“I regret choosing Canada as a country to immigrate to, to study and to live in. Canada should appreciate foreign students more, not just use them as a form of cheap labor.” financialpost.com/pmn/business-p…

Workers have the freedom to strike. It is protected by the Charter. Using the notwithstanding clause to suspend workers rights is an affront to democracy.

The Ontario Public Service Employees Union says its 8,000 education workers will walk off the job Friday in solidarity with the Canadian Union of Public Employees, whose 55,000 education workers are set to strike. trib.al/CKhii8h

Looking for a way to offer solidarity and say that you support free and fair collective bargaining and union rights? Click the link below to locate the closest CUPE #onted OSBCU-CSCSO picket line to you! cupe.on.ca/dontbeabully/ #onpoli #onlab

Economic slowdown to wipe out $1.6 trillion from Canadian wealth, mostly from home values: RBC - They are hoping. It will likely be double if not triple that over the next few years.

Landlord licensing leads to higher rents and more bureaucracy. #ottcity #ottnews "a licensing program would ensure landlords would be charged a small fee per rental unit to license their properties and be put on a registry for annual health inspections." cbc.ca/lite/story/1.6…

Retweet this if you stand in solidarity with CUPE education workers.

#KanataSouth - I asked a couple of EAs if I needed to make my own sign to go out and join them tomorrow - I had these left on my doorstep! #IStandWithCUPE St. Anne School CUPE Ontario #onpoli

#KanataSouth please don’t accept the demonizing of CUPE-OSBCU - they’re our frontline education workers. Our schools’ EAs, ECEs, custodians, librarians & more. 51% work a 2nd job to make ends meet, 91% are facing financial hardship & 60% are laid off each summer. #IStandWithCUPE

why wouldn't NFPs do well when in the latest #Ottawa #housing and #homelessness plan they ensured their funding is fixed regardless how many clients they serve? #shelters are NOT homes! #HousingCrisis #HousingForAll #dignity #humanity #SDG1 #SDG2 #SDGs

we have had #HousingDisaster since 1998. we know 1 in 3 #newcomer families have suffered from the #HousingCrisis & more than half homeless ppl are newcomers but we'll bring 400K+ more immigrant/year & pay NGOs to sell the story that supply/demand don't apply to #housing market.

The decision to expand urban boundries & increase heights will best benefit future & current residents of #Ottawa with improved planning at #ottcity Thanks to MMAH staff & minister Steve Clark for listening Mark Sutcliffe Ottawa Home Builders #HousingCrisis #HousingForAll #housing

I am a Capitalist but communities are allowed to decide what they should be and if density is the future we MUST build for families There's many other changes to make but if we don't stop adding $185K to every new build before a shovel goes in the ground everything gets worse

Dont get mad at tents or tents cities. They are doing more to adress the housing crisis than our elected officials

In ways not easily available in the past The message is clear: Regulators and Government are beginning to grasp this mortgage payment issue All those who may be genuinely worried about how to handle unmanageable payment increases: CALL your lender Don't wait Be persistent

Claiming that homeless shelters are a solution to our housing crisis is like claiming that giving up plastic straws will solve pollution. 🤡 They are a distraction amidst a tidal wave of government failures. 🌊 If shelters are housing, then our leaders should try living in them.

On the Zero Sum Nature of Canadian Real Estate: 2022 was NOT a good year for Canadian Real Estate holders and, I am sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but 2023 is likely to be worse. My office is replete with people who are losing homes, facing impossible financial

I remember being homeless in the freezing winter and discovering a heated parkade in the West End of Vancouver and thinking they care more about heating for cars but not for people who are homeless.

I met with someone today that purchased their house in May 2022 for $1.1 million, the house is now worth $925,000, there mortgage payment has gone from $4,700 per month to $8,500, both are now working two jobs trying to keep up. The latest rate hike has put them over the edge.