Why Canadian posters so terrible?
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Toronto has more black people than 95% of us cities
Hold this neg you white woman lover
Hold this neg you white woman lover
Cultureless, swagless heathens
"reppin: Toronto/Canada/Montreal" etc. on your profile automatically gets your post skipped right on over.
I come on the coli to discuss an assortment of black issues with other black people...not abunch of heathens that live in a country with a 1.5% black population who don't even understand what it's like to live in an actual black community.
Blacks in America make up 14% and ate still treated like dirt.
No universal healthcare, gunned down by cops. Hbcus struggling to survive, no human rights code. Sundown towns, confederate flags flying, America y'all
No universal healthcare, gunned down by cops. Hbcus struggling to survive, no human rights code. Sundown towns, confederate flags flying, America y'all
lol you love this lie
Cultureless, swagless heathens
"reppin: Toronto/Canada/Montreal" etc. on your profile automatically gets your post skipped right on over.
I come on the coli to discuss an assortment of black issues with other black people...not abunch of heathens that live in a country with a 1.5% black population who don't even understand what it's like to live in an actual black community.
Seems as though our cacnadian posters are having some serious comprehension issues.
*remains silent*
@Eye Cue 182 isn't Canadian 
Canada's Unemployment Rate Rises To 7.1% Amid Big Job Losses In Ontario
The Huffington Post Canada | By Daniel Tencer
Posted: 10/09/2015 8:39 am EDT Updated: 10/09/2015 11:59 am EDT
Self-Employment Rises With Joblessness, StatsCan Study Shows
BMO chief economist Doug Porter noted that this marks the first time since the Great Recession that Canada's jobless rate is higher than it was a year ago -- a development he describes as "not good."
"With the economy only managing to grow about 1 per cent in real terms over the past year, it’s no shock that the jobless rate is nudging higher (sprinting higher, in the case of hard-hit Alberta)," Porter wrote. "Overall, the Bank of Canada will view this release as consistent with an economy that is growing well below potential, which is what they were assuming in any event."
The Huffington Post Canada | By Daniel Tencer
Posted: 10/09/2015 8:39 am EDT Updated: 10/09/2015 11:59 am EDT
Self-Employment Rises With Joblessness, StatsCan Study Shows
BMO chief economist Doug Porter noted that this marks the first time since the Great Recession that Canada's jobless rate is higher than it was a year ago -- a development he describes as "not good."
"With the economy only managing to grow about 1 per cent in real terms over the past year, it’s no shock that the jobless rate is nudging higher (sprinting higher, in the case of hard-hit Alberta)," Porter wrote. "Overall, the Bank of Canada will view this release as consistent with an economy that is growing well below potential, which is what they were assuming in any event."
IMF downgrades Canadian growth outlook to 1% for 2015
Risks for the world include low commodities prices, China's slowdown and rate hikes
CBC News Posted: Oct 06, 2015 12:15 PM ET Last Updated: Oct 06, 2015 12:21 PM ET
A multiple perforation machine used to place explosives into rock walls stands at the Chuquicamata copper mine in northern Chile. The IMF points to the impact of the commodities boom and bust on Chile, Australia and Canada. (Jorge Saenz/Associated Press)
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The IMF has downgraded its outlook for Canadian growth to one per cent this year because of the impact of lower oil and commodities prices.
It also has revised its expectations for global growth downwards to 3.1 per cent, the lowest since 2009.
In a report Tuesday in advance of the IMF-World Bank annual meetings this week in Lima, Peru, it highlights the downside risks to the world economy from the economic slowdown in China and low prices for commodities.
The recovery it expected earlier in the year has become uneven, it said in its World Economic Outlook with marginal advances in developed economies and slowing in most emerging economies.
"Six years after the world economy emerged from its broadest and deepest postwar recession, the holy grail of robust and synchronized global expansion remains elusive," said Maurice Obstfeld, IMF director of research.
Growth slower in most nations
"Despite considerable differences in country-specific outlooks, the new forecasts mark down expected near-term growth marginally but nearly across the board."
It has revised its estimate for Canadian GDP growth downward by half a percentage point from its July forecast to one per cent this year, and to 1.7 per cent in 2016. Last year, the IMF was forecasting 2.2 per cent growth for the Canadian economy.
A side report explores how the sharp decline in commodity pricesover the last three years has hurt economies dependent on commodities, including Canada, Chile and Australia.
"The weak commodity price outlook is estimated to subtract almost one percentage point annually from the average rate of economic growth in commodity exporters over 2015–17 as compared with 2012–14," the IMF said.
"In exporters of energy commodities, the drag is estimated to be larger: about 2¼ percentage points on average over the same period."
Canada and low commodities prices
Canada saw a weakening of its manufacturing sector as capital and labour moved toward oil and gas and mining sectors during the boom years, the study found.
It suggests the impact of this commodities bust could be greater than in the past because of the large increase in output of metals and oil during the early 2000s.
The U.S., with a more robust manufacturing base, is expected to grow 2.6 per cent this year and 2.8 per cent next year.
The IMF expects Chinese economic growth to drop to a 25-year low of 6.8 per cent this year.
China's transition from an investment-driven exporter to a market-based and consumption-driven growth is one of the key risk factors for the world economy in the near term, the IMF.
It also points to risk from:
Obstfeld urged the U.S. to hold off on interest rate hikes, which could accelerate the rise of the U.S. dollar and leave emerging markets with unsustainable U.S. dollar debt.
Risks for the world include low commodities prices, China's slowdown and rate hikes
CBC News Posted: Oct 06, 2015 12:15 PM ET Last Updated: Oct 06, 2015 12:21 PM ET
A multiple perforation machine used to place explosives into rock walls stands at the Chuquicamata copper mine in northern Chile. The IMF points to the impact of the commodities boom and bust on Chile, Australia and Canada. (Jorge Saenz/Associated Press)
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The IMF has downgraded its outlook for Canadian growth to one per cent this year because of the impact of lower oil and commodities prices.
It also has revised its expectations for global growth downwards to 3.1 per cent, the lowest since 2009.
- Canadian GDP outlook slashed to 1.2% with 3 provinces in recession
- IMF slashes outlook for Canadian economy
In a report Tuesday in advance of the IMF-World Bank annual meetings this week in Lima, Peru, it highlights the downside risks to the world economy from the economic slowdown in China and low prices for commodities.
The recovery it expected earlier in the year has become uneven, it said in its World Economic Outlook with marginal advances in developed economies and slowing in most emerging economies.
"Six years after the world economy emerged from its broadest and deepest postwar recession, the holy grail of robust and synchronized global expansion remains elusive," said Maurice Obstfeld, IMF director of research.
Growth slower in most nations
"Despite considerable differences in country-specific outlooks, the new forecasts mark down expected near-term growth marginally but nearly across the board."
It has revised its estimate for Canadian GDP growth downward by half a percentage point from its July forecast to one per cent this year, and to 1.7 per cent in 2016. Last year, the IMF was forecasting 2.2 per cent growth for the Canadian economy.
A side report explores how the sharp decline in commodity pricesover the last three years has hurt economies dependent on commodities, including Canada, Chile and Australia.
"The weak commodity price outlook is estimated to subtract almost one percentage point annually from the average rate of economic growth in commodity exporters over 2015–17 as compared with 2012–14," the IMF said.
"In exporters of energy commodities, the drag is estimated to be larger: about 2¼ percentage points on average over the same period."
Canada and low commodities prices
Canada saw a weakening of its manufacturing sector as capital and labour moved toward oil and gas and mining sectors during the boom years, the study found.
It suggests the impact of this commodities bust could be greater than in the past because of the large increase in output of metals and oil during the early 2000s.
The U.S., with a more robust manufacturing base, is expected to grow 2.6 per cent this year and 2.8 per cent next year.
The IMF expects Chinese economic growth to drop to a 25-year low of 6.8 per cent this year.
China's transition from an investment-driven exporter to a market-based and consumption-driven growth is one of the key risk factors for the world economy in the near term, the IMF.
It also points to risk from:
- Low oil and other commodity prices.
- Financial market volatility.
- The appreciation of the U.S. dollar.
- Geopolitical tensions in Ukraine, the Middle East, or parts of Africa.
Obstfeld urged the U.S. to hold off on interest rate hikes, which could accelerate the rise of the U.S. dollar and leave emerging markets with unsustainable U.S. dollar debt.
Canadian dollar touches 11-year low on slowing global growth
ARI ALTSTEDTER
Bloomberg News
Published Thursday, Sep. 24, 2015 10:31AM EDT
Last updated Thursday, Sep. 24, 2015 5:36PM EDT
The Canadian dollar reached an 11-year low as global economic growth looks set to derail the country’s plan for an export-led recovery.
The currency recovered losses to end higher after being dragged down when Norway, another large oil exporter, unexpectedly cut interest rates and said it may ease monetary policy even further. Signs that economic growth in China, the world’s biggest commodity consumer, is slowing down have sent prices for everything from oil to copper plunging and prompted speculation demand won’t be quick to recover.
ARI ALTSTEDTER
Bloomberg News
Published Thursday, Sep. 24, 2015 10:31AM EDT
Last updated Thursday, Sep. 24, 2015 5:36PM EDT
The Canadian dollar reached an 11-year low as global economic growth looks set to derail the country’s plan for an export-led recovery.
The currency recovered losses to end higher after being dragged down when Norway, another large oil exporter, unexpectedly cut interest rates and said it may ease monetary policy even further. Signs that economic growth in China, the world’s biggest commodity consumer, is slowing down have sent prices for everything from oil to copper plunging and prompted speculation demand won’t be quick to recover.
Oil Sands Boom Dries Up in Alberta,
Taking Thousands of Jobs With it
By IAN AUSTENOCT. 12, 2015
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Taking Thousands of Jobs With it
By IAN AUSTENOCT. 12, 2015
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- oil workers here, a collection of 16 three-story buildings that once housed 2,000 workers sits empty. A parking lot at a neighboring camp is now dotted with abandoned cars. Withoil prices falling precipitously, capital-intensive projects rooted in the heavy crude mined from Alberta’s oil sands are losing money, contributing to the loss of about 35,000 energy industry jobs across the province.
Yet Alberta Highway 63, the major artery connecting Northern Alberta’s oil sands with the rest of the country, still buzzes with traffic. Tractor-trailers hauling loads that resemble rolling petrochemical plants parade past fleets of buses used to shuttle workers. Most vehicles carry “buggy whips” — bright orange pennants attached to tall spring-loaded wands — to help prevent them from being run over by the 1.6-million-pound dump trucks used in the oil sands mines.
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“It really is tough right now,” said Greg Stringham, the vice president for markets and oil sands at the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, a trade group that generally speaks for the industry in Alberta. “We see kind of a lot of volatility over the next four or five years.”
After an extraordinary boom that attracted many of the world’s largest energy companies and about $200 billion worth of investments to oil sands development over the last 15 years, the industry is in a state of financial stasis, and navigating the decline has proved challenging. Pipeline plans that would create new export markets, including Keystone XL, have been hampered by environmental concerns and political opposition. The hazy outlook is creating turmoil in a province and a country that has become dependent on the energy business.
Canada is now dealing with the economic fallout, having slipped into a mild recession earlier this year. And Alberta, which relies most heavily on oil royalties, now expects to post a deficit of 6 billion Canadian dollars, or about $4.5 billion. The political landscape has also shifted.
Last spring, a left-of-center government ended four decades of Conservative rule in Alberta. Federally, polls suggest that the Conservative party — which championed Keystone XL and repeatedly resisted calls for stricter greenhouse gas emission controls in the oil sands — is struggling to get re-elected in October.
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RELATED IN OPINION“The pendulum has swung,” said Stephen Ross, the president of Devonian Properties, an Alberta development company that has built several residential and commercial properties in Fort McMurray.
Since the end of the World War ll, oil has made Alberta wealthy. The increase in oil sands development since the early 2000s had only intensified the province’s good fortune and turned obscure Fort McMurray into a boomtown and an outsize contributor to the entire Canadian economy.
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When Mr. Ross first bought development land here in 2000, he paid about 27,000 Canadian dollars an acre. He stopped buying land long before it hit one million Canadian dollars an acre.
“The town has had huge growing pains,” Mr. Ross said. “It’s like something you’ve never seen.”
Operating oil sands plants quickly decreased budgets and cut services, like equipment cleaning, which were deemed optional. And as portions of construction projects are finished, construction workers are sent packing. The halt on new projects has left order books increasingly blank at a variety of suppliers, like engineering firms.
Since the price collapse, Teck Resources has delayed the start of its oil sands project by five years to 2026. Cenovus Energy substantially reduced budgets for its long-term developments. And Osum Oil Sands has set aside some of the expansion planned for a project it purchased from Shell last year. The Chinese-owned company Nexen, which had its oil sands production curtailed by regulators for about a month in August because of a pipeline leak, has deferred plans to build another upgrader facility, where tar-like bitumen of the oil sands is converted into synthetic crude oil, until the end of 2020.
These projects, and others that have begun over the last 15 years, have largely been built and operated by an itinerant work force. These workers fly into Fort McMurray’s new airport terminal and are bused to work camps up to two hours away. Their lives are a cycle of three straight weeks of long shifts interrupted by 10-day trips home.
That transient population has little or no connection to the city when working. When laid off, they become unemployment statistics, not in Alberta, but in the provinces of their hometowns. It’s also in those regions, more than Alberta, where the loss of once-large paychecks is most felt, having a ripple effect across the country.
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The oil industry, with its history of booms and busts, is in a new downturn.
For Canadian oil executives, the significant shift in the province’s politics is of great concern. Rachel Notley, the new premier and leader of the New Democratic Party, has said that she would prefer more refining to take place in Alberta instead of shipping more oil sands production to the United States via Keystone XL. And speaking to the Alberta Chamber of Commerce last month, Ms. Notley told the energy industry that it must “clean up its environmental act.”
One executive and investor, who did not want to be named while the province is reviewing his industry, said growing sentiment that the industry does not pay Alberta enough in royalties and lags on environmental protections will kill new investments, even if prices start to rise.
“There’s never been a time when I’ve been less optimistic,” he said. “The general public doesn’t know how bad it is. It just hasn’t hit yet.”
He did, however, acknowledge that environmentalists had won the debate on Keystone XL as well as various other pipeline plans.
“I don’t know how the issue got away, but it’s obvious now that it did,” he said.
And the workers who have benefited from the boom are now realizing that their stretch of good luck might be over, permanently.
Réjean Godin, a truck driver and heavy equipment operator, began the long-distance commute from the Atlantic province of New Brunswick 13 years ago. Since then, he’s earned wages four or five times the rate of those back home, an area of high unemployment.
Standing near his well-worn Toyota RAV4 that still bears New Brunswick license plates, Mr. Godin, who lives in a work camp, recited all of the different projects in which hundreds of workers had been laid off — layoffs that he’d learned about over the previous few days. He fears that the days of high pay for delivering water to work camps and hauling their sewage away may be over for both himself and his 30-year-old son, who joined him in Alberta.
“I’m not sure if we’re going to come next year,” Mr. Godin said in the dusty yard of a trucking company in Fort MacKay, Alberta, a town down the Athabasca River from Fort McMurray. “What you hear everywhere is the price is low so we’ve got to cut this, we’ve got to shut that down a little bit. We go day by day because we never know.”
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For 1st time, Canada has more seniors than children
annual demographic estimates on Tuesday.
On July 1, 2015, preliminary estimates showed that for the first time Canada has more people 65 years and older than children between the ages of zero to 14, Statistics Canada said.
On July 1 of this year, Canada's population was estimated at 35.9 million, up 308,100 in the past year. About 5.8 million Canadians, or about 16.1 per cent, were at least 65 years old on July 1 of this year, StatsCan said.
The agency also explained that Canada has one of the lowest proportions of people aged 65 and older among G7 nations.
Demographer David Foot said the latest figures point to the beginning of a trend that is likely to continue for at least a decade. In an interview with The Canadian Press, Foot said that the aging population will have the greatest impact on Canada’s health care system. But he noted that the effects won't be felt for some time.
"They're still fairly young seniors. They're in their late 60s," Foot said of the baby boomers born between 1946 and 1965. "Many of them are still working and paying taxes."
Canada's population annual growth rate was +0.9 per cent in the past year, down slightly from 2013-2014 when it was +1.1 per cent. This past year's annual growth rate is the weakest growth rate observed since 1998-1999 (+0.8 per cent).
The latest population figures also include:
“Estimates released in this publication are based on the 2011 Census counts adjusted for census net undercoverage and incompletely enumerated Indian reserves to which is added the estimated demographic growth for the period going from May 10, 2011 to the date of the estimate,” the notice said.
StatsCan cautioned that the analysis is based on preliminary data, and that the data will be revised over the coming years.
“It is possible that some trends described in this publication will change as a result of these revisions. Therefore, this publication should be interpreted with caution,” StatsCan said.
annual demographic estimates on Tuesday.
On July 1, 2015, preliminary estimates showed that for the first time Canada has more people 65 years and older than children between the ages of zero to 14, Statistics Canada said.
On July 1 of this year, Canada's population was estimated at 35.9 million, up 308,100 in the past year. About 5.8 million Canadians, or about 16.1 per cent, were at least 65 years old on July 1 of this year, StatsCan said.
The agency also explained that Canada has one of the lowest proportions of people aged 65 and older among G7 nations.
Demographer David Foot said the latest figures point to the beginning of a trend that is likely to continue for at least a decade. In an interview with The Canadian Press, Foot said that the aging population will have the greatest impact on Canada’s health care system. But he noted that the effects won't be felt for some time.
"They're still fairly young seniors. They're in their late 60s," Foot said of the baby boomers born between 1946 and 1965. "Many of them are still working and paying taxes."
Canada's population annual growth rate was +0.9 per cent in the past year, down slightly from 2013-2014 when it was +1.1 per cent. This past year's annual growth rate is the weakest growth rate observed since 1998-1999 (+0.8 per cent).
The latest population figures also include:
- On July 1, 2015, New Brunswick had the largest proportion of seniors aged 65 and older (19 per cent), while Nunavut had the lowest proportion (3.7 per cent).
- On July 1, 2015, the population of centenarians in Canada was estimated to be 8,100, or about 22 centenarians per 100,000 people. Most of the centenarians were women (88.4 per cent).
- In the past year, net international migration was responsible for 60.8 per cent of population growth in Canada.
- Net international migration was estimated at 187,400 people, down 27.7 per cent from the previous year, and at its lowest level in absolute numbers since 2002-2003.
- Population growth in the last year was negative in Newfoundland and Labrador (-0.2 per cent) and New Brunswick (-0.1 per cent), and strongest in Nunavut (+2.3 per cent) and Alberta (+1.8 per cent).
- Alberta posted the strongest slowdown of population growth this year compared to 2013-2014, falling from +2.8 per cent to +1.8 per cent. Alberta also recorded a large decrease of net international migration, falling from +1.1 per cent in 2013-2014 to +0.3 per cent in 2014-2015.
“Estimates released in this publication are based on the 2011 Census counts adjusted for census net undercoverage and incompletely enumerated Indian reserves to which is added the estimated demographic growth for the period going from May 10, 2011 to the date of the estimate,” the notice said.
StatsCan cautioned that the analysis is based on preliminary data, and that the data will be revised over the coming years.
“It is possible that some trends described in this publication will change as a result of these revisions. Therefore, this publication should be interpreted with caution,” StatsCan said.
got nothing against canadian posters, but i have this urge to blame drake!!!
Drizzy got alot of his city bytch made