The school board’s trustee "agreed that Yao did not break any rules. She cited the OCDSB’s own guidelines, which say “slogans or symbols that signal solidarity, such as ‘Free Palestine’ etc. are permitted so long as they don’t violate the code of conduct.”.

And the board said that no students were suspended as a result of the speech.

So why is this principal’s panties getting all bunched up for? She called Yao and told her not to go to school even though Yao’s not suspended? Sounds like a personal intimidation by the principal to me.

Assuming a lot of them are immigrants as majority of residents of Toronto are foreign born, this isn’t surprising IMO. Most of them come from societies with conservative values or religious values. Credit to them, conservatives have been good at appealing to different visible minority ethnic bases, be it sex education, drugs, taxes, abortion issues etc etc. Liberals and NDP have taken the immigrants for granted assuming their welcoming diversity will market itself.

Stop writing blank checks to the US.

I hope we will develop our own defense capabilities instead of feeding the profits of American war machinery.

This is just the beginning.

Mods: again the site is saying this post is cross-posted to same “sub” (whats’ the term in lemmy?). When I look I only see one post.

HBC is a dinosaur, and it went the way of dinosaurs. The brand name still has value, and someone may resurrect it, in some form. Who still remembers Simpsons the store before the show?

How did you get it back?

I think I might have an explanation. Lemmy seems to have an issue with CBC articles for some reason. When I post them, it doesn’t show that it’s “posted” but “hangs” in the posting page. So I clicked it to submit again. It doesn’t happen with any other site. Just CBC.

Despite this, price of bread is still ridiculous.

Immigration is a factor. Governments (note the S) lack of planning and strategy around it, leaving it to the invisible hand of “market forces” hasn’t worked. Even without immigration social trends alone would have dictated higher housing demand as more people are staying single or getting divorced and living on their own. This era of artificially low interest rates and being awash in excessive liquidity for prolonged periods due to various “financial” crises is a much bigger factor in this by creating this prolonged housing bubble. Housing shortages aren’t just local. It’s global. The world’s population has always been growing. There’s always been immigration. The reason we have governments is properly manage and plan for these things. It’s been a failure at every single level - local, municipal, provincial, and federal.

There is nothing wrong with “demand”. It is essential to economic growth. Market forces, and governments are the ones failing here.

In other words: Fired Politician Continues to Live in Mansion at Taxpayers’ Expense.

That’s exactly this. They used covid manufacturing stoppages and shipping bottlenecks as excuse. Now they will do this again.

Let them get very serious about separation. and its consequences. Only when they face it will they realize what they’ll have. Or not have. I can tell you one thing - once they have their own currency, it will appreciate. It’ll make oil production costs more expensive, make their oil and gas less profitable. Further, their currency becomes directly pegged to the oil price, with little to no stability which makes doing business and trade-dependent economy like theirs and ours more difficult and costly. They will ask to continue to use Canadian dollar and we should absolutely refuse it - they want the benefits without the costs.

Equalization payments are there for economic imbalances. Look at EU. Once Germany joined EU and uses Euro, it is like a currency depreciation making their goods more cost effective in the world market. Thus Germany enjoys a huge trade surplus. It’s not a coincidence Germany has had huge trade surpluses since they went to a common currency. This surplus would shrink if they went back to their own currency, as the Mark will appreciate due to the trade surplus vs other currencies making their goods less competitive in global market.

This is Trump messing with our food.

The day started with Trump warmly welcoming Carney to the Oval Office, saying there were some “tough points” to discuss while also praising the former central banker as “a very talented, very good person” who deserved to win the recent federal election. Trump praised Carney’s election victory

I think Carney’s charmed Trump. Well done.

Thank you. That is nuts. Is it a conservative government ruling Denmark?

Toronto has a much bigger GDP than Alberta.

are you serious? post an article!