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  • sbv@sh.itjust.workstoCanada@lemmy.caCanada.
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    21 days ago

    That’s definitely a thing too. I’m not sure it changes the trajectory of his career though.

    If the PRC hadn’t meddled, and O’Toole took the 10-ish ridings he alleged were subverted (which seems like a bit of a stretch), the Conservatives still wouldn’t have been able to form government.

    I think Poilievre’s revolt did more to turf O’Toole than the PRC.

    From what I’ve seen, Poilievre hasn’t been nearly as hawkish on China, so the PRC certainly got lucky on that one.









  • After approaching the man on his own initiative and explicitly introducing himself as a “Canadian journalist,” Zivo says he began to notice “red flags.”

    He claims the man told him he once lived in the Ottawa-area, had an Ontario driver’s license, was covered in tattoos and also “said ‘bro’ a lot.”

    Acting only on this bad “vibe,” Zivo says he looked the man up on Facebook and began compiling a dossier on him which he later sent unsolicited to CSIS. The National Post columnist claims he “spoke for an hour on the phone with CSIS” about what he found on the man’s social media profile but was told the spy agency would not accept a PDF of his dossier for “cyber security” reasons.

    Frustrated, Zivo claims he took a taxi to a Ukrainian military checkpoint surrounded by sandbags and was led to a “little wooden shed” by armed guards where he spent a full day using Duolingo to walk a perplexed group of soldiers through his suspicions about the stranger whom he had approached at the shopping mall.

    In a subsequent meeting with Ukrainian intelligence agents, Zivo says he volunteered to wear a wire and record himself dining with the man at a restaurant called Kompot, which he describes as the “Olive Garden of Ukraine.” Zivo says his handlers expressed concern for his safety but he insisted he would ultimately “feel safer” if he caught the suspected spy himself.

    It sounds like Zivo thinks he’s an MC and wanted to play James Bond. From that explanation, it sounds like he got a polite brush off from CSIS, but the Ukrainian intelligence agency gave him some rope.

    I’m not a fan of the National Post, but I’m not sure they’re to blame if one of their content creators goes off their chain.

    Zivo probably should be limited to writing op-eds after this.



  • Cardy laid out five policy planks on which he says the new party will be campaigning: reforming government programs, increasing Canada’s defence spending to two per cent of its gross domestic product, reforming immigration through “better gatekeepers,” making life more affordable by “dismantling protectionism” and increasing competition in the airline, telecommunications and agricultural sectors.

    Climate change? Cost of living? The housing crisis? Collapsing healthcare?

    “Increasing competition” without lowering prices is meaningless. Protectionism is fine, so long as we generally benefit from it.



  • That’s awesome! I’m glad that progress is being made. In theory, government measures meant to increase builds will start kicking in soon, so that will accelerate.

    Price/cost is another story and I’d never live in a new build because its not rent controlled.

    This is really important. If we don’t have units people can afford, the number of available units doesn’t really matter. The CMHC estimate of 3.5 million new units by 2030 may be one way to get there. Governments building low cost/rent units is another.





  • A correction would either

    1. lower prices. Builders failing build doesn’t seem like it would lower prices in any way.
    2. increase supply. Builders failing will leave supply low. Since demand is increasing (partially due to a growing population), this should cause prices to rise.
    3. decrease demand. There are still lots of people trying to buy, and we expect the population to grow, so builders failing will not reduce demand.

    This does not appear to be a correction, it appears to be a continuation of existing problems.