Your daily reminder that the main cause of homelessness is housing affordability. It is not inevitable. It’s a choice we as a society make.
Canada has one of the highest homelessness rates in the developed world, but it’s not like Canadians have more mental illness, use more drugs, or have less work ethic than Americans or French people.
According to the Government of Canada, 1 in 3 Canadians will be affected by mental illness during their lifetime. The CDC suggests only 1 in 5 Americans will realize the same.
use more drugs
According to the Government of Canada, 27% of Canadians use cannabis. The CDC reports only 18% of Americans do the same. According to the World Health Organization, Canadians drink 10 litres of alcohol per week. Americans, only 9.3 litres.
or have less work ethic
According to Queens University, Canadians are only 72% as productive as Americans. That may not be explainable by ethics, but we are working less. When someone attributes homelessness to work ethic, are they actually speaking to ethics specifically, or is it merely shorthand for any type of condition that would find someone working less than what would be considered typical?
People are taking time out of their day to press a button on a discussion forum because what they really want is to visit a wiki? That’s sadly believable.
I wonder if the same people stop their car at street lights to press the crosswalk button when what they really want is to take a train?
Primarily. Also, they seem to be linking cannabis use with homelessness for some reason, and are surprised that diagnoses of mental illnesses are higher in a country where people have universal health care.
If only there was some type of interconnected network of computers that holds all of the world’s knowledge that one can easily reference to validate anything they come across, and correct any errors they find.
Assuming your numbers sre even correct, id say thats more an issue with the cdc underreporting mental health issues than with Canadians being more predisposed. Also what is your point exactly?
Thank you, I needed to hear that. Intellectually I know that this too shall pass, but some days it is easy to lose sight of this fundamental truth and despair.
That was just a short-lived aberration due to the conflict in Ukraine, temporary fertilizer supply issues, and a weather event causing large crop loss. The latter two are dealt with and the former isn’t the worry we thought it was. Farmers are already well on the other side of high prices, and the rest of the supply chain is quickly catching up.
What is concerning is how the grocers have petitioned the government to implement a price freeze. They claim it is stop prices from going higher, but we all know it is to ensure the prices don’t go lower amid that crashing food supply chain.
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