comments of my own in brackets):
Four Lefties for Doug Ford
By Tarek Fatah. Published: March 13, 2018. Updated: March 13, 2018 4:30 PM EDT
Filed Under: Toronto SUN/ Opinion/ Columnists
For all of their adult lives, the four men in the room had been ‘leftists’. Before coming to Canada from Pakistan, they had all suffered at the hands of the fascist ‘religious right’ with scars they carried with pride.
All four had voted for the NDP- and at times Liberal- since arriving in Canada, but on that night in Richmond Hill — north of Toronto — the four were wondering whether they should go to an event hosted by Doug Ford, who was running for the leadership of the supposedly ‘right-wing’ Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario.
“You guys are crazy,” said 70-year old Zaidi, a one-time journalist in Karachi who retired as a machinist in Montreal. “We are not even members of the PC Party, then why should we go to a gathering of right-wingers,” he added.
Back and forth they went until Chaudhury, the one-time steelworker in Pakistan, now driving a Mercedes, asked: “What is the difference between the Left and the Right today? For example, how can the feminist Women’s March be considered on the Left when its leader is the hijabi Linda Sarsour, the right-wing supporter of the ultra-right Muslim Brotherhood.”
“Yeah, and how about the leftist activist who cheers the Jew-hating Louis Farrakhan?” asked Schezad, the one-time Commie now a manager in a pharmaceutical enterprise, referring to Tamika Mallory of the Black Lives Matter movement.
Zaidi reminded me that I had campaigned against Rob Ford when he ran for the mayor of Toronto. “But the same Mayor Ford and Doug Ford came to see me in the hospital as I battled cancer despite my ridiculing the mayor on my Newstalk 1010 radio show,” I protested.
“That’s rather selfish of you,” retorted Zaidi.
The banter continued until the discussion turned to the NDP and its new leader, Jagmeet Singh.
“Right, now that is a true socialist, isn’t he,” asked Schezad with barely concealed sarcasm.
(Warning to NDPers and their LIE-beral cousins: People who have real world experience of socialist dogma in action WILL SHUN YOU!)
“Between Jagmeet’s $5,000 designer suits and Doug Ford’s jackets from Walmart, the choice is clear: I’d be more comfortable with the Etobicoke city councillor who has Ontario and Canada in mind than a guy molded in medieval religious symbols who was once ‘Jimmy Dhaliwal’ the lawyer, but then dropped both the last and first names he was known by,” Schezad added.
By a three-to-one margin we voted to check in at the Doug Ford event held in a community centre overlooking a Muslim cemetery. The reluctant Zaidi trailed us sheepishly inside the event where Doug Ford was talking about his late brother Rob Ford and how he saw first-hand the gaps in palliative care.
To our surprise, we were not the only left/liberals in that room. We met a few Dippers, among them an old-time New Democrat from Scarborough and many Liberals, one a prominent activist from the Bob Rae liberal leadership campaign.
(And where these Dippers gathering information? Or wondering seriously whether to jump on the Ford wagon? WE DO KNOW that LIE-berals hold VERY SHALLOW values- easily disposed of in exchange for gravy on the winning side!)
We later met Doug, shook hands and took the mandatory selfie, but found in him a warm person, affable and approachable who was totally free of the canned English spoken by both the Right and the Left.
Driving home that night, Zaidi conceded that the Left vs. Right paradigm had shifted dramatically and the battle today was between cronyism and good governance.
(AND RIGHT THERE: that is the heart of the socialist position! Its all about getting the gravy and to hell with the country cause there ain’t enough gravy for Hogs and for the rest of us as well! Under socialists- somebody ALWAYS goes SHORT!)
Doug Ford squeaked in, breaking one final barrier of cronyism, one within his own party. Hopefully, these four leftist voters will nudge him over the top to the next great battle — the end of ethnic vote banks.
Twitter: at TarekFatah
(It has become plain that whatever goodies LIE-berals offer up to us- LIE-berals give TWICE as much to their pals! Then we must pay for those LIE-beral “treats” a total of FOUR TIMES! First we get billed for our treats, then we get billed for the double delivery of entitlements/treats to LIE-beral pals and then we must pay the interest- compounded and amortized for ALL the treats! LIE-beral deals are NO BARGAIN!)
So why are you here then? PRETENDING NOT TO READ EVERY WORD I WRITE? Admit it- you do read it all- looking desperately for some way to rebut what I write! HAHAHAHAHA!!!!! What a Maroon!
LIE-berals want to persuade us that it is more important to have a nice range of ethnic restaurants and a rich multi cultural mosaic in Toronto than it is to reduce poverty and homelessness!
LIE-berals insist that we need immigration because we are not having enough kids to keep our society moving- but LIE-berals do not care how much we must spend to tend to migrants who lack the skills to survive here. Nor do they want to admit that migrants get old too!
Lie-berals do NOT want to admit that their Family Reunification policy is bringing in a large number of immigrants who are often elderly or infirm and who will put demands on our govt services instead of bringing us any benefits!
Immigration is the best thing ever- so LIE-berals tell us. To reassure us they say that only one percent of Muslims coming here are interested in bomb making and mass murder. On the other hand only .oooooooo1 percent of all other religions harbor such thoughts.
A British poll claims that over 50 percent of Muslims living in that country would NOT report to police if they knew somebody who was planning an act of Muslim terror!
LIE-berals ignore the fundamental religious debate of our times: That Muslims want a society where religious law is supreme and Canadians want a society where secular law is supreme!
Muslims claim that Islam is a religion of peace and that is a demonstrated lie. We have no more need or reason to respect Muslim fundamentalists then we do to respect Christian fundamentalists. The only reason we do not want Muslim fundamentalists here is because they are prepared to use violence to promote their religion while Christian fundamentalists merely come to your door and ask if you have been saved- and they go quietly away- muttering “its your loss” - if you say “no thank you”!
LIE-berals will never be able to reduce the number of radical jihadists in Canada until they recognize the Jordan Peterson explanation of why young men take risks. Peterson points out that young men with no money and no job skills are stuck at social and economic “zero”- they have no social capital and no way to move forward or improve themselves. Young men in such a state are socially disposable and do not like that status- so modern young men choose to play outside the social box- they choose as Yankee Black Panthers did- to burn down the society that does not need or want them. Such is the fate of many bored, restless and dead broke Muslim young men in our society- the ones LIE-berals brought here in defiance of reason and logic!
By running up such massive debts and transferring such huge amounts of borrowed money to their civil service union Hog allies- LIE-berals are dooming us to enduring and living with several generations- or more- of frustration and rage and violence at the hands of young people who own nothing and can never hope to own anything in their lives.
The United States govt gave its citizens the chance to claim some mortgage interest as a tax write off due to the understanding that ownership of land or a business promotes social cohesion and stability and helps to maintain a healthy nuclear family.
All studies agree that the nuclear family is the social setup most likely to produce solid, reliable, stable and productive citizens- thus anything that damages the nuclear family is harmful to society. So why are LIE-berals trying to destroy the nuclear family- unles they figure broke, lost and lonely citizens are easier to BUY and to CONTROL using govt handouts? This technic is learly being tried out on Cdn natives- LIE-berals buy native votes and ignore the corruption that is endemic on native reserves- which may explain why- two years after Our idiot Boy Justin took over- native suicides are SPIKING!
What the current crop of Fed liberals fail to recognize is that this same demographic are getting stung by the ever increasing taxes in addition to the unsustainable cost of living.
These folks aren't stupid and do understand that poor policy will cost them much
I am not sure what point you are making here Morgan? LIE-berals are merely a more polite form of socialists and those people have already proven they are prepared to murder millions and drive entire countries into bankruptcy and starvation in the name of "social progress"!
The only way to deal with socialists is to drive them out of office at gun point! Fortunately we Cdns still have a vestige of democracy- even though LIE-berals are working hard to erase it- which means we will not have full scale civil war such as is being fought in Venezuela and Greece!
Our socialist battles are currently being fought on rural roads- between farmers and drunken, thieving natives! Our socialist battles are being fought in LIE-beral friendly news rooms where FAKE NEWS is routinely concocted to persuade us we are alone and isolated in our views and values- WHEN THE OPPOSITE IS TRUE!
Here is an article illustrating just how utterly poisonous and vile are the values held by our LIE-beral overlords. With some comments of my own in brackets):
Iqra Khalid story goes from bad to worse.
By Anthony Furey. Published: April 18, 2018. Updated: April 18, 2018 8:19 PM EDT
Filed Under: Toronto SUN/ Opinion/ Columnists
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The Jaspal Atwal affair is really a simple story for all of its up and downs. How did he get invited to an event in India that the PM would be at, even though he’d been previously convicted of attempting to assassinate an Indian politician?
(Atwal is the Sikh terrorist Our idiot Boy Justin counts as a pal but LIE-berals do not want to discuss how Atwal got invited along with Our idiot Boy Justin on the ill- fated India trip- the one SNUBBED by offended Indian govt!)
That’s easy. Because he was part of the broader Liberal family. A former executive member of a Liberal riding association, a guy who likely gets the vote out for them, someone who’s previously stated he’s had one-on-one conversations with Trudeau.
(IN other words Atwal is a LIE-beral pal who shares values with Our idiot Boy!)
The bigger question then is why did the Liberals let Atwal into the fold in the first place? Why do they pal around with radicals?
(LIE-berals have routinely- for decades- displayed their contempt for main stream white society and for the rule of law and democracy! Pierre Trudeau openly lectured us that the war against Nazi Germany was “British Imperialism”! Papa Pierre went on to praise “Chinese Chairman Mao for his genius in rushing 30 million Chinese to the gallows” during the Great Leap Forward! Our idiot Boy has merely inherited the anti white, anti Yankee, anti democratic values of his vile father and he is seeking to destroy what papa Pierre called “Cdn Imperialism”!
Liberal MP Iqra Khalid, who was under fire last year for her advocacy of the controversial motion 103, is now facing similar questions.
(The poisonous Ilsamophobia M 103 is simply one of a number of LIE-beral polices designed to deeply wound and limit Cdn democracy! LIE-berals began with their electoral reform garbage designed to paralyse our parliament! To see how a cabal of small splinter parties can have huge influence over larger parties- one has only to look at the Kinder Morgan pipeline mess in which B.C. premier Horgan is fighting the pipeline tooth and nail because if he does not then the three seats held by Green Party idiots will withdraw their support for Horgan and kill his minority govt which desperately NEEDS every vote to survive and personal power trumps national interest here! Premier Horgan would rather force a constitutional crisis than give up his gravy! This is the electoral reform plan Our idiot Boy tried and failed- for now- to set up! His plan was to splinter and paralyse our parliament into small one issue parties so nobody could ever get the votes needed to shut down the out of control spending machine Trudope has created!)
(The M 103 motion is an ugly attempt by LIE-berals to muzzle pubic opinion using hate speech and Human Rights Kangaroo Courts staffed by anti white LIE-beral judges whose job it would be to SILENCE ANY CRITIC of LIE-beral policy no matter the circumstances or justification! This is a creeping political coup designed to limit free speech and let LIE-berals operate freely without public opposition to their twisted ideology!)
Conservative politicians are demanding answers as to why she (Khalid) introduced Palestinian Greek Orthodox Archbishop Atallah Hanna, who is a supporter and apologist for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, at an event in Mississauga over the weekend.
(The larger question would be this: “is Our idiot Boy Justin an anti Semite? His first actions after the 2015 election were to withdraw Cdn jets from the fight against Isis and to tell us that “if we kill our enemies, then they win”!)
(He then went on to restore Cdn funding for terror group Hamas! In 2016 a pair of Cdn journalists told us in main stream media that there was nothing but radical writing on Muslim web sites in Canada- and that moderate voices were being drowned out and Our idiot Boy and his Human Rights poobahs ignored this- but they were quick to send the cops to arrest a Mississauga man who offered up a $1000 dollar reward to anybody who could provide verified proof of hate speech being made in Cdn Mosques- with the Mississauga man arrested for “promoting hate against Muslims”! The double standard is HUGE!)
“A week after the gassing of Syrian children, Liberal MP Iqra Khalid brought greetings to one of Assad’s worst apologists on behalf of Justin Trudeau. Canada needs an answer why this happened,” Conservative Senator Linda Frum posted to social media, leading a charge that was later echoed by MPs in Question Period.
Khalid’s response? “Like any MP, I engage with a diverse array of individuals, stakeholders and groups in my community – many of them I don’t agree with,” she posted online, adding “I’m proud that our government has forcefully condemned the Assad regime and I too condemn in the strongest of terms the recent chemical attacks. I’ve worked hard on these issues in my subcommittee on international human rights.”
(Sounds like the usual two faced LIE-beral weasel words we have come to expect from LIE-berals every time they are caught doing something really STUPID- that they DO NOT INTEND to stop doing! Next time Khalid will check the guest list more carefully- NO Islamophobes allowed in to her events!)
The blowback was heavy – with critics noting that it’s a bit much to hide behind the cloak of “diverse” stakeholders as justification for posing in smiling photos with questionable individuals.
(LIE-berals know very well their values are NOT those of main stream Canada and have apparently become very accustomed to duplicity and dissembling!)
And while Hanna is the one getting all of the attention, it was the man he and Khalid had gathered to honour who deserves a bit more coverage as well. It was at that same event that Khalid gave out an award to Amin El-Maoued, who does public relations for the group Palestine House, which lost federal funding in 2012 due to its “pattern of support for extremism,” as the federal government put it.
“I met brother Amin about three years ago,” Khalid says in a video of last weekend’s event that was removed from online but reposted by my colleague Candice Malcolm.
(Yes- Muslims see nothing wrong with lying to infidel Cdns rude enough to question obvious hypocrisy!)
If she’s known him for a while, does she know about his less than flattering activities? El-Maoued appears to have played a leading role in a protest last summer that was investigated by Peel Regional police for anti-Semitic chants.
B’nai Brith Canada, a Jewish advocacy group, posted video of a July 2017 rally where Palestinian activists gathered for what at first appears to be solely political reasons. But the video quickly devolves into calls for violence. One of the chants, according to a translation put together by B’nai Brith, states: “Remember Khaybar, oh you Jews, the Army of Muhammad will return!”
The Battle of Khaybar is historically recognized as a conflict during the life of Muhammad where 1,500 Muslim warriors triumphed in a conflict against 10,000 Jews. The battle was one of many overseen by Muhammad but apparently he wasn’t able to personally participate on this occasion as he was in the midst of a three day migraine.
The bloodshed on both sides could have been massive but the Jews were so taken by surprise they surrendered early on, giving up their land and wealth as part of the terms.
And this is what protesters on the streets of Toronto want to revive?! El-Maoued can be seen holding the megaphone in one of the videos.
(This is all part of a rapidly emerging LIE-beral pattern of support for any group hostile to “Cdn Imperialism” which LIE-berals apparently define as any situation that allows white people or Jews to retain dignity, security and respect! LIE-berals are very busy indoctrinating our kids with Muslim oriented school material in defiance of the traditional Cdn separation of church and state in public schools!)
This new event that Conservative MPs are asking about is in fact an annual occurrence. El-Maoued was honoured not just this year but last year also. It was in between these two events that El-Maoued apparently played a leadership role in the rally.
“It was investigated and deemed that there was no criminal offence,” Peel Regional Police Media Relations Officer Baljit Saini told the Sun on Wednesday. “They viewed all the video and they looked at the totality of the investigation.” While they determined it didn’t meet the Criminal Code definition of public incitement of hatred, that doesn’t mean this is a chant you want to be making.
Here’s where things get really interesting. On September 22, El-Maoued was honoured by Khalid at an event for her own riding association. On Facebook, El-Maoued posted photos of his family with Khalid, writing that they received the certificates of appreciation “for our continuous work and effort towards the Mississauga – Erin Mills riding.” This award was given out only a month after reports surfaced that the rally was being investigated by police.
(The Quran permits Muslims to lie to infidels in defence of Islam- apparently this permission EXTENDS to LIES in defence of LIE-beral policy as well? Offering “certificates of appreciation” and then stating “I come in contact with people I sometimes do not agree with” sounds like a tyical LIE-beral evasion of responsibility and accountability to me! Or should the cynics among us assume the “people she does not agree with ” are WHITE PEOPLE? )
It’s hard to believe Khalid didn’t know about this. If she did, did she care?
Even assuming she didn’t know, it’s not like nobody had raised red flags to her before. B’nai Brith brought concerns to Khalid earlier in 2017 over her association with El-Maoued. Yet she went on to give the man two subsequent awards.
Looks like this is the company Iqra Khalid keeps.
(And it seems she keeps such company with the full knowledge and approval of her idiot boss Justin- the guy who told us he “likes the way Chinese Communist leaders get things done”! LIE-berals are NOT people to rely on for a strong defence of free speech and democracy! And considering their endless massive deficits and mad tax schemes- they don’t sem to have much respect for capitalism either! )
The point I made in the previous post was that despite the libs attempting to develop a support base via swinging open the immigration doors (and hoping these immigrants will support the libs unconditionally as gratitude) is an erroneous assumption.
The better life they are being promised is actively being undermined by the poor decisions by this gvt and these folks will see it (if they already haven't).
Those newbies are an attempt to dilute debt and bare no human capital investment.
Let Botswanan taxpayers educate them and export the human capital with no return for Botswana.
Let Botswanan taxpayers educate them and export the human capital with no return for Botswana.
Well- I do appreciate the support I have gotten in the past from the Captain.....but I suspect he is a bit off this time around. So many of the immigrants are from third world pest holes that it would be very hard to make Cdn life look WORSE than what they had back home!
One only has to think of Porto Rico with its massive power failures- admittedly it is thanks to a hurricane but one has to assume the power grid was already unreliable for it to be so massively damaged inso short a time?
Or think about "la Mordida" the bite- the bribery that South American cops are so often demanding from vulnerable citizens! Corruption in Mexico is legendary- with cops and govt figures living in and owning stuff that their legitimate salary could not even cover that tax and license fees for!
OR look at Venezuela where the govt is rationing food and gave up using civil servants to hand out the rations after a series riots during which hungry mobs looted govt facilities- so govt gave the food rationing job to the army- which promptly STOLE most of the food and sold it on the black market to recover some of the back pay they were owed but never getting from bankrupt govt!
People coming from paces like that will have a very hard time being critical of Canada since pretty much everything works here- andc does so WAY BETTER than back in their homes!
It is only white people- those accustomed to seeing society function in a logical and efficient way- without a lot of govt bias in favour of its greedy friends that are becoming annoyed with LIE-beral policy!
It is true that LIE-berals are fast tracking immigrant "entrepreneurs" and "investors' but as usual the LIE-beral "fix" is in! Consider Mohamed Shafia- the Egyptian born goof who came here with TWO WIVES and 4 kids- and he was in that fast tracked investor class and apparently was involved in flipping houses! Yes- at the time of his arrest for murder- Shafia owned a couple of high end houses- one in Toronto and one in Montreal! And since the only thing he bought here in Canada is housing- it is a safe bet that he was a house flipper- who may have been using investment money channeled from back home- with him as front man!
LIE-berals keep insisting that foreigners are not driving up house prices in Canada- but how would hey know? Shafia had 2 wives and could have bought and sold houses using their names! Such duplicity is COMMON IN CANADA! It has been over 30 years since CBC did its first documentary into how organized crime is profiting hugely from the housing industry!
There is the heart of the failure of LIE-beral policy- they are simply BLIND to the machinations of foreign born "investors"!
During the reign of LIE-beral Jean Chretien- jail over crowding was a serious problem - so LIE-beral petitioned foreign born criminals - givingb them a choice- let is deport you know with NO immigration arguments- or stay here and serve your full sentence and then take your chances spinning a sob story for immigration judges- and over 95 percent of foreign bonr criminals CHOSE to stay in their Cdn jail cells rather than be deported to walk free in their home countries!
DO NOT count on disappointed immigrants- selected according to poisoned LIE-beral values to turn on them!
AS we have seen- if violence comes- it will be directed at white people that have been demonized as "Islamophobes" and as "systemic racists"!
LIE-berals are masters of "divide and conquer" and they have splintered us into little tribal groups struggling against each other- for LIE-beral benefit!
Gosh Cannuck- if you cannot read then why are you here- pretending to be a big boy?
Here is an article illustrating LIE-beral contempt for the public. With some comments of my own in brackets):
Rents increase at more than twice the rate of inflation as average cost hits $947 per month: CMHC
From Canadian Press. Published: November 28, 2017 Updated: November 28, 2017 12:26 PM EST
Filed Under: Toronto SUN/ News/ Money
Are you feeling the Canadian housing crunch? Canada’s federal housing agency says rent for 2017 increased at a rate more than twice that of inflation to hit an average of $947 per month.
The Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation says the vacancy rate for apartments also decreased in 2017 for the first time in three years.
(Gosh- you mean to saw that the LIE-beral mandated expansion of rent controls actually killed off condo construction for the rental market? Just as critics warned? OH well- new LIE-beral rent controls please renter/voters in the short term- to bad about later though- but LIE-berals only need to get past the June 2018 election! After that- well- NO long term planning needed!)
The federal agency says the vacancy rate in Canadian cities with at least 10,000 people fell to 3% in October, down from 3.7% a year earlier.
That reverses increases in 2015 and 2016 and leaves the vacancy rate at its 10-year average.
(Ever greedy Wynne-bag LIE-berals are creating two separate economies! The better economy is the well paid, easy work, low stress, reliable economy of civil service union Hogs with their wonderful pensions- that it is killing us to pay for! And the other economy is for the private sector- with low pay and either very long hours on salary- meaning NO overtime-or else short term and erratic hours with no guarantee of anything from day to day! So LIE-berals have meddled with our money supply and the price of everything by ordering that 25 percent minimum wage increase! And the wage increase helps hide the effect of the greedy LIE-beral carbon crap and trade tax that clean wallets and leaves the dirt in the air!)
(By ordering that wage increase LIE-berals are hoping desperately for some short term gain in the polls as we head for the June 2018 election! But too many Cdns have already seen this trick- whatever “gifts” LIE-berals hand out now- we WILL PAY FOR LATER! Yes- we pay FOUR TIMES for every LIE-beral gift! First- we pay in taxes for our gift; then we pay TWICE because whatever gift we get- LIE-berals give Hogs twice as much; and then we pay the fourth time for all the interest on the borrowed money LIE-beals used to buy all the “gifts”!)
Fewer apartments were available because of increased rental demand in oil-producing provinces along with improving employment among young adults, influx of immigrants and a slowdown in additional rental units.
(And of course this WEAK double economy- fueled only by borrowed money kills off any construction of rental units- unless govt dumps gobs of gravy into the pockets of developers- and LIE-berals have no gravy to spare for such bribery! LIE-berals NEED ALL the gravy for buying votes from Hogs and for the teeming tens of thousands of illegals they have invited here and hope to profit politically from! We are so broke that LIE-berals cannot afford to maintain our existing stock of rental housing in decent order! In summer 2017, MTHC demolished a townhouse complex of over 150 units because it was deemed too rotten and decayed to repair! And of course they do not have the budget to replace the units! This is the rotten fate of much of our aged rental stock- unless there are massive changes in govt!)
(Apartment costs are set to Hog standards and are charged for according to the corporate needs of LIE-beral pals- and sadly- the barista serving up your latte simply cannot provide the gravy to keep the LIE-beral housing market economy moving properly! Its that LIE-beral double economy greed biting our backsides! They get gravy and we get BILLS!)
Vacancy rates were lowest in B.C. cities of Kelowna and Abbotsford-Mission at 0.2% and highest in Saskatoon at 9.6%.
Metropolitan Vancouver was at 0.9%, Toronto 1%, Montreal at 2.8%, Ottawa 1.7%, Edmonton 7% and St. John’s 7.2%.
The number of rental apartments increased by 1.2% or 23,000 in the last year, about half the growth rate in the 2016 CMHC rental market report.
(And much of the increase is the result of condos being built for foreign owner/investors! LIE-berals insist that foreign influence on our housing market is low- but how else to explain a recent news report that Cdn housing will now be listed for sale on main land China web sites? The World is buying our housing for investment purposes- why put your money into the stock market crap shoot when you can buy a Cdn house soaring in value?)
The average national monthly rent for a two-bedroom rental apartment rose 2.8% to $989.
Rent increases were greatest in Kelowna at 8.6% and fell by 1.3% in Saskatoon and Edmonton.
Average monthly rents for two-bedroom apartments were highest in Vancouver ($1,552), Toronto ($1,404) and Calgary ($1,247). They were lowest in Trois-Rivieres ($594).
The average vacancy rate for condominium rentals declined to 1.6% from 1.9% a year earlier.
Average two-bedroom condo rentals were highest in Toronto at $2,000 and lowest in London, Ont., at $996.
(IN other words- rents rise according to how many jobs are available in an area- how complicated is that? But it gives the LIE to LIE-beral claims of aiming for 2 percent inflation in the economy! Water rates are up another 4 percent. Hydro rates are doubled- and then temporarily dropped 25 percent- till after the election. Property taxes are up 2.9 percent. The bill for repairing long neglected and crumbling roads and water systems is growing almost exponentially! The number of costly hospital visits is increasing steadily as our people age. The number of old people living on fixed incomes that are inadequate to deal with LIE-beral gravy demands grows ever faster! The swarms of illegals that LIE-berals are buying in hope of clinging to power at any price are becoming a massive fiscal drain that LIE-berals are carefully hiding- they tell us that use of homeless shelters is up 30 percent but do NOT want to tell us how many illegals are in there!)
(Civil service Hogs already enjoy pay that is one third higher than jobs in private sector- without factoring in pensions and LIE-berals are offering them a series of 2 percent raises in pay- yet pay raises in private sector were running at about 0.5 percent- until LIE-berals meddled with our money supply using their minimum wage scam! LIE-berals DO NOT want to talk about the extra income tax that will be paid, nor the extra unemployment insurance, increased Canada Pension Plan contributions, nor about the soaring rents in places where people actually want to live because that is where the jobs are- even though there is no housing!)
(LIE-berals are looting and pillaging our country to supply their utterly irresponsible gravy train! LIE-bels are burying generations if future Cdns in debt and destroying our future just to feed their rotten ego! All LIE-beral policy is a failure- it is not even keeping Hogs satisfied with the available gravy even though Ontari-owe is the most indebted sub national entity on the planet! Ontari-owe LIE-beral vote buying policy is turning into a LIE-beral DEBT disaster!)
Rent controls do more to limit/reduce the inventory of rental properties than anything else. This in turn leads to greater incidence of homelessness.
It's a stupid program that has failed in most cities where it has been legislated
It's a stupid program that has failed in most cities where it has been legislated
You notice that too, eh?
When you have a limited vocabulary (probably 50 words or less) seeing the same ones over and over that you understand could be a little boring, not to mention taking a big part of his time to read. You have to be patient with him as he's not very bright you know!
How silly of LIE-berals- they have not noticed that rent controls do NOT work! Rent controls were created during WW2 in order to limit civilian construction activity so the military would have priority over all resources- and rent controls came along with wage and price controls and with food rationing as well!
By imposing rent controls during peace time- Red Tories under hypocrite socialist Bill Davis imposed an economic policy originally devised by a military dictatorship operating in survival mode during wartime! In the process, Red Tories STOLE the property rights of land owners and destroyed the rental market! Things got so bad that LIE-berals took over ownership of most of the Toronto area rental units- making MTHC into the biggest slum lord in Canada!
LIE-berals have utterly FAILED to make needed repairs at the rotting stock of public housing and have enacted immigration madness that fills the not so affordable housing with third world immigrants with limited job skills and economic prospects and then spices the resident mix with drug addicts, dealers assorted criminals and senior citizens to too poor and too old to have any alternative to the flea bitten and bed bug laced LIE-beral housing option!
Even worse- to facilitate their vote buying strategy- LIE-berals are now deliberately expanding rent controls to ALL buildings and are cancelling ALL the options that landlords had for hiking rents in order to pay for desperately needed repairs! Things are so bad that last summer MTHC TORE DOWN over 150 town house units that were to badly rotted to be repairable- with many more units in the same nearly derelict condition!
LIE-berals are focused ONLY on buying votes here and now- they care NOTHING for what comes after the June 2018 election - because they fear their world will END on that day!
But if LIE-berals do win that election then BEWARE as LIE-berals will go on an EPIC tax rampage to pay for all their vastly costly promises to civil service union Hogs!
LIE-berals have proven repeatedly that in a choice between supplying gravy for Hogs or rebuilding vital infrastructure- LIE-berals ALWAYS go for GRAVY!
Meanwhile LIE-beals bury themselves in troughs of gravy so thick and deep it is cutting off the supply of oxygen to their brains!
Here is an article about Jackass John Tory and his toy electric buses:
Here is an article illustrating that LIE-berals are pathetically SLOW learners! With some comments of my own in brackets):
Mayor John Tory gets behind wheel of electric bus as part of new TTC program
cbc.ca. By Muriel Draaisma
Mayor John Tory got a firsthand look on Saturday at three different types of "all-electric eBuses" on Saturday that the TTC will test before it receives 30 by early next year.
The fully electric buses, which have zero emissions and no diesel components, are manufactured by three companies, BYD, New Flyer and Proterra. The TTC is expecting to get 30 in all, 10 from each manufacturer, for a total cost of $50 million by March 2019. The federal and provincial governments are contributing funds.
(Ah- LIE-berals LOVE their crappy and costly electric toy vehicles!)
After getting behind the wheel of one of the demonstration buses at Richview Collegiate Institute, Tory told reporters in Etobicoke the TTC is aiming to have a "zero-emissions" fleet by 2040.
"I don't think people know yet of the big push that we have on in the city of Toronto to move our fleet to be emissions free by 2040. That sounds like a long way away but you have to start," Tory said at Ward 4 Community Environment Day. Mayor John Tory says the TTC will begin testing the buses 'in our climate, on our streets' next spring.
(Yes- twice before Toronto Silly Hall FOOLS have drunk the coolaid and bought “green busses” that always cost about fifty percent MORE than conventional busses and which have rapidly developed assorted mechanical problems and thus far have always utterly FAILED to produce the sort of fuel savings that were the main reason for buying the busses!)
"We are very serious in the city about making our greenhouse gas emission reduction targets that we have set," he said.
(That`s nice- but the city is STONY BROKE and is facing an array of costly problems so how can they justify buying these EXPERIMENTAL machines? Surely the dead broke city should be letting others take the fiscal risks to prove or disprove the value of this THIRD GENERATION of green busses- especially as the first two generations were utter failures? Clearly, political POSTURING on climate issues trumps common sense and logic at Silly Hall! But LIE-berals never consider any price to high to impede their virtue signalling and self congratulatory announcements!)
(And does this purchase of electric busses signal some sort of disappointment at the vehicles Bombardier is supposed to be supplying- but has not done? We know TTC brass went before a judge trying to get the Bombardier contract cancelled due to deliveries being so hugely behind schedule- coupled with a series of damaging quality control issues on the few vehicles that were delivered! The judge refused to annul the contract and told TTC to be patient- and then Our idiot Boy Justin gave Toronto some money so it could cobble its old diesel machines together till Bombardier actually delivered its products- and we all know LIE-berals DO SO enjoy buying votes in Quebec and good business practices be damned! LIE-berals will say nothing against their bought and paid for union Hog allies in Quebec- no matter the scale or scope of their failings!)
Tory explained TTC buses contribute to the degradation of the environment through the use of diesel fuel, but the city and transit agency are determined to use greener technology through its eBus program. The TTC will test the buses "in our climate, on our streets" next spring, Tory said.
(So they are spending huge money they do not have to test out THIRTY BUSSES? Why not test out ONE from each of the three makers? Or is TTC THAT SHORT of equipment and that broke that they are prepared to take all manner of risks just so long as some sort of machines get on the streets swiftly? And we know that both federal and provincial LIE-berals offered up grant money as part of their commitment to mouldy “green” policy so at least the city is not wasting ALL its own money? LIE-berals are so obsessed with green technology one has to assume they are getting a personal cut of the profits from the sale of these gizmos! And of course the more electricity we use- for any reason- the more gravy the private sector LIE-beral pals who actually own our electrical system will skim off for their profit!)
Buses to make Toronto 'a greener city'
"With Earth Day coming up tomorrow, we thought it was an important day to showcase this initiative being undertaken by the TTC, which will save us money on the diesel fuel. It'll save emissions from harming from the environment," he said.
"And it really will just continue to move us into the vanguard of cities, in terms of being a greener city and meeting our climate change obligations and our greenhouse gas reductions."
(If Silly Hall LIE-berals were truly concerned about the environment and wanted to at least try to catch up to the “vanguard of cities” then they would immediately derail the civil service union Hog gravy train and start building MORE TRANSIT! Its what Rob Ford did to get Eglinton LRT rolling! Its what our current crop of LIE-berals SHOULD DO -to get the needed subways built- but they wont as they have already spent pour money buying Hogs! LIE-berals have signed FOUR YEAR contracts with provincial Hogs and locked up govt spending for that time! NO matter who becomes the next premier of Ontari-owe- their fiscal hands will be tied by LIE-beral schemes!)
Bem Case, the TTC's head of vehicle programs, said tests will measure how fast the buses travel, the range they can achieve, how well they perform in different temperatures, how their doors open depending on the weather and their corrosion.
"The buses are entirely new to us," Case said.
The TTC board, which approved the purchase last November, will install the necessary infrastructure to power the vehicles, including charging equipment and software.
In a November 2017 staff report, the TTC said the electric buses embody the future for the transit agency, which has about 2,000 buses in its fleet.
"Electric buses are the only truly green technology with the potential for zero emissions from generation through to bus operations. Electric buses have no tailpipe emissions, and in Ontario, generation of electricity for overnight charging is 100% nuclear and completely free of GHG emissions," the report reads.
(How do these hypocrites figure nuclear power is GREEN? Are they totally oblivious to the almost daily shipments of Tritium coolant and other radio active waste being sent down highway 401 to the massive concrete bunker/burial sites where OPG stores its radioactive slop? Some of this slop will need major storage facilities for up to 20,000 YEARS and want to bet NO LIE-beral has ever counted out the carbon foot print for all the excavation that will be required, plus all the toxic lead shielding and massive concrete bunkers that will be needed! Nuclear generators produce a LOT of power fairly cheaply but to suggest it is Zero Emission is a LIE-beral Fake News story!)
The report notes the electric bus industry is "so new" that there are no large-scale fleets in long term operations anywhere in North America and therefore testing is crucial.
(So I REPEAT: WHY is dead broke Toronto taking the financial risk with such unproven and costly technology?)
Public transit is already environmentally friendly, the report added. "By its nature, mass transit is green," it says.
But adopting new technology too quickly can cause such problems as unreliable vehicles, low customer and operator satisfaction, and high maintenance and operation costs, it adds.
(In other words- adopting new technology too quickly can lead to exactly the sort of problems the previous two generations of “green” TTC busses had! In addition- adopting new technology can lead to the sort of problems TTC had with their Presto car readers! Yet more proof of BAD LIE-beral business practice since they were warned that Presto was the newest and most costly and least tested card reader system available- but they went ahead anyway- with inevitable bad results!)
"As the TTC operates the largest bus fleet in Canada and the third largest in North America, however, we also have a role to play in the advancement of technologies that promise to offer significant safety, environmental, vehicle reliability, customer focused improvements."
(And maybe Silly Hall spending priorities are DEAD WRONG? Maybe they should leave the risks of developing an entirely new industry to others and worry about repairing social housing before it is ALL condemned as unfit to live in- as those 150 plus townhouses in the Jane/Finch area were last summer! Yes- over 150 city owned slum dwellings were torn down because they were to rotten to repair! So instead if simply repairing existing units- the city now has to find the EXTRA money to start over again from nothing with those units!)
(And the city has yet to do anything about Gardiner Expressway- except to quietly decide to let it DIE of neglect! Silly Hall would rather tear down Gardiner and close off portions of the city rather than make needed repairs! The Silly Hall War on Cars is in full swing- but they have yet to build ANY new transit as a desperately needed alternative! Toronto Silly Hall is driving blind and bankrupt into the future! The wonderful Silly Hall vision of the future is clouded by gravy!)