Having the vast majority of your savings tied up in your principal residence, an undiversified, illiquid asset with high transaction costs and loads of idiosyncratic risk, is not a bright idea. www.theglobeandmail....
The belief that a home is an infallible investment has been seeded into the minds of a young cohort by homeowners who hit the jackpot. You canât really blame them
The Toronto Star asked me for my thoughts on Russia covertly funding far-right media personalities, including Canadians. Clandestine foreign-funding or not, the fact is Canada remains one of the worldâs biggest exporters of far-right media â and that problem is ultimately on us, not Russia
Readers may be surprised to learn a number of Canadians are actually at the centre of an alleged foreign plot in the U.S.
Olena Stiazhkinaâs âUkraine, War, Love,â a diary documenting the start of the events in 2014, can perhaps be best summarized by the line: âWhatâs it like when Russians come to âsave Russian speakers,â and then kill them?â
The propaganda surrounding Russiaâs 2014 invasion of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts has been so pervasive that, even a decade later, people continue to parrot lines about the need to "protect the Donbas ...
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Brilliant podcast with @justinling.bsky.social on âeffective polarizationâ and overcoming what Wendy Chung termed the âagitated clusters of comforting rageâ caused by going thru a middleman algorithm like Google or FB designed by somebody who thinks that if they make you angry, youâll engage more.
[Youâve probably heardâfrom politicians, experts or even just friends and familyâthat âCanada is brokenâ. Everyone can draw their own conclusions about that, but thereâs no denying some key aspects of...
The actual quote: «Fuck aux rĂ©acs, fuck Ă cette extrĂȘme droite, fuck Ă tous ceux qui voudraient nous enfermer dans la guerre de tous contre tous !» Absolutely fantastic.
Some voiced outrage in response to the 2024 Paris Olympics opening ceremony. In a new interview, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo shared her response to the critics: âFuck the reactionaries, fuck this far right, fuck all of those who would like to lock us into a war of all against all."
Anne Hidalgo blamed the far right for stoking divisions in French society.
Hey, Ontario opposition parties, want to know how to defeat Doug Ford? Here's how: tvo.org/article/here...
Radio news: âThe outage is affecting systems everywhere Microsoft is used." Gosh, itâs almost as if a global tech monopoly was a bad idea?