this post was submitted on 28 Jan 2024
34 points (100.0% liked)

Canada

7230 readers
606 users here now

What's going on Canada?

Related Communities

🍁 Meta

🗺️ Provinces / Territories

🏙️ Cities / Local Communities

Sorted alphabetically by city name.

🏒 SportsHockey

Football (NFL): incomplete

Football (CFL): incomplete

Baseball

Basketball

Soccer

💻 Schools / Universities

Sorted by province, then by total full-time enrolment.

💵 Finance, Shopping, Sales

🗣️ Politics

🍁 Social / Culture

Rules

Reminder that the rules for lemmy.ca also apply here. See the sidebar on the homepage: lemmy.ca

founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
34
In an RV outside a B.C. Walmart, a senior dreams of housing (www.cbc.ca)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
4 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

Keith Light, 77, says he spent New Year's Eve trying to get the engine of his recreational vehicle — outside a Walmart in East Vancouver — running to stay warm, while trying to imagine better times ahead.

"I just laid here and visualized B.C. Housing calling me and saying: 'We have a place for you,'" said the former construction worker.

Light has been on B.C. Housing's waiting list for subsidized housing for two years, and every time he contacts the agency, staff ask him to check back in another six months.

He is among a large population of elderly people living in poverty or are on its brink in B.C., where perennially high housing costs exacerbate countrywide cost-of-living woes.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You gotta hope enough people get screwed to stand up against the bullshit or at least be bothered to show up and vote against the status quo

[–] Untitled4774 4 points 10 months ago

And yet people seem to be increasingly moving towards right governments and their “easy answers”, even though they almost invariably are neo-liberal, pro-corporation governments, and love to squash social safety nets and climate programs in favour of more breaks for the rich and their companies.

The media is also getting taken over by right wing interests, that peddle their side and push propaganda that pushes the Overton window further right.

They also make any “leftist” movement or bill as seeming way too extreme, while out the other side of their mouth are more than happy to make huge sweeping moves to little to no objection.

The right uses anger very effectively, and the left likes to take the high road, but I fear it’s going to be the end of us all. Any revolution is going to be too slow and too short or a movement at this rate.