What’s to gains:

BYD, a Chinese car manufacturing giant, debuted its Seagull EV last year at a starting price of about $14,600 Cdn for a 305-kilometre-range version. The cheapest options available in Canada, by contrast, start at roughly $38,000.

What’s at risk:

The stakes are high. Since 2020, Canada has attracted more than $46 billion in investments for 13 electric vehicle, battery and battery component manufacturing projects, according to a June 18 report from the Office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer.

The same report says that Ottawa and the provinces have jointly promised up to $53 billion in return, including tax credits, production subsidies and capital investments. Industry groups, such as the Canadian Vehicle Manufacturers’ Association, warn all of that could be at risk if the industry isn’t protected.

By far the biggest agreement is taxing the 1%. Given the recent Capital Gains tax complaints from the Conservatives without any alternative I’m uncertain how they appeal to those voters. Removing Carbon tax should prove that private companies don’t cut prices when people have proven they’re willing to pay them, but those people getting the rebate check are definitely going to stop getting money.

Some of the interesting data:

I’ve found it’s almost irrelevant what the hats have of them. What these people desire is the attention it draws.

For obvious reasons most of these people would be completely unnoticed by society suddenly become the center of attention when wearing this stuff.

Peterson looks like he’s about to fall asleep in the picture.

At the current time this should only be viewed as a one off from a single arbitrator.

https://www.timescolonist.com/local-news/bc-landlord-can-increase-rent-235-because-of-variable-mortgage-arbitrator-9353007

The Housing Ministry issued this statement, attributed to Kahlon:

“The policy that allows these kinds of exceptional rental increases because of financing is an old policy from the old government and this is the first time an application like this has been granted since we started collecting data in 2021.

“I know people have a lot of questions and I’ve directed staff to review this policy and how it impacts renters in the current context.”

Dammit BC. Shut up and take my money! I know it’s a lot but the services are worth it.

A lot of people have been talking about the Federal election that is very likely to be a year away. I think we should taking things one election at a time and polls have been trending in the wrong direction for BC in the last few months. It would be good if people gave more attention to BC politics.

From my post a few days ago for the BC Housing thing. The green votes should also consolidate into NDP as well given their current position on things.

Former Green Party leader Andrew Weaver(climate scientist) has been making rounds saying he’s a big fan of the BC Cons led by a guy that says carbon is good for the environment.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/andrew-weaver-shows-support-bc-conservatives-1.7262839

They’re conservative. It’s going to mean removing services and selling off crown assets.

Since the article didn’t include on relative terms what it means:

From the BC Budget and Fiscal Plan 2024/25 - https://www.bcbudget.gov.bc.ca/2024/pdf/2024_Budget_and_Fiscal_Plan.pdf

Revenue by Source pg.148

In comparison to budgeted expenses 2024/25

• Double what we spend on transportation (2 .775B)
• Total Healthcare(35.944B)
• Just for the Cons amongst us. Debt servicing(4.105B)

Expense by Function pg.150

Also larger population means more tax revenue and more needs to spend on in order to keep up with services.

Forgot to add what the health minister is apparently wacking off to.

Health Canada said 450,000 Canadians have received dental care through the program since it began providing care on May 1.

Conservatives call dental plan ‘botched’, health minister ‘wacko’

I never really know with Conservatives voters, but I think the start of divergence of the Liberals and Conservative around June/July 2023 was around the time they decided to implement the Online News Act that temporarily dropped news from Google feeds and permanently from Facebook.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/google-canada-online-news-1.6892879

I think the Liberal incompetence at handling modern social media will end up costing them a lot of votes. Although I still stand by my prediction that by 2029ish Pierre will be one of the most despised Canadians.

If I were point at one thing I think it would be how we handled social media as a society.

One of safest Conservative ridings in the country.

This post is also a good example of Lemmy clients not rendering things correctly. Sometimes the image is the full resolution sometimes it’s the thumbnail resolution.

The cheapest place to get a ~1-2 year loan would most likely be:

1. Credit transfer promo at 0%(they get you with the transfer fee usually 2% these days.) and 6m terms.

2. HELOC assuming they have equity for that.

3. Shopping around for LoC’s. Some places have way higher rates then others. For example my Scotia LoC used to be like 30k at 6.5% and TD was 11k at 11.75%. Also keep in mind that each LoC will most likely require credit checks.

A 2012 report from David Campanella, then the public policy research manager for the Parkland Institute, and Greg Flanagan, a public finance economist, concluded that privatization has led to Albertans paying more compared to public stores.

Rustad’s promises, three months before the provincial election, also include compensating health workers who lost their jobs for refusing to get the COVID-19 vaccine.

Damn you gotta give it to the Conservatives for finding new and imaginative ways to piss away money.

In this case is more about what you would get out of Biden, Harris, Vance or Trump.

As long as she’s willing to strongly push for a ceasefire as American you got other things to worry about. And for the record I do agree it’s a genocide.