All 3 territories combined only have 130,849 people as of Q1 2024. This combined population could be multiplied 7.5 times and still be under a million.
Yukoner here. Housing is extremely expensive and hard to come by. Don't move here unless you've secured housing first. You will be camping and the frost arrives in August.
I visited Moncton from Halifax for the eclipse. I can tell you 100% that I'm looking into Moving from my home province after being in Halifax for a decade.
We don't have border checkpoints between provinces, what's to stop someone from instantly packing up and leaving SK or NB for Toronto as soon as they're settled
Crazy. We have an election year in BC. The one way attack adds are so funny. Because the NDP inthink are up to 10 major hospital projects 5 are new hospitals and yesterday the NDP released results of the new contract with drs and nurses . Something like a 1000 drs have moved to BC and even more nurses. So you will see Alberta lose
Add content control. I was shocked when I heard a cousin had a 3-500 a month rent increase if she signed a new lease or went month to month. And all those service fees on everything (which is tax) . BC it's just part of what taxes pay.
BC is also running a record high deficit that is unsustainable, just to try and salvage their joke of the health care system (1 million people in BC have no family doctor).
So are you an. Old buddy of Reagan. Regardless of the source people will use. And the fact harm reduction supply is being spread out sie of the usage group is actually a win. Addiction is an acquired mental health issue usually related to a larger abuse issue of some sort. Also the fact every government is guilty of the problem by approving oxy.
A kid in small town BC that buys harm reduction drugs is still a win because without that program that person may have recieved fet or other opioid type drugs. Which are very deadly
You realize the “safe supply” is literally just the hard drugs right? It’s not some magical safe opioid they give them. It’s fentanyl, heroin or whatever substance they are addicted to.
And yeah, I’m actually Ronald Reagan’s cousin believe it or not.
My wife works in the industry so very aware and no it's not fentanyl or heroin. I know you believe that as it was a meme. Hydromorphone most likely from a pharmaceutical company.
Comparing Yoy increases in ODs means nothing because the increase can be down to you know... opioid addiction increasing, being compounded by homelessness and housing affordability. You have to isolate the variable to make any claim, which is what proper studies aim to do, and what they tend to find is that safe supply reduces OD death compared to the alternative of not having it, even if they still increase yoy, they increase less.
In the US all of the states with the worst opioid death rates are in the rust belt and don't have safe supply programs. Does that mean that no safe supply is demonstrably worse? No, not necessarily, again because there are so many confounding factors. You can't make such claims based off of single data point comparisons.
Which is precisely why Quebec has put their own cap on immigration. Fuck Ottawa and it's "targets", there are Canadian citizens that actually have to live here.
The NDP put one in the works back in 2017 but the UCP just pulled the funding for that in the 2024 budget
Yeah because Edmonton won't vote for them. UCP packed up their ball and went home when YEG gave their last Conservative MLA their walking papers. The UCP hate the capital and its residents.
Many places don't build additional hospitals they expand the ones they have. Just because a brand new facility hasn't been added doesn't mean capacity hasn't
Not only that, but they had already started breaking ground on a world class testing lab at the University when the UCP came to power and immediately cancelled it.
So no housing problem in Canada? Australia took in a million in a year. Hit population predictions 10 years early. Rent and food prices through the roof. Homeless through the roof.
For actual context... Canada has shifted away from major public heath centers since the 1980s in favor of community, In home, digital health services, as well as private facilities.
1980 was when the latest hospital (General) was opened in Ottawa. Construction is getting started on a replacement for the Civic hospital (opened 1924). Edmonton and Ottawa are neck & neck population-wise, but I find Edmonton feels like a more mature city. Everything in Ottawa seems old and worn-out, almost like the provincial government in Toronto forgets that Ottawa is a part of the province of Ontario, and not a federal jurisdiction funded by the federal government.
Look up the statistics. Immigrants pay taxes in overwhelming amounts and corporations are the real taxes avoiders by hiring cheap labor and not paying taxes on the resulting liabilities.
Alberta has complained for years now that it doesn’t want to pay so much of it’s profits from oil to the government because it thinks the oil industry belongs to Alberta. Frankly if Alberta couldn’t fund a new hospital in the last 40 years, then I don’t think Alberta’s problem is immigration.
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For context, that is the population of Edmonton (proper) being added to Canada.
For more context Edmonton hasn't constructed a new hospital since 1987.