This should be an indictment of our Government, but in the circus that is Canadian politics, nothing positive will come of it.
Canadians Unable to Afford Safe Housing Are Turning to Medically-Assisted Death
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> the real estate value bubble has expanded beyond all reasonable limits. I'm very interested to find out how this ends...
I’m more curious how it started.
Banking oligopoly is my guess. You see similar problems in Australia which has a similar banking setup. New Zealand I don't know how their banks work, but I do know they are up there in the clouds as well. Same deal?
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> the real estate value bubble has expanded beyond all reasonable limits. I'm very interested to find out how this ends...
I’m more curious how it started.
I think it started with mostly foreigners buying up property, not to live in but as investment to keep the value of their money, like using housing as an alternate currency to dollars
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#15Welcome to the future!
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> the real estate value bubble has expanded beyond all reasonable limits. I'm very interested to find out how this ends...
Societal breakdown and balkanization in Canada? Seems it is already approaching that point.
Rent was extremely low in Québec for a long time after the referendum.
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#18When the state does more to keep medically-assisted death accessible than living, that seems a lot like eugenics to me
Also a lot mentally ill people commit suicide this way, because it is legal (at least in Belgium)
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#19I think it is important to note that the story is of 1 person that completed MAID and 2 that contemplated it. The headline perhaps implies more cases.
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> the real estate value bubble has expanded beyond all reasonable limits. I'm very interested to find out how this ends...
Societal breakdown and balkanization in Canada? Seems it is already approaching that point.
Having lived my whole life in many different parts of Canada I think it's quite unlikely. It's seemingly easy to romanticize apocalyptic scenarios like that when consuming news/media but I have found very low tolerance for them when interacting with real people across many different communities here.