#  @DouglasTodd DouglasTodd DouglasTodd posts on X about vancouver, canada, china, toronto the most. They currently have [-------] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [-------] engagements in the last [--] hours. ### Engagements: [-------] [#](/creator/twitter::17684387/interactions)  - [--] Week [------] +39% - [--] Month [------] -35% - [--] Months [-------] -3.60% - [--] Year [---------] -39% ### Mentions: [--] [#](/creator/twitter::17684387/posts_active)  - [--] Month [--] -27% - [--] Months [---] +27% - [--] Year [---] -32% ### Followers: [-------] [#](/creator/twitter::17684387/followers)  - [--] Week [------] -0.04% - [--] Month [------] -0.26% - [--] Months [------] +1.90% - [--] Year [------] +5.50% ### CreatorRank: [---------] [#](/creator/twitter::17684387/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence **Social category influence** [countries](/list/countries) [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations) [finance](/list/finance) [stocks](/list/stocks) [cryptocurrencies](/list/cryptocurrencies) [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) [celebrities](/list/celebrities) [fashion brands](/list/fashion-brands) [social networks](/list/social-networks) [automotive brands](/list/automotive-brands) **Social topic influence** [vancouver](/topic/vancouver) #1554, [canada](/topic/canada), [china](/topic/china), [toronto](/topic/toronto), [money](/topic/money), [india](/topic/india), [investment](/topic/investment), [trudeau](/topic/trudeau), [has been](/topic/has-been), [beijing](/topic/beijing) **Top assets mentioned** [Verge (XVG)](/topic/verge) [Caught in 4K (4K)](/topic/$4k) ### Top Social Posts Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours ""Jody Wilson-Raybould (@Puglaas) & @janephilpott arent principled because theyre women. Theyre just principled" @MHallFindlay of @CanadaWestFdn said yesterday. Today Christy Clark proves Findlay's point: Not all powerful women are principled. #CDNpoli #BCpoli #SNCLavalin "If you're talking about [----] jobs and the attorney general is refusing to save them. I don't know. I think that's a pretty good argument to move the attorney general and find somebody who wants to support a growing economy" says @christyclarkbc #cdnpoli https://t.co/csF1OfyNnG "If you're talking about [----] jobs and the" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1104200018657865728) 2019-03-09T01:59Z [----] followers, [---] engagements ""Canadian Real Estate Prices Grew Over 25x Faster Than U.S. Prices Since [----]. This is not a normal trend" says @BetterDwelling #Vanre #onpoli #BCpoli #Vancouver #torontorealestate #Toronto https://betterdwelling.com/canadian-real-estate-prices-grew-over-25x-faster-than-u-s-prices-since-2005/ https://betterdwelling.com/canadian-real-estate-prices-grew-over-25x-faster-than-u-s-prices-since-2005/" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1352700046295240704) 2021-01-22T19:29Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "The Bank of Montreals chief economist Douglas Porter reports Canadian housing prices are a whopping 40% above U.S. levels. He and others explain why. #CDNpoli #BCpoli #housing #Vanre #torontorealestate #CDNimm #immigration #Vanpoli #Toronto https://vancouversun.com/opinion/columnists/douglas-todd-condo-prices-in-border-lockdown-limbo-in-vancouver-toronto https://vancouversun.com/opinion/columnists/douglas-todd-condo-prices-in-border-lockdown-limbo-in-vancouver-toronto" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1358835360352989184) 2021-02-08T17:49Z [----] followers, [--] engagements ""The evidence backs a century-old theory that the nations greatest prehistoric monument #Stonehenge was built in #Wales" - the land I might note of my grandmother. The land at St. David's is magical like B.C. but with better beaches. #UKPolitics https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/feb/12/dramatic-discovery-links-stonehenge-to-its-original-site-in-walesCMP=share_btn_tw https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/feb/12/dramatic-discovery-links-stonehenge-to-its-original-site-in-walesCMP=share_btn_tw" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1360408464476889090) 2021-02-13T02:00Z [----] followers, [--] engagements ""Ottawa has decided home price inflation is an uncontrollable consequence of the environment. In fact the central bank welcomed the rapid home price growth as 'needed.' Thats not normal. Not by a long shot" says @StephenPunwasi #Vanre #Onpoli #bcpoli https://betterdwelling.com/bank-of-canada-wants-a-housing-bubble-while-other-central-banks-try-to-pop-them/ https://betterdwelling.com/bank-of-canada-wants-a-housing-bubble-while-other-central-banks-try-to-pop-them/" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1369479873564209154) 2021-03-10T02:47Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Canadians' "addiction to cheap credit and expensive housing has led to an epic borrowing spree. Households now devote more of their income to paying off debt than any other country in the G7" says @StephenPunwasi #Vanre #onpoli #cdnpoli #bcpoli #ToRe https://betterdwelling.com/canadians-spend-65-more-income-servicing-debt-than-americans-highest-in-g7/utm_source=Better+Dwelling+Website+Signup&utm_campaign=b502e77131-fras_jan_112018-3094981_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_bde8feedee-b502e77131-309110005" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1374861315911475201) 2021-03-24T23:10Z 10K followers, [---] engagements "Canadian real-estate prices hit pause - as Vancouver finally falls from record highs says @NationalBank. Few cheering but at least the pandemic/low-interest buying frenzy is subsiding for now. #vanre #tore #vanpoli #onpoli #cdnpoli #bcpoli https://betterdwelling.com/canadian-real-estate-prices-hit-pause-as-vancouver-falls-from-record-national-bank/utm_source=Better+Dwelling+Website+Signup&utm_campaign=7c8741d9fc-fras_jan_112018-3094981_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_bde8feedee-7c8741d9fc-309110005" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1451343823615889409) 2021-10-22T00:25Z [----] followers, [--] engagements ""Canadian real estate is unaffordable but you dont appreciate how bad the reality is until you look at its G7 peers" says @BetterDwelling. While Ottawa evades. (In chart Canada is the red line) #housingcrisis #vanre #torontorealestate #onpoli #BCpoli https://betterdwelling.com/canada-has-the-biggest-gap-between-real-estate-prices-and-incomes-in-the-g7/ https://betterdwelling.com/canada-has-the-biggest-gap-between-real-estate-prices-and-incomes-in-the-g7/" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1471211663311339522) 2021-12-15T20:12Z [----] followers, [---] engagements ""In British Columbia 15% of individual owners held 29% of the provincial housing stock." Even more skewed in Ontario. Some call it 'hoarding.' Via @rachyounglai #vanre #BCpoli #vanpoli #onpoli #cdnpoli #housing https://www.theglobeandmail.com/investing/personal-finance/household-finances/article-canada-real-estate-prices-explained/utm_medium=Referrer:+Social+Network+/+Media&utm_campaign=Shared+Web+Article+Links" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1516797325724864513) 2022-04-20T15:13Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Canadian real estate prices are about to get downward pressure not seen in decades says @BMO. #bcpoli #onpoli #vanre #vanpoli https://betterdwelling.com/canadian-real-estate-is-about-to-see-rate-pressure-not-seen-since-the-90s-crash-bmo/ https://betterdwelling.com/canadian-real-estate-is-about-to-see-rate-pressure-not-seen-since-the-90s-crash-bmo/" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1532753863077310464) 2022-06-03T15:59Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "With record household debt & interest rates rising "the housing market is adjusting rather quickly. In May Greater Toronto home sales plunged 39% year-over-year 31% in Greater Vancouver and a whopping 54% in the Fraser Valley" says @SteveSaretsky #Vanre #Vanpoli #bcpoli" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1533836249483517952) 2022-06-06T15:40Z [----] followers, [--] engagements ""Canada is forecast to see the biggest drop with real home prices falling 12%. France follows with a 9% drop and the US just 3%" says @BetterDwelling citing @GoldmanSachs. Bigger declines in cities. #vanre #bcpoli #Cdnpoli #cdnecon #torontorealestate https://betterdwelling.com/canadian-real-estate-prices-to-see-the-sharpest-drop-in-global-downturn-goldman/ https://betterdwelling.com/canadian-real-estate-prices-to-see-the-sharpest-drop-in-global-downturn-goldman/" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1544049714537979904) 2022-07-04T20:05Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Greater #Vancouver real estate prices just made the 2nd biggest monthly drop ever says @BetterDwelling A typical home is now lower than Jan. [----]. "Prices are dropping fast and [--] more months like this can wipe out annual gains." #vanre #vanpoli #bcpoli https://betterdwelling.com/city/vancouver/greater-vancouver-real-estate-prices-just-made-the-second-biggest-monthly-drop-ever/ https://betterdwelling.com/city/vancouver/greater-vancouver-real-estate-prices-just-made-the-second-biggest-monthly-drop-ever/" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1555246705246760960) 2022-08-04T17:38Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Canadian Real Estate Prices To Fall 30% Early Stages of Recession Are Here: Ox Econ - Better Dwelling https://betterdwelling.com/canadian-real-estate-prices-to-fall-30-early-stages-of-recession-are-here-ox-econ/ https://betterdwelling.com/canadian-real-estate-prices-to-fall-30-early-stages-of-recession-are-here-ox-econ/" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1596700988446212096) 2022-11-27T03:02Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "The @CityofVancouver is having trouble delivering basic services: - No snow removal on side streets - No garbage pick-up at our place for [--] weeks - Fitness centres closed for [--] days when people have time & need for them But taxes rise 6%/year #vanpoli @KenSimCity @AdrianeCarr" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1607833111370563584) 2022-12-27T20:17Z [----] followers, 38.1K engagements "Advocates for hiking #Immigration targets continually emphasize the cost of caring for a bulge of seniors. But this @TheEconomist chart suggests Canada doesn't have much of a problem. #cdnimm @mikalskuterud @TristinHopper @Andrew_Griffith #cdnpoli https://www.economist.com/europe/2023/01/10/emmanuel-macron-unveils-his-pension-reforms https://www.economist.com/europe/2023/01/10/emmanuel-macron-unveils-his-pension-reforms" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1619369585614127105) 2023-01-28T16:19Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Okay. Thats a wrap. Just cycled out to pick up a few belongings at the Vancouver Sun newsroom at Broadway and Renfrew. Its shutting down. We will all work remotely as we have been for [--] years. Most prefer it this way. End of an era for the newspaper which is [---] years old" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1645484908838805504) 2023-04-10T17:52Z [----] followers, 351.1K engagements "Canadian real estate prices propped up by longer repayment schedules says @OSFICanada. "It's spelt 'extended amortization' but pronounced 'investor bailout' quips @StephenPunwasi. It's keeping prices high. 1/2 #vanre #cdnpoli #bcpoli #vanpoli https://betterdwelling.com/canadian-real-estate-prices-propped-up-by-longer-repayment-bank-regulator/ https://betterdwelling.com/canadian-real-estate-prices-propped-up-by-longer-repayment-bank-regulator/" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1658545122370543616) 2023-05-16T18:49Z [----] followers, 41.2K engagements "- 71% of Conservative voters back Pierre Poilievre as party leader - Of usual NDP voters Jagmeet Singh garnered 63% support - only 42% of those who usually vote Liberal say they prefer Justin Trudeau as leader. Via @ianabailey and @niknanos #CDNpoli" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1677881234033348608) 2023-07-09T21:23Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Pet peeve. The trouble with going for a drive is you can end up listening to the radio where chirpy announcers often say its unfortunate its cloudy today. They then cheerfully pronounce tomorrow will be a great day - of sunshine. But I like high-cloud BC days. Am I alone" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1678547706686623744) 2023-07-10T23:36Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Acclaimed #Toronto principal Richard Bilkszto was bullied in a #diversity equity and inclusion training session for questioning facilitators' claim Canada was more racist than the U.S. Persistently accused of racism he took his own life. Via @sarkonakj" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1683504386465738754) 2023-07-25T02:39Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "German university ends ties with China scholarship scheme - to reduce the risk of industrial espionage. It's the 1st university in Germany to break with the Chinese gov. Others in Sweden Denmark the Netherlands and US have done so #cdnedu #cdnpoli" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1683628852394987520) 2023-07-25T02:38Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "When short-term rentals started it was about renting your principal residence for a couple weeks while you were on vacation. However over time short-term rentals have morphed into becoming mini-hotels" says @mortimer_1 Via @joanneleeyoung" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1686765421788336129) 2023-08-02T15:46Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "2/ B.C. Housing Minister @KahlonRav said the province is developing legislation to address concerns around short-term rentals which will be introduced in the fall. Meanwhile illegal @airbnb listings are out of control in #Vancouver @mortimer_1 @joanneleeyoung #vanre #vanpoli" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1686766229162524672) 2023-08-02T15:49Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Cities haven't been able to craft effective regulations on short-term home rentals. "Their approaches are driven by the same fundamental fear: Left unchecked home-sharing sites drive up rents and displace existing residents." #vanre #vanpoli #bcpoli" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1686880353372504064) 2023-08-02T23:23Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Why Ambleside Village is hurting in high-end West Vancouver (Part 2) A large proportion of homes are under-utilized. Many wealthy transnational people often continue to stay in other dwellings around the globe says @Ayan604 #vanre #Vanpoli #bcpoli" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1687248343590748160) 2023-08-03T23:45Z [----] followers, 10.3K engagements "The CCP weaponizes the Chinese media to gain election intervention says former Sing Tao editor Victor Ho. To do this the Chinese consulates in Canada make every effort to influence the top Chinese editing teams. Via @scoopercooper #cdnmedia #cdnpoli" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1687534750012153856) 2023-08-04T18:43Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Justin Trudeau must reduce "#immigration floodgates" until housing construction catches up says @NationalBank chief economist @StefaneMarion. @abacusdataca polls shows 61% believe immigration target too high. #cdnimm #ICYMI #cdnpoli #onpoli #qcpoli" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1688969611742687232) 2023-08-08T17:45Z [----] followers, [----] engagements ""In the short term the housing crisis cannot be solved it can only be mitigated. Building new housing takes time. In the meantime reducing immigration temporarily to pre-pandemic levels would help" says Prof. Michael Veall @McMasterU and @CanEconomics. #cdnimm #vanre" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1689354311678173184) 2023-08-09T19:13Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "A spate of Vancouver writers have been digging into how #China is impacting Canadian politics academia media business & culture and distorting the concept of human rights. Including: @scoopercooper @joannachiu @jwmanthorpe @madeleinethien My latest" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1689668340212727809) 2023-08-10T16:01Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Canadas new housing minister has only been in office for a few days and already stumbled says @StephenPunwasi Min. @SeanFraserMP pledged to make housing more affordable without lowering prices. He dropped suggestions to reinforce higher prices" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1690201661325955073) 2023-08-12T03:20Z [----] followers, [----] engagements ""It may create the perception that political considerations are influencing the appointment system and perhaps the most capable judges are not being appointed in favour of partisan interests says @TroyRiddell #cdnpoli #onpoli" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1690397814294269952) 2023-08-12T16:20Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Canada's record level of foreign students - at 807k - is 30% higher than ever. Carleton U's @StevePomeroy is informed & brave enough to say the obvious: Ottawa's exploitive policy is making rents skyrocket. #vanre #cdnpse #cdnpoli via @BryanPassifiume" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1690509651090243585) 2023-08-12T23:44Z [----] followers, 18.4K engagements "Well spotted @Ralston727 Despite what immigration min @MarcMillerVM says about the need to bring in tens of thousands of foreign construction workers there are actually big layoffs in the industry. #cdnpoli" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1690562373969661952) 2023-08-13T03:14Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Vancouver led the way as Canada's priciest city for renters with the average one-bedroom unit listed at $2945 and a two-bedroom at $3863 followed by nearby Burnaby. Thank Justin Trudeau's policies. Directly. #cdnpoli #BCpoli via @VancouverSun" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1690582322180161536) 2023-08-13T04:33Z [----] followers, 19.8K engagements "It is the unprecedented number of foreign students & temporary workers in Canada - [---] million - that is overwhelming housing & health care say Anne Michele Meggs. Post-secondary institutions & businesses are in charge. #cdnimm #cdnpoli #onpoli #BCpoli" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1691211126162554880) 2023-08-14T22:12Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Almost [--] % of American girls have clinical depression and its the same across the Anglosphere says Dr. @jean_twenge The suicide rate for ten- to 24-year-olds has tripled. She attributes much of it social media" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1691490352459591680) 2023-08-15T16:41Z [----] followers, 123.4K engagements "Avg. rent for 1-bed apartment in Vancouver tops $3k a month. -16% jump in one year. Via & @katiederosayyj @kahlonrvavi knows it's side-effect of Ottawa bringing in record [---] m foreign students & temporary workers. #BCpoli #vanre" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1691588495238672645) 2023-08-15T23:11Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "REAL ESTATE REGRETS More than one in three Canadians regret their current mortgage situation. Then again over half of Canadians cant quote the current interest rate. Via the Real Estate and Mortgage Institute of Canada (REMIC). @wwwREMICca" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1691955780604539087) 2023-08-16T23:31Z [----] followers, [---] engagements ""The Liberal government has gone to extraordinary lengths to give employers a nearly unlimited supply of low-wage workers with many of those now arriving via the education visa stream" says @tonykeller1 #CDNimm #cdnpoli #immigration #BCpoli #cdnpse" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1692590416988889544) 2023-08-18T17:32Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Evergrandes bankruptcy may be just the beginning of Chinas real estate crisis Now investors watch nervously as Country Garden which employs 300k people misses two payments on its debt. What's it mean for #CDNpoli and real estate @ronmortgageguy" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1693046532831134153) 2023-08-19T23:45Z [----] followers, 22.3K engagements "Thanks @ronmortgageguy. That's what I was wondering. Will CPC members who own houses in Vancouver etc. be forced to sell by Xi Or will CPC insiders and cronies with properties in Canada etc. continue to be able to operate under the table #vanre #Bcpoli @StephenPunwasi" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1693298967638053047) 2023-08-20T16:28Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Feds to consider caps on foreign students as housing crisis grows says fedl. Housing Min. @SeanFraserMP At least he mentions it. But truly do not get your hopes up for anything but verbiage on housing or migration. #vanre #cdnpoli #Liberals" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1693791605948600814) 2023-08-22T01:06Z [----] followers, [----] engagements ""Canada is probably sitting on the largest housing bubble of all time" says @phillipcolmar of @mrbpartners. The level of debt of Canadians in comparison to their incomes has many in a precarious position should rates rise. #cdnpoli #onpoli #vanre" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1694179549016367277) 2023-08-23T02:47Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Beijing allegedly tried to run candidate against popular Canadian Mayor @BradWestPoCo. Port Coquitlam mayor thinks Canadians need to know the details. as the Trudeau government remains inactive on Chinese threats. Via @scoopercooper #cdnpoli #bcpoli" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1694372460668608617) 2023-08-23T15:34Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Vancouver International Airport (@yvrairport) says there are now only [--] non-stop flights per week between Vancouver and China. That compares with [--] flights per week a few years ago. Possible retaliation by China. Via @derrickpenner #vanpoli #vanre" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1694374153997209669) 2023-08-23T15:40Z [----] followers, [---] engagements ""The visa-student pathway. has become an important though unofficial stream of temporary foreign workers a bottomless supply of labour to flip burgers stack boxes & deliver late-night burritos at minimum wage" says @tonykeller1 There is no cap" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1694405587801682348) 2023-08-23T17:45Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Canadian universities & colleges - esp. small private ones - rely on foreign students for dollars which is why they're speaking out against limits reports @RyanTumilty Long gone are claims of 'best and brightest" & "campus diversity." #cdnpoli #cdnpse" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1694740631816720427) 2023-08-24T15:57Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "The Cullen report found currency exchanges are at medium to very high risk for money laundering underground banking terrorist financing and avoiding Western sanctions such as those against #Iran. There are 400+ in B.C. alone. #cdnecon #cdnpoli" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1694793547105587543) 2023-08-24T19:27Z [----] followers, 56.6K engagements "Remember the [--] billion trees Justin Trudeau promised to plant back in [----] after his heart to heart talk with the teenage Swedish climate activist @GretaThunberg Never happened. Isnt happening. Via Paul Wells & @TerryGlavin #cdnpoli #kelownafires" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1695138116095664571) 2023-08-25T18:16Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "1 in [--] people now in Canada are international students. [------]. Per capita the number of foreign students is 4x greater than in the US. "Canadas plan may backfire as more students feel exploited esp. over housing conditions" says @StephenPunwasi" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1696641531321688354) 2023-08-29T21:50Z [----] followers, 16.7K engagements "The source countries of Canada's foreign students is changing as tensions rise with China" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1696641788251935190) 2023-08-29T21:51Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "A million more non-permanent residents live in Canada than official figures Liberals told. @CIBC's Benjamin Tal says the number of non-permanent residents in the country is closer to [--] million. That's counting those who don't leave. #cdnpoli #cdnimm" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1696950517103210559) 2023-08-30T18:18Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "The shiney new Vancouver. Some condos held empty for years waiting for higher bidder. While the tax revenue on unsold condos added millions to support affordable housing it will not continue to do so because of council's ABC-majority. #vanre #vanpoli" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1696965071002546409) 2023-08-30T19:16Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Update: [--] readers tried to trade Canadian dollars for Euros and American dollars at [--] different currency exchanges in Ambleside Village. The currency exchanges told them they didn't have American dollars or Euros. Anyone care @rcmpgrcpolice @Dave_Eby" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1696995758686523408) 2023-08-30T21:18Z [----] followers, 11.4K engagements "Productivity in Canada is down 1.4% year-over-year and has contracted outright. [--] of the past [--] quarters says @EconguyRosie. Ottawa has "camouflaged the situation via aggressive immigration." #cdnecon #cdnpoli #onpoli" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1697281439891599756) 2023-08-31T16:13Z [----] followers, 25.6K engagements ""Remember Nortel" asks @TashaKheiriddin. Rightly so. "The Ottawa company was a global leader in the tech business" (but Investors) lost their shirts after it was revealed "Chinese state-sponsored hacking was really to blamefor the benefit of Huawei."" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1697286093379698958) 2023-08-31T16:31Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Boom Bust and Echo was one of the best-selling books of all time in Canada. Yet Vancouver co-author Daniel Stoffman who died this summer later showed it was misconstrued in regard to immigration policy. #cdnimm #cdnpoli #Bcpoli #onpoli #babyboom https://vancouversun.com/opinion/columnists/douglas-todd-popular-book-on-baby-boomers-misinterpreted-by-canadian-politicians https://vancouversun.com/opinion/columnists/douglas-todd-popular-book-on-baby-boomers-misinterpreted-by-canadian-politicians" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1697415243666956339) 2023-09-01T01:05Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "#Punjabi international students in #SurreyBC are dying at high rates from drug overdoses say faith leaders funeral homes & others. But ethnic-based data regarding the overdoses is not released. Via @rumneeek #bcpoli #internationalstudents #opioid" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1697729988878012440) 2023-09-01T21:55Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "The U.S. has about [--] million foreign students in [----] - Canada has about the same number if not more (due to undercounting according to @cibc) - Canada's population is 1/10th the U.S. #cdnpse #cdnpoli #internationalstudents #vanpoli #vanre #tore" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1698067470706524183) 2023-09-02T20:16Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "'Vancouver authors pour out books on Chinas impact' Just updated this with another fabulous novel about China and the Cultural Revolution. The fictional memoirs of talented lawyer-writer George Lee. #vanpoli #china #cdnlit @guernica_ed #cdnpoli" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1699101245422944308) 2023-09-05T16:44Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Its becoming obvious in Canada the international-student system is a cash cow for governments and post-secondary institutions And it's creating issues for the students themselves who are heating up the competition for a place to live. #cdnpoli #cdnimm" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1699445422237036864) 2023-09-06T15:32Z [----] followers, 14.6K engagements "This alas is how easy it is for Starbucks to shut down union drives. It was only February when [--] workers at the Denman Street caf in Vancouver voted to join @SteelworkersCA. @BradWestPoCo #vanpoli" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1699451611830219064) 2023-09-06T15:56Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Why UBC Properties Trust is still not subject to provincial freedom of information laws. That's even while UBCPT has grown UBCs endowment from $100 million in the 1980's to nearly $2.8 billion today. Good story from @Ubyssey and @FionaSjaus #Vanre" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1699528983510237547) 2023-09-06T21:04Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "#Vancouver aims for 20% affordability in some new housing projects. #Why not 50% How to really change zoning to increase housing affordability throughout Metro. #vanpoli #BCpoli #Burnaby" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1700245102986403977) 2023-09-08T20:29Z [--] followers, [----] engagements ""Welltrend Consulting of Beijing used a Canadian lawyer's name on applications for [--] dozen immigrants without permission" Yet lawyer Lihua Bau had already "pre-signed blank application forms" for the immigration program. IE. Bau was asking for trouble" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1700981517294719170) 2023-09-10T21:16Z [----] followers, [----] engagements ""The housing market has been isolated from the pain of rate hikes thanks to multi-decade lows in new listings. I get a sense that might change soon based on the anecdotal conversations Im having across the industry" says @SteveSaretsky #cdnpoli" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1701701829858615791) 2023-09-12T20:58Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "When Vancouver elected a Chinese mayor I felt incredibly proud says Weihong Liu owner of [--] B.C. malls. Although Mayor Ken Sim is from Hong Kong & Liu from China Liu believes theres something in common because they both have yellow faces. 1/3" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1701714936559444136) 2023-09-12T21:50Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "2/ In this amazing interview with [--] Below TV billionaire Liu shows off her mansion near UBC and refutes rumours incl. allegations: 1) shes the mistress of a high-level Chinese Communist party official 2) "a white glove" (money launderer) for Beijing Via @BlueBellsForest 2/3" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1701716774243434601) 2023-09-12T21:57Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "3/3 Here's my earlier piece on how Weihong Liu bought up [--] B.C. shopping malls incl. from the Tsawwassen First Nation. Good to see an extensive interview with her where she excitedly says "I can run for mayor premier or even prime minister #cdnpoli" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1701717925890277746) 2023-09-12T22:02Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "A tense meeting between India's Narendra #Modi & #Trudeau coincided with voting in #SurreyBC on a referendum for a Sikh homeland called Khalistan. Haven't seen comment from @theJagmeetSingh who was banned from India for his Khalistan views. #cdnpoli" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1702095409378914618) 2023-09-13T23:02Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "2/ Reasons politicians don't want prices to fall: - False belief prices must rise - Fear homeowners at election time - Housing dominates economy - Prefer leaving dirty work to Bank of Canada - Developers are big political donors - Many own investment properties #vanre #cdnpoli" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1703928452976689447) 2023-09-19T00:26Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "The Bureaus analysis suggests Trudeaus administration has frequently failed to act on CSIS warnings regarding Chinese and Indian diplomats interfering in diaspora communities and Canadian elections. Via @samcoopernews #sikhs #cdnpoli" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1704157088908546323) 2023-09-19T15:34Z [--] followers, [----] engagements ".@VancouverSun "analytics" show this early piece is trending again. In light of Trudeau saying India was likely behind the murder of a Khalistani activist in Surrey. Explains why Canadian Sikhs punch so much above their weight in politics. #cdnpoli" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1704158778361627108) 2023-09-19T15:41Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "If you want to buy a home in Vancouver you would need to be making almost $250k a year. A sick city. Politicians mostly spout "affordability" platitudes & focus on "supply" which can't do the trick. A generation being sacrificed. #vanre #vanpoli" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1704179267381387386) 2023-09-19T17:02Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "My latest: Trudeau's high-profile gamble aims to divert attention from his failings. - while reinforcing his political support among Sikh Canadians. -Canada's 800k Sikhs are divided though. And 800k Canadian Hindus are distressed. #Khalistanis #cdnpoli" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1704635121960452250) 2023-09-20T23:14Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "2/ Even though the number of Hindus in Canada is about the same as that of Sikhs and many Hindus are shocked by Trudeaus attack on India Sikhs are more politically organized particularly in crucial ridings in Greater Toronto Metro Vancouver and Calgary. #cdnpoli #onpoli" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1704892832153276853) 2023-09-21T16:18Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "With Trudeau giving no evidence against India @TerryGlavin's theory is also "credible." IE: Those who shot Hardeep Singh Nijjar "may have been bent on revenge for the recent killing in Surrey of the pro-Modi reformed Khalistani Ripudaman Singh Malik."" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1704916441001296244) 2023-09-21T17:52Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Outrageous: Sikhs for Justice leader tells Indo-Canadian Hindus to leave Canada. "Indo-Canadian Hindus you have repudiated your allegiance to Canada." said Gurpatwant Singh Pannun. "Your destination is India. Leave Canada. Go to India." #cdnpoli" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1705646655155159153) 2023-09-23T18:13Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "2/ This is the video where the organizer of the #SurreyBC "referendum" on Khalistan calls on Hindu-Canadians to leave this country. Why is the anti-hate-speech movement so quiet about the behavior of Sikhs for Justice leader Gurpatwant Singh Pannu" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1705648484312072507) 2023-09-23T18:21Z [----] followers, [--] engagements ".@KahlonRav calls on Trudeau to tie housing to in-migration targets. - "Not only to make sure people here have housing but also the people that come. "The challenge is around temporary residents." Their numbers "are really high." #VANRE @UBCM #BCPOLI https://vancouversun.com/opinion/dan-fumano-b-c-cabinet-ministers-peppered-with-housing-related-woes-at-ubcm https://vancouversun.com/opinion/dan-fumano-b-c-cabinet-ministers-peppered-with-housing-related-woes-at-ubcm" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1705727960182046777) 2023-09-23T23:36Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Canada's Hindu population of 828k many of whom feel threatened by pro-Khalistan activism is growing and becoming a political force. It's a game-changer for federal politicians esp. in Toronto & Vancouver. My latest. 1/3 #cdnpoli #onpoli #india #bcpoli" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1707405730691833916) 2023-09-28T14:43Z [----] followers, 146.1K engagements "First report in @VancouverSun on India's charges against slain Khalistani activist Hardeep Nijjar. By @cherylchan In [----] he was accused of running a "terror" camp near Mission B.C. training with AK-47s. A deadly bombing too. India asked Canada to look into. #CDNpoli #BCpoli" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1707513408491544891) 2023-09-28T21:51Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "While it remains the worst mass murder in Canadian history an Angus Reid poll ahead of the 38th anniv. of the bombing found [--] in [--] people had little or no knowledge of the incident. No wonder Canadians dont understand Khalistan activism. #cdnpoli" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1708149475787825276) 2023-09-30T15:59Z [----] followers, 23.4K engagements "International students in Canadian UNIVERSITIES tilt male are increasingly from China and study in a variety of disciplines with some preference towards science engineering and business" says @HESA_News Meanwhile most COLLEGE students from India #CDNpse #Cdnpoli 1/2" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1708487576397693073) 2023-10-01T14:22Z [----] followers, 21.7K engagements "@RockatTheSpec You would know @RockatTheSpec. You were the Vancouver Sun city and assignment editor when we were fully detailing how Khalistanis were behind the Air India bombing. But lack of proper policing let families and Canadians down" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1708523851276267948) 2023-10-01T16:46Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Fascinating how many countries with later retirement ages are more successful. @visualcap charts retirement in [--] countries. Some big regional differences. Canada in the high middle of the pack. #cdnpoli #onpoli #bcpoli" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1708969293608800482) 2023-10-02T22:16Z [----] followers, [---] engagements ".@BMO warns the countrys economy resembles a recession once population-adjusted. Growth is supposed to be easy with a migration-fueled population boom but this one has become inflationary. Via Daniel Wong @BetterDwelling #cdnecon #cdnpoli #bcpoli" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1709037438327497171) 2023-10-03T02:47Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "The [--] luxury apt. renovations were taking about [--] years says city of Vancouver. City defends $411k in empty homes tax. This tax evasion scam of delaying construction needs to be stopped. Wonder who owners are #vanre #vanpoli #bcpoli @SusanLazaruk" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1709603785189060801) 2023-10-04T16:17Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Oops. Lauded New Zealand study doesn't actually show mass upzoning works. Scholars reveal any increase in housing in #auckland - was minimal - sparked more 'approvals' than builds - normal part of business cycle. My latest. #cdnpoli #bcpoli #vanre" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1710037787511271579) 2023-10-05T21:02Z [----] followers, 41K engagements "B.C. law would make drug use illegal in most public spaces Lisa LaPointe head of @bccoroners calls it "tremendously disappointing." LaPointe is defying @Dave_Eby expressing her own theories. Will she last #bcpoli #vanpoli" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1710701400378978673) 2023-10-07T16:59Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "The [----] Air India bombing has been declared. the largest mass murder in Canadian history yet in many news and scholarly articles on the Khalistan movement (it) is not even considered worth a mention says @McMasterU's @chandri_mac Via @anirudhb" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1710721167802486947) 2023-10-07T18:18Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Here is my interview with Claudia Goldin who just won the #Nobel prize for economics Fortin is among [--] female economists who believe the pay gap at the top has less to do with overt discrimination and more to do with womens decisions. #cdnecon" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1711571912307118204) 2023-10-10T02:38Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "This is what the developer @BentallGreenOak is proposing for the vacant Safeway lot in Vancouver's struggling Point Grey Village. #Vanpoli #vanre #BCpoli Includes [--] towers - of [--] and [--] storeys. 'Friends of Point Grey Village' reviewing. 1/2" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1711783063217394119) 2023-10-10T16:37Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "2/2 The crumbling of Vancouver's affluent Point Grey Village How Point Grey Villages now-bleak shopping zone lost its vibrancy offers lessons for across the region. #vanpoli #vanre #BCpoli" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1711790038835757184) 2023-10-10T17:05Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Foreign-student dreams being crushed in 'greedy' Canada It's exploitation of developing nations "a new form of colonialism" says @BarjDhahan of Canada India Foundation. [--] of [--] want to be citizens says new survey. My latest: #cdnpse #cdnpoli #onpoli" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1711890809275252830) 2023-10-10T23:45Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Toronto currency exchange tied to $3.5b case involving money-laundering via Hezbollah and Iran. @scoopercooper' article on Cameron Ortis spy trial goes to the heart of concerns I was raising about the proliferation of currency exchanges. #cdnpoli 2/2" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1713301732833513732) 2023-10-14T21:12Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "'Upzone everything' suggests Expo lands developer who changed Vancouver forever Stanley Kwok [--] believes Metro Vancouver residents must get used to smaller dwellings not unlike in Hong Kong. Kwok is second from right in photo. My latest #vanre" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1714380350980596219) 2023-10-17T20:38Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "#Vancouver developers seek deadline extensions on downtown highrises with a total of [---] units. Yet another sign don't dramatically boost housing construction unless they think the time is ripe for profit. It's just the way it is. #Vanpoli #bcpoli" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1714419346108555592) 2023-10-17T23:13Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "People need to understand the systematic brutal cruelty of Hamas. Any organization like this has to be destroyed. And no one should condone or excuse or deny" says @BobRae48 Canada's UN ambassador. Iran he says supplies Hamas Hezbollah. #cdnpoli" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1715384755712389126) 2023-10-20T15:09Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "The banality of terrorism Saw this poster at the till of a cafe in Kitsilano Vancouver. At least [--] sponsor of this "freedom for Palestine" march tomorrow is judged a pro-terror organization. Samidoun was banned this month in Germany. Staff smiled; didn't want to know. 1/2" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1715535586424168698) 2023-10-21T01:08Z [----] followers, 20.5K engagements "2/2 Germany will ban the pro-Palestinian group Samidoun Chancellor Olaf Scholz said last week. Its members were celebrating Islamist Hamas "terror" in Israel on German streets the Chancellor said. #cdnpoli @HonestRepCanada" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1715538740578500655) 2023-10-21T01:21Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Samidoun leader in Vancouver says only reason it does not unleash its violence on Canadians is it doesnt need another enemy. Says doesnt fear Canadians. F- them. Says our enemy is Israel. #cdnpoli https://vancouversun.com/opinion/columnists/douglas-todd-bc-imam-condemns-murdering-israel-and-muslims-who-voted-for-trudeau/wcm/5133ff7a-6047-4c62-bccd-1cee75594636/amp https://vancouversun.com/opinion/columnists/douglas-todd-bc-imam-condemns-murdering-israel-and-muslims-who-voted-for-trudeau/wcm/5133ff7a-6047-4c62-bccd-1cee75594636/amp" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1716217737385758972) 2023-10-22T22:19Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "UBC Prof. David Ley says cooling off measures need to be implemented in a continuous way in Vancouver as in Singapore. There has to be much more determination to control the entire property investment picture foreign and local." Via @GoldinYVR" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1716494691540341139) 2023-10-23T16:40Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Trust is dying in Vancouvers civic engagement process. Just when a neighbourhood group finds some common ground with the city and a highrise developer the common ground is often taken away. It's a kind of betrayal. #vanre #vanpoli #bcpoli 1/3" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1716586445920755787) 2023-10-23T22:44Z [----] followers, 21.9K engagements "B.C. to fast track migrants to fix . real estate agent shortage @StephenPunwasi not only one puzzled. B.C. already has 60% more realtors per capita than New York City & 200% more than Los Angeles. What are @Dave_Eby and @KahlonRav thinking #vanre" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1717304294955950478) 2023-10-25T22:17Z [----] followers, 17.4K engagements "Chinese interference Whistleblower implicates Trudeau's Senator and National Security Advisor. Amazing stuff from @scoopercooper on how the ultra-rich from China and Hong Kong often came in illicitly to Canada esp Vancouver. #bcpoli #cdnpoli" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1718427593152790911) 2023-10-29T00:40Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "This chart by @visualcap shows the prime 'investment' of the global super-rich (those worth more than $30m) is secondary homes. Reveals why Vancouver and Toronto are peppered with under-utilized mansions and empty luxury condos. #vanre #vanpoli #BCpoli" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1719391643269566811) 2023-10-31T16:31Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Trudeau gives a special carbon-tax break on heating oil to Atlantic Canada because that's where the the Liberals have their only rural stronghold. It's Trudeau's Achilles Heel: Micro-targeting groups by region identity. Dividing the country. #cdnpoli" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1719749456214794733) 2023-11-01T16:13Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Recognizing polls show Canadians less open to mass migration because of the housing and healthcare crises Immigration Min. @MarcMillerVM tries to speak realistically. And a bit condescendingly. Canadians "are not xenophobic" he says. #cdnimm" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1720102102670946575) 2023-11-02T15:34Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "#China critic in Vancouver says hes the target of deepfake spamouflage attack by Beijing. Video shows a person who looks like Liu Xin making unfounded remarks about Justin Trudeau saying he is a man who loves porn. Strong story by @Nono_ubc" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1720172489408692656) 2023-11-02T20:14Z [----] followers, [---] engagements ""The left insisted there was no such thing as a glibly censorious cancel culture. They liked to speak instead of an accountability culture .Now the cancellers wring their hands about being cancelled" says @TheEconomist" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1721329036390183359) 2023-11-06T00:49Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "86% of Canadians believe Trudeau is "inauthentic" and "phony." That's an almost unbelievable drop in trust. Amazingly the figure gets worse (91%) among those who voted for him in [----]. #cdnpoli #onpoli #bcpoli" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1721349868038533268) 2023-11-06T02:12Z [----] followers, 30.8K engagements "Trudeau has the gall to now blame investors for the "commodification" of housing. He finally expresses concern about the investor glut which his policies unleashed. Thru excess credit excess migration. No wonder [--] of [--] say he's "phony." More below from @SteveSaretsky #VanRE" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1721589372565569910) 2023-11-06T18:04Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "A threat by Sikhs For Justice causes India to ask Canada to step up security on Air India flights. SFJs Gurpatwant Singh Pannun warns Sikhs in a video on Saturday: Dont fly Air India after Nov. [--] your lives may be in danger. #cdnpoli @anirudhb" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1721930292389372411) 2023-11-07T16:39Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "1 / The 'Wild West' in B.C. housing is mostly over but the devastation goes on. Foreign capital pours into the markets of 'gateway' cities like Vancouver. Local wage earners are left behind by libertarian economic policies. #vanre #bcpoli #China" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1722018511847903302) 2023-11-07T22:29Z [----] followers, 18.5K engagements "2 / Conventional housing market explanations are no longer adequate in gateway cities (like Vancouver) where fundamentals must be rescaled to include immigration offshore investors & the role of the global real estate industry says @UBCGeog's David Ley. #vanre #vanpoli" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1722019159893320116) 2023-11-07T22:32Z [----] followers, [----] engagements ""Unlike anyone else in #Israels political landscape PM Benyamin Netanyahu is the only politician. in Israels system of proportional representation who stands to gain from polarization" reports @TerryGlavin. 80% of Israelis want him gone. #cdnpoli" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1722726116291698889) 2023-11-09T21:21Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "This useful pie chart breaks down all carbon emissions by country. - China responsible for 30.9% of world's CO - U.S. for 13.5% - India for 7% - Canada for 1.5% Via @VisualCap #cdnpoli #china #uspoli" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1722764510401069257) 2023-11-09T23:54Z [----] followers, 19.5K engagements "Big houses huge lots. Shaughnessy Vancouvers ultrarich ghostlike neighbourhood is unlikely to change. Many want fewer mega-mansions and more people in Shaughnessy where the population has steeply declined. But it won't be easy. [--] / My latest" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1723027588501618871) 2023-11-10T17:19Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Last month I wrote on why you shouldnt believe what you see in architectural renderings. Then I see the drawings for the 54-storey Pinnacle set for [---] Beach Ave. Vancouver. How does this spacious image equate with the actual location #vanre #vanpoli" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1723525209238745447) 2023-11-12T02:16Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "The movement opposing NIMBYism is powerful but morally baffling. People like Housing Min. @SeanFraserMP (right) talk a lot about legalizing housing & inclusive zoning. But how progressive are self-proclaimed YIMBYs (yes in my backyard) My latest" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1725558578701050276) 2023-11-17T16:56Z [----] followers, 87.9K engagements "Richmond lawyer Hong Guo disbarred by @LawSocietyofBC Guo "is a former legal specialist for the state council of the Peoples Republic of China" reports @WestcoastWood. Did #immigration law incl. real-estate deals worth "hundreds of millions." #vanre" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1727011377129435259) 2023-11-21T17:09Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "In principle the idea of building around SkyTrain stations. has logic" says Craig Ollenburger. But a city is not just a blank slate. Theres people and places and culture. If you obliterate all that. the speculation is going to be insane. #vanpoli" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1727394105146454358) 2023-11-22T18:30Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Canadian jury finds ex-RCMP intelligence exec. Cameron Ortis guilty of leaking secrets to money launderers Vincent Ramos Salim Henareh Muhammad Ashraf & Farzam Mehdizadeh. Yay. Maybe we're not yet a banana republic. #cdnpoli @csiscanada @rcmpgrcpolice" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1727458578586632340) 2023-11-22T22:46Z [----] followers, [----] engagements ".@CSIS says China infiltrated Canadian politics in [----]. Ex-Vancouver mayor @kennedystewart says: I cant help but think in any other G7 country this would be a red-alert. But here theres cross-party collusion to limit inquiry." Via @scoopercooper" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1728588105773654209) 2023-11-26T01:34Z [----] followers, 34.4K engagements "Canadian rents outpace income for the first time in [--] years: @BMO One reason is high in-migration. Another is investors used low interest rates to buy up most condos - at prices they couldn't sustain. Now they're jacking up rents says @StephenPunwasi. https://betterdwelling.com/canadian-rents-outpace-income-for-the-first-time-in-60-years-bmo/ https://betterdwelling.com/canadian-rents-outpace-income-for-the-first-time-in-60-years-bmo/" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1729181078718693391) 2023-11-27T16:51Z [----] followers, 15.4K engagements "Powerful federal @CdnHumanRights Commission proves it's out of touch with [--] of [--] Canadians according to @leger360. It declares Christmas holiday 'religious intolerance' & "discriminatory.' Even Liberal & #NDP politicians ignore $32m body. #cdnpoli" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1729291704182964571) 2023-11-28T00:10Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Californians taken aback by vast gap between wages & housing costs in Vancouver [--] big things impact housing prices in crazy ways supply demand & finance. While also costly incomes in San Francisco are 61% higher than here. My latest. #VanRE #bcpoli" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1730321191553147145) 2023-11-30T20:21Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Canadians going "full European" on immigration skepticism says @TerryGlavin . "Justin Trudeau's idea of a post-national state with no core values is about as fashionable in Canada now as it is in Europe." 1/2 #cdnpoli" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1730689798254608465) 2023-12-01T20:46Z [----] followers, 14.6K engagements ".@RBC predicts 60% of all outstanding mortgages with Canadian banks will be up for renewal during the next [--] years. "This will lead to payment shocks." #cdnecon #cdnpoli #vanre #vanpoli" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1731481343484412275) 2023-12-04T01:11Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Canada tries to save face by talking about a "limit" on foreign students - AFTER demand drops says @StephenPunwasi. So much from Trudeau's gov. is about manipulative messaging. Also known as BS. No wonder polls show [--] of [--] think he's "phony." #cdnpse" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1731822850041077945) 2023-12-04T23:48Z [----] followers, 16.2K engagements "Massive Brentwood towers trigger questions about #Burnaby planning. "Its a faceless monolithic block to me says Bimal Parmar describing [--] new towers as they are seen by drivers moving west along Lougheed Highway. My latest. #vanre #bcpoli #vanpoli" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1732088570264134013) 2023-12-05T17:24Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "2/ A former Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. official doesnt think the massive project emerging at Concord Brentwood much resembles its pastoral architectural renderings. #Burnaby #vanre" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1732268210278498540) 2023-12-06T05:18Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "CSIS wiretaps caught China's consul general and a federal candidate's "trusted" middleman plotting interference in [----] election. "The most compelling evidence yet to emerge regarding Beijings meddling in Canadas election" says @scoopercooper" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1732524684036714926) 2023-12-06T22:17Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Nope Trudeau hasn't been 'vindicated' on India murder allegations says @TerryGlavin It's plausible India's Modi has gone rogue after [--] years of Canadian law-enforcement incompetence. But it's also possible gangster Nikhil Gupta talks BS. #cdnpoli" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1732805936778236239) 2023-12-07T16:55Z [----] followers, 50.4K engagements "Things I didn't know: The CBC employs 33% of all journalists in Canada. . In contrast the BBC employs less than 3% of Britain's [------] journalists. Seems relevant. #cdnmedia #BBC @CBCNews" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1732823351557824714) 2023-12-07T18:04Z [----] followers, 38.8K engagements "Battle goes on for ecological medium-rise buildings on #Vancouver's Jericho Lands. Developer says Indigenous culture informed every aspect of the concept. But group offers alternative vision (illustration) to the ultra-high-density plan. My latest" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1732860262045319190) 2023-12-07T20:30Z [----] followers, 13.6K engagements ""Now we know why Ravi Kahlon refused to release housing model" says @VaughnPalmer. .@KahlonRav relies on advice and $410k contract with Jens von Bergmann of Mountain Math incl. #UBC profs Nathanael Lauster & Tsur Somerville. Polarizing choices" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1733662250760814841) 2023-12-10T01:37Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Vancouver Park Board again rejects calls to convert golf courses into housing #icymi A former city councillor says the parks board November decision to not develop Langara golf course for housing could be irritating mayor Ken Sim & developers. #vanre" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1734033445154934942) 2023-12-11T02:12Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Why has Europe been spared Canada's fentanyl disaster The death toll from #fentanyl in Europe is 'only' [---] per year. A look at what is happening on the other side of the Atlantic that's helped avoid this scourge esp. as it's hit B.C. My latest" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1734337811225149514) 2023-12-11T22:22Z [----] followers, 71.8K engagements "3/ @somerspsych says enforcement is necessary but not sufficient to curtail drug overdoses. Its crucial Canadian police work with those around the world on investigating and seizing drugs he says. And like others he stresses Canada must re-establish the harbour police force" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1734997638448304384) 2023-12-13T18:04Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "4/ #Fentanyl got into the local drug supply (in 2015) via the China/Hong-Kong triad gangs says Dr. Bill MacEwan. They told dealers if they wanted to keep their cocaine supply they had to add fentanyl to it. They severely punished those who did not comply." #vanpoli #bcpoli" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1735010582292746342) 2023-12-13T18:55Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Why is it open season on defence lawyers in BC asks Matthew Nathanson who has a point. "A gun was brought into a courtroom. Why hasn't there been an outcry from our AG or premier about this attack on our justice system The silence has been deafening."" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1735438277115851250) 2023-12-14T23:15Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Victoria B.C. Imam Sheikh Younus Kathrada is at it yet again - calling for destruction of Jewish people. But B.C. politicians incl. from the city of Victoria don't raise a peep. I've asked them for their views. They don't get back to me. #islamophobia #cdnpoli" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1736913532799873278) 2023-12-19T00:57Z [----] followers, 60K engagements ""In the context of Canadas affordability crisis take a look at this chart and ask if supply is really to blame here says @BMO economist Robert Kavcic. "In no version of reality can housing supply respond to an almost overnight tripling in new bodies."" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1737929929415885053) 2023-12-21T20:15Z [----] followers, 21.2K engagements "2/ "Its becoming clear the (Liberal Party's) plan isnt to diversify the country but to stimulate home prices and validate a real estate bubble" says @StephenPunwasi. "If youre wondering how this is sustainable its not." Truth telling. #vanre" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1737930930113941928) 2023-12-21T20:19Z [----] followers, [---] engagements ""If Trudeau is truly worried about Trump-style politics being imported into Canada he should fix the massive policy failure that threatens to fuel it" says @camrclark "Thats the failure to control the unplanned boom in temporary residents." #cdnpoli" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1738003581410889956) 2023-12-22T01:08Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "The story of the secularization of Canada focusses on the decline of 'European' Christianity. It misses that many Canadians of Chinese Korean and Filipino extraction esp. in #Vancouver are enthusiastic about the faith. My latest. For Christmas" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1738249126243111037) 2023-12-22T17:24Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Canadian GDP struggles. Will get worse despite population boom says @RBC's Nathan Janzen. Canada's "output has now failed to advance for nearly half a year despite the record population boom that was expected to drive demand." Via @StephenPunwasi" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1738372687783968848) 2023-12-23T01:35Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Some will recall the excellent break-out movie for Jack Nicholson Five Easy Pieces filmed on Vancouver Island. Former @vancouversun reporter @lpynn explains the story behind the famous scene in "The Red Rooster Cafe" in Chemainus. Want to watch it again" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1738378276127780903) 2023-12-23T01:57Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Shots fired at house of son of prominent Hindu leader in #SurreyBC "The businessmans father is the head of a temple that was in the news when its members last month countered a protest of the secessionist group Sikhs for Justice." via @anirudhb #bcpoli" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1740821986488779215) 2023-12-29T19:47Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Trudeaus real sins in [----] involved elections and ethics says @globeandmail editorial - denying impact of foreign interference - continuing "divisive ways" Editorial alas totally misses Trudeau's responsibility for horrible housing prices. #cdnpoli" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1740828081584300513) 2023-12-29T20:12Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Reliance on temporary workers including foreign students has increased markedly in Canada says Jock Finlayson of @BizCouncilBC. "Over time this policy shift will likely put downward pressure on per capita GDP and income the opposite of smart policy." Data by @fenghu9" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1741214771436044608) 2023-12-30T21:48Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "A record no. of Canadians are moving to countries "with brighter economic opportunities" discovers @BizCouncilBC economist David Williams. "This should be a wake-up call for. policymakers." Some leaving cite the high cost of housing. #cdnecon #cdnpoli" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1742662829935861845) 2024-01-03T21:42Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "My most-read columns of [----] It's worthwhile to see what readers are most interested in which seems to be #Vancouver 's most wealthy struggling neighbourhoods. And of course the housing crisis Plus some surprises. #vanpoli #bcpoli #vanre" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1742951378719498726) 2024-01-04T16:49Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "The top [--] news stories of [----] via @Google Search trends. They include [--] wars [--] hurricanes and [--] mass shootings - in the U.S. Note how quickly the media and the public lose interest. Ukraine already off our radar. 'Twas ever thus. via @visualcap" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1742993725226365261) 2024-01-04T19:37Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "McMaster University sued for $77 million over alleged antisemitic incidents on campus. Tends to focus the mind of administrators. #cdnpoli via @nationalpost" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1743063306062196836) 2024-01-05T00:14Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "#UBC professor of medicine resigns over its response to rising antisemitism Dr. Ted Rosenberg claims the university faculty of medicine has failed to address rising antisemitism on campus during the Israel-Hamas war. Via @joeruttle #UBC #bcpoli" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1743098905506848884) 2024-01-05T02:35Z [----] followers, 14.8K engagements "'Authentic' was 2023's word of the year and we need more of the right kind of it Leger found 86% believe Justin Trudeau is inauthentic and phoney. Pressure is also high on people to act as if they have the right beliefs. My latest. #cdnpoli" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1743409429427769819) 2024-01-05T23:09Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Critics of Vancouver's massive Jericho Lands 40-tower project question lack of early hydrogeological study It's "strange" hidden streams and aquafers haven't been researched says Jericho Coalition #vanre #vanpoli @BillTieleman" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1743433465285247105) 2024-01-06T00:45Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "2/ More than a few critics maintain the rise of #DEI is leading to compelled speech which is the opposite of free AUTHENTIC expression. Similarly many fear career consequences if they fail to offer a First Nations land acknowledgment however superficial. #cdnpoli" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1744152214648857081) 2024-01-08T00:21Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "A reader says dwellings surrounding the Jericho Lands' proposed 40-tower project have gone down an average of about 4% in the past year. He'd like the block of 4-storey apartments to the east re-zoned FWIW. #vanre #van #vancouver @BillTieleman" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1744153756747583619) 2024-01-08T00:27Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Terrific work on the direct connection between Canada's population boom & high house prices by economist David Williams at @BizCouncilBC This chart shows Metro Vancouver's prices basically fall in line with national factors esp record in-migration. Note impact of China $s" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1744413760574673363) 2024-01-08T17:40Z [----] followers, [----] engagements ""Its as though somebody somewhere decided that Canada should be a country of landlords & strip mall college entrepreneurs preying upon an underclass of exhausted renters homeless people and foreign guest workers. Who voted for this" asks @TerryGlavin" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1744549696792887672) 2024-01-09T02:40Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "The protests that have intimidated Torontos Jewish community will no longer be allowed Toronto police announced Thursday. Amazing they've been tolerated. I can't imagine such police permissiveness for the targeting of almost any other identity group" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1745509544242110543) 2024-01-11T18:14Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Canadians are hammering their provincial politicians on housing says @angusreidorg. Whether renters mortgage holders or outside the market [--] of [--] say their legislatures are doing a "poor job." Too bad Canadians weren't asked to rate Ottawa. #cdnpoli" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1745613157102678283) 2024-01-12T01:06Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Why so many Canadians are moving out of Vancouver the province and the country. High housing costs and a stagnant economy are causing a large number of Canadians to "vote with their feet." My latest. #cdnimm #vanre #cdnpoli #bcpoli #vanpoli" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1745893573286150343) 2024-01-12T19:40Z [--] followers, 18.6K engagements "2/ For every action there is a reaction. One response to record pop. growth 98% of which is fuelled by international migration is people vote with their feet says @bcbusiness. Canada and B.C. risk losing their brightest because the standard of living is flat or declining" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1745895271375249644) 2024-01-12T19:47Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "3/ The Liberals claim bringing in a record 1.25m permanent & temporary residents in a year is the key to prosperity for all. But many economists incl. @bcbusiness's David Williams believe its actually masking stagnation. Vancouver housing costs & tepid wages push out many" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1745900509918306529) 2024-01-12T20:08Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Vancouver's emergency shelters feel the squeeze as refugee claims nearly double in B.C. [----] asylum seeker claims made between January and November [----] a huge jump. Pressure on city's carrying capacity. #cdnimm #cdnpoli #bcpoli" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1746219827096867235) 2024-01-13T17:17Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "David Green who gave Justin Trudeau's family a $9k a night Jamaican holiday "is a property investor and hotel magnate whos simply among the dense coterie of extremely wealthy people that have surrounded Trudeau his whole life" says @TristinHopper" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1746325550262858044) 2024-01-14T00:17Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Canadas economy falling behind "U.S. households have seen their economic picture grow 10x faster than Canadian households over the decade." @OECD warns against relying on a debt-driven housing bubble. Ottawa oblivious. Via @StephenPunwasi #cdnpoli" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1747010692933382616) 2024-01-15T21:39Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Trudeau botched immigration file say Canada's top bank economists. "Disastrously weak productivity & housing affordability are the biggest challenges" says @BMO's Douglas Porter. "Strong population growth is clearly a factor for both." #cdnpoli #onpoli" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1747054634823544925) 2024-01-16T00:34Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Canada needs to reduce migration totals bank economists say. The @nationalbank's @StefaneMarion et al argue annual pop. growth should be 300k to 500k. Last year it was [---] million (98% from international migration). #cdnimm #cdnpoli #bcpoli #onpoli" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1747099765006069917) 2024-01-16T03:33Z [----] followers, [----] engagements ""Don't block Vancouver's world-class mountain view" says letter writer D. Farmer "That wonderful mountain view is #Vancouvers golden egg a priceless asset that sets this city apart from most." #vanre #vanpoli" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1747703878853025910) 2024-01-17T19:34Z [----] followers, [----] engagements ""It was clear to some of these women monitoring the border that Hamas was planning something big - that there was in Noa's words a "balloon that was going to burst". Their warnings went unheard" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1747807622735282656) 2024-01-18T02:26Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "No G7 country has seen anything like Canadas real estate bubble says @StephenPunwasi. "Canadian media may be focused on a home price correction but its barely a correction." In chart Canada is the crazy red line. #vanre #cdnpoli #HousingCrisis" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1747809484553220140) 2024-01-18T02:33Z [----] followers, 32.4K engagements "Ottawa insider warns about immigrant-investor schemes The strange story of Vancouver is the name of an internal memo revealing the many things wrong with Canada's earlier business-investor programs. That hasn't stopped Ottawa. 1/My latest. #cdnpoli" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1748081255642751288) 2024-01-18T20:33Z [----] followers, 65.8K engagements "2/ The immigration dept. official explained only 15% of business-class immigrants started a business. They also tended to buy v. expensive houses in Vancouver Toronto etc. and pay unusually low income taxes. Despite warnings Ottawa is expanding its Startup Visa program. #cdnimm" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1748093456340443302) 2024-01-18T21:22Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "3/ Researchers found the avg. value of a detached house bought by [----] millionaire immigrants who came to Metro Vancouver under the investor program was $3.2m. That compared to an average of $1.5m for a Canadian-born owner. #cdnimm @JohnPasalis @ronmortgageguy @MikePMoffatt" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1748119063698821486) 2024-01-18T23:03Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Immigration min. urged to crack down on international student no shows. @StatCan_eng found [--] in [--] people with study permits did not attend college or university in Canada. I wrote about this in [----]. It's abuse encouraged by Ottawa. (See below)" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1748176031092212178) 2024-01-19T02:50Z [----] followers, 16K engagements "Drone video reveals ice-encrusted Christie Falls on Bush Creek on Vancouver Island. Impressive #bcstorm Via @lpynn" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1748204834145411076) 2024-01-19T04:44Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "3/ It's an unfortunate reality some study-permit holders are told by dubious agents they can bypass school to focus on getting a job & permanent resident status in Canada said Laleh Sahba a Vancouver #immigration consultant in [----]. #cdnpoli #cdnimm" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1748226363168084470) 2024-01-19T06:10Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Number of international students now exceeds [----] million official figures show. In [----] total was 637k. Less than 400k foreign students when Liberals first elected in [----]. No wonder rents are thru the roof for everyone including those on study visas" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1748563419459170462) 2024-01-20T04:29Z [----] followers, 13.7K engagements "Australia: 'Golden visa' scheme for wealthy investors axed. - 85% of successful applicants were coming from China - critics said it was used by corrupt foreign officials - Ottawa has similar startup visa scheme for investors #cdnpoli #cdnimm" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1749430201530888399) 2024-01-22T13:53Z [----] followers, 31.1K engagements "Please listen to @johnpasalis. His thread is devastating to those many economists who got Canadas housing affordability crisis almost completely wrong. It was and is not so much about @supply. Its been about demand. And so many are suffering because of their failure. Why did our federal government ignore the warnings of public servants if the impact of Canadas high population growth on housing was so obvious If you rewind the clock by more than [--] years you'll see that these impacts were not so obvious to some 1/ https://t.co/zAC9KAKLbQ Why did our federal government ignore the warnings of" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1749589522390598074) 2024-01-23T00:27Z [----] followers, 28.9K engagements "Commanders of 'most diverse' regiment say claims @canadianforces are racist are absurd Vancouver regiment consists of men and women of Filipino Arab Chinese Indigenous European South Asian Latin American and Korean heritage. #cdnpoli #bcpoli" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1749812463489650846) 2024-01-23T15:12Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "British Labour Sir Keir Starmer set to win the next election: - peppers speeches with words like class family work respect security resilience duty service & country. - (Absent: equality freedom openness.) Different from Canada's 'left-wing'" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1750307621523882389) 2024-01-25T00:00Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Congrats to the @LangaraVoice for breaking this story about instructor Natalie Knight who praised the #Hamas slaughter. The student journalists at the Vancouver college quoted Knight saying she'd "won" & been reinstated. But she was actually terminated. #vanpoli #bcpoli Langara College terminates instructor after she announced her reinstatement https://t.co/D7Op4KIrF7 Langara College terminates instructor after she announced her reinstatement https://t.co/D7Op4KIrF7" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1751280567667077316) 2024-01-27T16:26Z [----] followers, 19.3K engagements "It's very disturbing the federal government and the B.C. government has allowed foreign-student numbers and shady schools to run rampant. To ostensibly stimulate the economy. It's going to take years to undo the damage esp. for renters. #bcpoli #cdnpoli #cdnpse Student caps may slow rent growth but won't solve housing woes say economists https://t.co/SCYJ23Sr15 via @financialpost https://t.co/QiFu3nO4H0 Student caps may slow rent growth but won't solve housing woes say economists https://t.co/SCYJ23Sr15 via @financialpost https://t.co/QiFu3nO4H0" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1752046579220148513) 2024-01-29T19:10Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "This graphic shows the world's most valuable brands from big tech giants to battery makers. Canada has only one entry - @TD_Canada bank (which comes in #100) The lack of Canadian productivity & innovation is startling. What's going wrong via @visualcap" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1752381864374043127) 2024-01-30T17:22Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "2/ "There is a view in the fed. gov. you can pull the immigration policy lever and an embarrassment of riches comes your way. That its a panacea for all our economic woes. And its simply not. Via economist David Williams of @bcbusiness #cdnpoli" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1752389669889970293) 2024-01-30T17:53Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "1/ "Insisting everyone should be defined by race & given a pecking order with the majority group ranked last & then demanding America admit millions more members of minority groups is a recipe for ensuring Trumps re-election." Via @TheEconomist" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1752457340018954381) 2024-01-30T22:22Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "2/ "Pessimists on the left say the West will never let in many people because it is racist. "Yet British Indians Chinese-Canadians & Nigerian-Americans all earn more than their white compatriots suggesting racism is not the main determinant of their chances." Via @TheEconomist" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1752458290523722092) 2024-01-30T22:26Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Changes to Land Act are huge despite B.C. minister's claims says @VaughnPalmer It flows from the [----] decision to incorporate the @UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Ex-councillor Gordon Price (@VWPTvancouver) concerned re Vancouver" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1752469419757039878) 2024-01-30T23:10Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Port police should be reinstated to combat organized crime says B.C.'s @mikefarnworthbc A no-brainer. It's one of the acts needed to reduce illicit drugs flooding Canada esp. fentanyl. Port police should never have been disbanded #Bcpoli @kbolan" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1753104031495700913) 2024-02-01T17:12Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "#RichmondBC investigates Beijing Mansion club on agricultural land reserve. Fabulous story - while distressing. Property on No. [--] Road marketed as ultra-exclusive private members club. Totally illegal. Via @Aaron_GlobalBC @emcsheff @endbirthtourism" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1753146652381311369) 2024-02-01T20:01Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Why #Vancouver housing prices became so out of whack with the Western world. It suffers a double whammy in outrageous prices. It's a gateway for foreign capital. And it's in a country that compounds unaffordability thru unrivalled migration. 1/ My latest" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1753206398069207457) 2024-02-01T23:59Z [----] followers, 19.3K engagements "2/ Vancouver-area values suddenly jumped [---] times higher than other major Canadian cities in [----]. They soared when hundreds of billions of dollars were being moved out of China. Relative prices tempered when the foreign-buyers tax came to be. Great chart. #vanre #bcpoli" [X Link](https://x.com/DouglasTodd/status/1753207311680827645) 2024-02-02T00:02Z [----] followers, [----] engagements Limited data mode. Full metrics available with subscription: lunarcrush.com/pricing
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Social topic influence vancouver #1554, canada, china, toronto, money, india, investment, trudeau, has been, beijing
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Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours
""Jody Wilson-Raybould (@Puglaas) & @janephilpott arent principled because theyre women. Theyre just principled" @MHallFindlay of @CanadaWestFdn said yesterday. Today Christy Clark proves Findlay's point: Not all powerful women are principled. #CDNpoli #BCpoli #SNCLavalin "If you're talking about [----] jobs and the attorney general is refusing to save them. I don't know. I think that's a pretty good argument to move the attorney general and find somebody who wants to support a growing economy" says @christyclarkbc #cdnpoli https://t.co/csF1OfyNnG "If you're talking about [----] jobs and the"
X Link 2019-03-09T01:59Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
""Canadian Real Estate Prices Grew Over 25x Faster Than U.S. Prices Since [----]. This is not a normal trend" says @BetterDwelling #Vanre #onpoli #BCpoli #Vancouver #torontorealestate #Toronto https://betterdwelling.com/canadian-real-estate-prices-grew-over-25x-faster-than-u-s-prices-since-2005/ https://betterdwelling.com/canadian-real-estate-prices-grew-over-25x-faster-than-u-s-prices-since-2005/"
X Link 2021-01-22T19:29Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"The Bank of Montreals chief economist Douglas Porter reports Canadian housing prices are a whopping 40% above U.S. levels. He and others explain why. #CDNpoli #BCpoli #housing #Vanre #torontorealestate #CDNimm #immigration #Vanpoli #Toronto https://vancouversun.com/opinion/columnists/douglas-todd-condo-prices-in-border-lockdown-limbo-in-vancouver-toronto https://vancouversun.com/opinion/columnists/douglas-todd-condo-prices-in-border-lockdown-limbo-in-vancouver-toronto"
X Link 2021-02-08T17:49Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
""The evidence backs a century-old theory that the nations greatest prehistoric monument #Stonehenge was built in #Wales" - the land I might note of my grandmother. The land at St. David's is magical like B.C. but with better beaches. #UKPolitics https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/feb/12/dramatic-discovery-links-stonehenge-to-its-original-site-in-walesCMP=share_btn_tw https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/feb/12/dramatic-discovery-links-stonehenge-to-its-original-site-in-walesCMP=share_btn_tw"
X Link 2021-02-13T02:00Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
""Ottawa has decided home price inflation is an uncontrollable consequence of the environment. In fact the central bank welcomed the rapid home price growth as 'needed.' Thats not normal. Not by a long shot" says @StephenPunwasi #Vanre #Onpoli #bcpoli https://betterdwelling.com/bank-of-canada-wants-a-housing-bubble-while-other-central-banks-try-to-pop-them/ https://betterdwelling.com/bank-of-canada-wants-a-housing-bubble-while-other-central-banks-try-to-pop-them/"
X Link 2021-03-10T02:47Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Canadians' "addiction to cheap credit and expensive housing has led to an epic borrowing spree. Households now devote more of their income to paying off debt than any other country in the G7" says @StephenPunwasi #Vanre #onpoli #cdnpoli #bcpoli #ToRe https://betterdwelling.com/canadians-spend-65-more-income-servicing-debt-than-americans-highest-in-g7/utm_source=Better+Dwelling+Website+Signup&utm_campaign=b502e77131-fras_jan_112018-3094981_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_bde8feedee-b502e77131-309110005"
X Link 2021-03-24T23:10Z 10K followers, [---] engagements
"Canadian real-estate prices hit pause - as Vancouver finally falls from record highs says @NationalBank. Few cheering but at least the pandemic/low-interest buying frenzy is subsiding for now. #vanre #tore #vanpoli #onpoli #cdnpoli #bcpoli https://betterdwelling.com/canadian-real-estate-prices-hit-pause-as-vancouver-falls-from-record-national-bank/utm_source=Better+Dwelling+Website+Signup&utm_campaign=7c8741d9fc-fras_jan_112018-3094981_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_bde8feedee-7c8741d9fc-309110005"
X Link 2021-10-22T00:25Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
""Canadian real estate is unaffordable but you dont appreciate how bad the reality is until you look at its G7 peers" says @BetterDwelling. While Ottawa evades. (In chart Canada is the red line) #housingcrisis #vanre #torontorealestate #onpoli #BCpoli https://betterdwelling.com/canada-has-the-biggest-gap-between-real-estate-prices-and-incomes-in-the-g7/ https://betterdwelling.com/canada-has-the-biggest-gap-between-real-estate-prices-and-incomes-in-the-g7/"
X Link 2021-12-15T20:12Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
""In British Columbia 15% of individual owners held 29% of the provincial housing stock." Even more skewed in Ontario. Some call it 'hoarding.' Via @rachyounglai #vanre #BCpoli #vanpoli #onpoli #cdnpoli #housing https://www.theglobeandmail.com/investing/personal-finance/household-finances/article-canada-real-estate-prices-explained/utm_medium=Referrer:+Social+Network+/+Media&utm_campaign=Shared+Web+Article+Links"
X Link 2022-04-20T15:13Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Canadian real estate prices are about to get downward pressure not seen in decades says @BMO. #bcpoli #onpoli #vanre #vanpoli https://betterdwelling.com/canadian-real-estate-is-about-to-see-rate-pressure-not-seen-since-the-90s-crash-bmo/ https://betterdwelling.com/canadian-real-estate-is-about-to-see-rate-pressure-not-seen-since-the-90s-crash-bmo/"
X Link 2022-06-03T15:59Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"With record household debt & interest rates rising "the housing market is adjusting rather quickly. In May Greater Toronto home sales plunged 39% year-over-year 31% in Greater Vancouver and a whopping 54% in the Fraser Valley" says @SteveSaretsky #Vanre #Vanpoli #bcpoli"
X Link 2022-06-06T15:40Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
""Canada is forecast to see the biggest drop with real home prices falling 12%. France follows with a 9% drop and the US just 3%" says @BetterDwelling citing @GoldmanSachs. Bigger declines in cities. #vanre #bcpoli #Cdnpoli #cdnecon #torontorealestate https://betterdwelling.com/canadian-real-estate-prices-to-see-the-sharpest-drop-in-global-downturn-goldman/ https://betterdwelling.com/canadian-real-estate-prices-to-see-the-sharpest-drop-in-global-downturn-goldman/"
X Link 2022-07-04T20:05Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Greater #Vancouver real estate prices just made the 2nd biggest monthly drop ever says @BetterDwelling A typical home is now lower than Jan. [----]. "Prices are dropping fast and [--] more months like this can wipe out annual gains." #vanre #vanpoli #bcpoli https://betterdwelling.com/city/vancouver/greater-vancouver-real-estate-prices-just-made-the-second-biggest-monthly-drop-ever/ https://betterdwelling.com/city/vancouver/greater-vancouver-real-estate-prices-just-made-the-second-biggest-monthly-drop-ever/"
X Link 2022-08-04T17:38Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Canadian Real Estate Prices To Fall 30% Early Stages of Recession Are Here: Ox Econ - Better Dwelling https://betterdwelling.com/canadian-real-estate-prices-to-fall-30-early-stages-of-recession-are-here-ox-econ/ https://betterdwelling.com/canadian-real-estate-prices-to-fall-30-early-stages-of-recession-are-here-ox-econ/"
X Link 2022-11-27T03:02Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"The @CityofVancouver is having trouble delivering basic services: - No snow removal on side streets - No garbage pick-up at our place for [--] weeks - Fitness centres closed for [--] days when people have time & need for them But taxes rise 6%/year #vanpoli @KenSimCity @AdrianeCarr"
X Link 2022-12-27T20:17Z [----] followers, 38.1K engagements
"Advocates for hiking #Immigration targets continually emphasize the cost of caring for a bulge of seniors. But this @TheEconomist chart suggests Canada doesn't have much of a problem. #cdnimm @mikalskuterud @TristinHopper @Andrew_Griffith #cdnpoli https://www.economist.com/europe/2023/01/10/emmanuel-macron-unveils-his-pension-reforms https://www.economist.com/europe/2023/01/10/emmanuel-macron-unveils-his-pension-reforms"
X Link 2023-01-28T16:19Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Okay. Thats a wrap. Just cycled out to pick up a few belongings at the Vancouver Sun newsroom at Broadway and Renfrew. Its shutting down. We will all work remotely as we have been for [--] years. Most prefer it this way. End of an era for the newspaper which is [---] years old"
X Link 2023-04-10T17:52Z [----] followers, 351.1K engagements
"Canadian real estate prices propped up by longer repayment schedules says @OSFICanada. "It's spelt 'extended amortization' but pronounced 'investor bailout' quips @StephenPunwasi. It's keeping prices high. 1/2 #vanre #cdnpoli #bcpoli #vanpoli https://betterdwelling.com/canadian-real-estate-prices-propped-up-by-longer-repayment-bank-regulator/ https://betterdwelling.com/canadian-real-estate-prices-propped-up-by-longer-repayment-bank-regulator/"
X Link 2023-05-16T18:49Z [----] followers, 41.2K engagements
"- 71% of Conservative voters back Pierre Poilievre as party leader - Of usual NDP voters Jagmeet Singh garnered 63% support - only 42% of those who usually vote Liberal say they prefer Justin Trudeau as leader. Via @ianabailey and @niknanos #CDNpoli"
X Link 2023-07-09T21:23Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Pet peeve. The trouble with going for a drive is you can end up listening to the radio where chirpy announcers often say its unfortunate its cloudy today. They then cheerfully pronounce tomorrow will be a great day - of sunshine. But I like high-cloud BC days. Am I alone"
X Link 2023-07-10T23:36Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Acclaimed #Toronto principal Richard Bilkszto was bullied in a #diversity equity and inclusion training session for questioning facilitators' claim Canada was more racist than the U.S. Persistently accused of racism he took his own life. Via @sarkonakj"
X Link 2023-07-25T02:39Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"German university ends ties with China scholarship scheme - to reduce the risk of industrial espionage. It's the 1st university in Germany to break with the Chinese gov. Others in Sweden Denmark the Netherlands and US have done so #cdnedu #cdnpoli"
X Link 2023-07-25T02:38Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"When short-term rentals started it was about renting your principal residence for a couple weeks while you were on vacation. However over time short-term rentals have morphed into becoming mini-hotels" says @mortimer_1 Via @joanneleeyoung"
X Link 2023-08-02T15:46Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"2/ B.C. Housing Minister @KahlonRav said the province is developing legislation to address concerns around short-term rentals which will be introduced in the fall. Meanwhile illegal @airbnb listings are out of control in #Vancouver @mortimer_1 @joanneleeyoung #vanre #vanpoli"
X Link 2023-08-02T15:49Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Cities haven't been able to craft effective regulations on short-term home rentals. "Their approaches are driven by the same fundamental fear: Left unchecked home-sharing sites drive up rents and displace existing residents." #vanre #vanpoli #bcpoli"
X Link 2023-08-02T23:23Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Why Ambleside Village is hurting in high-end West Vancouver (Part 2) A large proportion of homes are under-utilized. Many wealthy transnational people often continue to stay in other dwellings around the globe says @Ayan604 #vanre #Vanpoli #bcpoli"
X Link 2023-08-03T23:45Z [----] followers, 10.3K engagements
"The CCP weaponizes the Chinese media to gain election intervention says former Sing Tao editor Victor Ho. To do this the Chinese consulates in Canada make every effort to influence the top Chinese editing teams. Via @scoopercooper #cdnmedia #cdnpoli"
X Link 2023-08-04T18:43Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Justin Trudeau must reduce "#immigration floodgates" until housing construction catches up says @NationalBank chief economist @StefaneMarion. @abacusdataca polls shows 61% believe immigration target too high. #cdnimm #ICYMI #cdnpoli #onpoli #qcpoli"
X Link 2023-08-08T17:45Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
""In the short term the housing crisis cannot be solved it can only be mitigated. Building new housing takes time. In the meantime reducing immigration temporarily to pre-pandemic levels would help" says Prof. Michael Veall @McMasterU and @CanEconomics. #cdnimm #vanre"
X Link 2023-08-09T19:13Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"A spate of Vancouver writers have been digging into how #China is impacting Canadian politics academia media business & culture and distorting the concept of human rights. Including: @scoopercooper @joannachiu @jwmanthorpe @madeleinethien My latest"
X Link 2023-08-10T16:01Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Canadas new housing minister has only been in office for a few days and already stumbled says @StephenPunwasi Min. @SeanFraserMP pledged to make housing more affordable without lowering prices. He dropped suggestions to reinforce higher prices"
X Link 2023-08-12T03:20Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
""It may create the perception that political considerations are influencing the appointment system and perhaps the most capable judges are not being appointed in favour of partisan interests says @TroyRiddell #cdnpoli #onpoli"
X Link 2023-08-12T16:20Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Canada's record level of foreign students - at 807k - is 30% higher than ever. Carleton U's @StevePomeroy is informed & brave enough to say the obvious: Ottawa's exploitive policy is making rents skyrocket. #vanre #cdnpse #cdnpoli via @BryanPassifiume"
X Link 2023-08-12T23:44Z [----] followers, 18.4K engagements
"Well spotted @Ralston727 Despite what immigration min @MarcMillerVM says about the need to bring in tens of thousands of foreign construction workers there are actually big layoffs in the industry. #cdnpoli"
X Link 2023-08-13T03:14Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Vancouver led the way as Canada's priciest city for renters with the average one-bedroom unit listed at $2945 and a two-bedroom at $3863 followed by nearby Burnaby. Thank Justin Trudeau's policies. Directly. #cdnpoli #BCpoli via @VancouverSun"
X Link 2023-08-13T04:33Z [----] followers, 19.8K engagements
"It is the unprecedented number of foreign students & temporary workers in Canada - [---] million - that is overwhelming housing & health care say Anne Michele Meggs. Post-secondary institutions & businesses are in charge. #cdnimm #cdnpoli #onpoli #BCpoli"
X Link 2023-08-14T22:12Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Almost [--] % of American girls have clinical depression and its the same across the Anglosphere says Dr. @jean_twenge The suicide rate for ten- to 24-year-olds has tripled. She attributes much of it social media"
X Link 2023-08-15T16:41Z [----] followers, 123.4K engagements
"Avg. rent for 1-bed apartment in Vancouver tops $3k a month. -16% jump in one year. Via & @katiederosayyj @kahlonrvavi knows it's side-effect of Ottawa bringing in record [---] m foreign students & temporary workers. #BCpoli #vanre"
X Link 2023-08-15T23:11Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"REAL ESTATE REGRETS More than one in three Canadians regret their current mortgage situation. Then again over half of Canadians cant quote the current interest rate. Via the Real Estate and Mortgage Institute of Canada (REMIC). @wwwREMICca"
X Link 2023-08-16T23:31Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
""The Liberal government has gone to extraordinary lengths to give employers a nearly unlimited supply of low-wage workers with many of those now arriving via the education visa stream" says @tonykeller1 #CDNimm #cdnpoli #immigration #BCpoli #cdnpse"
X Link 2023-08-18T17:32Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Evergrandes bankruptcy may be just the beginning of Chinas real estate crisis Now investors watch nervously as Country Garden which employs 300k people misses two payments on its debt. What's it mean for #CDNpoli and real estate @ronmortgageguy"
X Link 2023-08-19T23:45Z [----] followers, 22.3K engagements
"Thanks @ronmortgageguy. That's what I was wondering. Will CPC members who own houses in Vancouver etc. be forced to sell by Xi Or will CPC insiders and cronies with properties in Canada etc. continue to be able to operate under the table #vanre #Bcpoli @StephenPunwasi"
X Link 2023-08-20T16:28Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Feds to consider caps on foreign students as housing crisis grows says fedl. Housing Min. @SeanFraserMP At least he mentions it. But truly do not get your hopes up for anything but verbiage on housing or migration. #vanre #cdnpoli #Liberals"
X Link 2023-08-22T01:06Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
""Canada is probably sitting on the largest housing bubble of all time" says @phillipcolmar of @mrbpartners. The level of debt of Canadians in comparison to their incomes has many in a precarious position should rates rise. #cdnpoli #onpoli #vanre"
X Link 2023-08-23T02:47Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Beijing allegedly tried to run candidate against popular Canadian Mayor @BradWestPoCo. Port Coquitlam mayor thinks Canadians need to know the details. as the Trudeau government remains inactive on Chinese threats. Via @scoopercooper #cdnpoli #bcpoli"
X Link 2023-08-23T15:34Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Vancouver International Airport (@yvrairport) says there are now only [--] non-stop flights per week between Vancouver and China. That compares with [--] flights per week a few years ago. Possible retaliation by China. Via @derrickpenner #vanpoli #vanre"
X Link 2023-08-23T15:40Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
""The visa-student pathway. has become an important though unofficial stream of temporary foreign workers a bottomless supply of labour to flip burgers stack boxes & deliver late-night burritos at minimum wage" says @tonykeller1 There is no cap"
X Link 2023-08-23T17:45Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Canadian universities & colleges - esp. small private ones - rely on foreign students for dollars which is why they're speaking out against limits reports @RyanTumilty Long gone are claims of 'best and brightest" & "campus diversity." #cdnpoli #cdnpse"
X Link 2023-08-24T15:57Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"The Cullen report found currency exchanges are at medium to very high risk for money laundering underground banking terrorist financing and avoiding Western sanctions such as those against #Iran. There are 400+ in B.C. alone. #cdnecon #cdnpoli"
X Link 2023-08-24T19:27Z [----] followers, 56.6K engagements
"Remember the [--] billion trees Justin Trudeau promised to plant back in [----] after his heart to heart talk with the teenage Swedish climate activist @GretaThunberg Never happened. Isnt happening. Via Paul Wells & @TerryGlavin #cdnpoli #kelownafires"
X Link 2023-08-25T18:16Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"1 in [--] people now in Canada are international students. [------]. Per capita the number of foreign students is 4x greater than in the US. "Canadas plan may backfire as more students feel exploited esp. over housing conditions" says @StephenPunwasi"
X Link 2023-08-29T21:50Z [----] followers, 16.7K engagements
"The source countries of Canada's foreign students is changing as tensions rise with China"
X Link 2023-08-29T21:51Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"A million more non-permanent residents live in Canada than official figures Liberals told. @CIBC's Benjamin Tal says the number of non-permanent residents in the country is closer to [--] million. That's counting those who don't leave. #cdnpoli #cdnimm"
X Link 2023-08-30T18:18Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"The shiney new Vancouver. Some condos held empty for years waiting for higher bidder. While the tax revenue on unsold condos added millions to support affordable housing it will not continue to do so because of council's ABC-majority. #vanre #vanpoli"
X Link 2023-08-30T19:16Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Update: [--] readers tried to trade Canadian dollars for Euros and American dollars at [--] different currency exchanges in Ambleside Village. The currency exchanges told them they didn't have American dollars or Euros. Anyone care @rcmpgrcpolice @Dave_Eby"
X Link 2023-08-30T21:18Z [----] followers, 11.4K engagements
"Productivity in Canada is down 1.4% year-over-year and has contracted outright. [--] of the past [--] quarters says @EconguyRosie. Ottawa has "camouflaged the situation via aggressive immigration." #cdnecon #cdnpoli #onpoli"
X Link 2023-08-31T16:13Z [----] followers, 25.6K engagements
""Remember Nortel" asks @TashaKheiriddin. Rightly so. "The Ottawa company was a global leader in the tech business" (but Investors) lost their shirts after it was revealed "Chinese state-sponsored hacking was really to blamefor the benefit of Huawei.""
X Link 2023-08-31T16:31Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Boom Bust and Echo was one of the best-selling books of all time in Canada. Yet Vancouver co-author Daniel Stoffman who died this summer later showed it was misconstrued in regard to immigration policy. #cdnimm #cdnpoli #Bcpoli #onpoli #babyboom https://vancouversun.com/opinion/columnists/douglas-todd-popular-book-on-baby-boomers-misinterpreted-by-canadian-politicians https://vancouversun.com/opinion/columnists/douglas-todd-popular-book-on-baby-boomers-misinterpreted-by-canadian-politicians"
X Link 2023-09-01T01:05Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"#Punjabi international students in #SurreyBC are dying at high rates from drug overdoses say faith leaders funeral homes & others. But ethnic-based data regarding the overdoses is not released. Via @rumneeek #bcpoli #internationalstudents #opioid"
X Link 2023-09-01T21:55Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"The U.S. has about [--] million foreign students in [----] - Canada has about the same number if not more (due to undercounting according to @cibc) - Canada's population is 1/10th the U.S. #cdnpse #cdnpoli #internationalstudents #vanpoli #vanre #tore"
X Link 2023-09-02T20:16Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"'Vancouver authors pour out books on Chinas impact' Just updated this with another fabulous novel about China and the Cultural Revolution. The fictional memoirs of talented lawyer-writer George Lee. #vanpoli #china #cdnlit @guernica_ed #cdnpoli"
X Link 2023-09-05T16:44Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Its becoming obvious in Canada the international-student system is a cash cow for governments and post-secondary institutions And it's creating issues for the students themselves who are heating up the competition for a place to live. #cdnpoli #cdnimm"
X Link 2023-09-06T15:32Z [----] followers, 14.6K engagements
"This alas is how easy it is for Starbucks to shut down union drives. It was only February when [--] workers at the Denman Street caf in Vancouver voted to join @SteelworkersCA. @BradWestPoCo #vanpoli"
X Link 2023-09-06T15:56Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Why UBC Properties Trust is still not subject to provincial freedom of information laws. That's even while UBCPT has grown UBCs endowment from $100 million in the 1980's to nearly $2.8 billion today. Good story from @Ubyssey and @FionaSjaus #Vanre"
X Link 2023-09-06T21:04Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"#Vancouver aims for 20% affordability in some new housing projects. #Why not 50% How to really change zoning to increase housing affordability throughout Metro. #vanpoli #BCpoli #Burnaby"
X Link 2023-09-08T20:29Z [--] followers, [----] engagements
""Welltrend Consulting of Beijing used a Canadian lawyer's name on applications for [--] dozen immigrants without permission" Yet lawyer Lihua Bau had already "pre-signed blank application forms" for the immigration program. IE. Bau was asking for trouble"
X Link 2023-09-10T21:16Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
""The housing market has been isolated from the pain of rate hikes thanks to multi-decade lows in new listings. I get a sense that might change soon based on the anecdotal conversations Im having across the industry" says @SteveSaretsky #cdnpoli"
X Link 2023-09-12T20:58Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"When Vancouver elected a Chinese mayor I felt incredibly proud says Weihong Liu owner of [--] B.C. malls. Although Mayor Ken Sim is from Hong Kong & Liu from China Liu believes theres something in common because they both have yellow faces. 1/3"
X Link 2023-09-12T21:50Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"2/ In this amazing interview with [--] Below TV billionaire Liu shows off her mansion near UBC and refutes rumours incl. allegations: 1) shes the mistress of a high-level Chinese Communist party official 2) "a white glove" (money launderer) for Beijing Via @BlueBellsForest 2/3"
X Link 2023-09-12T21:57Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"3/3 Here's my earlier piece on how Weihong Liu bought up [--] B.C. shopping malls incl. from the Tsawwassen First Nation. Good to see an extensive interview with her where she excitedly says "I can run for mayor premier or even prime minister #cdnpoli"
X Link 2023-09-12T22:02Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"A tense meeting between India's Narendra #Modi & #Trudeau coincided with voting in #SurreyBC on a referendum for a Sikh homeland called Khalistan. Haven't seen comment from @theJagmeetSingh who was banned from India for his Khalistan views. #cdnpoli"
X Link 2023-09-13T23:02Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"2/ Reasons politicians don't want prices to fall: - False belief prices must rise - Fear homeowners at election time - Housing dominates economy - Prefer leaving dirty work to Bank of Canada - Developers are big political donors - Many own investment properties #vanre #cdnpoli"
X Link 2023-09-19T00:26Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"The Bureaus analysis suggests Trudeaus administration has frequently failed to act on CSIS warnings regarding Chinese and Indian diplomats interfering in diaspora communities and Canadian elections. Via @samcoopernews #sikhs #cdnpoli"
X Link 2023-09-19T15:34Z [--] followers, [----] engagements
".@VancouverSun "analytics" show this early piece is trending again. In light of Trudeau saying India was likely behind the murder of a Khalistani activist in Surrey. Explains why Canadian Sikhs punch so much above their weight in politics. #cdnpoli"
X Link 2023-09-19T15:41Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"If you want to buy a home in Vancouver you would need to be making almost $250k a year. A sick city. Politicians mostly spout "affordability" platitudes & focus on "supply" which can't do the trick. A generation being sacrificed. #vanre #vanpoli"
X Link 2023-09-19T17:02Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"My latest: Trudeau's high-profile gamble aims to divert attention from his failings. - while reinforcing his political support among Sikh Canadians. -Canada's 800k Sikhs are divided though. And 800k Canadian Hindus are distressed. #Khalistanis #cdnpoli"
X Link 2023-09-20T23:14Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"2/ Even though the number of Hindus in Canada is about the same as that of Sikhs and many Hindus are shocked by Trudeaus attack on India Sikhs are more politically organized particularly in crucial ridings in Greater Toronto Metro Vancouver and Calgary. #cdnpoli #onpoli"
X Link 2023-09-21T16:18Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"With Trudeau giving no evidence against India @TerryGlavin's theory is also "credible." IE: Those who shot Hardeep Singh Nijjar "may have been bent on revenge for the recent killing in Surrey of the pro-Modi reformed Khalistani Ripudaman Singh Malik.""
X Link 2023-09-21T17:52Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Outrageous: Sikhs for Justice leader tells Indo-Canadian Hindus to leave Canada. "Indo-Canadian Hindus you have repudiated your allegiance to Canada." said Gurpatwant Singh Pannun. "Your destination is India. Leave Canada. Go to India." #cdnpoli"
X Link 2023-09-23T18:13Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"2/ This is the video where the organizer of the #SurreyBC "referendum" on Khalistan calls on Hindu-Canadians to leave this country. Why is the anti-hate-speech movement so quiet about the behavior of Sikhs for Justice leader Gurpatwant Singh Pannu"
X Link 2023-09-23T18:21Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
".@KahlonRav calls on Trudeau to tie housing to in-migration targets. - "Not only to make sure people here have housing but also the people that come. "The challenge is around temporary residents." Their numbers "are really high." #VANRE @UBCM #BCPOLI https://vancouversun.com/opinion/dan-fumano-b-c-cabinet-ministers-peppered-with-housing-related-woes-at-ubcm https://vancouversun.com/opinion/dan-fumano-b-c-cabinet-ministers-peppered-with-housing-related-woes-at-ubcm"
X Link 2023-09-23T23:36Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Canada's Hindu population of 828k many of whom feel threatened by pro-Khalistan activism is growing and becoming a political force. It's a game-changer for federal politicians esp. in Toronto & Vancouver. My latest. 1/3 #cdnpoli #onpoli #india #bcpoli"
X Link 2023-09-28T14:43Z [----] followers, 146.1K engagements
"First report in @VancouverSun on India's charges against slain Khalistani activist Hardeep Nijjar. By @cherylchan In [----] he was accused of running a "terror" camp near Mission B.C. training with AK-47s. A deadly bombing too. India asked Canada to look into. #CDNpoli #BCpoli"
X Link 2023-09-28T21:51Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"While it remains the worst mass murder in Canadian history an Angus Reid poll ahead of the 38th anniv. of the bombing found [--] in [--] people had little or no knowledge of the incident. No wonder Canadians dont understand Khalistan activism. #cdnpoli"
X Link 2023-09-30T15:59Z [----] followers, 23.4K engagements
"International students in Canadian UNIVERSITIES tilt male are increasingly from China and study in a variety of disciplines with some preference towards science engineering and business" says @HESA_News Meanwhile most COLLEGE students from India #CDNpse #Cdnpoli 1/2"
X Link 2023-10-01T14:22Z [----] followers, 21.7K engagements
"@RockatTheSpec You would know @RockatTheSpec. You were the Vancouver Sun city and assignment editor when we were fully detailing how Khalistanis were behind the Air India bombing. But lack of proper policing let families and Canadians down"
X Link 2023-10-01T16:46Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Fascinating how many countries with later retirement ages are more successful. @visualcap charts retirement in [--] countries. Some big regional differences. Canada in the high middle of the pack. #cdnpoli #onpoli #bcpoli"
X Link 2023-10-02T22:16Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
".@BMO warns the countrys economy resembles a recession once population-adjusted. Growth is supposed to be easy with a migration-fueled population boom but this one has become inflationary. Via Daniel Wong @BetterDwelling #cdnecon #cdnpoli #bcpoli"
X Link 2023-10-03T02:47Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"The [--] luxury apt. renovations were taking about [--] years says city of Vancouver. City defends $411k in empty homes tax. This tax evasion scam of delaying construction needs to be stopped. Wonder who owners are #vanre #vanpoli #bcpoli @SusanLazaruk"
X Link 2023-10-04T16:17Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Oops. Lauded New Zealand study doesn't actually show mass upzoning works. Scholars reveal any increase in housing in #auckland - was minimal - sparked more 'approvals' than builds - normal part of business cycle. My latest. #cdnpoli #bcpoli #vanre"
X Link 2023-10-05T21:02Z [----] followers, 41K engagements
"B.C. law would make drug use illegal in most public spaces Lisa LaPointe head of @bccoroners calls it "tremendously disappointing." LaPointe is defying @Dave_Eby expressing her own theories. Will she last #bcpoli #vanpoli"
X Link 2023-10-07T16:59Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"The [----] Air India bombing has been declared. the largest mass murder in Canadian history yet in many news and scholarly articles on the Khalistan movement (it) is not even considered worth a mention says @McMasterU's @chandri_mac Via @anirudhb"
X Link 2023-10-07T18:18Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Here is my interview with Claudia Goldin who just won the #Nobel prize for economics Fortin is among [--] female economists who believe the pay gap at the top has less to do with overt discrimination and more to do with womens decisions. #cdnecon"
X Link 2023-10-10T02:38Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"This is what the developer @BentallGreenOak is proposing for the vacant Safeway lot in Vancouver's struggling Point Grey Village. #Vanpoli #vanre #BCpoli Includes [--] towers - of [--] and [--] storeys. 'Friends of Point Grey Village' reviewing. 1/2"
X Link 2023-10-10T16:37Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"2/2 The crumbling of Vancouver's affluent Point Grey Village How Point Grey Villages now-bleak shopping zone lost its vibrancy offers lessons for across the region. #vanpoli #vanre #BCpoli"
X Link 2023-10-10T17:05Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Foreign-student dreams being crushed in 'greedy' Canada It's exploitation of developing nations "a new form of colonialism" says @BarjDhahan of Canada India Foundation. [--] of [--] want to be citizens says new survey. My latest: #cdnpse #cdnpoli #onpoli"
X Link 2023-10-10T23:45Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Toronto currency exchange tied to $3.5b case involving money-laundering via Hezbollah and Iran. @scoopercooper' article on Cameron Ortis spy trial goes to the heart of concerns I was raising about the proliferation of currency exchanges. #cdnpoli 2/2"
X Link 2023-10-14T21:12Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"'Upzone everything' suggests Expo lands developer who changed Vancouver forever Stanley Kwok [--] believes Metro Vancouver residents must get used to smaller dwellings not unlike in Hong Kong. Kwok is second from right in photo. My latest #vanre"
X Link 2023-10-17T20:38Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"#Vancouver developers seek deadline extensions on downtown highrises with a total of [---] units. Yet another sign don't dramatically boost housing construction unless they think the time is ripe for profit. It's just the way it is. #Vanpoli #bcpoli"
X Link 2023-10-17T23:13Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"People need to understand the systematic brutal cruelty of Hamas. Any organization like this has to be destroyed. And no one should condone or excuse or deny" says @BobRae48 Canada's UN ambassador. Iran he says supplies Hamas Hezbollah. #cdnpoli"
X Link 2023-10-20T15:09Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"The banality of terrorism Saw this poster at the till of a cafe in Kitsilano Vancouver. At least [--] sponsor of this "freedom for Palestine" march tomorrow is judged a pro-terror organization. Samidoun was banned this month in Germany. Staff smiled; didn't want to know. 1/2"
X Link 2023-10-21T01:08Z [----] followers, 20.5K engagements
"2/2 Germany will ban the pro-Palestinian group Samidoun Chancellor Olaf Scholz said last week. Its members were celebrating Islamist Hamas "terror" in Israel on German streets the Chancellor said. #cdnpoli @HonestRepCanada"
X Link 2023-10-21T01:21Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Samidoun leader in Vancouver says only reason it does not unleash its violence on Canadians is it doesnt need another enemy. Says doesnt fear Canadians. F- them. Says our enemy is Israel. #cdnpoli https://vancouversun.com/opinion/columnists/douglas-todd-bc-imam-condemns-murdering-israel-and-muslims-who-voted-for-trudeau/wcm/5133ff7a-6047-4c62-bccd-1cee75594636/amp https://vancouversun.com/opinion/columnists/douglas-todd-bc-imam-condemns-murdering-israel-and-muslims-who-voted-for-trudeau/wcm/5133ff7a-6047-4c62-bccd-1cee75594636/amp"
X Link 2023-10-22T22:19Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"UBC Prof. David Ley says cooling off measures need to be implemented in a continuous way in Vancouver as in Singapore. There has to be much more determination to control the entire property investment picture foreign and local." Via @GoldinYVR"
X Link 2023-10-23T16:40Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Trust is dying in Vancouvers civic engagement process. Just when a neighbourhood group finds some common ground with the city and a highrise developer the common ground is often taken away. It's a kind of betrayal. #vanre #vanpoli #bcpoli 1/3"
X Link 2023-10-23T22:44Z [----] followers, 21.9K engagements
"B.C. to fast track migrants to fix . real estate agent shortage @StephenPunwasi not only one puzzled. B.C. already has 60% more realtors per capita than New York City & 200% more than Los Angeles. What are @Dave_Eby and @KahlonRav thinking #vanre"
X Link 2023-10-25T22:17Z [----] followers, 17.4K engagements
"Chinese interference Whistleblower implicates Trudeau's Senator and National Security Advisor. Amazing stuff from @scoopercooper on how the ultra-rich from China and Hong Kong often came in illicitly to Canada esp Vancouver. #bcpoli #cdnpoli"
X Link 2023-10-29T00:40Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"This chart by @visualcap shows the prime 'investment' of the global super-rich (those worth more than $30m) is secondary homes. Reveals why Vancouver and Toronto are peppered with under-utilized mansions and empty luxury condos. #vanre #vanpoli #BCpoli"
X Link 2023-10-31T16:31Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Trudeau gives a special carbon-tax break on heating oil to Atlantic Canada because that's where the the Liberals have their only rural stronghold. It's Trudeau's Achilles Heel: Micro-targeting groups by region identity. Dividing the country. #cdnpoli"
X Link 2023-11-01T16:13Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Recognizing polls show Canadians less open to mass migration because of the housing and healthcare crises Immigration Min. @MarcMillerVM tries to speak realistically. And a bit condescendingly. Canadians "are not xenophobic" he says. #cdnimm"
X Link 2023-11-02T15:34Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"#China critic in Vancouver says hes the target of deepfake spamouflage attack by Beijing. Video shows a person who looks like Liu Xin making unfounded remarks about Justin Trudeau saying he is a man who loves porn. Strong story by @Nono_ubc"
X Link 2023-11-02T20:14Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
""The left insisted there was no such thing as a glibly censorious cancel culture. They liked to speak instead of an accountability culture .Now the cancellers wring their hands about being cancelled" says @TheEconomist"
X Link 2023-11-06T00:49Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"86% of Canadians believe Trudeau is "inauthentic" and "phony." That's an almost unbelievable drop in trust. Amazingly the figure gets worse (91%) among those who voted for him in [----]. #cdnpoli #onpoli #bcpoli"
X Link 2023-11-06T02:12Z [----] followers, 30.8K engagements
"Trudeau has the gall to now blame investors for the "commodification" of housing. He finally expresses concern about the investor glut which his policies unleashed. Thru excess credit excess migration. No wonder [--] of [--] say he's "phony." More below from @SteveSaretsky #VanRE"
X Link 2023-11-06T18:04Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"A threat by Sikhs For Justice causes India to ask Canada to step up security on Air India flights. SFJs Gurpatwant Singh Pannun warns Sikhs in a video on Saturday: Dont fly Air India after Nov. [--] your lives may be in danger. #cdnpoli @anirudhb"
X Link 2023-11-07T16:39Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"1 / The 'Wild West' in B.C. housing is mostly over but the devastation goes on. Foreign capital pours into the markets of 'gateway' cities like Vancouver. Local wage earners are left behind by libertarian economic policies. #vanre #bcpoli #China"
X Link 2023-11-07T22:29Z [----] followers, 18.5K engagements
"2 / Conventional housing market explanations are no longer adequate in gateway cities (like Vancouver) where fundamentals must be rescaled to include immigration offshore investors & the role of the global real estate industry says @UBCGeog's David Ley. #vanre #vanpoli"
X Link 2023-11-07T22:32Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
""Unlike anyone else in #Israels political landscape PM Benyamin Netanyahu is the only politician. in Israels system of proportional representation who stands to gain from polarization" reports @TerryGlavin. 80% of Israelis want him gone. #cdnpoli"
X Link 2023-11-09T21:21Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"This useful pie chart breaks down all carbon emissions by country. - China responsible for 30.9% of world's CO - U.S. for 13.5% - India for 7% - Canada for 1.5% Via @VisualCap #cdnpoli #china #uspoli"
X Link 2023-11-09T23:54Z [----] followers, 19.5K engagements
"Big houses huge lots. Shaughnessy Vancouvers ultrarich ghostlike neighbourhood is unlikely to change. Many want fewer mega-mansions and more people in Shaughnessy where the population has steeply declined. But it won't be easy. [--] / My latest"
X Link 2023-11-10T17:19Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Last month I wrote on why you shouldnt believe what you see in architectural renderings. Then I see the drawings for the 54-storey Pinnacle set for [---] Beach Ave. Vancouver. How does this spacious image equate with the actual location #vanre #vanpoli"
X Link 2023-11-12T02:16Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"The movement opposing NIMBYism is powerful but morally baffling. People like Housing Min. @SeanFraserMP (right) talk a lot about legalizing housing & inclusive zoning. But how progressive are self-proclaimed YIMBYs (yes in my backyard) My latest"
X Link 2023-11-17T16:56Z [----] followers, 87.9K engagements
"Richmond lawyer Hong Guo disbarred by @LawSocietyofBC Guo "is a former legal specialist for the state council of the Peoples Republic of China" reports @WestcoastWood. Did #immigration law incl. real-estate deals worth "hundreds of millions." #vanre"
X Link 2023-11-21T17:09Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"In principle the idea of building around SkyTrain stations. has logic" says Craig Ollenburger. But a city is not just a blank slate. Theres people and places and culture. If you obliterate all that. the speculation is going to be insane. #vanpoli"
X Link 2023-11-22T18:30Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Canadian jury finds ex-RCMP intelligence exec. Cameron Ortis guilty of leaking secrets to money launderers Vincent Ramos Salim Henareh Muhammad Ashraf & Farzam Mehdizadeh. Yay. Maybe we're not yet a banana republic. #cdnpoli @csiscanada @rcmpgrcpolice"
X Link 2023-11-22T22:46Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
".@CSIS says China infiltrated Canadian politics in [----]. Ex-Vancouver mayor @kennedystewart says: I cant help but think in any other G7 country this would be a red-alert. But here theres cross-party collusion to limit inquiry." Via @scoopercooper"
X Link 2023-11-26T01:34Z [----] followers, 34.4K engagements
"Canadian rents outpace income for the first time in [--] years: @BMO One reason is high in-migration. Another is investors used low interest rates to buy up most condos - at prices they couldn't sustain. Now they're jacking up rents says @StephenPunwasi. https://betterdwelling.com/canadian-rents-outpace-income-for-the-first-time-in-60-years-bmo/ https://betterdwelling.com/canadian-rents-outpace-income-for-the-first-time-in-60-years-bmo/"
X Link 2023-11-27T16:51Z [----] followers, 15.4K engagements
"Powerful federal @CdnHumanRights Commission proves it's out of touch with [--] of [--] Canadians according to @leger360. It declares Christmas holiday 'religious intolerance' & "discriminatory.' Even Liberal & #NDP politicians ignore $32m body. #cdnpoli"
X Link 2023-11-28T00:10Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Californians taken aback by vast gap between wages & housing costs in Vancouver [--] big things impact housing prices in crazy ways supply demand & finance. While also costly incomes in San Francisco are 61% higher than here. My latest. #VanRE #bcpoli"
X Link 2023-11-30T20:21Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Canadians going "full European" on immigration skepticism says @TerryGlavin . "Justin Trudeau's idea of a post-national state with no core values is about as fashionable in Canada now as it is in Europe." 1/2 #cdnpoli"
X Link 2023-12-01T20:46Z [----] followers, 14.6K engagements
".@RBC predicts 60% of all outstanding mortgages with Canadian banks will be up for renewal during the next [--] years. "This will lead to payment shocks." #cdnecon #cdnpoli #vanre #vanpoli"
X Link 2023-12-04T01:11Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Canada tries to save face by talking about a "limit" on foreign students - AFTER demand drops says @StephenPunwasi. So much from Trudeau's gov. is about manipulative messaging. Also known as BS. No wonder polls show [--] of [--] think he's "phony." #cdnpse"
X Link 2023-12-04T23:48Z [----] followers, 16.2K engagements
"Massive Brentwood towers trigger questions about #Burnaby planning. "Its a faceless monolithic block to me says Bimal Parmar describing [--] new towers as they are seen by drivers moving west along Lougheed Highway. My latest. #vanre #bcpoli #vanpoli"
X Link 2023-12-05T17:24Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"2/ A former Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. official doesnt think the massive project emerging at Concord Brentwood much resembles its pastoral architectural renderings. #Burnaby #vanre"
X Link 2023-12-06T05:18Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"CSIS wiretaps caught China's consul general and a federal candidate's "trusted" middleman plotting interference in [----] election. "The most compelling evidence yet to emerge regarding Beijings meddling in Canadas election" says @scoopercooper"
X Link 2023-12-06T22:17Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Nope Trudeau hasn't been 'vindicated' on India murder allegations says @TerryGlavin It's plausible India's Modi has gone rogue after [--] years of Canadian law-enforcement incompetence. But it's also possible gangster Nikhil Gupta talks BS. #cdnpoli"
X Link 2023-12-07T16:55Z [----] followers, 50.4K engagements
"Things I didn't know: The CBC employs 33% of all journalists in Canada. . In contrast the BBC employs less than 3% of Britain's [------] journalists. Seems relevant. #cdnmedia #BBC @CBCNews"
X Link 2023-12-07T18:04Z [----] followers, 38.8K engagements
"Battle goes on for ecological medium-rise buildings on #Vancouver's Jericho Lands. Developer says Indigenous culture informed every aspect of the concept. But group offers alternative vision (illustration) to the ultra-high-density plan. My latest"
X Link 2023-12-07T20:30Z [----] followers, 13.6K engagements
""Now we know why Ravi Kahlon refused to release housing model" says @VaughnPalmer. .@KahlonRav relies on advice and $410k contract with Jens von Bergmann of Mountain Math incl. #UBC profs Nathanael Lauster & Tsur Somerville. Polarizing choices"
X Link 2023-12-10T01:37Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Vancouver Park Board again rejects calls to convert golf courses into housing #icymi A former city councillor says the parks board November decision to not develop Langara golf course for housing could be irritating mayor Ken Sim & developers. #vanre"
X Link 2023-12-11T02:12Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Why has Europe been spared Canada's fentanyl disaster The death toll from #fentanyl in Europe is 'only' [---] per year. A look at what is happening on the other side of the Atlantic that's helped avoid this scourge esp. as it's hit B.C. My latest"
X Link 2023-12-11T22:22Z [----] followers, 71.8K engagements
"3/ @somerspsych says enforcement is necessary but not sufficient to curtail drug overdoses. Its crucial Canadian police work with those around the world on investigating and seizing drugs he says. And like others he stresses Canada must re-establish the harbour police force"
X Link 2023-12-13T18:04Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"4/ #Fentanyl got into the local drug supply (in 2015) via the China/Hong-Kong triad gangs says Dr. Bill MacEwan. They told dealers if they wanted to keep their cocaine supply they had to add fentanyl to it. They severely punished those who did not comply." #vanpoli #bcpoli"
X Link 2023-12-13T18:55Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Why is it open season on defence lawyers in BC asks Matthew Nathanson who has a point. "A gun was brought into a courtroom. Why hasn't there been an outcry from our AG or premier about this attack on our justice system The silence has been deafening.""
X Link 2023-12-14T23:15Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Victoria B.C. Imam Sheikh Younus Kathrada is at it yet again - calling for destruction of Jewish people. But B.C. politicians incl. from the city of Victoria don't raise a peep. I've asked them for their views. They don't get back to me. #islamophobia #cdnpoli"
X Link 2023-12-19T00:57Z [----] followers, 60K engagements
""In the context of Canadas affordability crisis take a look at this chart and ask if supply is really to blame here says @BMO economist Robert Kavcic. "In no version of reality can housing supply respond to an almost overnight tripling in new bodies.""
X Link 2023-12-21T20:15Z [----] followers, 21.2K engagements
"2/ "Its becoming clear the (Liberal Party's) plan isnt to diversify the country but to stimulate home prices and validate a real estate bubble" says @StephenPunwasi. "If youre wondering how this is sustainable its not." Truth telling. #vanre"
X Link 2023-12-21T20:19Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
""If Trudeau is truly worried about Trump-style politics being imported into Canada he should fix the massive policy failure that threatens to fuel it" says @camrclark "Thats the failure to control the unplanned boom in temporary residents." #cdnpoli"
X Link 2023-12-22T01:08Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"The story of the secularization of Canada focusses on the decline of 'European' Christianity. It misses that many Canadians of Chinese Korean and Filipino extraction esp. in #Vancouver are enthusiastic about the faith. My latest. For Christmas"
X Link 2023-12-22T17:24Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Canadian GDP struggles. Will get worse despite population boom says @RBC's Nathan Janzen. Canada's "output has now failed to advance for nearly half a year despite the record population boom that was expected to drive demand." Via @StephenPunwasi"
X Link 2023-12-23T01:35Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Some will recall the excellent break-out movie for Jack Nicholson Five Easy Pieces filmed on Vancouver Island. Former @vancouversun reporter @lpynn explains the story behind the famous scene in "The Red Rooster Cafe" in Chemainus. Want to watch it again"
X Link 2023-12-23T01:57Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Shots fired at house of son of prominent Hindu leader in #SurreyBC "The businessmans father is the head of a temple that was in the news when its members last month countered a protest of the secessionist group Sikhs for Justice." via @anirudhb #bcpoli"
X Link 2023-12-29T19:47Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Trudeaus real sins in [----] involved elections and ethics says @globeandmail editorial - denying impact of foreign interference - continuing "divisive ways" Editorial alas totally misses Trudeau's responsibility for horrible housing prices. #cdnpoli"
X Link 2023-12-29T20:12Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Reliance on temporary workers including foreign students has increased markedly in Canada says Jock Finlayson of @BizCouncilBC. "Over time this policy shift will likely put downward pressure on per capita GDP and income the opposite of smart policy." Data by @fenghu9"
X Link 2023-12-30T21:48Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"A record no. of Canadians are moving to countries "with brighter economic opportunities" discovers @BizCouncilBC economist David Williams. "This should be a wake-up call for. policymakers." Some leaving cite the high cost of housing. #cdnecon #cdnpoli"
X Link 2024-01-03T21:42Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"My most-read columns of [----] It's worthwhile to see what readers are most interested in which seems to be #Vancouver 's most wealthy struggling neighbourhoods. And of course the housing crisis Plus some surprises. #vanpoli #bcpoli #vanre"
X Link 2024-01-04T16:49Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"The top [--] news stories of [----] via @Google Search trends. They include [--] wars [--] hurricanes and [--] mass shootings - in the U.S. Note how quickly the media and the public lose interest. Ukraine already off our radar. 'Twas ever thus. via @visualcap"
X Link 2024-01-04T19:37Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"McMaster University sued for $77 million over alleged antisemitic incidents on campus. Tends to focus the mind of administrators. #cdnpoli via @nationalpost"
X Link 2024-01-05T00:14Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"#UBC professor of medicine resigns over its response to rising antisemitism Dr. Ted Rosenberg claims the university faculty of medicine has failed to address rising antisemitism on campus during the Israel-Hamas war. Via @joeruttle #UBC #bcpoli"
X Link 2024-01-05T02:35Z [----] followers, 14.8K engagements
"'Authentic' was 2023's word of the year and we need more of the right kind of it Leger found 86% believe Justin Trudeau is inauthentic and phoney. Pressure is also high on people to act as if they have the right beliefs. My latest. #cdnpoli"
X Link 2024-01-05T23:09Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Critics of Vancouver's massive Jericho Lands 40-tower project question lack of early hydrogeological study It's "strange" hidden streams and aquafers haven't been researched says Jericho Coalition #vanre #vanpoli @BillTieleman"
X Link 2024-01-06T00:45Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"2/ More than a few critics maintain the rise of #DEI is leading to compelled speech which is the opposite of free AUTHENTIC expression. Similarly many fear career consequences if they fail to offer a First Nations land acknowledgment however superficial. #cdnpoli"
X Link 2024-01-08T00:21Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"A reader says dwellings surrounding the Jericho Lands' proposed 40-tower project have gone down an average of about 4% in the past year. He'd like the block of 4-storey apartments to the east re-zoned FWIW. #vanre #van #vancouver @BillTieleman"
X Link 2024-01-08T00:27Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Terrific work on the direct connection between Canada's population boom & high house prices by economist David Williams at @BizCouncilBC This chart shows Metro Vancouver's prices basically fall in line with national factors esp record in-migration. Note impact of China $s"
X Link 2024-01-08T17:40Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
""Its as though somebody somewhere decided that Canada should be a country of landlords & strip mall college entrepreneurs preying upon an underclass of exhausted renters homeless people and foreign guest workers. Who voted for this" asks @TerryGlavin"
X Link 2024-01-09T02:40Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"The protests that have intimidated Torontos Jewish community will no longer be allowed Toronto police announced Thursday. Amazing they've been tolerated. I can't imagine such police permissiveness for the targeting of almost any other identity group"
X Link 2024-01-11T18:14Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Canadians are hammering their provincial politicians on housing says @angusreidorg. Whether renters mortgage holders or outside the market [--] of [--] say their legislatures are doing a "poor job." Too bad Canadians weren't asked to rate Ottawa. #cdnpoli"
X Link 2024-01-12T01:06Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Why so many Canadians are moving out of Vancouver the province and the country. High housing costs and a stagnant economy are causing a large number of Canadians to "vote with their feet." My latest. #cdnimm #vanre #cdnpoli #bcpoli #vanpoli"
X Link 2024-01-12T19:40Z [--] followers, 18.6K engagements
"2/ For every action there is a reaction. One response to record pop. growth 98% of which is fuelled by international migration is people vote with their feet says @bcbusiness. Canada and B.C. risk losing their brightest because the standard of living is flat or declining"
X Link 2024-01-12T19:47Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"3/ The Liberals claim bringing in a record 1.25m permanent & temporary residents in a year is the key to prosperity for all. But many economists incl. @bcbusiness's David Williams believe its actually masking stagnation. Vancouver housing costs & tepid wages push out many"
X Link 2024-01-12T20:08Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Vancouver's emergency shelters feel the squeeze as refugee claims nearly double in B.C. [----] asylum seeker claims made between January and November [----] a huge jump. Pressure on city's carrying capacity. #cdnimm #cdnpoli #bcpoli"
X Link 2024-01-13T17:17Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"David Green who gave Justin Trudeau's family a $9k a night Jamaican holiday "is a property investor and hotel magnate whos simply among the dense coterie of extremely wealthy people that have surrounded Trudeau his whole life" says @TristinHopper"
X Link 2024-01-14T00:17Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Canadas economy falling behind "U.S. households have seen their economic picture grow 10x faster than Canadian households over the decade." @OECD warns against relying on a debt-driven housing bubble. Ottawa oblivious. Via @StephenPunwasi #cdnpoli"
X Link 2024-01-15T21:39Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Trudeau botched immigration file say Canada's top bank economists. "Disastrously weak productivity & housing affordability are the biggest challenges" says @BMO's Douglas Porter. "Strong population growth is clearly a factor for both." #cdnpoli #onpoli"
X Link 2024-01-16T00:34Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Canada needs to reduce migration totals bank economists say. The @nationalbank's @StefaneMarion et al argue annual pop. growth should be 300k to 500k. Last year it was [---] million (98% from international migration). #cdnimm #cdnpoli #bcpoli #onpoli"
X Link 2024-01-16T03:33Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
""Don't block Vancouver's world-class mountain view" says letter writer D. Farmer "That wonderful mountain view is #Vancouvers golden egg a priceless asset that sets this city apart from most." #vanre #vanpoli"
X Link 2024-01-17T19:34Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
""It was clear to some of these women monitoring the border that Hamas was planning something big - that there was in Noa's words a "balloon that was going to burst". Their warnings went unheard"
X Link 2024-01-18T02:26Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"No G7 country has seen anything like Canadas real estate bubble says @StephenPunwasi. "Canadian media may be focused on a home price correction but its barely a correction." In chart Canada is the crazy red line. #vanre #cdnpoli #HousingCrisis"
X Link 2024-01-18T02:33Z [----] followers, 32.4K engagements
"Ottawa insider warns about immigrant-investor schemes The strange story of Vancouver is the name of an internal memo revealing the many things wrong with Canada's earlier business-investor programs. That hasn't stopped Ottawa. 1/My latest. #cdnpoli"
X Link 2024-01-18T20:33Z [----] followers, 65.8K engagements
"2/ The immigration dept. official explained only 15% of business-class immigrants started a business. They also tended to buy v. expensive houses in Vancouver Toronto etc. and pay unusually low income taxes. Despite warnings Ottawa is expanding its Startup Visa program. #cdnimm"
X Link 2024-01-18T21:22Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"3/ Researchers found the avg. value of a detached house bought by [----] millionaire immigrants who came to Metro Vancouver under the investor program was $3.2m. That compared to an average of $1.5m for a Canadian-born owner. #cdnimm @JohnPasalis @ronmortgageguy @MikePMoffatt"
X Link 2024-01-18T23:03Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Immigration min. urged to crack down on international student no shows. @StatCan_eng found [--] in [--] people with study permits did not attend college or university in Canada. I wrote about this in [----]. It's abuse encouraged by Ottawa. (See below)"
X Link 2024-01-19T02:50Z [----] followers, 16K engagements
"Drone video reveals ice-encrusted Christie Falls on Bush Creek on Vancouver Island. Impressive #bcstorm Via @lpynn"
X Link 2024-01-19T04:44Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"3/ It's an unfortunate reality some study-permit holders are told by dubious agents they can bypass school to focus on getting a job & permanent resident status in Canada said Laleh Sahba a Vancouver #immigration consultant in [----]. #cdnpoli #cdnimm"
X Link 2024-01-19T06:10Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Number of international students now exceeds [----] million official figures show. In [----] total was 637k. Less than 400k foreign students when Liberals first elected in [----]. No wonder rents are thru the roof for everyone including those on study visas"
X Link 2024-01-20T04:29Z [----] followers, 13.7K engagements
"Australia: 'Golden visa' scheme for wealthy investors axed. - 85% of successful applicants were coming from China - critics said it was used by corrupt foreign officials - Ottawa has similar startup visa scheme for investors #cdnpoli #cdnimm"
X Link 2024-01-22T13:53Z [----] followers, 31.1K engagements
"Please listen to @johnpasalis. His thread is devastating to those many economists who got Canadas housing affordability crisis almost completely wrong. It was and is not so much about @supply. Its been about demand. And so many are suffering because of their failure. Why did our federal government ignore the warnings of public servants if the impact of Canadas high population growth on housing was so obvious If you rewind the clock by more than [--] years you'll see that these impacts were not so obvious to some 1/ https://t.co/zAC9KAKLbQ Why did our federal government ignore the warnings of"
X Link 2024-01-23T00:27Z [----] followers, 28.9K engagements
"Commanders of 'most diverse' regiment say claims @canadianforces are racist are absurd Vancouver regiment consists of men and women of Filipino Arab Chinese Indigenous European South Asian Latin American and Korean heritage. #cdnpoli #bcpoli"
X Link 2024-01-23T15:12Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"British Labour Sir Keir Starmer set to win the next election: - peppers speeches with words like class family work respect security resilience duty service & country. - (Absent: equality freedom openness.) Different from Canada's 'left-wing'"
X Link 2024-01-25T00:00Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Congrats to the @LangaraVoice for breaking this story about instructor Natalie Knight who praised the #Hamas slaughter. The student journalists at the Vancouver college quoted Knight saying she'd "won" & been reinstated. But she was actually terminated. #vanpoli #bcpoli Langara College terminates instructor after she announced her reinstatement https://t.co/D7Op4KIrF7 Langara College terminates instructor after she announced her reinstatement https://t.co/D7Op4KIrF7"
X Link 2024-01-27T16:26Z [----] followers, 19.3K engagements
"It's very disturbing the federal government and the B.C. government has allowed foreign-student numbers and shady schools to run rampant. To ostensibly stimulate the economy. It's going to take years to undo the damage esp. for renters. #bcpoli #cdnpoli #cdnpse Student caps may slow rent growth but won't solve housing woes say economists https://t.co/SCYJ23Sr15 via @financialpost https://t.co/QiFu3nO4H0 Student caps may slow rent growth but won't solve housing woes say economists https://t.co/SCYJ23Sr15 via @financialpost https://t.co/QiFu3nO4H0"
X Link 2024-01-29T19:10Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"This graphic shows the world's most valuable brands from big tech giants to battery makers. Canada has only one entry - @TD_Canada bank (which comes in #100) The lack of Canadian productivity & innovation is startling. What's going wrong via @visualcap"
X Link 2024-01-30T17:22Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"2/ "There is a view in the fed. gov. you can pull the immigration policy lever and an embarrassment of riches comes your way. That its a panacea for all our economic woes. And its simply not. Via economist David Williams of @bcbusiness #cdnpoli"
X Link 2024-01-30T17:53Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"1/ "Insisting everyone should be defined by race & given a pecking order with the majority group ranked last & then demanding America admit millions more members of minority groups is a recipe for ensuring Trumps re-election." Via @TheEconomist"
X Link 2024-01-30T22:22Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"2/ "Pessimists on the left say the West will never let in many people because it is racist. "Yet British Indians Chinese-Canadians & Nigerian-Americans all earn more than their white compatriots suggesting racism is not the main determinant of their chances." Via @TheEconomist"
X Link 2024-01-30T22:26Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Changes to Land Act are huge despite B.C. minister's claims says @VaughnPalmer It flows from the [----] decision to incorporate the @UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Ex-councillor Gordon Price (@VWPTvancouver) concerned re Vancouver"
X Link 2024-01-30T23:10Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Port police should be reinstated to combat organized crime says B.C.'s @mikefarnworthbc A no-brainer. It's one of the acts needed to reduce illicit drugs flooding Canada esp. fentanyl. Port police should never have been disbanded #Bcpoli @kbolan"
X Link 2024-02-01T17:12Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"#RichmondBC investigates Beijing Mansion club on agricultural land reserve. Fabulous story - while distressing. Property on No. [--] Road marketed as ultra-exclusive private members club. Totally illegal. Via @Aaron_GlobalBC @emcsheff @endbirthtourism"
X Link 2024-02-01T20:01Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Why #Vancouver housing prices became so out of whack with the Western world. It suffers a double whammy in outrageous prices. It's a gateway for foreign capital. And it's in a country that compounds unaffordability thru unrivalled migration. 1/ My latest"
X Link 2024-02-01T23:59Z [----] followers, 19.3K engagements
"2/ Vancouver-area values suddenly jumped [---] times higher than other major Canadian cities in [----]. They soared when hundreds of billions of dollars were being moved out of China. Relative prices tempered when the foreign-buyers tax came to be. Great chart. #vanre #bcpoli"
X Link 2024-02-02T00:02Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
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