Swap meets are a blast! If there's any silver lining w cost of living crisis, it's shifting away from disgust being a common reaction ya get to finding, buying & using second hand items. (Meanwhile some of those same ppl would admire some of my antiques 100+ yrs older than I am- obv not bought new)

Any Canadian puppetmakers? or collectors on here? Young man lost his entire collection of them in a house fire.

The rate of sea level rise has been accelerating. ggggreat. Something else we'll continue to ignore I guess.

ZERO FROSTBITE AMPUTATIONS IS AN EXTREMELY LOW BAR, EDMONTON ALBERTA

Congrats! :) Just don't rush, choose a realtor who understands stratas & their risks, use a little of that money to do VERY careful due diligence to vet any condo you might consider. If you don't find the perfect one, investing & using % earned to rent a nice place another option w that kind of $

"It is unclear how such a ( Vancouver Coastal Health home based youth detox ) service would include young people without a home or safe living environment." 41% of the homeless youth had been tested for #ADHD at some point during their time in school themainlander.com/2025/12/05/b... #bcpoli

🍁's <700sqft Seacan house in Vancouver BC or 2700+sqft Paris house and 7000+sqft castle in Italy AND private island in Western Uruguay leaving over 3/4 of a million CAD left over. If you won 32 million in a lotto max jackpot and were forced to choose one, which would you pick?

Public libraries are at the front lines of our housing + toxic drug crises. Despite their invaluable work, libraries are chronically underfunded. These are some of our last public spaces, and they're falling apart. #cdnpoli #canpoli #ndp #publiclibrary #publiclibraries #thirdspace #canadapolitics

#Condo #Strata INSURANCE This is a good reminder, if you own in a condo the complex insurance is NOT ENOUGH. It might be to allow you to get the mortgage, but if anything happens you need to own policy to cover possessions and a place to stay. Also, few mos of living out allowance or ALE not enough

No Shit 🍁 lacks suitable, secure and AFFORDABLE family size housing Nothing is affordable. Run down homes are not suitable, a rental you can be displaced from is not secure, a home too small for your child to have a small birthday party or space to themselves is not family sized.

Time magazine ate the Beaver. 🤣

#Ontario #CanadianRE How odd. "Resale condos in an earlier phase of this same development, units just under 600 sq ft, have recently sold for around $370K (roughly $650 per square foot). Yet in early November, five units in the newly completed phase sold for over $1,000 per square foot."

Oh my this ad is indeed delightful

So it took loss of life including children and devastating a family that made the news across Canada. But I guess we will see if this gets enforced in any meaningful way. Hopefully Brampton don't kowtow to slumlords that regularly protest at city hall again.

#Ontario Built in 2021, facing 2 million in repairs Townhouse exteriors appear to be owner responsibility but shared land w infrastructure part of their condo corp, including the playground that fell into the collapsed storm💧 system. "Several owners told CBC they’re facing financial hardships"

If you have renters in your family, consider giving potentially life saving gifts this holiday. Battery smoke alarms CO detectors Fire ladders ABC fire extinguisher. Fire blankets. Also with your own household, make a fire escape plan, and as the bluesky post shared says, TEST your smoke alarms!

Out of town RE owners, and slum landlords of Vancouver properties welcome that property tax savings. They don't need or enjoy the city's parks and services that will be hit w cuts to pay for this.

Normal home owners not sweating a property tax increase, esp if it means their city services are kept up. Rich absent owners, Vancouver RE slumlords among those who DGAF if the Vancouver library branches cuts programs, aquatic centre continues to crumble, or baby change tables vanish to save them $

Is that why he got rid of speeding cameras that demonstrably worked in school zones? To stop people from being killed?

Come on, Pest control is really basic building maintenance. Monitoring/preventative program should always be in place in multifamily housing All it can take is one unit not saying anything & DIY'ing "fixes" to infest others. Ppl can feel ashamed to bring up pests thinking they'll be seen as 'dirty"

What a juxtaposition from @citynewstoronto.bsky.social: - 5 killed in rental home where city officials allege an absentee landlord wasn't following by-laws - Doug Ford changes the law to make it easier for landlords to evict tenants raising health and safety issues

🕊️ 12 people in a semi that wasn't even supposed to have a second suite. Also wonder if testing was ever done w fire alarms by LL Until something major changes, preventable tragedies will keep happening. Overcrowded homes w illegal suites all over the city. Hope this LL didn't have any more of them

Or more concerned w competition of PBR & social housing units ppl would want to live in further dropping demand/prices the for-purchase speculative garbage could attain (gleefully gobbled by investors for yrs to flip or rent leading to bubble peak) vs actual concern for Cdns ability to buy a home.🤷‍♀️

A Washington resident died of complications from an infection with a bird flu strain never before reported in humans, the state Department of Health said. Read more: https://cnn.it/4o796sL

Join us on a ride in solidarity with tenant & housing advocates from across Ontario meeting at Queen’s Park on National Housing Day to stop Bill 60! Saturday Nov 22nd. Meet at Christie Pits Park at noon. Ride to Queen's Park. www.cycleto.ca/stop_bill_60_solidarity_rally

Are we surprised? Bet some of these kids can pay for a more lavish life than I ever had working. Crime pays, especially w the disparity in quality of life vs older gens experienced and still increasing housing/food insecurity it will simply get easier and easier to recruit new kids into crime

Yup. Just ask ppl in small BC communities w/o the provincial principal residence requirement how bad their local rental situation is. RE investors buy our housing stock to ST rent, not LT. Needed workers either have to BUY a home most can't afford, or be willing to live in an RV/run down unit

#Brampton Keep reminding me why I left. You could write letters, you could scream but nothing was done about the growing slumlord problem in the city Investors chopped up homes to fix a maximum # of tenants w NO REGARD to safety/easy egress out in a fire Now people are dead. This was preventable

Whose the pig Trump? Hint, it's not her. I think it's time to listen to the entire Pink Floyd's Animals album this weekend. #Music

Some of the comments are killing me, 🤣

everytime B.C. does a test of its emergency system I'm brought back to 2021 when the government hadn't used it for years and didn't use it for the deadly heat dome or deadly flooding and then the government had a tantrum when they were called out on it and then immediately started using it

If highly skilled immigrants that work in healthcare services are the ones leaving in the largest volume, shouldn't that necessitate further recalculating elsewhere? You'd think we can't continually add people who will need services like healthcare without the healthcare workers to support everyone

Who benefits from home prices rocketing? Not those fleeing abuse when fleeing means precarious finances & housing. "should I have just stayed" #HousingCrisis #BC 4% of people leaving transition housing find SAFE & AFFORDABLE housing. 75% remain temporarily sheltered or return to their abusers

Yeah? Nobody wants to live in a crappy little box forever. Sell a specucondo in Toronto/GTA & still places in AB that $ can buy a proper house close to a city In ON still have to go to some weird town hours away you didn't know existed for the same upgrade in space/getting something sitting on land

#BC #RentalCrisis People working locally living in RV's around where I live too, like here I wonder, will all I have to do is check airbnb? Will I see hundreds of units for short term vacation rental? Not all of them would have been LT rentals before, but a decent portion surely would have.

Budget 2025. No he's not running a conservative YouTube account, any party's nonsense is fair game. MM's on bluesky as well @millennialmoron.bsky.social Anyway great job on this one!

#Ontario food bank representatives speak out against Bill 60, that people are hungry and barely hanging on due to high costs of rents & demand for food banks has skyrocketed to record breaking #'s for years now This bill is being fast tracked, There will be no public debates or hearing on Bill 60.

This is why theft rings target products like formula. it's so expensive retail, even before these new tariffs came in there was massive demand of parents who will buy it off of classifieds/marketplace ads

All of the societal effort that goes into making the wealthy happy is like if every year 50% of the money generated in Canada went towards teaching thousands of dogs to become cardiothoracic surgeons. It's not going to happen, it hardly creates any jobs, and it's fucking up the dogs.

Can't the AI slop bubble just pop already? Happy to take the hit to my stocks/pension etc to protect from whatever ecological damage cont to occur before this things blows. Also didn't the entire regional district of Nanaimo have stage 4 water restrictions back in August? #Nanaimo #AI #DataCenters

Lemme guess, also the first speaker that sells real estate, brokers mortgages or whose career is property investing? Gotta be one, or combo of the three. Bc no normal, RE is a dwelling homeowner sweats a small prop tax increase to fund their city's services & amenities. thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...

“I think that’s honestly the hardest part. We have to lose our humanity in order to try to save other people. We’re all very distraught by that. People were suffering and you can’t hold their hand. I can’t be there in their last moments.” we are not doing enough. thetyee.ca/News/2025/06...

Only a month left to claim your bread bread.

8 Clifton Court in Brampton made the news AGAIN No way that house was bought with legitimate funds. Hey, ON maybe take a gander at what BC is doing with places like this. I used to live nearby, before I left it was one of the nicer areas in Brampton. I feel for the neighbours.

If you know anyone who is still a staunch Trump supporter, even after all this, I would keep them away from any kids this Thanksgiving.

Why graft vs host is so devastating.

Ummmmmmmm. You ok #Alberta? Considering how brazen this is, and the fines for doing it I'm going to guess a lot of developers use their building lots to illegally disappear expensive infill waste from other sites. Mmmm old asbestos houses..

#Calgary "Shocking to me that an insurance company can dictate when and how we do repairs to our home" No shock here. Tried to warn ppl this is becoming the new normal. Least in a house there are other insurers to choose from, which often isn't case for strata/condo complexes facing similar demands

Yep- those downloads are as real as the 5 star popcornmeter reviews on Sydney “When I have an issue that I want to speak about, people will hear” Sweeney's new movie.

Perfection!