• Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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    22 days ago

    Thanks Trump!

    Thanking trump, That’s another one I didn’t have on my bingo card for 2025, this ride is wild!

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    22 days ago

    Trump’s truculence has infuriated Canadians

    That is a 100% new word to me. 😐

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    23 days ago

    I’m happy for you Canada.

    You succeeded where America couldn’t.

    Are y’all accepting asylum for programmers / tech professionals?

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      Asylum, not yet. There’s still a treaty on the books recognising America as equivalently safe. Presumably it will get rolled back soon.

      If you’re serious, I can send you to the points quiz for economic immigrants.

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        What happens when a ‘safe third country’ starts adopting extractionary systems left behind by colonial empires that have, in part, held back third world economies for decades? Keep an eye on America to find out!

        I’m sure America’s substantial purchasing power will help prevent the rot from spreading within. Right? Right?!

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          It’s actually gotten really complicated lately, sorry about that. Here’s the quiz for express entry: https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/immigrate-canada/express-entry/check-score.html

          Generally speaking, the highest-scoring applicants get in first. If that fails, maybe there’s some niche provincial program or something, but you’ll probably need to hire an immigration lawyer to have a chance of figuring it out. Here’s a link I found on the other options.

          If you do get let in, I recommend driving up in an RV. The housing market in Canada is still really fucked, and that’s a decent fallback option. Winter-safe ones exist, but I also see people building little insulated enclosures, and if you can manage to afford BC it’s not much of an issue there anyway.

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            “Build, baby, build” is something Carney has pledged to do. I would like to see the return of government built housing for low income families. These were not “slums”. They were built for hard working people that didn’t enjoy high incomes. My son-in-law’s mother was lucky enough to get a unit in one of these places. It’s a well run place for retirees on a fixed income, and rent is based on income. New buildings won’t mean anything if the wealthy are building and running them (and charging rents). Send a respectful letter to your new government pointing this out!

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              Honestly, slums themselves meet that description. People who don’t need them just dislike having to look at or think about them, which is hella elitist.

              New buildings won’t mean anything if the wealthy are building and running them (and charging rents). Send a respectful letter to your new government pointing this out!

              You know, the actual quantitative evidence is pretty strong that particular market is competitive. If anything, being a landlord is a relatively bad investment of a million dollars. I fully expect that if the NIMBYs don’t derail it, more supply will end the problem.

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      If you’re serious, start looking for companies hiring up here. As I understand it’s not easy, even for economic class immigrants, but I work in tech and I work with many immigrants (albeit not usually from the US, but it’s a different world now). Mind you - please look carefully into the financial impacts as it is a change from the US. Salaries are lower and taxes generally higher, which may or may not be offset in your context in other ways (healthcare a big one, income tax deductions, etc.) But many people, myself included, prefer Canada regardless of the reduced compensation. It’s not always about money.

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    23 days ago

    Meirdas Touch once again. The orange shit stain backs a Con and all voters take that as a sign that the person is a piece of shit and votes opposite.

    Sometimes it works nicely.

    • Jiggle_Physics@sh.itjust.works
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      yes, it is so relieving that this right wing populist trend seems to be failing in our closest neighbor. Hopefully the failure of this administration will wake a lot more places up, and create a greater push back against this trend to the far right.

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      23 days ago

      NDP leader already announced he’s stepping down and I feel like the conservative has to as well.

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      I don’t know how it works there. Was Pierre running in two races?

      Would there have a special election for this seat if he had won both?

      What are the odds he loses support and goes quiet after losing both, especially his backup incumbent election? (Knowing hard losses used to discourage people, but not always now)

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        Prime Minister is similar to Speaker of the House- everyone gets elected in their district and then the majority party (or in the case of a functional democracy multi-party system, a coalition of parties that add up to 51% of the elected officials) picks their own Speaker/Prime Minister without further input from the public. In practice, if you’re already the party leader then you’re sure (95%~) to be the prime minister after your party wins/gets the biggest share in the election

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        23 days ago

        No one actually “runs for Prime Minister”. The Prime Minister is simply the leader of the governing party. That is determined by the number of seats each party wins. The PM is almost always an elected MP, but as demonstrated for the past few weeks they don’t have to be.

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      23 days ago

      Having a criminal history would likely make him ineligible.

      There’s no outright rule against it but several people have been removed from the order for committing crimes.