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Our members invest on behalf of beneficiaries and clients made up of Canadians who are pension-plan members, receive or will receive benefits from the Canada Pension Plan or invest in a mutual fund or ETF through their bank’s asset management arm. 13): I believe columnist Andrew Coyne does readers a disservice in implying that the interests of institutional investors that comprise the members of the Canadian Coalition for Good Governance are somehow in conflict with the interests of retail shareholders. Re The Rogers Family Feud Does Not Make Dual-class Shares A Bad Idea (Opinion, Nov. The bottom line: If more supply is the answer to affordable housing, then that supply must be affordable.Īrny Wise Urban planner and retired developer, Vancouver Dual-class concerns They tried giving supports to first-time homebuyers – that just increased demand and drove prices even higher. Governments have tinkered with policies for 10 years, hoping the market would sort itself out – that hasn’t happened. Along with desirable Toronto, there will likely never be enough supply to exceed demand – unless most single-family neighbourhoods are aggressively densified. Vancouver has added more housing units per capita than any other North American city over the past 30 years, yet prices have increased the fastest here. More high-end supply would only broaden availability to high-end earners and investors. The problem in this housing market, I find, is that no matter how many high-end condos are built, prices will not fall. 13): There seems to be a myth that more supply alone will lower house prices. Re The Wrong Route To Affordable Housing (Nov.
If electricity is being generated by coal (or even natural gas), then switching to an EV does not reduce carbon emissions – it increases them.Ī better plan – at least from Canada’s perspective – would provide an incentive for all electric cars manufactured in Canada, Mexico or the United States. government plans to subsidize electric vehicle production, yet it made no COP26 commitments to eliminate the use of coal to produce electricity. I couldn’t see a single whole tree in the mess, except those holding strong along the edges of slides.Ĭould more careful logging, away from roads and communities, not avoid such slides in future?Ĭlaudette Claereboudt Regina Electric dreams landslides, I couldn’t help but notice the limbless, leafless, rootless tree trunks carried down by mud. 18): After viewing so many photos of the devastating B.C. Under Third State Of Emergency This Year (Nov. “You are not alone,” wrote a third.Ĭhristina’s main wish, the Chens wrote, “is that students, regardless of race, can be safe outside of their homes.Please log in to bookmark this story. “So proud of your heroic action!” said another. “You have showed true courage and selflessness!” one donor said. On the GoFundeMe they wrote donations will “help us advocate for the city’s public safety.”Ĭomments on the fundraiser page praise Christina as brave and a hero. No details are yet available on the Chen family’s plans for the money raised, per the Chinatown Development Corporation. Nestel, the transit police chief, told WHYY he was immediately stationing an officer at Olney Station to help commuting students. Nationwide, more than 9,000 anti-Asian incidents have been reported over the past two years, up more than 75% from before COVID.Ĭouncilmember David Oh, who was the first Asian American elected to political office in Philadelphia, has called on SEPTA and the school district to increase security measures. People of Asian and Pacific Islander descent have contended with increased hate crimes since the start of the pandemic.
The attack has become a rallying point for Philly’s AAPI community.