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@OPMWire @ronmortgageguy @AlderLaneEggs No. For anyone who looked from the inside it was obvious. It was clear right away a bunch of the deals were equity deals, and some were just complete wipeouts with almost no collateral. A lending book where a massive proportion of the book is PIK with barely any collateral?

@FuckingAngry @ronmortgageguy @AlderLaneEggs the performance numbers were suspicious, most people could have picked up on that but the books themselves, I think it takes some skill, ability to do painstaking work (credit to Zorro, there might be others too)

OSC going after KPMG as auditor of Bridging Finance funds Long overdue (as usual) Guess who else KPMG audits?

@ronmortgageguy @AlderLaneEggs @OPMWire It was clearly to anyone who reviewed their books ahead of the receivership that the marks were wrong. It was absolutely clear. No question about it.

@AlderLaneEggs @OPMWire Maybe even ahead of schedule for us

@SteveSaretsky Absolutely. But why is not everyone in the province agreed?

DRIPA does not need to be amended, it needs to be repealed entirely.

@mortimer_1 Sometimes he takes action. Then it harms us. Why are the Conservatives not able to persuade the province?

How long with this loser keep fooling voters in BC. He is all talk and no action. That sums up his entire political career Send Eby packing

@JohnRustad4BC Too long to be persuasive. Brevity matters in persuasion.

NDP BILL 36: if you’re a professional in B.C. and you don’t agree with the prevailing orthodoxy on issues like child transitioning, SOGI, or safer supply, you’re stepping into a system that now has far more power over you than it used to. Bill 36 doesn’t need to explicitly say “we will silence you.” It doesn’t have to. It puts your license, your livelihood, and your reputation inside a structure where complaints can trigger investigations, and where what counts as “unprofessional” can stretch beyond clinical practice into what you say publicly. And we’ve already seen how that plays out. Take Amy Hamm, a nurse who wasn’t accused of harming patients, but of making public statements about gender identity that her regulator deemed discriminatory. That led to a formal discipline ruling, a suspension of her licence, and tens of thousands in penalties. The message is clear: what you say outside the clinic can follow you directly into your profession. Or look at Barry Neufeld, hit with a massive financial penalty through the human rights system over his views. Different system, same signal: step outside the accepted line, and the consequences can be real. Bill 36 doesn’t create that environment, it reinforces it. It concentrates authority, reduces peer oversight, and expands the tools that can be used to enforce compliance. And once those tools exist, it doesn’t take much to change behavior. People don’t need to be punished en masse. They just need to see what happens to the few who are. And here’s the part people tend to overlook: there’s a leadership race underway in the B.C. Conservative Party right now. That means this is one of the few moments where political pressure actually matters. If you don’t want to see this become permanent, now is the time to make it an issue. Reach out to candidates, ask them directly where they stand, and make it clear you expect a commitment to repeal Bill 36. #cdnpoli #bcpoli

@Tim_Pettit_ @elizabe01121051 @NVanCaroline The Supreme Court decision that aboriginal title was decided three to three with one abstention. I am not racist to believe they got it wrong.

@elizabe01121051 @NVanCaroline Actually the position that we should all have equal rights is not racist. The position that we should have race based rights is racist. Definitions matter.

Last summer, when I was the first to flag the serious potential private property impacts of the Cowichan decision, the NDP accused me of fearmongering. Now, British Columbians are seeing the very real impacts with their own eyes. I’ll make sure we defend private property rights with everything we have. Agree? ✍️ Sign your name: WinForBC.ca/landclaims

@Tim_Pettit_ @Citizen004 @ikwilson The fate of British Columbia now rests on the breadth of the word expressly.

Hey @Citizen004, this is not my area of practice either though, as a BC lawyer, increasingly I feel that I must educate myself on it... sigh. My initial thoughts were that it was simply an agreement to create an otherwise non-binding framework to negotiate and resolve disputes and that the real issues would arise in the content of future agreements. If so, then, I would lean towards the Musqueam Agreement is not (yet) a significant concern. But section 5.13 'No Admission' raises concerns, particularly 5.13(c) reproduced below. I have underlined the part that I think matters. Basically, the 'No Admission' section in fact specifically seeks to limit the parties to positions 'expressly contemplated in this Agreement'. The problem with that is that the Musqueam Agreement is laden with broad concessions by the federal government. The broadest concession of all, of course, is the adoption of UNDRIP. Indeed, in adopting UNDRIP, the Agreement recognizes Article 26 which states that: "Indigenous peoples have the right to the lands, territories and resources which they have traditionally owned, occupied or otherwise used or acquired". The Agreement then defines the "Musqueam Territory" as pretty much all of Vancouver (s. 1.1) with the only limiting factor being other competing aboriginal claims. One obvious concern would be whether or not a court would interpret the Musqueam Agreement as binding the legal positions that the federal government could take in any litigation as between the Musqueam and Canada. Has this federal government bound the hands of future federal governments to litigate disputes with the Musqueam? Thoughts?

As someone with a legal background, I respectfully disagree with this proposition: “Technically, the agreement itself is modest. It does not transfer land. It does not change private property rights.” The agreement includes an admission of Aboriginal title. That is a significant legal concession, not a modest one — and it helps explain why other Indigenous leaders have raised concerns.

@AlderLaneEggs @mortimer_1 @scoopercooper People are changed by power and a focus on how they are perceived. Eby does not want to be criticized by his own side. So he has to be a radical. He has no other choice.

@mortimer_1 @scoopercooper The sick thing is I know him and know him well.. So does Sam, I dont know what the hell is going on

Dont know what has happened to him @scoopercooper

@mortimer_1 We are not a sovereign province or country. We have conceded sovereignty without a fight. If our people were allowed to fight, we would defeat Musqueam. But we are not offered the opportunity to fight. Someone is going to give us that shot. Who?

Honest question. When have we reconciled enough? How many billions in prime real estate did the federal government already give to the Musqueam in Vancouver? Didn’t the Musqueam steal the land from tribes before them? Are the Musqueam going to compensate them?

@alanfryermedia @ezralevant Canada does not have a way of tracking how the models put forward by politicians and pundits predict reality. They do not work. But Canadians do not have anyone tracking reality and explaining things. The media gave up.

A reminder to take Canadian punditry and prognostications with a grain of salt.

@JimMcMurtry01 @Tim_Pettit_ Correct. And there is no reason for productive citizens to remain in the Province. High taxes. Terrible service standards. And things are getting worse.

One mining deal with one BC band will make them all multi millionaires. There are now two classes of BC citizens—the non-Indigenous who produce wealth and the Indigenous who get it on the basis of ancestry. This is a recipe for civil war.

@ronmortgageguy No major party will fight supply management. Even the Conservatives lie about the issue. I watched Poilievre say we would need to pay to get rid of it (pay for the quota). That is untrue.

Because it is possibly the most effective government lobbying group in Canada Politicians run in fear from the Dairy Lobby Prime Minister Carney: please stay home a bit & take action to help average Canadians

When People Buy Less Groceries You Know Things Are Getting Really BAD Because that's where we are in this country today Inflation in general is under control but the key things that effect the lives of average to low income Canadians are a disaster Food, Insurance, Taxes 2/

@jaycurrie Wow. What an absolute lunatic! That guy is insane.

Chris Alexander is something of a feral idiot but he is an excellent weather vane for Ontario, Party of Toronto, thinking. He's a Liberal but he could just as easily be a Queenspark Tory. 1/ x.com/calxandr/statu…

@Not_the_Bee @ezralevant It was already offered. It has been offered for a long time in BC. Why would people think basis new?

Canada Now Offering Same-Day Assisted Suicide notthebee.com/article/canada…

@bill_c10 @AlderLaneEggs @Yakstrom @MrAndyNgo It is tough to be a heterodox thinker in a country that values niceness and conformity. And it was not taught to young people. Canadians learn to comply and fit in.

@Yakstrom @MrAndyNgo You're right. Most Canadians have walked stupidly into this trap. And most of them don't even realize they're in it yet.

I’m glad that the Olympics helped the public see that many Canadians are not kind people. The “niceness” is but a thin layer for the worst passive aggressiveness.

@zerohedge Far more than 300 million.

so yeah, time to reread this from March 2023: AI Will Lead To 300 Million Layoffs In The US And Europe

@JJ_McCullough Canadians appear to have been generally brainwashed to not acknowledge reality. They believe that two concepts are mutually exclusive: economic growth (must be “like the Americans”), and social programs. Anything inconsistent with our current approach is “American Style.”

Quality of life is obviously not nothing, and it’s fine for people to say “I’d rather live in a poorer place with better social programs.” But at the same time, a big problem with Canada is the deep apathy our middle class has towards growth-oriented economic policy.

A lot of liberal Canadians were very triggered by that Globe story about Alabama. What’s revealing is no one seems to be offering evidence that Canada’s ECONOMY is actually better, though that was the focus of the piece. All the rebuttals are just about quality of life stuff.

@JJ_McCullough It feels to me like there are essentially no high profile BC Conservatives.

I think it would help if a few high profile BC conservatives started endorsing candidates. Unfortunately it kinda feels like all high profile BC conservatives are currently running!

There are too many people running for Conservative leader of BC. This is making the race hard to follow or care about.

@StephenPunwasi There are some elements of the assessment process that can be deferred (some medical and security elements). But then we kick some people out after they have started training. Failure rates for early courses are now massive. Very challenging to produce soldiers.

2/ notice 🇨🇦 is doing PR for Forces “application” growth, but not full-time enrollment? - 2022: lifts citizenship requirement - 2023: 21k applications, only 77 recruits My understanding is they eased strictnesses recently, so that should improve uptake. ici.radio-canada.ca/rci/en/news/20…

Wild. 🤯 🇨🇦 found firing Forces experts who refused the shot violated their rights, but won’t rehire. Boomers elect Elbows Up™️ to 5x military spending, but no one’s signing up. 🇨🇦’s now importing its military experts. We already lost the war you think we’re preparing for.

@ronmortgageguy Could be that it will take much longer than that. In Canada, everything is now politics. All markets are politics. If a hardline conservative government stopped immigration and opened up supply, then it would take forever.

None of this is speculation on my part this is reality Some Rental Condo Owners will give up & sell at a substantial loss Some will keep losing money & hope for better times But based on the Math better times are likely YEARS away 2 Years, 3 Years..... It's all bad news

The Solution To The 416 Condo Crash May Be Years Away: Because The Math Doesn't Math & Won't For Awhile The last 2 years have been disastrous for Pre-construction Condos or anyone who wants to sell a 416 Dog Crate Condo We assume eventually it improves What if it's YEARS 2/