It’s the end of another work week and that means it’s time for another Friday free-for-all!
So what are you seeing out there?
Post your news links, thoughts and anecdotes in the comments below and have a fantastic weekend!
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WATCH: Trump rejected 1-on-1 meeting with Trudeau, unhappy with NAFTA negotiations
https://globalnews.ca/news/4490088/trump-rejected-trudeau-nafta-meeting/
This would be for the best anyways because Justine would just screw things up even more.
“Buyers retreat from Metro Vancouver housing market over new taxes”, Vancouver Sun
https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/buyers-retreat-from-metro-housing-market-over-new-taxes
“Housing sales in the City of Vancouver slumped 24 per cent over the summer as buyers became wary of paying too much, according to a report from Sotheby’s International Realty Canada.”
“$1M+ Vancouver real estate turning into a buyer’s market – even for condos”, Vancouver is Awesome
https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/2018/09/26/1million-condos-buyers-market-vancouver/
“Following a lacklustre summer performance, Metro Vancouver’s $1 million-plus real estate market is set to see even greater declines this fall, according to a Sotheby’s forecast released September 26.”
Fed raises rates for 3rd time this year with 1 more expected
The Fed lifted its short-term rate — a benchmark for many consumer and business loans — by a modest quarter-point to a range of 2 percent to 2.25 percent. It was its eighth hike since late 2015. The central bank also stuck with a previous forecast for three more rate hikes in 2019.
https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/fed-raises-rates-3rd-time-year-expected-58100917
Chinese-speaking tourists attack swan by Swiss lake ‘over missed photo’
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2165811/chinese-speaking-tourists-attack-swan-swiss-lake-over-missed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kRyQegBFyM
>>> classy stuff…
Swan is white..so according to SIDA,……. swan is therefore toxic racist.
GoFundMe page started for foreign locust victim.
One more time, because you seem to have a problem grasping the simplest concepts, using or supporting the use of racial slurs make you racist. I’ll certainly not be surprised when I have to explain this to you again.
Its not racist to state the obvious…. these people are disgusting animals with no respect for anything…
It all rather hinges on what you meant by “these people”, doesn’t it?
NDP Rule of Thumb:
Anything NDP does usually backfires.
Yup complete tools. The NDP announces a rent increase of 4.5%, then blames the previous government after already completing their own review in sep 2017 and finally flip flops after a second review which took a year. Incompetence. The fall out will be massive. Watch the purpose built rentals get canceled. There is a reason the NDP are 5 time losers.
Lets not forget they did not get the most votes or win the most seats.
They did not win the election.
Correct. 5 time losers.
Ride sharing is off until Christmas 2019.
They need more time to study it.
Incompetent fools in the back pocket of the Taxi Union.
I bet ride sharing never comes under the NDP. Not this term. The only thing they know how to do is lie.
Horgan expected to limit maximum allowable rent hikes to rate of inflation
https://www.citynews1130.com/2018/09/26/horgan-rent-hikes/
“Claiming such a move stifles the much-needed rental housing supply, Aly Jiwan, CEO of Redbrick Properties, says his company won’t be building hundreds of rental units in the region.”
butt-hurt condo builder takes his ball and goes home after the allowable rental increase is lowered to 2.5%
First of all I don’t believe his claim of building “100s of new rental units over the next 12-24 months” and anyways he can’t be a very good businessman if he can’t work around this.
Hulk Horgan to the rescue !!!!
How does this affect newly built rental units? It doesn’t. It affects existing tenants. Sounds like they are just making threats. “Give us what we want so we can rape our existing tenants or we won’t build any new ones”.
They can charge what ever rents they want when renting out their new stock
it does affect business going forward as annual rent increases are being clipped significantly while costs for insurance, utilities, maintenance and what not going through the roof. maybe it doesn’t seem like a big deal, but if say the dividend yield on one of your blue chips was cut to 2.5% down from 4.5% while account management fees, commissions etc kept ratcheting higher, you would certainly notice. and now that rent increase is tied to inflation rate, your allowable rent increase could be zero at least in theory. i am curious to see how much red tape will be required when applying for the additional rent hikes.
The other option of course is to stop paying massively overinflated prices for their initial investment.
I’m not saying stifle the market but let’s not forget 4.5% is on top of the 4% last year on top of the 4% the year before. It’s too much. It’s one thing to force people out of the city who want to buy, what’s next? Force out all the renters too? Who’s going to serve you your coffee?
you do realize these increases were based on an inflation rate which is inherently flawed in the way it is calculated? you’ve got all these other retailers, businesses and so forth essentially free to do as they wish with pricing in response to market changes but housing is treated differently i guess.
Housing is a necessity, a new pair of Jimmy Chu shoes are not. Not everything can or should be painted with the same brush
Housing is different because it is not discretionary spending unless we want to be homeless.
“The other option of course is to stop paying massively overinflated prices for their initial investment.”
Which leads us to the root problem, the ridiculous prices condo buyers are willing to pay. This inflates the prices of the inputs that go into condos, which are the same inputs that go into rentals – land, materials, labour. They don’t have the choice of paying less.
No one is ever forced to buy friend.
But…. but… nasty foreigners made them buy!
There is a lot of tenant turnover in the rental market and they can charge whatever they want when a unit becomes vacant. Plus as was pointed out by DaMann this doesn’t affect any new stock. Also I don’t see their overall costs exceeding inflation anyways and if their costs are greater than 2.5% then they should assess why that is. That extra 2% was just gravy.
i have a feeling they will also be implementing an annual cap on rent increases per address regardless if there is a change in tenancy (as sort of an extension of the fixed term vacate policy). as i said, this does affect the NEW stock too as landlord’s business plan now has to factor in the much lower rate of increases. things like borrowing costs, insurance, strata fees, utilities, maintenance etc have all increased by > rate of inflation. one can assess all they want, but it isn’t gonna change much imho. so, going forward landlords will indeed cut back on # units, probably offer units at a higher rate out of the gate and make tenants pay extra for features that were previously included
I agree with capping rental increased for existing tenants but I am not in favour of a cap per address as you suggested. Sounds a little too socialist for my liking. Having someone move in only to raise their rent by 10 or 20% after the first year is a problem that needs to be addressed. Hence this rule, but other than that they should be able to charge what they want. Take my building for instance. it’s an old shitty building in a beautiful area. Didn’t have a rent increase for 4 years. Chinese bought it at a massive inflated price. rent increases every year since. But here is the kicker, the new rents they are trying to charge for new tenants are WAY overpriced. They are trying to charge rental rates of new nice condos, these places don’t… Read more »
“i have a feeling they will also be implementing an annual cap on rent increases per address regardless if there is a change in tenancy (as sort of an extension of the fixed term vacate policy”
If the NDP really wants to destroy the rental market they will do this. I simply don’t see it happening but these socialists are capable of anything.
He has a very valid point. If you cap rental hike growth, you affect supply. There is no getting around that in economics. Cry all you want about how we got here, but that doesn’t solve anything moving forward.
We should tell people to charge whatever the hell they can get as long as you build it. That’s how you get new supply. The more rules and obstacles you create the less get built.
Trust me on this.
“We should tell people to charge whatever the hell they can get as long as you build it. That’s how you get new supply.”
Alberta has no rent controls at all, yet during its housing bubble period (i.e. prior to the oil bust) it had negative growth in rental stock. Why? It has no controls on condo conversions either. More money could be got out of the units by selling them by collecting the market rent.
Inflated prices of condos are the problem, not rent controls. I’ll qualify that – not the rent controls we have, which get reset to market every time a new tenant moves in.
One can imagine if that approach would be implemented in Canada. Richmond and some of the most expensive areas in Vancouver would be decimated.
Why is nobody looking into this? This should be a top priority to get things in order and clean up the shit. “The problem is there is large-scale immigration of relatively wealthy people to Canada who are not contributing significantly, if at all, to the Canadian tax base,” says Lesperance. “They have bid up the local housing market in Vancouver and Toronto. In addition, they are receiving the benefits of Canadian permanent residence, such as cheap and excellent schooling, free medical care and security.” Unfortunately, Lesperance says, Canada is not obtaining its full measure of property or income taxes from these newcomers. There is both a real and perceived lack of enforcement of Canada’s tax laws. “Theoretically, each of these wealthy immigrants should be paying Canadian tax on their worldwide income and capital gains. But the reality is the Canada… Read more »
“Those who are caught evading taxes should be publicly exposed, he said.”
and then they and their whole family should be evicted from Canada and never allowed to return.
The police are too busy investigating racial slurs.
Civilized countries don’t practice collective punishment.
Canada is siding against the Chinese nation against the United States of America. Time to throw out Trudeau.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/nafta-china-wednesday-1.4837652
This Aussie lady bought 10 properties, borrowed 6.5 millions from the back.
https://youtu.be/BNAqA7R95Wo
just awesome that she blames it on the bank… hard to feel sorry for any of them… not much different than going to las vegas and losing all your money…
At least she’s not dumb enough to blame it on foreigners.
And who “won” the bidding war on that house at the end of the video? Asians who overbid and are driving up house prices there and everywhere else.
Luxury-Home Sales Are Booming in Toronto, Tumbling in Vancouver
“Trends to continue through the fall, Sotheby’s says in report.”
“Vancouver adjusting to more regulations, including buyer taxes.”
Local governments matter. Right or wrong, Doug Ford is perceived as positive for RE long term. The NDP are considered negative for RE long term.
I will fix that for you. Doug Ford is positive. The NDP are negative.
Surely for housing you are right. For everything else, I doubt it.
But you constantly blame the NDP for not doing anything to lower prices? So what is it?
I am not blaming them. I am stating fact. When I refer to them being negative I am refering to everything other than housing prices which are up since they vane into power.
Must be the Toronto exemption that China added to their capital controls.
A NAFTA blowup could sink the loonie by 10 per cent, JPMorgan says
A U.S. withdrawal would likely entail 25 per cent tariffs on autos and dairy, disrupting supply chains and forcing the Bank of Canada to slash interest rates
https://business.financialpost.com/news/economy/nafta-blowup-could-sink-the-loonie-by-10-percent-jpmorgan-says
Posters advertising sex doll brothel plastered in downtown Vancouver
https://bc.ctvnews.ca/posters-advertising-sex-doll-brothel-plastered-in-downtown-vancouver-1.4108757
“There are tons of interested clients and interested customers,” said Ally Chan, who does PR for Bella Dolls
“If you look at our prostitution laws they apply to buying sex from a person. I don’t think the prostitution laws apply here,”
“Our client’s health, safety and privacy are Bella Dolls’s main priorities,”
“To meet our extremely high standards, every Bella Doll is thoroughly sanitized with industry approved products by highly trained personnel before each use.”
“…the Bella Dolls mansion not necessarily a real mansion” says Chan. “We call it a mansion to sound more attractive,” she said, saying the location wouldn’t be disclosed
Funniest thing I’ve heard in years!
https://ca.yahoo.com/finance/news/apos-no-one-us-down-041300155.html
For its part, the Global Times, China’s hyper-nationalistic Communist Party-run tabloid, in a Monday editorial called for Americans to recognize China’s strength in the trade disagreements.
“China is doing what it should. China is honest and principled and a major trade power with intensive strengths. No one can take us down,” it said.
AAAHAAHAHAHAHAA! HONEST AND PRINCIPLED!
Oh fuck, my sides….
and that’s exactly why this trade war could take them down…they will never want to show weekness…however if they come up with a trade agreement that ends the trade war, the agreement could obscure any such weakness.
B.C. NDP government to limit rent increases in face of housing crisis
Increase will be reduced from 4.5% to 2.5%.
That has to be one of the quickest flip flops in history. Glad we have Weaver to slap Hogan around when he fumbles. It will be interesting once PR is behind us how this GreenDP thing works out. The NDP might have to actually start doing something on housing otherwise Weaver will take them down.
If PR passes, Weaver won’t take Horgan down no matter what. Horgan could carpet bomb Orcas and Weaver wouldn’t vote against it.
If PR passes the Greens are guaranteed more seats after the next election. Why would they hesitate to bring the NDP down?
The NDP have to make it full term for the next election to be PR.
They could serve Orca burgers on the Queen of Fort Mac and Weaver would applaud their creativity.
“Glad we have Weaver to slap Hogan around when he fumbles.”
Well if your faves were in power there wouldn’t be any rent control at all. According to Sam Sullivan – that’s the guy the NPA wouldn’t renominate for mayor, but that didn’t disqualify him from becoming BC Liberal housing critic – “imposing rent controls actually harms renters.”
Andrew Wilkinson’s BC Liberals would remove limits to rent increases across the province
I recall when SS was mayor we had plenty of reasonably priced rentals. Not so much under Vision and the NDP.
You accuse them of not lowering the rent increase then 2 weeks later you accuse them of flip flopping when they actually do it…
You’re a real prize. How is it flip flopping when the rent increase was something they inherited from the Liberal government and they repeatedly stated that they had issues with this rule and said they would investigate, and now they are doing something about it. That doesn’t not sound like flip flopping to me.
It is not the fact they did it. It is the complete incompetance they showed in the way they did it. Flip flopping on policy from week to week is no way to govern. Just like they did with the spec tax.
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Wow sales up about 30% over the past week. I wonder what happened? The weather?
Late reporting of sales from the first week after Labour Day.
Meanwhile, inventory continues to make new peaks.
Got it. So the low sales so far this month are actually August sales. Looks like the party is back on now we are finally seeing actual September sales numbers.
There’s no party as it’s nearly the end of the month and sales are will end up at historic lows.
Not the kind of historic lows you keep touting inventory to be at. That number is looking pretty healthy for this time of year.
“There’s no party as it’s nearly the end of the month and sales are will end up at historic lows.”
We don’t know because we are just starting to see actual September numbers now. Remember?
yup end of August was dead, so now we’re early September sales starting to how up. Relative, it seems like a massive number but probably still below avg for September.
160W 44ave increased price by $1 million.
Courtesy of duplex zoning.
Lol, who do they target with price, 4,488,888? Good luck with that crap.
Just saying. Many people hit the lottery last week with the zoning changes. Especially corner lots.
Policy can immediately affect prices. Too bad the NDP failed on that to bring prices down.
you are such a clown….
Because prices by went up???
Ok there.
show us a sale… not some idiot asking more….
fact is prices for SFH are DOWN despite the duplex zoning
It’s been, what, a week? A little too early to see the zoning change reflected in sales prices.
It’s a land assembly for a townhouse development. Not duplex.
We know taking land and zoning it from a SFH to a townhouse makes it more valuable. But going from a SFH to a duplex changes nothing. Strange how that works. I guess people will pay a premium to be in a strata.
Townhouse FSR is higher.
You’re welcome.
exactly… and duplex FSR actually less than SFH with basement suite and laneway….
Only in ocarcleland does that result in landowners winning the lottery
How long before they change the SFR for anyone who wants to build a duplex? Once the new council is in within 6 months.
Or you could just admit you were wrong rather than trying to construct some alternate future reality where you were right all along?
Wrong about what? A duplex zoned lot is worth more than a SFH lot even with the same FSR. That is a fact. This spread will increase once they add FSR to duplexes to encourage density. Half of Vancouver SFH are being held in speculation of some future zoning change. Over the years it has come slowly. First it was basement suites, then lane houses, now duplexes, next higher FSR for duplexes which will create more of a 4 plex is next. Every person running for council or mayor is touting higher density. It’s coming.
Everyone’s right..
…….Ask for the moon..but in the end get Uranus.
Re “HATE LETTER”
Odds are it is fake. This is simply a false flag
In US…every so often one hears of swastikas painted on gravemarkers,…synagogues , lockers etc and the perpetrators are found to be J*wish.
You’re a toxic piece of shit.
SIDA is again exempt from Jury Duty…….
Why let easily- corroborated facts get in the way ?
You’re suggesting that all such acts of racism are fabricated?
No pinhead..
…….as the corollary of your premise would be all reported acts of “racism” are non- fabricated.
Maybe GOOGLE Menachim Begin who boasted he was the father of terrorism……
BTW: perhaps GOOGLE ” U.S.S . LIBERTY “and report back with your conclusions.
PS: G*d forbid we get into 9-11 discussion.
I don’t have time for your infantile conspiracy theories or the bullshit websites you brainwash yourself with. It’s time to grow up and move out of la-la land.
Uh oh, watch out, the bogeyman Jew is hiding under your bed waiting to steal your pocket change. Seriously though, anti-semitism is an intellectually vacuous point of view. It’s like the Christians never got over the fact they made usury illegal for themselves almost 900 years ago and the Jews took advantage. It’s time to get over it.
Anti-antisemitism is one of the dumbest labels ever invented, but those who peddle it have been very effective in shutting down legitimate discussion.
So far.
Really, go ahead and tell us what you really think about Jewish people as if we don’t already know, paranoid jerk.
He won’t.
‘I didn’t come here to live this kind of life’: Skilled immigrants on desperate hunt for jobs in Quebec’
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-immigration-skilled-workers-election-1.4833739
After the next recession you can expect a net migration out of Canada. The Canadian government is opening the flood gates to try and extract as much tax money from immigrants as possible. At the same time Canada’s economy is mostly stagnant and average Canadians would secretly rather hire a naturalized citizen than an immigrant (especially in Quebec). The propaganda from the Canadian government about inclusivity, prosperity, and being a great country to immigrate to is a total farce, and will be revealed as one to the rest of the world soon.
Alberta’s economy appears to be in the crapper…
This would/could result in Albertans flocking to BC to try and find work , displacing local workers and undercutting wages…exacerbating the vicious cycle.
One used to observe a lot of Alberta license plates in the past..stay tuned !
Calgary real estate definitely seems to be dying a slow, painful death. Flat and/or down for about 4 years. Big jump in listings in 2018 as well. Further marginal seller desperation seems inevitable. http://www.chpc.biz/calgary-housing.html
Lots of Albertans have come over to BC since the oil crash, mainly to get into construction and other trades.
Like cockroaches feeding off the hot Vancouver real estate market; when real estate crashes there will be nowhere left to run. I think moving to the maritimes was the last option up until a few years ago, now they’re expensive just like everywhere else in this god-forsaken country.
Good. Its impossible to find a tradesperson to do anything these days!
Immigrants don’t come here to pay tax. Cash economy is king! Have the lefties and globalist brainwashed working class hacks pay the bills.
“The Canadian government is opening the flood gates to try and extract as much tax money from immigrants as possible”
Immigrants use more in government services than the government collects in taxes. Immigration is about votes, cheap labour and being a politically correct globalist. Big corporations also like them because it is more bank accounts (fees), cell phones, etc.
I get a laugh out of people who think immigrants come here to live in condos. Hahah
The goal is to get more out of gov than you pay.
The dumb local mostly SJW will continue to pay the taxes for the smart immigrants. Hahaha. They still won’t get it even after telling them. Imbeciles.
Wait until they have to privatize Medicare. Hahaha. Looks on the SJWs.
“The goal is to get more out of gov than you pay. ”
That doesn’t make your community look too good, does it?
That’s Oracle’s strategy – pretend to be part of a community which he can then defame. Don’t fall for it. He’s been caught in multiple lies in the past. This is merely another one.
“Immigrants use more in government services than the government collects in taxes. ”
Link?
1 in 5 West Vancouver households ‘low income’
“The affluent community of West Vancouver, where average home prices hover at $3 million, has one of the highest rates of people with “low income” in Metro Vancouver. At least on paper.”
https://www.nsnews.com/news/1-in-5-west-vancouver-households-low-income-1.23060826
“the figures reflect the limited way that income statistics capture “wealth,” particularly in the case of well-to-do immigrant families whose wealth is often generated outside the country.“wealth and income are separate things and we record and tax income, but leave wealth alone in Canada.”
West Vancouver has some similar patterns to Richmond in this regard, says Hiebert, where immigrants rely on wealth from overseas to buy into the local real estate market.”
Chronic Low Income Among Immigrants in Canada
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/11f0019m/11f0019m2017397-eng.htm
“The highest chronic low-income rates in 2012 were observed among immigrants over the age of 65. These relatively high rates—30% among all immigrant seniorsNote 1 and over 50% among more recent immigrant seniorsNote 2—were in sharp contrast to the rate observed among Canadian-born seniors (about 2%)”
Please stop cherry-picking. You’re embarrassing yourself.
You certainly are a master debater, HIV.
We’re in awe of the way you present your aruguments.
There is no argument until YVR can present a link which backs up his claim. Did you notice that I asked for a link to verify the assertion that immigrants are a net drain on government coffers and he replied firstly with a link which related to an area representing 0.1% of the country’s population? No, of course you didn’t.
I replied with Stats Can which has all the data. Do you want me to cut and paste every line for you? In case you are wondering anyone considered at the poverty level or chronic low income is a massive drain on the tax base. Seniors especially who use massive amounts of social programs like medical can care homes. With senior immigrants who mostly paid little in Canadian taxes in their life time they are 15 fold higher chronic low income compared to non immigrants. That proves what a massive failure our system is. Mean while many are actually millionaires.
In case you’ve forgotten your claim was:
“Immigrants use more in government services than the government collects in taxes. ”
And none of your links demonstrate that. You’re welcome to copy/paste the pertinent Statscan numbers if you think I’m wrong, though – thanks for offering!
MY Statscan numbers, however, which ARE directly relevant to your claim show that although the overall average income of an immigrant is lower than a non-immigrant they’re nowhere near the level which would make them a net drain. And in fact they show that even new arrivals from Europe and the USA earn more than native Canadians. So a clear counter-example to your broad, ignorant claim.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/immigrant-wages-canada-1.4421783
Once again, you’re welcome.
You got schooled SIDA.
The race baiter only asked for one link.
And you think that link or any of the others backs up your extremely general claim about immigrants? You’re pure comedy.
Mainland chinese living in mansions and paying taxes lower that minimum wage earners while benefiting from our generous social services like scummy leaches are still being defended by some race baiters?
Get the rope.
‘With Fed set to raise rates again, other central banks sound ready to end the easy money, too”, CNBC
“On the eve of the Federal Reserve’s September meeting, Europe’s top central banker delivered a sharp reminder to markets that the world’s central banks are moving away from easy policies.”
The debt-noose tightens. Bankruptcy law is going to be a high growth industry.
Ross Kay had a recent interview re RE Foreclosure….
Other than builders overleveraging and haircuts..unlike USA……you will almost never see Foreclosures in Canada…banks apparently are not allowed to be seen on title….the system works in a less transparent fashion to benefit the stakeholders aka the general public will never see it.
Watch for Fridays close on the 10 year US bond yield.
If it’s at or above 3.16 then interest rates are off to the races.
Racist letter sent to Coquitlam realtor
https://www.citynews1130.com/2018/09/25/racist-letter-coquitlam-realtor/
if my memory serves me, this also happened a few months ago. My questions is why is this realtor sharing this on social media (for publicity maybe) or is this even fake? Even if it was real, who cares, and maybe the sentiments in the letter should be paid attention to.
fake
A lot of these sorts of things are actually fake, but I think this one is real. Or maybe Winnie is looking for some sympathy listings.
Yes, why didn’t she just toss it in the trash?
I would hope it’s now with the police.
The cops have their best people on it. Lol.
The funny thing is this is the type of thing the cops do spend time on because it gets media attention and is politically correct. Money laundering, tax evasion, fraud, not so much.
I’d love to see the breakdown you have for how the police spend their time.
Oh wait. You’re full of shit.
They don’t need their best people on it. Racists are easily outwitted.
For instance, I bet this particular moron doesn’t realize that the printer’s identifier will be present on that page, making the device easily traceable.
I was impressed with SIDA’s grammar and use of polysyllabic words in the letter.
8 tries to graduate from Grade 8 proved successful.
OMG someone sent a letter with racial slurs in it! Let’s instate capital punishment and gas them to death, that seems appropriate.
Unsurprisingly the toxic racists downplay the significance of it purely because of the ethnicity of the victim.
Can you bring yourself to condone such behaviour? Of course not, because you support it.
Toxic racist…is that not redundant ?
…or do we have subgoups like vegan racists…kosher racists….aetheist racists..agnostic racists….nihilist racists…LBGQT racists,….NHL racists ….freemason racists…..
…..clearly we must not discriminate and embrace the differences ( and thus tell all others to f*ck off and die day before yesterday)
We need more healthy racists.
Enlightened racists would be even better but that probably will take at least another generation.
I doubt we’ll ever see a majority of pro-semites though. If it does happen I can’t wait to see what their banners look like.
More evidence that immigration without integration breeds intolerance, hatred and cultural division. We should expect more Maxime Bernier’s to start popping up at all levels of government. The obvious result from decades of radical leftism in our immigration policies.
There are posters here who use this very language so it is quite pathetic to suggest it is fake.
I didn’t realize English was becoming that rare in the lower mainland.
Fake, quite orchestrated.
The letter seems to be about condemning bad behavior destructive to our country. Nothing wrong with that.
YVR is just another proud racist.
Is there anyone who is not a racist in your view? You use it as a crutch to justify your failures. You are a loser because of your actions, not your race.
Yes, the people who aren’t racist are the ones who don’t use or condone the use of racial slurs.
Life really is complicated for you, isn’t it?
Because words hurt so much!!
:'(
Fucking crybaby. Grow a pair.
Pathetic.
No wonder you’re unemployable.
Unemployable, eh?
And you have the nerve to call other people liars.
Do you have something against unemployable people? It seems you hate them. This would include mentally handicapped people, severely disabled people and those ill and in the hospital who cannot work and are unemployable. I don’t see why your slurs against these people is somehow better.
Good point, how is this not a slur?
AIDS? Care to try to explain the hypocrisy we’ve all become far too used to?
Anything to try and distract from your toxic racism eh? No, I don’t use it as a slur, but I appreciate the attempt to paint it that way so that you might continue to act like the victims.
Perfect,
Thanks, AIDS!
“No, I don’t use it as a slur”
Of course calling someone “unemployable” or any other slur that paints a broad group of people negatively is no different than a racial slur. You put out more slurs than anyone around here.
I’m not painting any group negatively, dipshit. I’m describing an individual using a word which isn’t controversial anywhere except in your head.
But I can see how you dearly want to appear to be the victim here. It’s a well-known tactic of the alt-right. You’ve clearly done your homework, but I suggest you try and apply it on somebody who doesn’t know any better.
Alt-right!!! Hahahahahaha!!!
Pure genius!
“I’m describing an individual”
So if I describe you a locust would that be okay? You are an individual and I am using a word which isn’t controversial anywhere except in your head.
Except we know it’s a racial slur. You really do enjoy doubling down on stupid, don’t you?
Why didn’t this retard capitalize “Winnie Wu”? Seems fake.
If it was real, it most certainly is racist because they clearly attacked the entire race, as well as appearance and language – all things that people have no control over.
What the commie mainland trash do have control over is their toxic culture of lying, cheating, stealing, exploiting and pillaging.
THAT’S what you attack them for, and it’s perfectly legitimate.
Except it’s not legitimate no matter how much you bleat.
Then why does nearly everyone disagree with you and your “toxic” race baiting?
If by “nearly everyone” you mean the dozen or so hardcore racists who still post here then I suspect the answer should be obvious – even to you.
Hi VCIers!
Is there one single person here who thinks that the guy who wants to shut down this blog is not a race baiter, and is legitimately fighting racism of all types?
He is your typical left wing loser who can’t win an argument so it always ends up in calling the the person a racist. That is all he has got. It probably cost his parents 10s of thousands in tuition for him to learn that.
QUESTION: Re COV Duplexes
Does anyone know if new duplex zoning allows for more square ft to be built than existing SFH ?
……..or the same sq. ft. as SFH divided by 2 ?
FSR for duplex is .7… no laneway homes allowed….
SO basically less density because you can already build .7 FSR with a legal basement suite and a laneway home. Duplex takes away the laneway home option…
“Duplex takes away the laneway home option…”
Also as I noted above you can sell the laneway house separately as a strata. So the duplex doesn’t add anything in that respect either. Really I think it will only be attractive where the existing house is a teardown.
“Also as I noted above you can sell the laneway house separately as a strata.”
How many have been sold like this? Maybe a handful to a family member. Nobody wants to buy a lane house (for what they would cost) and nobody with a SFH wants to sell a lane house to a stranger.
“Really I think it will only be attractive where the existing house is a teardown.”
That is about 50% of SFH in Vancouver.
Standard 33 ft lot allows for about 2800 SQ ft.. so that makes 2 – 1400 sq duplex… not so super attractive to try to carve out a suite out of the 1400 sq ft…
On the other hand, SFH + laneway home + basement suite is already 3 units…
Good points..thanks .
IMHO…SFH + basement suite + laneway house is the way to go.
2 duplexes with 2 suites would be the cheapest to build and get the most money. Plus you can have a double garage which you lose with a lane house. I bet 80% of new build spec houses will be duplexes going forward.
B.C. realtor shares racist letter sent to her in the mail
https://globalnews.ca/news/4484782/realtor-shares-racist-letter-sent-mail/
>>> not that I necessarily condone such behaviour, but it would be way too easy to stage a stunt like this without even the slimmest of chances that you would be caught all in an attempt to gain sympathy from the public and make certain ethnic groups (who may have legitimate criticism) look like the bad guys. oldest trick in the book. there, i said it… (but many of you were probably thinking it)
What do you have such a low opinion of BPOM & Co’s love and passion to defend Vancouver & Canada from vermins?
well owner of that letter certainly sounds like a desperate realtor who hasn’t sold anything for months. Blaming others won’t change anything. Needs to look in the mirror. Sounds like a crying out loud baby to me.
Yellow people hurting us financially, brown and black people hurting us physically. Is that the message some of these people trying to put out? How does that sound? Whites are victims of all other races? – meaning what? the weakest kid in the block? Funny isn’t it if you put it that way?. . Stop giving me giggles I wanna finish my lunch without chocking.
Hmmm….gotta admit BPOM / Roach / Make xxx / etc, you guys did step it up – https://bc.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=1498308
Now, you guys just need to bring it to the surface and start the revolution. Might still have time to form a political party for the civic elections? Btw, the Mayor of Vancouver makes close to $200K I think, that would probably quadruple Meth’s income so he might actually afford to move out moldy basements, along with councilor minions.
Anyways, I guess I should apologize for saying the bears are a bunch of lazy bums who sits on couch and surf the Internet and being keyboard warrior with one hand all day.
It figures that Phil Moore would take that stand. He one of the biggest sellouts to the Chinese in the RE industry.
Re Duplexes:
Ross Kay recent interview tears VISION a new one…his opinion is that COV has handed offshore owners a windfall based on a long term perspective., which concurrently implies locals got screwed AGAIN.
Locals could only to buy” afford” based on loose lending practices and low interest rates. That window is near closed.
Duplexes will not increase affordability unless the aforementioned is repeated.
All VISION did was set up COV SFH property owners for higher taxes..THE END.
Higher taxes inevitable… regardless of realestate prices…
services are not free…
Duplexes will transform something into two cheaper somethings. How does that not increase affordability?
Affordability???…. in a “relative” , not realistic sense.
A half duplex will go for what.. $ 1+ million ? IMHO people will go hi rise condo or SFH in the valley.
Whats the difference between townhouse and duplex…..one less shared wall ?…though I agree strata fees existence is a consideration, but duplex will ultimately be more expensive on sq.ft. basis.
Of course, if foreign locusts start another invasion….all bets are off.
“Whats the difference between townhouse and duplex”
Not having a strata run your life is a big difference. A strata decides if you can change the colour of your curtains, what kind of lock you have on your front door and where you can park or not.