The full point is

Grow the construction sector workforce. Accelerated home construction will require a corresponding investment in our skilled trade workforce. We will expand and accelerate training and apprenticeship programs for skilled trades so that we can build the homes Canadians need. We will seize this once-in-a-generation opportunity to create a more competitive construction industry with great jobs in trades and manufacturing.

It talks about educating trades workers, which is excellent, but our construction sector is rapidly aging, and we need as many workers as possible. Canada has a well developed immigration system for bringing new workers into the country. We need to use that.

Carney’s platform does not mention Federal Skilled Trades Program, TFWs, or any other part of Canada’s immigration system. Which is bizarre, given the Liberals use of immigration, and oblique mentions to Canada’s growing population,

It’s probably a prison thing. Like they need to use a specific app to get photos.

I dislike all the empty space. Fortunately, other launchers can improve that.

even… Canadian procurement shudders can get hold of it

That’s too unrealistic for even NCD

tell your city councillor

Private information. I wrote an app that showed my bank balance in a widget. I’d rather not show that on the lock screen.

I don’t know why everyone is fawning over Mark Carney. He is small ‘c’ conservative.

I think there’s general antipathy towards Poilievre. It feels like classic Anyone But the Conservatives.

Carney doesn’t have a history with Trudeau, so the hope is that he can steal a victory from the Conservatives.

No one is giving them any media attention also. So it’s hard for them to deliver their message.

Last time I checked their YouTube channel, it was sparse. They barely seem to have a presence. That was around a year ago, so maybe they’ve rectified that.

Provinces are ultimately responsible for housing

The current federal government dipped into provincial responsibility to: create national cheap daycare; pay for dental care; and “encourage” municipalities to loosen zoning restrictions. They (rightly) won a court case against Alberta about who can enforce environmental regulations.

CMHC used to work with the provinces to build housing. They, and the federal government, can do it again.

1. Build houses. AFAIU, CMHC used to work with provides to do that. The houses could be sold below market price to people below a certain income, or rented out.

2. Build affordable housing. Rent it out below market rate.

3. More no-interest loans for co-ops and not-for-profit builders.

4. Put a lifetime limit on the amount of profit people can make on their primary residence tax free. Maybe 100k? Maybe 100k/five years of primary residence? I dunno. This would have to be on new purchases.

5. Get more people building houses. Carney proposes more apprenticeships, which is great, but that takes time - we should also encourage more immigrants to build houses as a pathway to citizenship.

6. Nobody in the trades should pay for an education. Our taxes should cover it. Ditto for healthcare.

There’s a bunch of other stuff that I like, but may not make sense: remove taxes on construction materials; lower taxes on the trades; crack down on money laundering; disallow foreign ownership of Canadian homes; make improvements on homes tax free.

Yeah. I’m really hoping for a politician to step up and start paying for new construction.

Joining an existing project would be more helpful.

Asimov lives!

the climate crisis forces migration; xenophobia fuels the rise of the far right in receiving countries; far-right governments undermine environmental protections; natural disasters are more destructive. Yet migration experts may not be experts on the climate crisis, and climate experts may have limited knowledge of geopolitics.

Or politicians.

By default, Google is making all widgets available on the lockscreen “to prioritize user choice and customization,” but an opt-out API is offered to developers.

That’s nice.

Google giveth and Google taketh away.

I bounced onto his housing policy. It can be summed up as

We simply do not have enough homes. 🤷‍♂️

It proceeds to do the neoliberal “let’s hope the private sector saves us” crap.

Nothing about the feds building housing.

Nothing about fixing our tax code so houses aren’t investments.

It doesn’t even talk about bringing in more construction workers.

Just rEmOvInG rEd TaPe.

Yeah, pretty much. I hope our governments can start building trade deals (and improve shipping to) other partners.

What a fucking idiot. Dude can’t even commit to his own shit. TaRIfF iS ThE mOsT bEaUtiFuL wOrD.

At this point, we just need to classify US trade and foreign policy as “deranged” and find stable trading partners.

The federal government says it’s spending $82 million on the construction of the 6,500 square-foot home and $68.9 million on a community trust to support ongoing operations.

I really hope residents of the community will see most of that construction money. It’s more than the actual fund to help residents.