Canada is a failed state

[BeetleBug242]

it must've been something he said

“Don’t die, the liberal/NDP government will save you, please just hold on”

 

[y a t s]

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Waterloo has a lot of junkies and homeless now. It's a small city compared to Kitchener, so they're pretty inescapable.
It was pretty eye-opening going back there in the last year or two and seeing how much it has changed. Damn shame.

 

[Never Scored]

Except it's not so much outside their control as it is subject to all of their control at the same time, due to how those companies basically own the government. That won't change unless we have some major reforms.

Hard disagree that CBC doesn't go after corporations. CBC's biggest issue with regards to reporting is they won't touch anything having to do with race unless it's "White people are racist against me." Marketplace and The Fifth Estate are actually pretty decent shows and do hatchet jobs against big corporations and government all the time.

Now that being said, I don't disagree it needs serious reforms. I just think a properly run public broadcaster that doesn't have to kowtow to commercial interests would be good to have. Like I said earlier, I view it in the same way I view a library. If a library is poorly run, that doesn't mean libraries themselves are flawed concepts.

The biggest issue with CBC is this shit:

Nobody watches any of this shit. Boomers love procedural crime dramas, but they are injected with current day politics which boomers hate. So we are spending hundreds of millions of dollars on shows like this for nobody. The CBC budget could be cut drastically and they could be told to focus on news, news magazine shows and documentaries, and we'd end up with a better service overall. These terrible CBC dramas and comedies are basically make work projects for those in the Canadian film industry.

I bet they have. I don't watch Canadian tv very often but when I do why is it that there's no all white commercials? There are plenty with exclusively non-white casts but none with just everyone white.

Most commercials on the channels I watch have a black person and a white person with biracial kids. The on only commercials I see with all white people are ones aimed at seniors like reverse mortgage ads.

 

[AngryAboutInternets]

Hard disagree that CBC doesn't go after corporations

I didn't say that, I said that it was subject to the combination of the whims of the ruling corporations of this country. I don't know how you managed to read that from the words that I wrote. Corporations go after each other all the time, it's not unreasonable to think that they use the CBC to do so occasionally.

 

[Sweeter and Savoury]

I wondered why Mr Rolex was suddenly finding his spine and breaking with Trudeau.

It turns out the Liberals have made a pact with the Bloc to prevent a election.

So Singh can go on and pretend he gives a shit to try to save his party while the Bloc gets to milk Trudeau for everything they want for Quebec so they can get reelected but the second he says no they will bail. Meanwhile the rest of Canada will continue to spiral down until the Liberals are legally forced to call an election.

No matter which way Canadians turns they get fucked in the ass by Ottawa. Tell your kids too get educated then GFTO ASAP to the States.

 

[Never Scored]

I didn't say that, I said that it was subject to the combination of the whims of the ruling corporations of this country. I don't know how you managed to read that from the words that I wrote. Corporations go after each other all the time, it's not unreasonable to think that they use the CBC to do so occasionally.

All the same, I think you'd be hard pressed to watch CBC and claim it's under any kind of significant corporate control. If it were, I don't think the Cons would be advocating for cuts. I think it's more under the control of big public sector unions, champagne socialists and the academic class which comes with its own set of issues.

Crown corporations like Canada Post and CBC are supposed to be operated at arms length from the actual government to avoid political interference. One would think this would include the interference of big political donors who influence the policy of the two major parties. However, if those donors do wield enough power to directly control crown corporations as they see fit, watching any of the news shows on CBC regularly would at least lead one to believe CBC is at least allowed to exist as controlled opposition.

Besides, I've said several times now that CBC is poorly run, but I think the concept of a public broadcaster is a good one, including in the post your originally quoted. In light of that, it is a bit scratcher why you would quote it in the first place and essentially say "Well CBC does xyz and that won't change without major reforms." Am I not arguing for major reform at the CBC?

*Edit* Look, put it this way. CBC is at the very least not directly owned by Bell like CTV is. If a big scandal broke involving Bell, do you think CTV would report on it? Do you think CBC would? Now consider that Bell owns CTV, Rogers owns City TV, and the Shaw family owns Corus(Global, Showcase, YTV etc,) as well as being a significant shareholder of Rogers after the Shaw/Rogers merger. Can any of those outlets be trusted to report on a story about say, competition in the ISP market in Canada? Would CBC report on such a story?

Even if you want to make the argument that CBC is meaningfully influenced by corporate entities like Bell and Rogers, that is quite different than being outright owned by one of them. Without CBC at this point, English Canada's Internet, TV and cable networks are all under the control of Bell and Rogers. It is dire.

 

[DiscoRodeo]

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If this is by Phils, used to work nearby at one of the bars in university. In the mid 2010s wed get people drugged out coming by at night, sometimes on some hard stuff and its pretty normal for the area (stupid club kids).

If its 10pm, still probably a bit too early, but my best guess would be someone on something they thought was normal, but turned out to probably be fentanyl.

From the way the medics reacted and knew he was going to die, its probably that.

 

[BeetleBug242]

They speak their own language, laugh, and slack off as I watch them fuck up two coffee, two cream.

 

[Tootsie Bear]

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My limits are tested daily. Propaganda shoved down Every. Single. Day.

I see a buss that says we mustn’t be racist to these poor souls who can’t do anything right. My brain starts to tick. I see an ad for new rentals… the poster is an Indian family.

You can’t judge a fuck up junky for abusing every line of help offered, no, you must open your doors for them.

Everywhere you look a new sharwma\curry house opens up.

You can see the correlation of garbage to Indian with any property they inhabit.

They speak their own language, laugh, and slack off as I watch them fuck up two coffee, two cream.

Our government mutilates children in droves while they steal, rape, and pillage any sense of normalcy you’ve ever experienced.

Pride, ego, and arrogance have lead us to a total apathetic death spiral.

And soon, when the people have had enough. They will send brown men who cannot speak a lick of your tongue to break down your doors and take more.

They will never stop taking. They will take until nothing remains. They want to forever ruin this cultural identity off the map.

The cherry on top, I’m the crazy wingnat racist biggot. All I ever did was participate in your systems. I was a good little goy and I played along. I was the perfect representation of what they wanted to achieve… and yet. It was never enough. That’s the biggest lie, they never wanted anything other that total goy death.

I’m looked at as an insect, an insignificant complication that needs to be removed. All because I said no to being fucked in the ass. I didn’t want to be fucked in the ass and now I need a thousand year religious grudge to set me straight.

Hate doesn’t even begin to describe the emotions. This is the pipeline. Complete and utter nonsense that should have never, not for one second been taken seriously.

One of the better subreddit pages r/LinkedInLunatics has many posts from Indian LinkedIn Lunatics. We all thought we're going to see the resurgence of European style serfdom but instead we got the Indian version with a whole lot of illegals in the packaged deal. Somewhere a greedy capitalists is rubbing their hands together while saying "good, good!"

 

[Sweetpeaa]

Waterloo has a lot of junkies and homeless now. It's a small city compared to Kitchener, so they're pretty inescapable.
It was pretty eye-opening going back there in the last year or two and seeing how much it has changed. Damn shame.

Kitchener was poor for years and years. I remember a very scary incident as a ten year old being in an elevator that lead to a Sears (now long gone) in downtown Kitchener with My mother and us being followed by a group of three junkies. That was in the year 2000. I remember the boarded up businesses too and the grittiness. Waterloo was better off but still not that great.

Things really changed in the early 2010's. The city was more cleaned up and sort of bland. There was no needles on the streets anymore unless you went into some off the path alley area.

But for the last five years or so the city gas gone right back to 2000 again. Only with hyper expensive rent and housing. Wages are still stuck in the 2000's. Waterloo is just weird. City planners attempted to create a city for the well off but it ain't Oakville. You'll see empty streets and no one shopping in those little boutiques they put in. I think the people are just terrified of getting attacked. The immense poverty and crime is just right up the street and spills over with plenty of day time incidents. No!

 

[y a t s]

Kitchener was poor for years and years. I remember a very scary incident as a ten year old being in an elevator that lead to a Sears (now long gone) in downtown Kitchener with My mother and us being followed by a group of three junkies. That was in the year 2000. I remember the boarded up businesses too and the grittiness. Waterloo was better off but still not that great.

Things really changed in the early 2010's. The city was more cleaned up and sort of bland. There was no needles on the streets anymore unless you went into some off the path alley area.

But for the last five years or so the city gas gone right back to 2000 again. Only with hyper expensive rent and housing. Wages are still stuck in the 2000's. Waterloo is just weird. City planners attempted to create a city for the well off but it ain't Oakville. You'll see empty streets and no one shopping in those little boutiques they put in. I think the people are just terrified of getting attacked. The immense poverty and crime is just right up the street and spills over with plenty of day time incidents. No!

Yeah, I never remembered it as a particularly well-off area when I was growing up in the London area. I think the tech boom propped up UW, and the City of Waterloo by extension, and housing became significantly more unaffordable as competition increased and became more brown. I saw rents for small studio apartments around the UW area (proximity of University Ave.) recently for around $2k, targeted at students nonetheless. The landlords tend to be investors from all over; you're lucky if yours if from somewhere in the GTA from what I have heard. This shit is criminal.

 

[Lobster Cult High Priest]

Yeah, I never remembered it as a particularly well-off area when I was growing up in the London area. I think the tech boom propped up UW, and the City of Waterloo by extension, and housing became significantly more unaffordable as competition increased and became more brown. I saw rents for small studio apartments around the UW area (proximity of University Ave.) recently for around $2k, targeted at students nonetheless. The landlords tend to be investors from all over; you're lucky if yours if from somewhere in the GTA from what I have heard. This shit is criminal.

I pay $1,900 for a basement unit / separate entrance in a nearby city.

 

[Prehistoric Jazz]

The biggest issue with CBC is this shit:

I saw the white lady in the first video you posted and my thought was "Kevin McDonald and the boys are back! I can't wait for more Kids In The Hall!" and then it continued and I realized that's not him. Sigh.

 

[Sweetpeaa]

I pay $1,900 for a basement unit / separate entrance in a nearby city.

That's all of Ontario. I think the only city I've looked into here that's cheaper is Windsor (they still have 1500 dollar regular apartments). But apparently rent is going up there too and the economy is just horrible there.

This province is really shit unless you're ridiculously wealthy. And that isn't going to change.

 

[DiscoRodeo]

Yeah, I never remembered it as a particularly well-off area when I was growing up in the London area. I think the tech boom propped up UW, and the City of Waterloo by extension, and housing became significantly more unaffordable as competition increased and became more brown. I saw rents for small studio apartments around the UW area (proximity of University Ave.) recently for around $2k, targeted at students nonetheless. The landlords tend to be investors from all over; you're lucky if yours if from somewhere in the GTA from what I have heard. This shit is criminal.

I can remember rent being 500 in Waterloo for a few places around 2017 or so (but that was the bare minimum, and it was upwards of 1000 for a single room around University). Shit honestly baffles me, no wonder so many people are homeless now.

Im resigned to the fact that my old city which was already pretty bourgie has become irreversibly yuppified, and its basically just a playground for techies, students, and noone else.

 

[Sweetpeaa]

I can remember rent being 500 in Waterloo for a few places around 2017 or so (but that was the bare minimum, and it was upwards of 1000 for a single room around University). Shit honestly baffles me, no wonder so many people are homeless now.

Im resigned to the fact that my old city which was already pretty bourgie has become irreversibly yuppified, and its basically just a playground for techies, students, and noone else.

I remember visiting my dad and his girlfriend in 2008 in a two bedroom apartment they were renting in Waterloo. It was a very nice luxury unit. It was 900 dollars a month. He owned a small computer part business and she worked at walmart part time yet they lived better than most high income adults today. I do not even think they hit the 50k a year mark between the both of them but they were living comfortable with shopping sprees, high tech items, two cars and frequent vacations.

 

[wry wrangler]

When I was in university about 15 years ago I paid $550 a month for a two-bedroom basement suite. You probably can't get a single room for that much in the same city these days.

 

[Lobster Cult High Priest]

That's all of Ontario. I think the only city I've looked into here that's cheaper is Windsor (they still have 1500 dollar regular apartments). But apparently rent is going up there too and the economy is just horrible there.

This province is really shit unless you're ridiculously wealthy. And that isn't going to change.

Just saw an article where Windsor once again has the highest unemployment rate for the province at 9.x% almost 10%. Like holy moly.

When I was in university about 15 years ago I paid $550 a month for a two-bedroom basement suite. You probably can't get a single room for that much in the same city these days.

$550 you'll be sharing a room with 2 Jeets.

 

[Dozernaut]

That's all of Ontario. I think the only city I've looked into here that's cheaper is Windsor (they still have 1500 dollar regular apartments). But apparently rent is going up there too and the economy is just horrible there.

This province is really shit unless you're ridiculously wealthy. And that isn't going to change.

If you can't afford to live in Windsor there's always Sarnia and the carcinogens that Come with it.

or if you can't afford Sarnia you could move to Wallaceburg and get robbed weekly by the local chugs.

 

[DiscoRodeo]

I remember visiting my dad and his girlfriend in 2008 in a two bedroom apartment they were renting in Waterloo. It was a very nice luxury unit. It was 900 dollars a month. He owned a small computer part business and she worked at walmart part time yet they lived better than most high income adults today. I do not even think they hit the 50k a year mark between the both of them but they were living comfortable with shopping sprees, high tech items, two cars and frequent vacations.

This is what I miss. Not living in scarcity. Being able to relax, to fuck around even, but basically not being in the rat race if youre lucky, and being able to actually chill and afford places to live.

Used to know a lot of punks and alternative people in the region renting apartments, a semi-decent art scene in the general region, etc.

Now most of those people are unironically dead, homeless, or basically crazy and living in near poverty while fully normalized. Its sad tbh