EPTCanada falls in happiness ranking to the lowest its ever been. Man, did Justin Trudeau ever screw up this country.
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JimmyJRaynor
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Canada falls in happiness ranking to the lowest its ever been. Man, did Justin Trudeau ever screw up this country. | ||
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iPlaY.NettleS
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On March 21 2026 03:58 JimmyJRaynor wrote: https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/canada-falls-in-world-happiness-ranking-now-lowest-it-s-ever-been/ar-AA1Z3fRD Canada falls in happiness ranking to the lowest its ever been. Man, did Justin Trudeau ever screw up this country. Man this article is something.Spinning a decline in happiness amongst younger people especially to a rise in social media use and then pushing for more censorship & regulations in that space.Maybe some link there but it's more to do with jobs not keeping up with cost of living as house prices, food, education, insurance etc costs rose far faster than wages. Actually it is the same here in Australia, but i would argue worse due to the Middle east war since we import 90% of our oil and the majority of that initially passes through Hormuz.Talk of 50% rise in food prices, fuel rationing will likely start within 2-3 weeks.Honestly i believe you are better in Canada than here or New Zealand. | ||
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JimmyJRaynor
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On March 21 2026 15:59 iPlaY.NettleS wrote: Honestly i believe you are better in Canada than here or New Zealand. i grew up in Misssissauga, Ontario, Canada. When I was growing up Hazel Mccallion was the Mayor, Mike Harris was the Premier and Jean Chretien was the Prime Minister. All 3 of these people are 23487992378X better than their replacements. Mississauga looks like a warzone. Hazel Mccallion was mayor for 36 years and took the city from a population of 270,000 to over 700,000. She is probably the greatest mayor in Canadian history. She won 90%+ of the popular vote in several elections. During Jean Chretien's time as PM Canada's standard of living rose by 24%. Mike Harris got re elected with the biggest popular vote in Ontario history. I grew up under the best leadership Canada has ever seen. THere is absolutely no comparison between Canada in 2000 and Canada today. Anyhow , I moved 90 minutes down the highway to upstate New York, USA. I'm glad I left. Working people in upstate New York live a much better life than the working people in south western Ontario, Canada just a 20 minute drive north west. All this said, I didn't think Canada would fall so far .. so fast. Canada's population is declining, birthrates are 1.3 and declining, and MAID (medical assistance in dying) is flourishing. MAID is so popular they changed how the stats are collected to obfuscate the ugly truth. It is dystopian. | ||
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Fleetfeet
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On March 21 2026 15:59 iPlaY.NettleS wrote: Man this article is something.Spinning a decline in happiness amongst younger people especially to a rise in social media use and then pushing for more censorship & regulations in that space.Maybe some link there but it's more to do with jobs not keeping up with cost of living as house prices, food, education, insurance etc costs rose far faster than wages. Actually it is the same here in Australia, but i would argue worse due to the Middle east war since we import 90% of our oil and the majority of that initially passes through Hormuz.Talk of 50% rise in food prices, fuel rationing will likely start within 2-3 weeks.Honestly i believe you are better in Canada than here or New Zealand. Yeah AUS does a whole lot better with minimum wage tho as far as I know? Calgary's minimum wage is around 15 CAD, compared to Brisbane's 25 AUD, with Calgary's rent being 1400/m for 1bedroom, and Brisbane being around 400/w or 2000/m for 1bed. I dunno. Obviously different economies and we're both fucking huge countries with relatively small populations. The fact that we don't import as much of our oil certainly helps us, though the parts of Australia I've been to I've enjoyed greatly. | ||
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JimmyJRaynor
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https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/gold-heist-ringleader-pleads-guilty-to-theft-of-22m-in-gold-and-cash-from-toronto-s-pearson-airport/ar-AA1ZknGy A ringleader of Toronto’s Pearson Airport gold heist has pleaded guilty for his part in the alarming plot that saw bandits brazenly steal more than $22 million in gold and cash from an Air Canada cargo warehouse in 2023, most of which remains missing. Arsalan Chaudhary, a 43-year-old man formerly of Mississauga, pleaded guilty Monday, officials confirmed. He has not yet been sentenced. Chaudhary fled Canada and was named as a fugitive from justice after the heist became extraordinarily high-profile, making headlines around the world and drawing intense public and police interest. It was deemed the sixth largest gold theft in modern history and the largest in Canada. There were 10 other people involved in this so we can call it "Chaudhary's 11". Again, though, this is real. Chaudhary’s lawyer, Harval Bassi, said his client pleaded guilty to one charge of theft over $5,000. He said he is seeking a four-year sentence while the Crown prosecutor is asking for a seven-year sentence. If there was no violence involved in these thefts I hope this very smart, entrepreneurial guy gets rehabilitated; I hope he builds a good life for himself when he gets out of jail. Any thoughts on the sentence? I'm sure in the USA he'd be getting life in front of a firing squad. | ||
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JimmyJRaynor
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Here is Stephen Lewis acknowledging the government can not provide a complete social safety net. "I once believed the governments must provide most social services..." I'd say the highlight of Stephen Lewis' career was... In 1974, Lewis supported the Elliot Lake miners and advocated to Ontario Premier Bill Davis for the creation of the Royal Commission on the Health and Safety of Workers in Mines.[13] The commission's recommendations led to the creation of the Occupational Health and Safety Act in 1979 \Despite the huge gap in perspectives between Lewis and Davis... Lewis helped facilitate the creation of the Occupational Health and Safety Act. His criticism of Justin Trudeau's "male feminist" self identification was awesome stuff. Sad to see a great Canadian leader pass away. | ||
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JimmyJRaynor
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https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/mississauga-bans-international-banners-from-city-hall-giving-away-free-canadian-flags/ar-AA200D5l No more foreign flags flying at Mississauga's City Hall. | ||
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Flaccid
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So I get that it's easier to just blame Justin Trudeau? | ||
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WombaT
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On April 08 2026 23:19 Flaccid wrote: It can be difficult to accept the sharp rise in global inequality and the feeling of powerlessness that comes from seeing global GDP rise at the same time that poverty levels have never been higher. We accept the suffering we see as the chasm between winners and losers widens to the point it can never be spanned. It's hard to accept the reality that our false choices in democracy all exist to serve the small groups of actual holders of power in our societies and that we have lost our abilities to hold our representatives accountable because ultimately they have never mattered less. Our collective loss of community is difficult to quantify alongside the affects of people no longer having a shared reality or common grounds on which to establish meaningful relationships. Instead of human connection we are exploited by grifters who promise us everything while offering us nothing. We can identify generational crises like climate change and then see the futility of our own power as these become perverted scemes for futher consumption while we sit back and watch the world burn. We endure life as opposed to living it. So I get that it's easier to just blame Justin Trudeau? Very well said | ||
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JimmyJRaynor
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https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/voters-head-to-polls-in-3-federal-byelections-that-could-deliver-majority-liberal-government/ar-AA20KHbH On April 08 2026 23:19 Flaccid wrote: So I get that it's easier to just blame Justin Trudeau? that is the easiest thing to do. meh. its better to find a better country and get a job there and leave. Justin accelerated the decline of a country already in slow decline since Chretien, Harris, and Mccallion retired. Mississauga is declining hard. Ontario is declining hard.. and Canada is declining hard. Bob Rae was a much better option than Trudeau. The Liberals were dumb to adhere to their francophone/anglophone alternating leader doctrine. Fortunately, its not my problem. | ||
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JimmyJRaynor
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In the 3 elections held yesterday the NDP got a total of 8,500 votes giving them 8.1% of the popular vote. | ||
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JimmyJRaynor
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I don't care if they are Conservatives, Liberals, Bloc, or NDP. I don't care if Milton Friedman's Canadian nephew is on this council. Just get me the most street-smart, experienced, savvy, knowledgeable MoFos you can find. | ||
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Flaccid
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On April 15 2026 00:40 JimmyJRaynor wrote: Canada needs a labour party guys... because it ain't the NDP. The NDP will continue to circle the drain so long as their #1 concern is the MMIWGP2SLBGTQQIA+ community. In the 3 elections held yesterday the NDP got a total of 8,500 votes giving them 8.1% of the popular vote. I don't disagree with that. For some time, progressivism has been more about demonstrating one's own righteousness than using righteous ideals to improve the lives of common people. I say this as someone who has spent a large chunk of his life working to get progressive people elected in a conservative city. It's twitter progressivism. It's confusing getting a lot of likes for standing on a soapbox online with doing the work to make things better. MLAs and MPs are addicted to that shit. We need actual progressive populism. Yes, tell every non-binary, non-straight, non-default Canadian that you're on their side and will protect their right to dignity - but also make it so they can afford to buy a house one day should they want to. Make it so they don't have to work 2 jobs to afford rent in a shitty slum. Make it so their grocery bill isn't a mortgage. Do those things and you not only materially improve their lives, but you also improve the lives of everybody in the working class. The political right will always seek to draw lines that divide us by identity. And as we focus on those, we lose sight of the lines that divide us by class. We should always be looking to punch up, not to our right or to our left. Our queer neighbour is our ally in the class war. Pro-labour, pro-working-class, leftist populism is pro-human, pro-dignity, and therefore pro LBTQ by nature. It shouldn't be that hard. Will the Federal NDP learn all the wrong lessons from its collapse? It's the Federal NDP so... probably? | ||
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JimmyJRaynor
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On April 23 2026 04:07 Flaccid wrote: We need actual progressive populism. i think we need a return to the radical centrism of Hazel Mccallion, Jean Chretien, (sometimes) Stephen Harper, Bob Rae, Jean Charest, etc. A leader of the radical centre will make hard right or hard left or standard pragmatic decisions... depending on the situation. He or she will make those decisions independent of ideology. Here is a great "radical centre" story about Bob Rae. its 1989 and the Ontario auto industry has turned into a mafia protection racket. If your accident went $1,231.27 over your deductible then your next year's rate was ... you guessed it ... exactly $1,231.27 higher the next year. Rae, leader of a left wing party, threatened a government take over of the Ontario Auto Industry creating Quebec style government run insurance. In a shocking turn of events Rae won a majority and could run Ontario however he wanted. This scared the living shit out of the Ontario Auto Industry.. .and in a matter of weeks all their scummy practices disappeared. Rae did not need to execute his threat. The threat itself was enough to clean up the auto insurance industry in Ontario. IMO, this is the kind of leadership Canada needs. | ||
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JimmyJRaynor
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“In exploring his experiences of racism and discrimination and how he’s been stereotyped, (his pre-sentence report) stated that Mr. Sheikh felt discriminated against and felt various stereotypes in varying situations. For example, when in school, there may have been some comments about his religion,” said the decision. Sheikh lived with his family at Wellesley and Parliament Streets in Toronto until he was 19. He later moved to Oakville where he lived in a condominium with his mother. “Mr. Sheikh described the neighbourhood where he grew up as a bad area, but other family members were less negative about it. Mr. Sheikh’s father worked as a taxi driver. The family was not well off, but (Sheikh’s pre-sentence report) indicates that they had what they needed. Mr. Sheikh’s affidavit refers to ‘difficult socioeconomic circumstances.’” https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/racial-discrimination-factors-into-reducing-sentence-for-double-shooting-in-porsche/ar-AA21HL7I ya, this is BS. There is no racism against Pakistanis at Parliament and Wellesley. It is surrounded by the Gay Village. There is just as much or more anti-semitism in that area than anything. I wouldn't knock 1 day off of a jew's sentence for 2 attempted murders. Its like they are trying to talk racism into existence. Now, are there small family businesses in that area run by Korean families and Chinese families that will never hire someone from Pakistan. Yep. That is not racism though. They won't hire me either. The Korean family won't hire anyone who is not Korean. The Chinese family won't hire anyone who is not Chinese. meh. Walk 5 minutes south of Parliament and Wellesley 15 years ago and you had zombie girls offering sex for $20. With inflation its gone up to $30. its a nasty neighbourhood. I lived at 387 Sherbourne during my first university work term in 2006. its still roughly the same neighbourhood it was 20 years ago. | ||
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JimmyJRaynor
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https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/toronto-police-officer-killed-during-iran-terror-probe-raid-tied-to-american-consulate-shooting/ar-AA25p4z1 Pinizzotto’s death was mourned by the American Ambassador to Canada, Pete Hoekstra. “Our thoughts, our prayers are with the family of the police person who was killed. They are with the police community, law enforcement community, in Toronto and Ontario,” he told attendees at a bilateral trade conference on Thursday. “It’s an example of the close co-operation that we have in law enforcement between the two countries, how we work together, and the risks involved in those types of activities,” Hoekstra added. its a good thing we are having an SIU investigation. Perhaps we can get the TTC Community Liaison Mental Health Therapists in there to convince the armed and dangerous fugitive to turn himself in. if the USA weren't screwing around in the Persian Gulf would this have happened? | ||
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ETisME
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On March 21 2026 03:58 JimmyJRaynor wrote: https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/canada-falls-in-world-happiness-ranking-now-lowest-it-s-ever-been/ar-AA1Z3fRD Canada falls in happiness ranking to the lowest its ever been. Man, did Justin Trudeau ever screw up this country. I wouldn't blame it on him, but it's a problem of specialisation in global trade. Some fields / countries are hit harder due to the sector being cynical, and also AI/robotic looming threat. People spending years for a degree are struggling to get a job, not enough career opportunities etc. Living cost crisis, housing affordability, lack of career path, lack of jobs availability. There are some calling for housing price to crash to fix housing affordability, but that's not going to help when these issues would simply crash the economy further. Nothing worse than a mortgage when you don't even have job security. Look at new Zealand and how they can't plug the hole with many going to Australia for a better prospect. China is going through something similar, with many joining the lay flat movement. Basically given up on working and just live off with minimum effort. China has been building for a self sufficient economy, which imo is something every nation need to do, and forget about climate change, subsidise if needed. | ||
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JimmyJRaynor
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On June 12 2026 11:55 ETisME wrote: I wouldn't blame it on him, but it's a problem of specialisation in global trade. Some fields / countries are hit harder due to the sector being cynical, and also AI/robotic looming threat. People spending years for a degree are struggling to get a job, not enough career opportunities etc. Living cost crisis, housing affordability, lack of career path, lack of jobs availability. There are some calling for housing price to crash to fix housing affordability, but that's not going to help when these issues would simply crash the economy further. Nothing worse than a mortgage when you don't even have job security. Look at new Zealand and how they can't plug the hole with many going to Australia for a better prospect. China is going through something similar, with many joining the lay flat movement. Basically given up on working and just live off with minimum effort. China has been building for a self sufficient economy, which imo is something every nation need to do, and forget about climate change, subsidise if needed. nah, Bob Rae was a much better choice. He is 100X more intelligent , street smart, accomplished, experienced, and qualified. The Liberals stupid rule of alternating between Francophone and Anglophone leaders ignores merit and harmed the nation. Also, outside of the Liberal party there were not many great alternatives. So if you didn't like what the Liberals were doing there was nothing to vote for. Both Doug Ford and Justin Trudeau have enough going for them to be good back bench MPs or mayors of big cities. They do not have what it takes to lead Canada or Canada's most populous province. i'm sad to say that i'm glad i left. | ||
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JimmyJRaynor
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Chrystia Freeland has to be the most unqualified finance minister in the past 60 years. I am too lazy to go further back than 1968 though. The team of Trudeau Jr. and Freeland is the most incompetent duo leading Canada in 60 years. On to another topic, It is fascinating seeing politics impact the #1 pro league of Canada's favourite sport: The NHL. https://x.com/NHLRumourReport/status/2069423671173681468 Tkachuk wanted out of Ottawa because he was hated. Its funny ... Alexander Mogilny and Borje Salming could take the heat... whatshisface Tkachuk could not. Tkachuk paints himself as some kind of tough guy... Al-Mo and Salming were seen more as 1st class players and not tough guys. Turns out Almo and Salming are tougher than Tkachuk... and it ain't close. I guess if Tkachuk just rode out the agony of the Ottawa anti-US hatred and stayed in Canada he'd be an example of the "forced labour" the USA is claiming Canada uses.  https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/trump-tariffs-forced-labour-explained-9.7221691 | ||
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