The Canadian Observer
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The Canadian Observer
@CanadianObs
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@CanadianObs I don't recognize the ILLEGITIMATE amalgamation of the ILLEGITIMATE harris government 🗣️🗣️🗣️
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@NathanNLLLLL @TrueSlazac What does this have to do with anything? Obviously removing rent control will cause rent to increase, but it will also incentivize housing construction to eliminate the shortage. However, you'll need supply side reforms to properly lower the price of housing.
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@CanadianObs @TrueSlazac just no, just look at some graphs from reality instead of your middle school abstractions (source: dnb.nl/en/general-new…)
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Incredible how much leftist economics discourse is them being unable to understand second order thinking
Slazac 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇹🇼 🌐@TrueSlazac
An old communist woman handed me a leaflet for the leftist candidate for Paris and when I told her I took issue with his stance on rent control she just looked at me like this
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Our current military budget is $51,703,553,000. Our budget for Veterans Affairs Canada is $8,171,287,460, and that's with a massive $110,000,000 cut. Nobody wants to say it, but she shouldn't be spending 15% of our military budget on people that aren't part of the military.
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@CanadianObs @awawawhoami Have you been living under a rock?
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Sent in to me for publishing:
"At 8pm local time on March 20 the Elbit Systems Switzerland office in Bern, Switzerland has been vandalized.
Elbit needs to close"
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@NathanNLLLLL @TrueSlazac No, it really doesn't. Elasticity is measured along the demand curve, which is to say that it isn't constant for a particular kind of good (even housing). Rent control stifles housing construction, which prevents renters from moving, making the price inelastic IN THAT SITUATION.
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@CanadianObs @TrueSlazac Inelastic demand quite literally changes the fundementals. And that is the thing with a city like paris, its already very dense so there isnt a lot of room for expansion. A reason btw why quite a lot actual (liberal) economists are for rent control in dense cities
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@NathanNLLLLL @TrueSlazac Inelastic demand doesn't change the fundementals here, and demand would be a lot more elastic if renters had an abundance of housing options to choose from.
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@CanadianObs @TrueSlazac inelastic demand is a thing, i dont think its a own to post a middle school level economic graph
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Word I learned yesterday — “middle distillates.”
Keep an eye on this one. 👀
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Real talk, how does scalping exist? Why are arenas selling tickets for so little that reselling them at a markup is consistently a feasible way to make money?
Doug Ford@fordnation
We’re putting ticket scalpers on notice: Your days of ripping people off are done.
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@fordnation Arenas should charge more for tickets if they don't want people to make money reselling tickets.
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We’re putting ticket scalpers on notice: Your days of ripping people off are done.
Toronto Star@TorontoStar
Doug Ford wants to outlaw resale tickets that cost more than the original price #onpoli trib.al/NebToPF
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Chuck Norris actually died 20 years ago, but Death didn't build up the courage to tell him until now.
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The backstory here is that the Squamish people of what is now Vancouver were illegally dispossessed of this land a century ago.
They sued, got their land back, and used their sovereignty to ignore local zoning rules and build 6,000 new homes over the objections of nearby NIMBYs.
The Vancouver Sun@VancouverSun
Sen̓áḵw Towers set to open 113 years after Squamish people forced from site vancouversun.com/news/local-new…
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@RealAlbanianPat My city is estimated to have reached 180,000 people in 2024. We weren't supposed to reach that until 2050.
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I'm not saying that veterans are malingering, but I am saying that this is exactly the pattern that you would expect to see if they were. veterans.gc.ca/en/news-and-me…
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Most Canadian veterans have fairly minor disabilities, and the number of veterans receiving compensation for disabilities steadily decreases as the severity of the disability increases, until you reach a massive spike of recipients at 100% disability.
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@awawawhoami Same (socially progressive neoliberalism)
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oh well, at least my ideology will be the one to raise from the ashes
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@JJ_McCullough Liberals and Conservatives are mostly tied here, abolishing the monarchy really isn't as right-coded as you think.
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Another day, another poll showing that Conservatives favor abolishing the monarchy in Canada more than Liberals. I wish the Conservative Party would listen to their supporters on this issue:
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