https://financialpost.com/executive/executive-summary/posthaste-labour-shortages-are-set-to-get-worse-in-canada-and-you-can-blame-immigration
Musings, opinions and views on various topics, issues, news and sometimes taking the other side of the argument
Saturday, July 3, 2021
Raymond de Souza: Calls Burning if Churches For What it Is - "Sacrilege"
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/raymond-j-de-souza-rash-of-catholic-church-burnings-and-vandalism-isnt-sad-its-sacrilege
10 More Catholic Churches Vandalized: Where is the Outrage, Protests From the Politicians and Bleeding Heart Liberals, Left?
https://nationalpost.com/news/at-least-10-catholic-churches-in-calgary-vandalized-with-orange-and-red-paint
A Sobering View From David Rosenberg on the Raging Stock Market and Real Estate Party
Financial Post: Canada 'way overextended' in housing: David Rosenberg.
https://financialpost.com/investing/canada-way-overextended-in-housing-david-rosenberg
Bank of Canada Impliments New Terms of Trade "Model" To Include Debt and Real Estate As Part of Forecast
"...the Canadian economy is so dependent on debt and housing, it got its own update. Not a small forecasting update either. This thing likely took a decade to develop, and is key to central bank plans. If it presents that much of an influence on the economy, measuring it properly will likely show more risk, real soon..."
Better Dwelling: Bank of Canada Is Quietly Updating Forecast Models To Include Debt and Real Estate.
https://betterdwelling.com/bank-of-canada-is-quietly-updating-forecast-models-to-include-debt-and-real-estate/
Friday, July 2, 2021
Is Reconciliation Possible Without Recognition of Catholic Churches Being Burned Down?
Only one politician that has used somewhat blunt words (at least, one word) to call the acts of burning churches what it is. The other political leaders as spineless as they are including our own PM have used "unacceptable". How would such a word as "unacceptable" been received from such communities when a family was involved in a fatal hit and run, murders at a mosque in Quebec, a synagogue vandalized, or even during a hoax of a torn off hijab incident. Thr media and politics have obligingly stayed out of their duties to call out hate crime on this one.
"...At time of writing, exactly one federal party leader has publicly condemned what is now a quite astonishing church-burning epidemic in Indigenous communities in four provinces. In a tweet on Monday, Conservative leader Erin O’Toole called it “appalling,” which it surely is at a bare minimum.... But in the meantime, you would think denying Indigenous people a place of prayer, comfort and inspiration might rouse a lot more anger than it has — in politics and in the media alike.
"...But surely it’s inconceivable they [politicians] would stay silent if this were a spate of urban church-burnings. They certainly wouldn’t keep their powder dry if a single mosque, synagogue, gurdwara or other minority religion’s house of worship was deliberately torched, never mind a succession of them. On what principle can they justify silence with respect to another minority: Indigenous Christians?.."
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/chris-selley-if-politicians-cant-condemn-indigenous-church-burnings-reconciliation-is-a-pipe-dream
Wednesday, June 30, 2021
Another Catholic Church Up In Flames and Still No Outrage in Canada, the Country That is Supposed to Bleed For Any Ethnic, Religious, Sexuality, Gender Based Hate Crimes
https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/fire-destroys-catholic-church-north-of-edmonton-rcmp-say-blaze-suspicious