Canada’s Public Health Care System Faces Encroachment by Privatizing Profiteers ( jacobin.com )
A remote Canadian island makes history in fight for affordable housing ( www.nationalobserver.com )
B.C.’s Cortes Island is making housing history as the first community in the province to tax short-term holiday rentals and have the funds directed to affordable housing projects, said Mark Vonesch, the area’s Strathcona Regional District director.
A B.C. study gave 50 homeless people $7,500 each. Here's what they spent it on. ( bc.ctvnews.ca )
No reason not to do this across the board
How Canada got stuck building low-speed rail | CBC Creator Network ( youtu.be )
Canada is great at high-speed rail studies — but not at actually building high-speed rail. So why is it the only country in the developed world considering a new conventional-speed passenger network?...
Skimpflation: How food companies are swapping ingredients to reduce costs ( www.ctvnews.ca )
In addition to hiking prices and shrinking product sizes, some food companies have also been quietly downgrading ingredients to reduce manufacturing costs in a process known as 'skimpflation.'
Trudeau takes first step to break Canada’s addiction to rising home prices - The Globe and Mail ( www.theglobeandmail.com )
At last, someone from the world of politics is being honest about a pervasive and harmful trade-off. When home prices rise faster than earnings, owners like me gain wealth, while non-owners lose because their incomes fall further behind housing costs....
Pellerin: Public transit is a public service. Treat it that way ( ottawacitizen.com )
WA Democrats ask Buttigieg for $200M to plan Canada-Seattle-Portland bullet train ( www.seattletimes.com )
In hopes to deliver 250 mph rail service by midcentury, the Democrats in Washington’s congressional delegation are asking the federal government for $198 million to help plan a route between Vancouver, B.C.; Seattle; and Portland.
AI generated political ads should be illegal.
Until AI is allowed to vote perhaps they sit the fuck down.
Gas companies in Canada fake sustainability numbers ( www.motherjones.com )
Judge who ruled for N.B. landlord in rent-reduction case owns apartment building ( www.cbc.ca )
New Brunswick Court of King's Bench Justice Kathryn Gregory, who sided with a landlord in a case involving the way provincial tenancy officers have been phasing-in large rent increases, owns an apartment building.
'Ghost hotels' need to go, neighbour says after 3 years of complaints about Airbnb next door ( www.cbc.ca )
Investors account for 30 per cent of home buying in Canada ( www.theglobeandmail.com )
According to a Bank of Canada report:...
Rent is going up more than $100 a month right now — with the average asking price a record $2,117 ( www.cbc.ca )
Average asking price for a new tenant has risen by 9.6% in last year, Rentals.ca says
The climate crisis is happening even if we don't 'look up' ( rabble.ca )
We need a climate corps, not more military missions ( rabble.ca )
Basic income 'unlocked dozens of doors for me,' supporter says amid call for national program | CBC News ( www.cbc.ca )
Red Deer Minor Hockey alters ‘Chiefs’ logo in, “great act of reconciliation,” Chief says ( rdnewsnow.com )
Man found with guns and drugs after calling in overdose has sentence overturned due to Good Samaritan Act ( www.cbc.ca )
Paul Eric Wilson’s eight-year sentence was overturned by the Appeal Court under the recently enacted Good Samaritan Act.
Just over half (55%) of Canadians support using nuclear energy to generate electricity ( www.ipsos.com )
The kids are not all right: How young people are dealing with increasing climate anxiety ( www.cbc.ca )
With climate concerns on the rise, experts warn existing mental health resources won’t be able to keep up. By Brishti Basu · CBC News
Manitoba NDP win majority, CBC News projects ( www.cbc.ca )
Woo!...
Canadian Air Force Investigating After Fighter Jet Uses Call Sign ‘DICK69' ( themessenger.com )
Developer guests at Doug Ford family wedding got fast-track zoning approvals from government ( www.cbc.ca )
cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/8289334...
Three stabbed teens were driven from a party to a nearby hospital, only to find that the ER was closed. Their story is one of many ( www.ctvnews.ca )
There appears to have been a large and possibly record-setting number of temporary ER closures or service interruptions across the country in 2023 so far, with CTV News finding hundreds instances where a hospital emergency unit, usually in a rural community, has been shut down for hours or days to Canadians seeking emergency...
