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Cake day: February 12th, 2025

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  • I don’t know that I agree that social definitions always have to match legal definitions.

    Legal systems tend to be conservative and it’s social progressive groups that push the public consciousness enough to eventually shift the legal system.

    Until 1983, marital rape wasn’t legally considered rape in Canada. The social understanding that you could rape a spouse needed to exist before the laws could follow.

    I agree that it’s nuanced and people need to be educated on the difference between legal definitions and social definitions, but I don’t think what you’re proposing is the only way.







  • I mean, I’m probably voting Liberal (the NDP have had a strong showing in my riding in the past, so I’m not entirely decided), but I kind of believe this.

    Carney is obviously the least comfortable out of the main candidates in speaking in French. I don’t believe the cost is a real factor. Maybe “afraid” isn’t the right word, but it does seem to be strategic in a way that avoids potential negative exposure for him. I have mixed feelings about it.




  • lol Were you just looking for a comment so you could flex about your property deals?

    Personally, I’m a millennial and I’m okay – we recently sold our starter home and we got way more than we were expecting for it. But it didn’t make me feel “smart” it made me feel gross that the market seems so rigged.

    I’m not talking about individuals, I’m talking about trends. The priority for housing should first and foremost be to house people.


  • Yeah, Boomers getting special protections is kind of annoying.

    A generation of millenials were told to go to post secondary no matter the cost and then when we did and incurred a ton of debt but the good jobs that were promised to us weren’t there, the reaction was “oops, oh well, get fucked I guess”.

    Maybe if we stopped funneling a billion dollars into “managing” our CPP plan into poorer performance and used that money to increase CPP payouts instead, boomers could afford more of a hit on their housing.

    I do wonder if another large contributing factor is that most of our MPs have conflicts of interest when it comes to the real estate market.



  • I think the solution is having these agencies be accountable to the accountability metrics that they set up.

    Normalizing mismanagement seems short-sighted to me and ultimately only supports the argument that government is “useless” or “broken”.

    That extra billion going towards healthcare or education or even back into the pension fund could do a world of good.