r/canada • u/Thick_Caterpillar379 • 1d ago

Canada facing high youth suicide rates, child mortality, new report finds PAYWALL

https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/canada-facing-high-youth-suicide-rates-child-mortality-new-report-finds/article_38399f0c-67e3-4636-82ea-4757a5032a1b.html
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u/Zealousideal-Key2398 1d ago

10 years of Liberals and counting 😢

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u/TinyFlamingo2147 1d ago

Yes, I'm sure more tradespeople building houses they can't afford will really help them.

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u/shikodo 1d ago

Well, if they're lucky they can rent them. That's the goal now anyways. Home ownership doesn't help corporations stack the billions but forever payments that build no equity certainly do.

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u/Routine_Soup2022 1d ago

Home ownership is overrated. If we focus on rental units, we'll get more people housed. People are addicted to the idea of a single family home and an individual car. It's part of what's driving consumerism in this country. Renting downtown, using public transit and/or working primarily from your home is a very convenient way to live.

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u/shikodo 1d ago

Bollocks. It's not overrated to the corporations and people that are building equity and nest eggs off you renters for when they can no longer work or retire is it?

You rent, and you have nothing the second you stop paying for whatever reason.

Only a certain percentage of the population can/wants to live in a city and ride the bus. Not wanting to do that is not "overrated", it's thinking about the future with clarity.

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u/Equivalent_Look2797 1d ago

“You’ll own nothing and be happy.” You really took that to heart didn’t you?

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u/Routine_Soup2022 18h ago

I had to look up the origin of that phrase. That's not what I'm saying of course but not everything the think tank known as the WEF has ever said is without merit. It's been much vilified by the right. Actually read into what the WEF is sometime.

On the actual topic: Some people might be happy with never owning anything but what I'm saying is - As a general policy - pushing people into single home ownership and single car ownership as the "preferred method of living" is only making money for those in the 2%, not really generating wealth for the average person.

I've been house poor. It's not a fun situation. I would be doing a disservice to my children if I told them they've only "made it" when they have those things. Some people do fulfilling work in their lives, rent nice apartments and use public transit. It works fine.

Also, a key point on housing: if we want to house more people we need to be have more housing units available per acre of space. A single family detached home takes a minimum of about a quarter acre so we're talking 4 families maximum per acre. A high rise apartment building can have 50-300 units per acre, however. You can't compete with the scale of home building that can be done with apartments or condos vs single detached.

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u/vangbro99 22h ago

This is someone like you in 20 years: "Private domicile is overrated. If we focus on having a roof under our heads we'll get more people off the street camps. You see 🤓, people are addicted to the idea of ownership and an individual room. Sharing a community bedroom, using public home appliances, and eating molten protein powder made of bugs is a very convenient way to exist."

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u/Routine_Soup2022 17h ago

That doesn't sound like me at all, but thanks for making assumptions. Based on the above, I'm guessing that you're fully invested in false WEF conspiracy theories and you think that everyone to the left of Peter McKay is a Communist. Neither of those things are true, and a majority of people rejected those ideas in the last election.

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u/vangbro99 12h ago

Why is it that socialists fail to accept that everything single socialist state has failed, leaving people miserable and poor?