Wow.
"The FCAC's 2020-21 COVID-19 #Financial Well-being Survey showed that approximately 2 per cent of #Canadians used an online non-bank lender or #PaydayLoan company in the previous 12 months."
Payday loans are crazy #expensive, often close to 60% p.a. (sixty!) if you include the fees. Charging above 60% is #criminal #usury in #Canada. However, loans of up to $1500 are exempt, so the typical payday loan #lender could charge even more.
#poverty #money #ripoff #poor
#financial #canadians #paydayloan #expensive #criminal #usury #canada #lender #poverty #money #ripoff #poor
absolutely @s_guilbeault is correct. #Albertans, #Canadians are among the worlds richest people, and we have close to greatest #CO2 emissions per capita. If we refuse to reduce emissions, how can we ask poor developing world citizens and countries to reduce? #Privilege.
#albertans #canadians #co2 #privilege
The single best question to ask of a #Trump-supporter is “do you feel that he has helped you personally?” If they say yes, ask them how and to keep it as a personal example.
Many people can’t answer but many, like #Canadians that support the #convoy are often economically marginalized, lonely, and have found community.
Huzzah! Petition is up to 6023!
Let's get this up over 7k before it closes Sunday morning.
https://petitions.ourcommons.ca/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-4514
Fellow #Canadians pls sign this petition to get disabled folks some emergency cost of living relief while the feds figure out the longer term solution.
We need your advocacy! 🗣️📣
#canadians #canada #canpoli #cdnpoli #disability
Hey fellow #Canadians. People who live with disabilities are hurting.
While awaiting the Canada Disability Benefit, they are struggling to survive.
PLEASE SIGN this petition and BOOST to call upon the gov't to immediately create and implement a disability emergency relief benefit.
📣JT & CO have the power to do this. They did this for COVID relief in support of protecting capitalism. Protect LIVES now.
Closes Sept 10!
https://petitions.ourcommons.ca/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-4514
#canadians #canpoli #canadadisabilitybenefit
Petition to "call upon the Government of Canada to create and implement a disability emergency relief benefit to provide immediate support to people with disabilities while awaiting the implementation of the Canada Disability Benefit."
Please sign and share this link everywhere you can.
Poverty is crushing disabled ppl in Canada (including me). We need your advocacy. 💪🧡
https://petitions.ourcommons.ca/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-4514
#CDNpoli #Canada #disability #ODSP #AISH #CanPoli #poverty #housing #costOfLiving #Canadians
#cdnpoli #canada #disability #odsp #aish #canpoli #poverty #housing #costofliving #canadians
This brand new 5 minute video from @thejuicemedia in #Australia is absolutely brilliant! It's a "gift" to #Canadians from down under.
#Canada #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #wildfires #JustTransition
#justtransition #wildfires #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #Canada #canadians #Australia
#CostOfLiving #work #living
#Canadians 🇨🇦 & #Americans Compare Problems | #LeftistMafia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTT1x4Boa0U
#CostOfLiving #work #living #canadians #americans #leftistmafia
Reposting my emotional support chips since I found out where some #canadians are on the fediverse. #watercolours #watercolor
#canadians #watercolours #watercolor
“#Canadians have seen versions of this public-private “debate” countless times. A typical pattern happens whenever our #HealthSystem is in #crisis, as it is today. Following alarmist claims of spiralling public health care spending, calls for increased private financing and #TwoTier health care soon follow.
the debate around private spending has been settled legally. The #BCSupremeCourt found in an 880 page ruling that more privately paid care would result in more waiting and worse care.”
#canadians #healthsystem #crisis #twotier #bcsupremecourt
@steve@yelvington.com Hurh. Interestingly, while #threads is run by #meta, Threads is not blocking Canadian news media links for #Canadians #billC18 the way #Facebook is.
But yeah, this web interface is somewhat lackluster.
#facebook #billc18 #canadians #meta #threads
“In a recent survey of 1,000 #Canadians between 16 and 25, more than three-quarters reported that #ClimateChange is detrimental to their #MentalHealth; one-third said it impeded their day-to-day functioning. This is a rational response. Someone in Gen Z easily has 60 years ahead of them—they’ll live through the worst of Canada’s forecasted climate tolls. The average Canadian oil and gas executive, meanwhile, is 58; the average federal MP, 50.”
#canadians #ClimateChange #mentalhealth
“#ClimateMigration will be one of the defining forces of the 21st century—but record numbers of #Canadians will be #displaced on the home front by #disasters both sudden (fire, flood, storms) and slow (drought, coastal erosion, sea-level rise). A permanent class of the #InternallyDisplaced will require care, shelter and other resources “
#climatemigration #canadians #displaced #disasters #internallydisplaced
“Within a few decades, #Canadians in every part of the country will be faced with an inescapably altered #geography. #SeaLevels will rise up to half a metre on the #EastCoast by 2060 and approach a full metre by century’s end. Levels on the #WestCoast will rise more slowly, but the more urbanized coastline around #Vancouver and lower-lying communities will require massive upgrades to the #dikes keeping them dry.
#canadians #geography #sealevels #eastcoast #westcoast #vancouver #dikes
“In 2005, Australian philosopher Glenn Albrecht first coined the term #solastalgia to describe the feeling of being homesick while still at home. It’s that feeling of loss and melancholia that kicks in as your home #environment changes before your eyes, and it will come to define the deep emotional and psychological distress that more #Canadians will confront as global warming drives their #climate past recognition.”
#solastalgia #environment #canadians #Climate
https://nwt.unitedway.ca/2023-emergency-response/
My heart goes out to any #Mastodon users in #Yellowknife. I know what it's like to live in wildfire country. Please be safe and coordinate with your neighbours, but most of all - stay calm and civil.
To any #Canadians on here, be a compassionate compatriot and consider donating to the emergency response via the link I added above. As much as I like coffee this week, I can forgo a few if it means saving someone's home.
#mastodon #yellowknife #canadians #yellowknifefires #canada
Regular #Canadians turning to 'lunch bucket populists' like Frank Stronach and Conrad Black for pearls of wisdom.
Frank Stronach: "Canadians need to rise up and fight for their prosperity."
The same question could be asked of #Canadians: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/09/us-culture-moral-education-formation/674765/
Now and then my feed spits out some barf and I laugh.
*Oh yeah. this dipstick*.
I follow three idiot #Canadians... *ironically*... via bird.makeup. Jordan hatephobe Peterson, this guy, and Danielle Smith.
*Why? They're idiots. *
Mostly so I can read upon some dim witted ideological ramblings, shake my head, then happily get on with my day, safe in knowing that that was probably the dumbest shit I will read all fucking day. Also, know thy enemy.
#Canada - still OK despite these 3. Sorry.