The vast majority of Ontarians feel homeless encampments are a “problem” and most believe Premier Doug Ford is not doing enough to deal with them, a new poll suggests.
Abacus Data found 54 per cent think tents in municipal parks are a “big problem,” while 30 per cent say they are a “minor problem” and 16 per cent insist they are “not really a problem.”
So must Trudeau, so must Chow.
Businesses in cities and main streets across the country say a “humanitarian crisis is playing out in” Canada’s communities and they want the federal government to act swiftly to tackle the crime, addiction and social issues they say are hurting businesses and downtowns.
The issues, business groups say, have been on the rise in recent years but were made significantly worse by the pandemic.
“Repeat offenders are significant drivers of crime and the current bail system does not protect Canadians or small businesses,” Kate Fenske, chair of International Downtown Association Canada (IDA Canada), which represents urban business districts across Canada, said Tuesday.
In today’s Canada, the cradle you’re born into increasingly dictates whether you’ll ever hold the keys to your own home. This isn’t just a market fluctuation. It’s a boiled frog phenomenon.
Incremental changes – the steady rise in home prices, gradual policy shifts and slow-moving supply constraints – went largely unchallenged. By the time the severity of the crisis was recognized, many prospective homeowners were already cooked.
An interesting article marred by the author’s omission of mass immigration as the primary cause of Canada’s housing crisis.
The Toronto area has seen a 112 per cent increase in power of sales over the last year as more homeowners struggle to pay their mortgage, leaving some lenders with no option but to take over the home and sell it.
In September across the GTA, there were 204 power-of-sale listings, more than double the 96 power of sales reported in September 2023, said Anza Malik, broker of record and co-founder of Valery Real estate Inc. Brokerage.
Buying a house may remain out of reach for many Canadians for the foreseeable future, with mortgage costs unlikely to fall enough to offset lofty home prices and weak spending power, economists and real estate agents say.
Even with expectations that the Bank of Canada will keep cutting interest rates in the coming months, the issue of home affordability — which has strangled Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s poll numbers — is unlikely to fade before the next election.
The mandate for the Liberal minority government ends at the end of October 2025, but an election could come well before then, with the Conservative opposition spoiling to end Trudeau’s nine-year run at the top.
No Prime Minister in Canada’s history even approaches the harm done by Trudeau.
Housing affordability, the destruction of Canadian society from the LPC’S evil mass immigration scam, the criminalization of citizens, the unmitigated anti-white racism of its woke policies, Soviet style 5 Year Plan economy ruining green scams and of course the lies, the constant stream of lies about any matter large or small.
The first article of this series laid out the basic arithmetic of Canada’s current housing crisis—ill-advised levels of immigration far above Canada’s capacity to build sufficient housing to accommodate the consequent rapid increase in population—and pointed out that there remains an undiminished belief that the solution to this is to be found on the supply side, and that a set of policy changes will allow Canada to build significantly more houses in the next eight years than it has in the previous eight years.
Back in May, the Liberal/NDP’s Housing Minster Sean Fraser was traipsing across the country saying he would “actually solve” the housing crisis in Canada by building 3.9 million homes by 2031.
That works out to about 488,000 new homes that Fraser expects to have built every year from 2024 to 2031 to “actually solve” the problem.
On Sunday morning, I had some time to kill in Calgary before a flight home to Toronto, so I grabbed a coffee and started looking for a park bench to sit and read my book. I soon realized that wasn’t going to happen. Every bench was occupied by one or more drug addicts. Over the course of an hour, I saw a man injecting drugs in between his toes, a guy smoking meth while glaring at me aggressively, and hordes of people doubled over from fentanyl. Of the couple hundred people I passed, about 75 were obviously on drugs. I decided to try to find brunch, but few businesses were open. Not surprising. Who’d want to do brunch in this post-apocalyptic environment?
It’s a puzzle. Whatever its answer, its consequences are likely to foment an upheaval in Canada that the coming defeat of Justin Trudeau’s Liberals and the election of a Conservative government should not be expected to forestall.
The puzzle, by the reckoning of urban planner, landscape architect, author and University of British Columbia professor Patrick Condon, can be put this way.
Brampton residents rallied on Sunday in front of city hall, calling for additional help from the federal and provincial government to combat exploitative landlords in the city.
Locals say illegal rooming houses are putting renters at risk and making neighbourhoods unsafe.
“I think the worst case scenario is loss of life,” said resident Kasia Devlin, who attended the rally.
Interesting make-up of the protestors.
Douglas Todd: Not a word was directed at Ottawa to lower its migration targets, even while mayors are not normally shy about asking senior governments to come to their aid
Hundreds of mayors, councillors and planners from across B.C. showed up this week at the annual conference of the Union of B.C. Municipalities for a keynote session on the housing crisis.
After being informed housing prices in Kamloops are now higher than in Calgary, they heard experts, advocates and development-industry officials talk about the “sacrifices” and “uncomfortable” truths B.C. residents, specifically taxpayers, must face to address unaffordability.
From a downtown Ottawa sidewalk, Kevin Aubin has been watching what he describes as alarming changes in the city’s downtown, several blocks south of Parliament Hill.
The veteran panhandler says that he is seeing an influx of troubling newcomers on Bank Street in Ottawa’s core, a main street similar to downtown areas of Granville Street in Vancouver, Yonge Street in Toronto or Water Street in St. John’s.
OTTAWA — Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland announced Monday Canadians will be able to borrow for longer, while also increasing the maximum value for insured mortgages, potentially giving buyers more money in the housing market.
I don’t see this helping many people but I always get a laugh out of Liberals pretending they solved a huge problem while conveniently failing to acknowledge their disastrous immigration policy is responsible.
The residents of a tiny home village in Portland, Oregon are being blamed for a drastic increase in crimes in the neighborhood.
People living in University Park, a North Portland neighborhood, said that ever since the Peninsula Crossing Safe Rest Village appeared, crime rates have skyrocketed.
Portland police data supports this claim, according to KATU.
Ontario food banks “cannot keep up” as usage has reached an eight-year high, a new report reveals.
Feed Ontario, a food bank network in the province, released new data Tuesday showing that 1,001,150 Ontarians visited a food bank at least once between April 1, 2023 and March 31, 2024, an increase of 25 per cent over the same time period in 2022-23.
