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Comment #39303608
What about Japan? Aren't they doing ok? Sure there's issues with not enough people to look after the old folks but I haven't heard any rhetoric like we do in the Anglosphere. Demog…
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Comment #39158041
I know someone personally who was offered MAID because they didn't want to treat him. Happily in the end this person got the procedure done and they are alive. Canada has become a …
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Comment #39091205
Don't forget the visa immigrants. Students, special work permits like IT, refugees and illegals. It's 2+ Million a year.
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Comment #39091135
Over 2 Million a year are coming in. Canada does not have infinite space. Most of the country is uninhabitable. It has a harsh climate. Most of the influx goes to two cities and th…
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Comment #39079975
Many thanks for this link!
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Comment #39079907
Because Israel is attacking civilian targets in Gaza. USA not doing anything about that. In fact no one is except the Houthis.
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Comment #39014925
EVs are going to jack the price of electricity for everyone, including those of us don't drive at all.
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Comment #38919167
Agreed. And what percentage of the employed workforce (that 67%) are in low wages jobs compared to 1972?
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Comment #38868718
Neo Nazis in Russia? The Russians sacrificed millions fighting the Nazis. It's the neo Nazis in Ukraine that tried to ban the Russian language and prevented Zhelensky from negotiat…
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Comment #38465588
I'll assume you mean govt (public) debt to GDP ratio not private debt to GDP. I'm not sure if private debt to GDP has increased or not since 2008. I would guess it has if mortgages…
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Comment #38463906
And what about the Democrat Party standing with Netanyahu's war in Gaza. I'd say that's as abhorrent as as any Repugnant Party policies. Both parties are fascist in different ways.…
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Comment #38463787
Compromise is paramount. The alternative is what u are seeing in Gaza.
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Comment #38455962
There is no opposition party. Their policies are virtually the same.
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Comment #38455954
What about all the QE printing post 2008 crisis? Didn't that have a lot to with the present house price inflation? Not all of course but shouldn't that QE printing share some of th…
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Comment #38454514
They built loads of condos in Vancouver which were only advertised for sale overseas in Asia. Residents in Canada weren't given a chance to purchase. 40% of Canadian Federal MPs ar…
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Comment #38454378
And don't forget the usefulness of the UK for USA is now hovering just above nil. From an Establishment point of view David Cameron has got to be the Biggest Donkey in years! And w…
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Comment #38447185
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Comment #38414583
The Brexiteers were naive. Anyone with half a brain wouldve known the elites would switch immigration from EU to third world which is exactly what they did post Brexit.
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Comment #38207073
Ireland funds it's pension scheme via the taxes it collects from Apple et al. If those corporations leave then Ireland loses a lot of tax revenue. Instead Ireland should tax proper…
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Comment #38171398
Yup, turning home into hotels should never have been allowed. Homes are for people not profit machines. Renting out a room in a place u live in is all AirBnB should've been for.
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Comment #38148122
THIS!!!!
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Comment #37989217
I used to think like you but I realized I was wrong. USA and Ukraine are not innocent here at all. What would the USAs response be if China did with Canada what the USA has done in…
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Comment #37963801
Because Jeff Bezos knows how to create monopolies. He was able to create those monopolies because Republican and Democrat govt's had weakened anti-monopoly laws. Capitalism thrives…
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Comment #37867070
Israel funded Hamas. https://theintercept.com/2018/02/19/hamas-israel-palestine-c...