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The way Canada rallies around the Blue Jays and the Raptors so thoroughly and so beautifully makes it that much funnier how much most of this country despises the Maple Leafs.

Amazing double play

They’re going to be right for a majority of their base, but even a partial erosion will be fatal

"Airbnb has had a profoundly negative impact on quality of life, and is a major contributing factor to the housing crisis in Montreal. New residential construction, of which there has been a considerable amount in recent years, has neither helped alleviate the housing crisis nor kept rents affordable. Why? At least in part because new housing units are being used as rental properties, maintaining an artificial scarcity that keeps prices high."

I think it’s crazy to suggest that new construction hasn’t helped the housing crisis. We’d be no worse off if the new construction hadn’t happened? Really?

Also maybe just an oversight, but is this lamenting rentals in general? Not just vacation rentals like AirBnB?

Most Montrealers rent!

More social housing and stronger rent control measures are needed. This is not the time for laissez-faire. It's become very clear that the free market no longer works as it should when it comes to housing. At the end of the day, landlords would rather have an apartment sit empty than give someone a break.

Landlords can take different approaches about how long they hold out for a higher-paying tenant.

But fundamentally if they don’t fill their rentals at some point, they’re going to go out of business.

I do think AirBnB can drive up rents, especially in neighbourhoods that are supply-constrained and have high tourist demand.

But “the vast majority of new condo units” will “eventually be used solely for AirBnB”?!?

Doesn’t remotely match any of the data I’ve seen.

Denial of this reality actually forces someone to tell a story in which landlords are actually not maximally greedy, but have periods where they’re more altruistic lol

The funny thing is that believing landlords are greedy can be *fully compatible* with an accurate understanding of how the housing market works.

Landlords as a whole will charge as much they can get away with. And what they can get away with is determined by supply and demand.

IT'S SUPPLY AND DEMAND

Canada, Greenland, Panama, Mexico, Venezuela, Nigeria?

And of course Iran did actually get bombed

Who am I missing?

How many countries has Trump threatened to annex or bomb, now?

Every single Canadian is locked tf in

You mean fortunately

It’s so back

The head of STRATCOM demands the president launch a “damage limitation” strike against Russia, China, etc when they haven’t even determined the origin of the ICBM lmfao (which is also laughable)

Hahaha yes

Yes imo

No, NO

All of their decisions in the movie suck and are bad!!! They talk themselves into striking before a single ICBM of unknown origin even hits!!!

Agreed

Yeah I see a ton of parallels between China today and the US in the late 19th and early 20th centuries … and they may follow the same trajectory geopolitically

”I only want to dominate my region … whoops now we have to manage the world”

My take is that the US also quite famously did not want to be global hegemon lol

Helps that it unifies the coalition

Zpooky

Same

If that’s true (and to this extent, eg 60+ among Mamdani voters) then all the controversy has been insanely stupid and unrepresentative

Sorry so every candidate’s supporters favour the ballot measures on net?

And if there are delivery apps involved here, then the increase might be very significant

People should get paid more, but that’s also going to mean this person will have to pay more when dining out!