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Migration, demographics, religion, ethics, housing .... Columnist at Vancouver Sun / Postmedia News https://t.co/W0APwSK7HV
Vancouver, British Columbia
Joined November 2008
Canada’s suburbs are looking better all the time. Suburbs are growing faster than city centres in both Canada and the U.S. Less hectic and more open, they offer much more than "sprawl". #bcpoli #vanpoli #cdnpoli 1/2.
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2/2 In addition, MacPhail headed a @bcndp and @liberal_party "experts panel" on housing supply and affordability. The NDP is implementing it, despite its one-sided approach to housing. A v. powerful insider. #bcpoli
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.@JohnRustad4BC is calling for the removal of @BCFerries chair Joy MacPhail in light of its China purchases. The former NDP minister also chairs NchKay' Developments, which is building Vancouver's Senakw towers for the Squamish Nation. 1/2 #bcpoli #vanre.
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RT @Harold_Steves: @endbirthtourism @DouglasTodd The Cowichan Court decision threatens farmland around Port Metro Vancouver land including:….
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Speculators buy up adjacent farmland when they expect First Nations will obtain self-government, says veteran Richmond farmer @harold_steves. It often ends with farmland being destroyed. That's what happened with Tsawwassen First Nation. #bcpoli .
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Canada’s Real Estate Economy, Fueled by Mass Immigration & Offshore Cash, Is Unsustainable, Mayor @BradWestPoCo Warns. "This is not diversification. This is dependency. It eventually demands a price.".Via @scoopercooper .#bcpoli #cdnpoli #onpoli .
thebureau.news
“Billions upon billions” poured into land speculation have turned B.C. housing into a magnet for global money and mass migration, Mayor Brad West writes in an exclusive Op-Ed for The Bureau.
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As @BradWestPoCo suggests below, 30% of B.C.'s GDP is based on real-estate and construction. A normal, healthy economy would have it around 15%.It's starting to unravel. As explained here. #bcpoli #vanre #vanpoli.
B.C. is facing the inevitable fallout of an economy built not on value-added manufacturing, technology, innovation, or unshackling our resources, but primarily on real estate. The province’s economic engine has been re-geared to run on relentless mass immigration, where the core.
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.@CityofVancouver giving developers many new tax exemptions, says Erick Villagomez @spacing @UBC. But "we must reaffirm a basic principle of fairness: that those who profit from growth should contribute to the public systems that make it possible.".#VanRE.
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In tragic case of young Charleigh Pollock, @umanitoba ethicist Arthur Schafer believes the B.C. government caved to pressure to provide her with costly medicine. "I think the resulting decision is not morally justifiable.” .#bcpoli.via @Gordon_Hoekstra.
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RT @bobmackin: Court filing by Weihong “Ruby” Liu, who is pursuing Hudson’s Bay Co. leases, lists a Shenzhen address, admits she remains a….
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Almost 2 of 3 of Canadians say more evidence needed to accept 'unmarked graves' report in Kamloops. Via @angusreidorg. Nationally, 63% thought more information was needed to verify the claim. That's also the view of 56% of Indigenous people. #cdnpoli .
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What, for example, is not to like about @SunnyTsawwassen, Ladner & @CityofDeltaBC?.The low-key feel. The farm fields, ripe with corn. The openness. The less expensive, roomier housing. The eclectic, charming small shops (possible because of lower rents). 3/3 @IanPatonDelta
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Dubbed “America’s uber-geographer” by the @nytimes, @joelkotkin puts the shift plainly: .“The rise of suburban and exurban living reflects a desire for safer, cleaner and less-congested environments.”.And @SVNieuwerburgh has talked of the “urban doom loop”. 2/3 #cdnpoli.
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RT @DrCameronMurray: Funny situation in Canada. Back in 2015-16 a wave of foreign buying contributed to higher home prices. The propert….
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"The fact a fast-food restaurant or factory doesn’t want to pay higher wages is emphatically not the same thing as a labour shortage. "Businesses have no right to subsidies in the form of cheap foreign labour.".In Canada, needs repeating.#cdnimm #cdnpoli .
theglobeandmail.com
Ottawa seems to be closing down a quick pathway to permanent residency for low-skilled workers. It’s the right move
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RT @peteypopetey: @DouglasTodd @MarkJCarney @SteveSaretsky @bcrea Very true. For many years anyone bringing up foreign ownership as having….
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B.C. developers want @MarkJCarney to bring foreign $s back into housing. A reminder from @SteveSaretsky about how Gregor Robertson, Bob Ransford, Evan Siddall & the @bcrea accused those citing foreign ownership of being racists. #vanre #bcpoli #cdnpoli .
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"If you can’t assure anyone they actually own the land they purchase, then very quickly British Columbia becomes a risky place to live and do business. "All at a time the NDP is trying to grow the economy to dig itself out of a record-setting budget deficit.".Via @RobShaw_BC.
BC court ruling that puts Aboriginal title over private property law presents a pivotal moment for the @bcndp government. My latest in @TheOrcaBC:.
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RT @daniel_foch: Vancouver currently has the most unsold units in Canada by a large margin. No wonder their developers want foreign buyers….
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RT @Andrew_Griffith: @DouglasTodd The summer job is threatened by Canada’s misguided #migration strategy via @Andre….
multiculturalmeanderings.com
Good op-ed, featuring comments by David Williams of Business Council of British Columbia, David Green of UBC, Pierre Fortin, Anne Michèle Meggs and food service data compiled by me. The search for …
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