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Affordability unlikely to return to Toronto housing market ‘anytime soon:’ Desjardins

Housing affordability is unlikely to return to Toronto anytime soon, even in the event of a recession on par with one of the worst economic downturns in the province’s history, according to a new report from Desjardins’ leading economists.

The report outlines three possible outcomes for the future of the city’s housing market, including the worst-case scenario, which looks at a “1990s-style Ontario recession” that would drive average home values down by 16 per cent by the end of next year and 30 per cent by the end of 2025.

Those declines would be in addition to the housing correction that has already pushed prices down across the GTA.

by Blazingcatfur•September 6, 2023September 5, 2023•0•"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis"

More companies are calling people back to the office. Many workers want to stay home

As soon as her company told employees they would have to return to the office part time, Amanda Nilsson started looking for a new job.

“When they started mandating three days, I knew the writing was on the wall,” said the senior accountant who worked for a Toronto-based real-estate company. She says she felt it would be only a matter of time before three days in the office became four or five.

“I could understand why they were pushing to bring people back in the office,” said Nilsson. “But at the same time I have to do what’s in my best interests as well.”

I can’t blame anyone for wanting to give up the commute.

by Blazingcatfur•September 6, 2023September 5, 2023•0•"Comply!"

There Is No Insurrection Case against Trump

If there were, the Justice Department would already have brought charges against him.

You know insurrection is a crime, right?

Just to recap, under Section 2383 of the federal criminal code, a person is guilty of a felony, punishable by up to ten years’ imprisonment, if he
incites, sets on foot, assists, or engages in any rebellion or insurrection against the authority of the United States or the laws thereof, or gives aid or comfort thereto.

by Blazingcatfur•September 6, 2023September 5, 2023•0•Trump Derangement Syndrome

A ‘poop’ rampage in Wyoming is an important insight into today’s homeless

The headline at the Daily Mail was eye-catching: “Squatters take over Wyoming city: Vagrants leave millions of dollars worth of damage to motel and 500lbs of human feces in downtown area – as Casper fights off a homeless invasion.” It was an image at odds with how we think of Wyoming; that is, a clean, naturally beautifully conservative state. But the homeless plague is everywhere, and the situation in Casper reminds us that most of today’s homeless are not just ordinary people down on their luck; they are dysfunctional drug addicts who are the inevitable result of 60 years of leftist drug policies.

by Blazingcatfur•September 6, 2023September 5, 2023•0•"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis"

Media Stunned by How Weak Biden Is Against Trump

A new poll that shows President Joe Biden and former president Donald Trump virtually tied in a 2024 rematch shocked mainstream media hosts over the long weekend.

The Wall Street Journal poll, released Saturday, found that in a head-to-head matchup, Trump and Biden are split evenly at 46 percent support. That result, ABC News host George Stephanopoulos said on Sunday, is “kind of shocking” in light of the indictments against Trump.

by Blazingcatfur•September 6, 2023September 5, 2023•0•President Trump

Two Years Later, the Consequences of Biden’s Botched Afghanistan Withdrawal Are Still Unfolding

How the Left’s woke religion kills.

Two years later, people are still paying the price for the catastrophe of Old Joe Biden’s withdrawal from Afghanistan. And people will be paying the price for decades to come.

The Associated Press reported on August 22 that “more than 200 extrajudicial killings of former Afghan government officials and security forces have taken place since the Taliban took over the country two years ago, according to a U.N. report.” These were people the Taliban had promised not to kill, but as Muhammad said, “War is deceit” (Bukhari 4.52.268). Nine days before that, the Daily Mail reported that “militants who left fingerprints on IEDs meant to kill Americans in Afghanistan and a prisoner freed by the Taliban were among more than 65 terrorists allowed into the United States after the catastrophic withdrawal.” What could possibly go wrong? Celebrate diversity!

by Blazingcatfur•September 6, 2023September 5, 2023•0•Afghanistan

Russian pilot reveals details of daring defection to Ukraine in military helicopter

Ukraine has named a Russian helicopter pilot that it said defected last month over his opposition to Moscow’s invasion after flying across the border in a “long-term special operation” led by Kyiv.

Kyiv’s Main Intelligence Directorate – the intelligence wing of Ukraine’s defence ministry – identified the pilot as 28-year-old Maxim Kuzminov, who served in the “319th separate helicopter regiment” based in Russia’s Far Eastern Primorye region.

by Blazingcatfur•September 6, 2023September 5, 2023•0•"Ukraine - Russia"

Gentlemen, you may include me out. — Samuel Goldwyn

I declined an audition recently. The audition call was for an actor to play a senior gay man, a closeted gay man married to a lesbian who had children and grandchildren. They enthusiastically come out late in life, embracing their “queerness” in all its grotesque flamboyance. The role is a lead for a series of ten episodes. I am okay with playing a gay man on screen, provided I can play him straight. By that, I mean playing a man who is gay. I am uncomfortable playing a gay man as a caricature, even in jest.

The latest from Pongo.

by Blazingcatfur•September 6, 2023September 4, 2023•0•"Art"

What the Burning Man ‘emergency’ reveals about the class divide

How did a handful of rain-soaked hipsters command so much more attention than genuine disaster victims?

Finally, US president Joe Biden has found a crisis that actually interests him. A mass-emergency event has, perhaps for the first time in his presidency, managed to elicit a speedy response from the leader of the free world.

Was it a toxic train derailment that poisoned the water of a small blue-collar community? Er, no. Was it a raging fire that killed a still-unknown number of residents in a historical indigenous island community? Also no.

by Blazingcatfur•September 6, 2023September 5, 2023•0•"Elites vs. Populists"

Top scientist Patrick Brown says he deliberately OMITTED key fact in climate change piece he’s just had published in prestigious journal to ensure woke editors ran it – that 80% of wildfires are started by humans

A climate change scientist has claimed the world’s leading academic journals reject papers which don’t ‘support certain narratives’ about the issue and instead favor ‘distorted’ research which hypes up dangers rather than solutions.

Patrick T. Brown, a lecturer at Johns Hopkins University and doctor of earth and climate sciences, said editors at Nature and Science – two of the most prestigious scientific journals – select ‘climate papers that support certain preapproved narratives’.

In an article for The Free Press, Brown likened the approach to the way ‘the press focus so intently on climate change as the root cause’ of wildfires, including the recent devastating fires in Hawaii. He pointed out research that said 80 percent of wildfires are ignited by humans.

by Blazingcatfur•September 5, 2023September 5, 2023•0•"Peak F*cked Up", "Peak Woke"

Carson Jerema: Tamara Lich exposed the incompetence of the Canadian state

Tamara Lich, the Freedom Convoy leader whose trial begins this week, is no hero. She led a protest movement that illegally occupied downtown Ottawa for three weeks, blocking access to roads and local businesses. Though largely nonviolent, the convoy was an extreme nuisance that went beyond the mere inconvenience expected of a large demonstration. But, if Lich is no hero, neither is she a terrorist, insurrectionist leader or fascist plotter, as so many of her critics in the media and the Liberal party desperately want her to be.

by Blazingcatfur•September 5, 2023September 5, 2023•0•"Criminalizing Dissent"

Send illegal migrants to Islington – see how liberal opinion likes it then

Just when you think things cannot get any worse, illegal migration across the Channel now seems to have got so bad that the Government is relying on the weather to bring the numbers down.

Last Friday more than 800 illegal migrants successfully made the crossing. That was the highest daily total this year. But it also stood out in the stats because choppy waters had delayed crossings for a week, allowing some officials to pretend the problem was on the way to being solved.

by Blazingcatfur•September 5, 2023September 5, 2023•0•Camp Of The Saints

Why White Ethnics Left Newark

Viciously maligned as racists since WWII, nobody bothered to ask working-class whites why they left the cities.

Against any reasonable expectation, America’s once-proud post–World War II suburbanization and middle-class expansion has become a critical flashpoint in our national politics. A generation of left-leaning scholars, major media (think the New York Times’s 1619 project), and antiracist activists have succeeded in establishing that era as one of profound black disfranchisement: As blacks began their second “Great Migration” out of the rural South around 1940, the federal government embarked on a massive suburbanization effort to benefit white people and isolate blacks, an effort that included highway construction, home mortgage insurance, and “redlining,” which effectively excluded blacks from homeownership and left them to pick through the rubble of rapidly deindustrializing urban places.

by Blazingcatfur•September 5, 2023September 5, 2023•0•"Urban Dystopia"

LIBS OF TIKTOK: The ADL tried to deplatform me on X after defaming me, and now Elon Musk plans to expose them

The Anti-Defamation League was founded in 1910 with an explicit mission “to stop the defamation of the Jewish people, and to secure justice and fair treatment for all,” but in recent years they have completely gone off the rails.

In recent years though, it seems the ADL simply attacks anyone who doesn’t go along with the far-left agenda. The ADL targeted me, a young conservative Jewish woman, for speaking out against wokeness, far-left indoctrination of children, and the medical mutilation of minors under the guise of gender ideology.

by Blazingcatfur•September 5, 2023September 5, 2023•0•Anti-Defamation League

John Ivison: Steven Guilbeault opts for distortion over discernment

The comments made last week by activist-turned-politician Steven Guilbeault about the need for a cap on oil and gas emissions suggest the environment minister has embraced his new vocation with enthusiasm.

Few things work as well for a Liberal MP as bashing Alberta, the equivalent of Mordor for many eastern progressives.

by Blazingcatfur•September 5, 2023September 5, 2023•0•Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Green-Scam