Liberal Minority Government 2025 - ???

[HavokFour]

Looks like we're following the UK and preparing to ban crypto donations.

Overall a good move.

Canada Moves to Shut Crypto Out of Election Financing

The Canadian government has introduced a new Bill C-25 to formally ban political donations made in crypto.

www.yahoo.com

Government Bill (House of Commons) C-25 (45-1) - First Reading - Strong and Free Elections Act - Parliament of Canada

Government Bill (House of Commons) C-25 (45-1) - First Reading - Strong and Free Elections Act - Parliament of Canada

www.parl.ca

 

[daftandbarmy]

The project had too many bugs in it, and the costs have been hived off on the taxpayer ...

Ottawa's big bet on world's largest cricket farm ran into a simple problem: the 'yuck factor'​

Almost a year later, questions remain over how much public money was recovered​

The business of insect farming was supposed to grow big and fast.

In London, Ont., that promise took shape in Aspire Food Group Canada. Billed as the world's largest cricket farm, it was a 150,000-square-foot, fully automated facility designed to house billions of insects and produce millions of kilograms of protein each year.

Crickets are touted as a low-carbon protein source, requiring less farmland than traditional livestock and offering the potential to address world food insecurity.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/canada-aspire-food-cricket-farm-9.7136152

 

[lenaitch]

The project had too many bugs in it, and the costs have been hived off on the taxpayer ...

Ottawa's big bet on world's largest cricket farm ran into a simple problem: the 'yuck factor'​

Almost a year later, questions remain over how much public money was recovered​

The business of insect farming was supposed to grow big and fast.

In London, Ont., that promise took shape in Aspire Food Group Canada. Billed as the world's largest cricket farm, it was a 150,000-square-foot, fully automated facility designed to house billions of insects and produce millions of kilograms of protein each year.

Crickets are touted as a low-carbon protein source, requiring less farmland than traditional livestock and offering the potential to address world food insecurity.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/canada-aspire-food-cricket-farm-9.7136152

Reminds me of Newfoundland greenhouses:

https://www.cbc.ca/archives/premier-peckford-s-pickle-palace-1.4759416

 

[Jarnhamar]

Affordability is the best it has been in over a decade - Mark Carney

Cost of living hitting food banks in Canada so hard that visits are limited to once a month

Food banks across the country are being forced to scale back services at a time when Canadians need them the most, due to limited supplies.

www.ctvnews.ca

 

[Halifax Tar]

Affordability is the best it has been in over a decade - Mark Carney

Cost of living hitting food banks in Canada so hard that visits are limited to once a month

Food banks across the country are being forced to scale back services at a time when Canadians need them the most, due to limited supplies.

www.ctvnews.ca

You don't agree ?

 

[IKnowNothing]

Regarding OAS - Gov Can has a new calculator out for it. I ran 3 scenarios across two different programs. Family Net incomes 75k, 100k, and 150k, family of 4 with 5 and 2 yo for CCB vs. retired 69 year old couple for OAS, equal income split in both cases

At 75k
Family gets est. $11,440
Retirees get est. $17,850

At 100k
Family gets est. $9314
Retirees get est. $17,850

At 150k
Family gets est. $ 0
Retirees get est. $17,850


I very much believe in the intent of both programs- but that shit is broken.

 

[Jarnhamar]

You don't agree ?

I'd rather spend my time being upset at Poilievere.

 

[Czech_pivo]

Regarding OAS - Gov Can has a new calculator out for it. I ran 3 scenarios across two different programs. Family Net incomes 75k, 100k, and 150k, family of 4 with 5 and 2 yo for CCB vs. retired 69 year old couple for OAS, equal income split in both cases

At 75k
Family gets est. $11,440
Retirees get est. $17,850

At 100k
Family gets est. $9314
Retirees get est. $17,850

At 150k
Family gets est. $ 0
Retirees get est. $17,850


I very much believe in the intent of both programs- but that shit is broken.

I think that you should factor in the subsidized costs of child care that the families received for the 2yr old. Those are direct subsidizes indirectly paid out the family.

 

[Brad Sallows]

Ottawa's big bet on world's largest cricket farm ran into a simple problem: the 'yuck factor'

Government choosing winners and losers. Film at 11.

 

[Brad Sallows]

I think that you should factor in the subsidized costs of child care that the families received for the 2yr old. Those are direct subsidizes indirectly paid out the family.

Not many families on OAS have two-year old children.

Measuring need is made unnecessarily difficult because many of the people doing the measuring are motivated to situate their estimates. What is really needed are measures that account for all income-after-payouts-AND-benefits across a lifetime.

 

[Czech_pivo]

Regarding OAS - Gov Can has a new calculator out for it. I ran 3 scenarios across two different programs. Family Net incomes 75k, 100k, and 150k, family of 4 with 5 and 2 yo for CCB vs. retired 69 year old couple for OAS, equal income split in both cases

At 75k
Family gets est. $11,440
Retirees get est. $17,850

At 100k
Family gets est. $9314
Retirees get est. $17,850

At 150k
Family gets est. $ 0
Retirees get est. $17,850


I very much believe in the intent of both programs- but that shit is broken.

Not many families on OAS have two-year old children.

Measuring need is made unnecessarily difficult because many of the people doing the measuring are motivated to situate their estimates. What is really needed are measures that account for all income-after-payouts-AND-benefits across a lifetime.

Ture that!

But I'm making the point of if you're comparing a family of 4 vs a couple of retirees, then the looking at direct subsidizes needs to include the 5 or 10$/day government subsidizes being paid indirectly out to the family of 4.

Factor in how much is lost the moment 1 of the retirees dies - OAS is gone, CPP is vastly reduced and in almost all cases where a defined benefit pension is involved, the survivor only receives 66% of the pension going forward.

It also means that the family of 4 at 150k/yr IS getting an indirect subsidize for the childcare fees that they are benefiting from.

 

[GR66]

Ture that!

But I'm making the point of if you're comparing a family of 4 vs a couple of retirees, then the looking at direct subsidizes needs to include the 5 or 10$/day government subsidizes being paid indirectly out to the family of 4.

Factor in how much is lost the moment 1 of the retirees dies - OAS is gone, CPP is vastly reduced and in almost all cases where a defined benefit pension is involved, the survivor only receives 66% of the pension going forward.

It also means that the family of 4 at 150k/yr IS getting an indirect subsidize for the childcare fees that they are benefiting from.

It's almost like we should get rid of all the niche subsidies, benefits and tax credits - and all the bureaucracy required to manage them - an provide a basic minimum income as a safety net to ensure that nobody starves or goes without basic shelter.

 

[YZT580]

110% agreed.

There is currently a bed ridden 90yo woman living in the same house as I am because of a very similar situation.

The senior's home cost, lets say, $1200 a month. Her income as a senior was $1200 a month.

It would have left her broke. So instead she has a worker that comes 4 times a day to help change her, shower her, etc



I understand the government wanting to keep costs under control, so they recoup the cost of staffing/maintenance by charging rent to the seniors.

But what if she didn't have immediate family in town? What if she didn't have $1200 a month coming in from OAS?


There has to be a better way to do this. I can easily see some folks falling thru the cracks who really shouldn't be allowed to fall thru those cracks

It's almost like we should get rid of all the niche subsidies, benefits and tax credits - and all the bureaucracy required to manage them - an provide a basic minimum income as a safety net to ensure that nobody starves or goes without basic shelter.

I will vote for a flat percentage tax starting at a pre-defined value and no subsidies for sure. Would eliminate thousands of accountancy positions, thousands of civil servants and innumerous complaint processes with the CRA>

 

[Navy_Pete]

The project had too many bugs in it, and the costs have been hived off on the taxpayer ...

Ottawa's big bet on world's largest cricket farm ran into a simple problem: the 'yuck factor'​

Almost a year later, questions remain over how much public money was recovered​

The business of insect farming was supposed to grow big and fast.

In London, Ont., that promise took shape in Aspire Food Group Canada. Billed as the world's largest cricket farm, it was a 150,000-square-foot, fully automated facility designed to house billions of insects and produce millions of kilograms of protein each year.

Crickets are touted as a low-carbon protein source, requiring less farmland than traditional livestock and offering the potential to address world food insecurity.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/canada-aspire-food-cricket-farm-9.7136152

What's wild about it is their fancy automated systems never worked, and they were at $50 lb for a price point, which is insane.

The article also interviewed another guy with a much lower tech setup that was doing a lot better, with about a third of the footprint, but sounded like he understood both the process as well as the market a lot better.

The whole business sounds a bit like some of the high tech pump and dump schemes, where it looks great on paper, gets lot of investors but doesn't actually work, so the only ones that make money are the ones that get it to IPO and sell off their stock options at a hugely inflated rate before it falls apart.

 

[brihard]

OAS at its current formula is absurd. There’s absolutely no reason high income seniors should be receiving federal welfare. OAS is supposed to be a safety net, not a scaffold. This should be one of the single most obvious candidates for significant government savings.