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Chinada

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The corruption revelations are getting worse:

In September 2020, as Ontario’s real estate rocketed higher, a Toronto realtor with ties to Beijing claimed a fake Chinese income of $763,689 in order to secure HSBC mortgages for two properties, bringing her personal portfolio in Greater Toronto up to five homes.

What makes this realtor’s case politically explosive is not just that her network allegedly laundered money from China into Toronto real estate, nor the forged Chinese employment records they used to obtain massive mortgages from Canadian banks, or that they became Ontario landlords by leveraging criminal underground banks servicing Chinese diasporas in Vancouver and Toronto.

h/t James MacMaster

Vancouver, 2024 Edition

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A longtime Vancouver friend shared this story, adding “pretty constant now”:

Two suspects now face criminal charges after allegedly setting off bear spray inside the Kitsilano Arc’teryx store, grabbing $25,000 worth of jackets and clothing, and fleeing in a cab.

According to police, a man and a woman entered the store, located near West 4th and Arbutus in Vancouver, on Monday evening at around 6:30 p.m. Bear spray was used and, in the ensuing melee, the pair allegedly gathered $25,000 worth of Arc’teryx merchandise and fled the area after hailing a cab.

One wonders if they’re learning lessons from down the Left Coast in San Francisco, where most any criminal activity is tolerated.

Wee Foo Yoo: Ottawa insider warns about immigrant-investor programs

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Something fishy is going on in Juthin’s Corrupt Canada:

After initially transferring their money out of their country of origin, typically somewhere in East Asia, Hiebert wrote, most purchased a house “along with a Mercedes, Audi or whatever. And then life is lived quite simply, on a small budget and with little owing in terms of income tax. The kids get to go to UBC or SFU while paying domestic fees, which is a big bonus.

h/t James MacMaster

Canada’s Crazy Housing Bubble

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Inflation has been a big problem the world over the past few years. But nowhere is it so apparent as in Canada’s housing market:

New data from the world’s largest central bank serves a reminder of just how batsh*t crazy Canada’s real estate bubble is. Housing bubble experts from the US Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas (Dallas Fed) released its latest update of global home prices in Q3 2023. Most G7 countries moved in a similar fashion, rising with 2020 rate cuts and have shown recent moderation. However, zooming out reveals Canada’s real estate bubble is nothing like any other G7 country. It puts the peaks seen in US and Japanese bubbles to shame, predating its recent population boom narrative.

h/t David Murrell

The Pronoun Game

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Via the CBC, a tale of pronouns, vomiting, and very niche woe:

Again, as so often, one has to ask – exactly which player in this drama is doing the misgendering? The unnamed presenter who sees a young woman named Julia and refers to her as she; or the young woman named Julia who expects to be perceived as something other than she is? Indeed, as something that doesn’t exist.

The kind of young woman who tells us, with an air of triumph, “I had been thinking about my pronouns daily for over two years.”

As one does, when one’s mental wellbeing is not at all in question.

 

Grifters Gonna Grift

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At Montreal’s Concordia University, even light is being “decolonised.” By people with salaries and lots of taxpayer subsidy:

The assembled scholars boast that they are “not seeking to improve scientific ‘truth’” and that the purpose of their intellectual toil is “not to find new or better explanations of light.” As if such gifts were theirs to give, or a remotely plausible outcome. Instead, they are vexed by the “social power relations” of scientific enquiry, its objectivity and usefulness, and the fact that the quantifiable and demonstrable tends to trump mythology and the adorable ramblings of one’s Very Indigenous Grandpa.

Apparently, this preference for things that actually work is terribly unfair, an affront to “social equity,” resulting in the “marginalisation” of those whose self-esteem is grounded in the obsolete and inadequate, and hence the imperative to “decolonise” All The Things.

Oh, there’s more.

We Are Improving You Via This Medium

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Viewers of pallor will doubtless be entranced by 20-minute episodes titled Colonialism and Privilege, and stern lectures – delivered by the host, Lido Pimienta, and two giant, talking testicles – on just how bigoted and generally awful their collective ancestors were, and how this historical beastliness is, “like, affecting all of us, all of the time, on every level.”

On fully intersectional Canadian television.

The Strange Politics Around Canada’s Milk Production

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Here’s a bizarre story about nervous nuns, cute cows, and the byzantine way Canadian governments manage milk production:

As inflation soars, dairy farmers say price increases are necessary to cover ballooning costs.

But industry advocates argue that no other industry is able to pass on its cost increases directly on to the consumer. Canada’s controversial supply-management system protects dairy, poultry and egg farmers from international competition by regulating supply and imposing massive border tariffs on imports.

Supply management also forces farmers to pay millions in marketing costs to provincial milk boards. This week, a portion of that money found its way to the upper right-hand corner of the Maple Leaf’s jerseys as the Dairy Farmers of Ontario (DFO) became the NHL team’s first sweater branding partner. DFO refuse to say how much the deal cost.

h/t James MacMaster

Vancouver Isn’t So Awesome

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From the website VancouverIsAwesome.com comes a story that shows that it sure ain’t that awesome any longer:

I really didn’t want to be a grump in my first column of the new year.
But after receiving 1,086 mostly redacted pages on Dec. 23, 2021 from the City of Vancouver that never answered the question I posed in December 2020, I’m confident I’ve earned the right to be a wee bit prickly in today’s entry.

The question: Can you tell me how much the city paid to buy the Balmoral and Regent hotels from the Sahota family?

The answer in December 2020: No, we can’t.

I laugh at Canadians who sincerely believe that there is little to no corruption in their country.

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