Nah the conservatives also claim to be the party of the common man against the moneyed elite. Conservatives haven’t been openly pro-rich for ages now.

If everything you hear promotes the low-trust theory that the government is scary and evil and scheming to not use easy, obvious solutions to solve all your problems, well, conservatives sound pretty good!

The incomplete enchilada 🤔

Yeah everyone seems to be getting turbo mad at headlines implying that the government is doing things that the article bodies eventually admit the government has made clear it’s not doing.

“A Canadian government official clarified to POLITICO that Canada will not pay for a seat on the board — and the U.S. has not asked for money. They were granted anonymity to discuss ongoing discussions about the proposal.”

“What would happen to Ukraine if the US pulled its support out” idk like whatever is happening right now? Last I checked most US support was gone and the US was even trying to block arms transfers from EU states.

The Four Seasons Total Landscaping of policy advisors

I don’t see how “AB separatists got a referendum and got like 35% yes” gives the Americans more to work with than “tyrannical mark carney cancels AB independence vote”.

That would require US journalists departing from the Approved Narrative that Trump is secretly a very stable genius who just plays an erratic goon for the cameras.

Ugh! From the way you described it on the podcast I thought council had passed an ambiguous measure and staff interpreted it, but council passing clear language to that effect is just sloppy.

This is about where I really wanted a deeper analysis and did not get one. How did the post-explosion rebuilding efforts impact the port project? Pier 21 clearly did come online, how did that change the city? How did the cut influence regional rail travel in the 60s-80s?

lol 🦗🦗🦗

Normally it’s considered good policy design to avoid one weird trick shenanigans like “register your smaller car first” but seems very on brand for city staff to not just find but aggressively highlight that loophole 🙄

Oh ugh yes borrow for downpayment schemes are awful. Absolute fiscal nonsense. Find a better way to help early career folks build up their savings.

That piece is a lot of NBC fluffing Trump & trying to prop up the idea that he’s actually a deliberate strategic thinker who just acts like an erratic goon. What you say is all still correct but we also have to drag ourselves out of feverish unreality constructed by actors both domestic and foreign

Yeah 20% down can be hard to scrape up when you’re renting, but it gets you out of the mortgage insurance swamps. The dark secret of mortgage math is the more downpayment the better.

They’re also really padding their numbers. If I plug the current RBC advertised five year fixed rate into the CMHC calculator at 20% down on a $550K place I get $2457.34 and I think that winds up being $287.83 monthly property taxes. For a modest place w/heat pump, monthly power is ~$300.