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Angus Reid Institute April 26, 2025 Federal vote intention by age and gender

YMMV, depending on location. To put housing affordability on a national perspective, Toronto CMA population is over 7 million. These places were also mentioned up thread, Ottawa CMA over 1 million Halifax CMA over 400,000 Victoria CMA less than 400,000 Easy to blame zoning, but housing...

Statistics Canada put Toronto’s lack of affordable housing in perspective, Helps explain why detached housing is so expensive in Toronto.

Downtown parking spaces have sold for upwards of $175, 000. With a monthly maintenance fee of $55.

[ Ok Maybe one day. After they install sidewalks. < smile emoji

Our ratepayers association argues the zoning preserves the character of an established neighborhood. In our town, the Yellow Belt covers about 75% of the land area. Another 20% are employment areas and open spaces where no residential development is permitted.

Right... Both of the above sentences are among the reasons why we pay membership dues to our local ratepayers association.

Our town calls it, "The Yellow Belt". Ie: Detached housing only. We don't even have a sidewalk.

Some mourners are posting selfies on Instagram posing with the Pope's corpse, Fury at 'disrespectful' mourners taking selfies with the Pope's corpse https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14642673/The-faithful-queueing-selfie-popes-corpse-Mourners-wait-eight-hours-pose-pontiff.html

How much do you need to earn to buy a home in Canada

For reference to the discussion of "woke", The vibe shift, end of "wokeness"? https://army.ca/forums/threads/the-vibe-shift-end-of-wokeness.149587/[/EMBED] 9 pages. If any readers are interested, Here’s how much the 2025 federal election is expected to cost taxpayers...

Gotta love "Da Post". Double face palm. https://nypost.com/2025/04/21/us-news/kristi-noems-purse-with-3k-cash-inside-snatched-by-thief-during-outing-at-dc-restaurant/

OK Read this up thread about blaming others, This was posted today, As far as loyalty to the party goes, Conservative Party of Canada: Men: 45.5% Women: 29.2%

One way of looking at the subject of national identity might be, when abroad, would a traveler prefer to be perceived as Canadian or American? Especially in the age of maga 2.0,

Not so sure of that after watching Biden's sad performance at the 2024 United States presidential debate.