It's from my own personal research of various websites that monitor food hunger (food insecurities) around the world. I then correlated it to the countries and cities of the protests shown on that map to notice a correlation. Oddly, food insecurities are not even mentioned as a reason behind some of the protests even though it's mentioned as such in the country of the protest. Instead, the map/link I posted blamed the Coronavirus Pandemic as the reason for the protests. wrbtrader
Keep track of 'em and share occasionally, please. I am interested in watching how ecological overshoot is impacting humans' provision of basic needs, and the effects on social organization.
Another way that I view this...as the United States and Canada have increasing inflation, increasing gas prices, increasing consumer goods prices, rising interest rates, and more people needing assistance from food banks because of the rising food prices... I'm expecting to see more protesting here in North America and it will all be blamed on vaccine mandates even though most of the mandates are being removed. A person in hunger is a very dangerous protester. Ironically, lots of jobs out there for people. wrbtrader
no they cannot receive funds in any place in Canada from any financial institution. a single mom in Chilliwack, BC, earning minimum wage, has had her bank account frozen. She gave $50 to go fund me. (This donation would have been BEFORE emergency powers when it was legal). There is no legal process involved. They just lock you out of the financial system. How do you pay rent? How do eat? The Charter of Rights allows freedom of assembly, freedom of movement and peaceful protest. All police officers and members of the military are required take and oath to protect the Charter or Rights when they start. According to a retired OPP officer all orders in violation of the Charter are illegal. Alan Peckford, retired premier of NFLD is suing the Cdn govt over violation of the Charter. The premier of Albert is suing false-water over the enactment of emergency powers.
it has not been approved by parliament or any courts. The purpose of the act is for a situation when the country's safety is under dire threat - such as war. It replaces the war measures act and was passed in 1980. It requires no parliamentary or court approval. yes the majority of cdns - who get info outside of the state control C b C - are very scared of this - but there is nothing they can do. ---------- "Now, every Canadian's rights will be taken away by ... at the flimsiest excuse." - yes correct.
Not exactly correct... Canadian banks have had the ability and exercised "freezing of bank accounts" since the Prohibition SpeakEasy days when gangsters were moving illegal alcohol across the CDN/USA border. In fact, a more public bank freezing case was that involving Chief Financial Officer of Huawei's Meng Wanzhou of China that was arrested in Vancouver after she had committed bank fraud in dealings with Iran when there were sanctions against Iran from the United States. I think it was the HSBC bank that she had lied to about her dealings with Iran involving what the U.S. said that Huawei stole telecommunications technology, trade secrets, and equipment from U.S. cellphone provider T-Mobile USA. Regardless, the Emergency Act was approved for an extension by the MPs. The motion to confirm the declaration of emergency passed 185-151, with the New Democrats voting in favor alongside the minority Liberal government. In contrast, the Conservatives and my Bloc Québécois opposed it. The people here in Québec are now angry and want a list of those MPs in the Bloc Québécois that opposed the Emergency Act although I doubt it would result in something like what happened to the ousting of the former Conservative party leader Erin O'Toole...ousted by his own MPs over a different issue. People here in Canada need to understand the banking laws prior to making donations out of their personal accounts to questionable organizations or questionable individuals. It's been a well-known issue for many many decades. Typically, a person gets a Visa or Mastercard gift card and then uses it to make donations instead of making donations out of their personal bank account. Now she must borrow money from friends or family with the promise to pay them back when her account is no longer frozen. Also, a majority of Canadians are NOT scared of the Emergencies Act. Instead, they stayed informed and a majority of them approved its use. Yet, it was very naive to do a Freedom Convoy initially about vaccine mandates/health pass when mandates/restrictions had already been scheduled to be removed because of the dramatically declining Covid numbers...its something to contemplate. wrbtrader
So does this make any sense? Suddenly does Canada have a much larger population, much smaller land and wood availability, and their wages and weather are twice as good? Double trouble: A house in Canada now costs nearly twice what it does in the US https://nypost.com/2022/04/25/the-average-canadian-home-price-is-now-double-that-of-us/ American homebuyers can take small comfort: It’s far worse up north. The Canadian housing market is even more ludicrously expensive than the US’s, with the nation’s home prices recently reaching a new record high, which puts the average housing cost at almost double that of America’s. Since early 2020, Canadian home prices have surged 30%, an increase which is “nothing short of stunning,” economist Robert Hogue wrote for a recent Royal Bank of Canada report (via Fortune). As of February, the Canadian Real Estate Association reported that the average price of a Canadian home stood at 816,720 Canadian dollars, or $646,809 — over nine times the average household income. In contrast, the US has seen slightly lower price increases, with home prices rising 27% over the same period, Fortune previously reported. In America, the median home price last month stood at $375,000, an all-time high and a 15% rise from a year prior. The reasons for the unaffordability of both housing markets are almost identical, experts say: The pandemic increased demand for larger homes as they became “people’s workplaces, children’s schools, and [the center of] entertainment,” Canadian real estate brokerage Royal LePage’s president and CEO Phil Soper told Fortune. In addition, millennials in both countries began buying their first homes and upgrading their starter homes while baby boomers added to demand by seeking homes to grow older in. All of this is coupled with a dire lack of housing in both nations. “[It’s] hard to wrap my head around prices right now,” investment bank equity sales director Johnny Chen, 33, told Fortune about his ongoing struggle to buy an affordable house in Vancouver’s cutthroat real estate market. “There’s just so much competition.” Despite being in the country’s top income bracket and looking through listings on a daily basis, Chen finds that even single-family homes on the market in the CA$3 million ($2.4 million) range often need “substantial renovation work” forcing him to continue his search from a townhouse he owns beyond the city center. “It’s hard to know how much the home will actually cost with inflation in labor and building materials, plus slow turnaround times for building permits,” he said. “Vancouver’s real estate market is a bit crazy.”
Fewer guns, maybe? But, yeah, the real estate market in Canada, and especially in certain areas, is a bit on the wrong side of crazy.