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"Students 20 to 24 years" are still students, and presumably most are full-time occupied with being students. "Other persons aged 15 to 24". Nope.

Whatever it is they imagine it demonstrates, it doesn't support the point you want to make. Garbage in, garbage out.

Governments will spare no expense to avoid looking like they're failing. That's desirable, is it?

By definition you can't know what the circumstances of young post-K-12 adults are from the number you gave. The number given could be skewed by very high unemployment among school-attending teens.

Absolute separation between in-school and out (K-12) is required. I can guess that unemployment is strongly affected by the transition from one to the other. I'm not sure what purpose is served by mixing them except to use the (probable) higher unemployment of one group to create an illusion...

No, I trust them. I'm not questioning whether the numbers accurately reflect the category. I absolutely deprecate the value of the category. Teenagers who almost entirely ought to be attending school and working part-time at most and are not legally responsible for themselves in many respects...

It's fairly typical in Canada for a preliminary announcement of intentions to be trumpeted as an accomplished concrete gain.

Is the discussion now about the freedom to gather, or something else? Apples, oranges.

"the youth unemployment rate for those aged 15 to 24" 15 to 24. Let that sink in. 24 is long enough to complete a two-year vocational program and get four years up on a trade, or long enough to complete a university degree and get two years into an occupation or profession. Statistics that...

Nothing west of Centennial Pier was ever well-suited to large modern freighters - the south and west edges of the pier have never been more than rip-rap - and the fishing industry diminished for other reasons. Gentrification at Crab Park and Canada Place happened to fill a vaccuum; it wasn't...

Then they're doing it wrong. I suspect the root problem for most people is "I can't find the job I want to do for the amount of money I need for the lifestyle I want to live", not "I can't find a job that pays a living wage". Drifting along for a few years after HS graduation was not a luxury...

So the complaint is just a self-fulfilling prophecy. "I can't get ahead because I don't see the point of trying", which certainly provides an easy excuse for self-indulgence in the present.

I don't mean to discount it. I mean to disqualify the general "things are worse for my generation" whinge. There is one thing. "X is more expensive" is usually a consequence of "X has more features and capabilities". It is even part of the reason housing is more expensive. If you want to...

In Hohfeld's framework, entitlements, liberties, powers, immunities. [Add: a bit surprised it's still there, but this site has a short article contrasting the rights and obligations of the framework.]

What parts of "the waterfront" do you imagine have been killed? Neither False Creek nor Coal Harbour was ever practical for modern shipping.

Sure, I know the advantage of "forced savings". People have known the fable of the grasshopper and the ant, or some variation, probably since pre-recorded times. Inability to onboard that, even in an age of plenty, is why we have OAS.

Sure. I'll stick with the Statscan numbers for medians. There is one aspect, only, in which "younger generations" are at a disadvantage. Home prices. Everything else is gravy. Tech has never been more advanced; availability of consumer goods has never been more widespread; and right now...

It's not "I don't like it". It's "western civilization is valuable enough to block encroachment by less liberal doctrines". That might be the harm some people have argued against. It's not the harm I argue against. Some Muslims in western countries have openly stated their goals of...

. Typically a pension plan has contributions paid directly by the employee, and "employer contributions". The latter are just employee contributions everyone pretends are paid by the employer; they are still part of the employee's total compensation. Everyone not in a pension plan is capable...

The reasons the US is a big arena are, at root, political. The fact Canadian out-migration is a long-term trend doesn't eliminate politics; it just suggests the political concensus which sustains that state is also long-term.