7 years not enough to build the millions of homes needed to fix affordability, warns economist

Canada has no chance of building the additional millions of homes Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. projects would be needed to restore housing affordability over the next seven years, according to the chief economist of Desjardins Group.

Speaking at a panel on the current housing market crisis hosted by the Economic Club of Canada in Toronto on Sept. 12, Desjardins’ Jimmy Jean said it took “not seven years, not 10 years, not 15 years, but 30 years” to build the last 5.8 million homes in Canada.


This issue alone should kill Trudeau but Canada is a pretty messed up Banana republic.

I doubt his base will abandon Junior and all he needs is a good showing by the NDP to remain in power.

The “Affordability issue” may be tamped down if home owner equity is protected by the ongoing shortage. This will be especially true of eastern urban centres, traditional LPC strongholds. People vote with their wallets.

Do not expect significantly lowered immigration targets, the emerging narrative is to caution against blaming “immigrants” when a made in Canada “housing crisis” is really to blame.

The narrative implies that criticism of an extraordinarily callous mass immigration policy that stresses all of Canada’s infrastructure to the breaking point is criticism of immigrants and of course that’s racist.

In short the same old same old – Canadian citizens are labeled racist whenever they attempt to stand up for their own best interests against the UNIPARTY and their corporate cronies.

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The Return of Urban Retail Deserts

Stores fleeing from rising theft will leave residents in cities like New York with fewer places to shop, less merchandise to buy, and higher prices to pay.

The rising social disorder and crime of the 1970s and 1980s drove out not only hundreds of thousands of residents from New York City, but also many businesses. Within a few years, entire communities lacked basic amenities like supermarkets and drugstores; empty storefronts littered shopping districts. That started to change only when crime began falling in the 1990s and neighborhoods rebounded—first in New York and then in other big cities—prompting national retailers to begin setting up shop in places that they had once avoided. Thousands of stores and tens of thousands of jobs blossomed in New York alone thanks to this retail revival. But those gains are vanishing before our eyes as rising retail theft is driving a new era of closings.

Toronto with Chow’s sales tax.

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Lithium battery fires will cause a tragedy

Scooter Lithium Battery Fire

Lithium batteries in electric vehicles are going to cause a major disaster – it’s only a matter of time.

I say this as my fingertips hover a quarter-inch from the Lithium battery in this laptop. The risk from phones, vape pens, and laptops is reasonably well-known and manageable, given their small size. However, we should mention that cheap mass production in China has seen a lowering of standards and a sharp rise in accidents…

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Ignoring Russian History Is Costly

A large nation does not engage in the same pattern of behavior for centuries for no reason.

Russia has changed little over the past 400 years. Yes, Russians now drive cars instead of oxcarts, but from a political, cultural, military, and geopolitical standpoint, Russia and how it behaves has changed remarkably little. In fact, the run-up to and trajectory of the war in Ukraine is very much a repeat of Russian history. Yet Western governments have completely ignored this, and their obliviousness is proving costly.

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The Taliban Have a New Drug of Choice

After cornering the market on heroin, they’ve pivoted to a quicker and more profitable alternative.

As if Coca-Cola gave up making soft drinks, the Taliban announced to great fanfare last year that they were getting out of the drug business. The group that rode big opium profits to a takeover of Afghanistan in the summer of 2021 suddenly, seemingly, swore off the stuff. Poppy planting was banned and drugs were off the menu. Or that, at least, is what they want the world to believe.

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China Taking Over While Europe Sleeps

Europe is in “complete denial” as China proceeds to spread its influence on the continent. At least that is the urgent, unequivocal view of Ivana Karásková, a Czech foreign influence specialist and a special adviser to European Commission Vice President Věra Jourová.

“In some countries, awareness of [Chinese influence operations] is high because they have a history of Russian-backed action. Elsewhere, it’s complete denial,” she told Politico. “It’s very uneven in terms of awareness. There are some countries where the discussion isn’t happening at all.”

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Workplace accident kills 5 in Gaza

Palestinians protest against Israel because Palestinians blew themselves up

Powerful explosion kills 5 Palestinians in Gaza. Israel says the blast was caused by mishandled bomb

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — At least five Palestinians were killed and over 20 others were wounded Wednesday in an explosion next to the separation fence along the Israeli frontier with Gaza, Palestinian health officials said.

The cause of the blast was not immediately known.

The explosion took place during a demonstration along the border marking the anniversary of Israel’s withdrawal from the Gaza Strip in 2005. The event on Gaza’s eastern border was organized by Hamas, the Islamic militant group that has governed the coastal territory since 2007.

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‘Should never be happening’: 2 men fight on Highway 401 in road rage incident, OPP say

Ontario Provincial Police addressed a road rage incident that turned into a fist fight on Highway 401 in Toronto earlier this week.

The altercation happened on Highway 401 and Leslie Street on Tuesday at around 5 p.m.

Driving in Chowtown is risky business.

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Belgium rejects ISIS bomber Salah Abdeslam’s plea not to be extradited to France

A Belgian court on Wednesday rejected French terrorist Salah Abdeslam’s request not to be extradited to France, saying that his claim that it would be a breach of his human rights was not “sufficiently substantiated”.

Abdeslam, 33, was transferred to Belgium from France last summer to be tried by a separate Belgian court for his role in two ISIS-claimed attacks in Brussels in 2016 in which 35 people died. He was found guilty in July on all counts and is expected to be sentenced in the coming days.

His lawyers, however, requested in early September that he not be transferred to France to serve a life sentence without parole, the country’s harshest possible sentence, which was issued by a Paris court in June last year.

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Hunter Biden indicted on federal firearms charges in long-running probe weeks after plea deal failed

Hunter Biden

WASHINGTON (AP) — Hunter Biden was indicted Thursday on federal firearms charges, the latest and weightiest step yet in a long-running investigation into the president’s son.

Biden is accused of lying about his drug use when he bought a firearm in October 2018, a period when he has acknowledged struggling with addiction to crack cocaine, according to the indictment filed in federal court in Delaware by a special counsel overseeing the case.

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Elon Musk told Taiwan is ‘not for sale’ after Tesla boss comments on relationship with China

Taiwan has told Elon Musk that it is “not for sale” after the billionaire businessmen waded into the sensitive issue of its relationship with China.

The sharp rebuke from Joseph Wu, the Taiwanese foreign minister, followed a comment from Mr Musk in which he compared the island democracy of 23.5 million to the state of Hawaii.

“Their [Beijing’s] policy has been to reunite Taiwan with China. From their standpoint, maybe it is analogous to Hawaii or something like that, like an integral part of China that is arbitrarily not part of China mostly because … the US Pacific Fleet has stopped any sort of reunification effort by force,” the Tesla owner told the All-In Summit in Los Angeles this week.

Elon loves Communist China.

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As young as 14′: More trans teens are seeking irreversible breast removal surgery … after being conned

It has become the most sought-after gender-affirming surgery among transgender adolescents: bilateral mastectomy — removal of the breasts — in teens born female transitioning to males.

While many European countries restrict the irreversible surgery to adults 18 and older and are calling for a more cautious approach to gender-affirming care in minors, plastic surgeons in Canada have performed “top surgery” on teenagers as young as 14.

Gender-affirming care is just another term for the mutilation of children by depraved nutjobs.

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Ouch! Joe Biden gets scorched in Quinnipiac poll

If I were Joe Biden’s chief handler or even one of his hangers-on, I would be in talks with MSNBC about getting a gig as a political analyst.

Why?

The latest poll numbers look pretty scary for Joe Biden, begging the question of whether even the Democrats could scrape together enough ballots through nefarious means to carry him across the finish line.

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Did feds rely on poorly sourced info to invoke Emergencies Act?

A team of stressed RCMP staff Googled news media articles to quote right back to news media after the public safety minister told reporters to direct their questions to law enforcement: Lawyer and investigative journalist.

OTTAWA, Ont. – A Freedom of Information request reveals that law enforcement may have used ambiguous information about Canadian Forces veteran Jeremy MacKenzie and Diagolon, which in large part, led to the federal government invoking the Emergencies Act, say two investigative journalists.

Through Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy (FOIPOP), independent journalists Caryma Sa’d and Elisa Hategan obtained 1,000 pages of internal RCMP documents on MacKenzie and Diagolon. The documents show that although the RCMP were investigating Diagolon, they didn’t consider them a group, a militia, or a security threat.


A long but revealing read examining how manufacturing hate to criminalize dissent became standard practice with the Liberal government, its media minions, their willing collaborators in law enforcement and the usual suspect NGO’s. 

It is disturbing how easily an extreme left political vendetta can be palmed off as an anti-hate crusade based on the dubious “expertise” of a few self-appointed guardians of social cohesion.  

These practices were first institutionalized in human rights commissions in Canada and have now spread throughout society to include professional licensing boards and our financial system.  

Who can forget Freeland’s schoolgirl cackling on revealing the Trudeau government unpersoned trucker convoy enemies of the state?

And now for a little comic relief courtesy Rachel Gilmore.

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