Food is actually not as bad , there's a variety of choices so one can move around. More services like food banks , city help etc. Transit is 24/7 and it allows people to move around for jobs and save on gas and insurance and while rent it's definitely expensive, the economy is mix so there's a variety of jobs in different fields not just resource base
The reporting on inflation is correct. Its simply a metric at the rate of what food is increasing. Its increasing less sharply but is never going to reverse. That's called deflation. The problem is grocery store and food monopolies. The carbon tax is a disgrace as well.
@@jaundice_japlinIf you look at grocery store ACTUAL gross profit they are below 5%? For a business that has a huge business with warehousing, staff and actual brisk and mortar stores that is really low. You can believe Jagmeet and the NDP because he lies! Look year over year and you will see that for yourself. It is the NDP way to blame corporations for their woes. The funny thing is Loblaws is completely union and he continues to wage war on them? The irony lol 🤣
Let's continue to donate military aid to Ukraine and hand money away. Raise taxes and let the government spend it on ridiculous things, while the entire country struggles to secure affordable food. The Canadians that voted for this Liberal government still dont realize what they have done, but to be unbiased I have yet to see any actions by the Conservatives and NDP. THey are all just talks. So much trash talk on the Liberals.
You're somewhat right about misdirected funds but look at the people receiving help as well. They pull up to the food bank in an almost brand-new car, this while talking on their cell phone speaking to a friend and making plans for where to go for lunch. No joke! I, [many years ago], was in line at the food bank and the Lady [food bank client], having her free bags of groceries packed up was all excited about the two-week vacation her family was going on, [from BC to Alberta]. Yes, everyone needs to get away from time to time but instead of adjusting one's lifestyle to fit one's present income, they reach out to food banks and the like to maintain a standard of living they honestly can't afford. Maintaining one's standard of living is not what these services are for. I'm sure she still had a Netflix account and perhaps a few others. My point is, while a food bank can help fill in the potholes on the road of life, they are not in existence so you can take vacations and keep your Netflix account. With no car, no phone, no vacations, I used the food bank for a while because I really needed it. An hour in line would yield about $40 worth of bread and groceries for which I as a single person could claim once a week. A real help. [A help no longer required.] So many people NEED the food bank. So many others believe they need the food bank. Canada's food banks are stretched beyond their ability to fulfill the real need facing low-income workers. Add to them those who refuse to cut their expenses first & you end up with legitimate recipients falling even further down between the cracks. Do you NEED the food bank? If so, please go. :) [HAhahaha, my comment went way off topic but what the heck, maybe it will help.] P*E*A*C*E [please]
If anything, Calgary and Edmonton poverty lines are accurate in comparison to the cost of living there. For Toronto and Vancouver, anything less than 80000$ is totally inaccurate.
Other countries can be against immigrants even if you're a fountain of money for them. Imagine how we feel when these immigrants are making Canadians poorer. Get these goofs out of here.
@@dbmuir8683 only if you are willing to teach me professor. You are supposed to start the sentence with capital letter professor if you are an English language professor.
@terrygelinas4593 Trudeau is the blame. In Canada, we have a healthcare crisis, food insecurity, and a housing crisis. Trudeau's overspending over taxing ,and printing of money is why we in this situation. I would suggest that you go take a economic course in learning basic economics.
But you pay utilities, property tax , insurance and all grocery cost every month that is way higher in Calgary . House price is high in Vancouver and Toronto but if you are able to buy in, the home price is keep going up that is your profit . In Calgary, the house price is cheap because it is up and then down when oil price is low and unemployment is high . It is happen every few years, even you buy in cheap but it will not going higher and hard to earn profit lol.
@@shanewilson8728 If you earn $55k in Calgary , you also cannot pay the rent . Rent has gone up up for over 23% since last year, average rent for small single house is almost $3000 a month now,
lower than where? Calgary's rates aren't much different than most of Canada's high-pop urban areas, countrywide, despite their local-economy being carried by massive oil-royalties
@@dbmuir8683 Calgary city council just voted to increase property taxes by 7 %, Calgary local economy is not being carried by any oil royalties. Truth is that for years the left wing city council has been at war with developers and development in the city where it is very hard to get housing built causing an artificial high. Vancouver has little land to build, Toronto is building out very you have to drive or take a train, Calgary has a lot of land undeveloped within half an hour to down town Calgary
Calgary has some of the lowest property taxes in the country, you know who has lower property taxes than us? Vancouver... So obviously property taxes are not the be all end all of affordability, might have something to do with us paying the highest energy bills out of any of the provinces, and our car insurance rates.
Not accurate - im from toronto and lived in Vancouver for 8 years before moving to Calgary. I dare anyone complaining about affordability in Calgary to go to toronto or Vancouver now. You won’t make it. As long as you work here, you’re good. I had 3 part time jobs in Vancouver and dont even ask about Toronto.
Why exactly is there a poverty line in Canada and why are people kept below the poverty line while tax dollars we pay also contribute to the $347,000 annual salary collected by our Canadian Prime Minister? Why didn't the cost of the Prime Ministers and his family vacation to Jamaica for the holidays come at a cost $162,000 to taxpayers when we already pay the Prime Ministers salary?
@@MrBuddy-r8wIn America they have the Secret Service to protect the President. In Canada, we have? to protect our Prime Minister and his family. When the Prime minister travels, even downtown for a Wendy's combo, he doesn't travel alone. Lots of people are involved. That's what makes him look so popular. Wherever he goes he's in the middle of a crowd. Peace.
@@ZeroGravity60 Thank you, now I understand your first comment and I agree with you. $32.5 million is the cost for 2022/2023, averaging $2.7 million monthly. I don't understand why people treat political leaders like celebrities when they are elected. Their campaigns should be looked at as job applications, not popularity contests.
Off course they do , Calgary and Alberta leaves you on you're own. Toronto maybe expensive but at least there's a variety of jobs 24/7 hour transit and services ...
Calgary is very expensive on utilities, insurance and property tax. It is almost double higher compare to Vancouver. Calgary has no rent control. The rent has been jumped over 23% increase since last year. If you are thinking about affordable, Calgary is not a good choice.
Rent control would mean no one would become a landlord because the landlords wouldn’t be able to make the mortgage payments. So rents would be cheaper but there would be no places to rent.
This nation is over governed, and Canadians have to foot the bill for all of this ridiculous government infrastructure. 40 million people in California support a state and federal government. 4 million Albertans have to support a provincial and federal government.
@@anthonymorris5084 not really, there is no shortage of land or wood here to build homes. Just a slow lazy system. If it was china they would have built all the homes these bums need.
Calgary has the highest property taxes in Canada. The city of Calgary says otherwise, but when I compare they are higher then BC and Ontario. This makes everything more expensive from rent to any business services.
There are too many newcomers coming into the country compared to how many people that we can help. I'm sorry that if you're not born here then what you understand how life is like.
without immigrants Canada wont survive , if your grand parents were not immigrants then am sure the generation before was already. People come to Canada for better life , not to get help.
Public health care and big government needs immigrants to feed themselves. If you do not want immigrants, privatize healthcare and keep your entitled government wants limited.
@@edwardst-pierre1020 Basically Canada has been overspending for years, primarily due to healthcare and big government. The Canadian government needs more tax revenue and are looking to exploit young immigrants who generally use healthcare services less, while contributing significant taxes (or expected to do so shortly). Currently, the Canadian government can't collect more taxes from ageing Canadians and as Canadians age they require more public healthcare services, this is a net drain on Canada. Stopping immigration will make our healthcare crumble as it is not sustainable as Canadians age. To summarize, immigration is being used to increase Canada's tax revenue base due to Canada's ageing population and government overspending.
Going to be same price. When ndp liberal mayors comes in. Spending happens. When spending happens taxes goes up. When taxes goes up……. Cost of living goes up.. make sense?
That would reduce poverty significantly. For that reason alone it is an unlikely policy. Also that should make the government much smaller which would help all Canadians.
@@kathyd1970 The biggest government expense is healthcare. If healthcare was privatized it would cause a significant reduction in taxes (remember the government is very wasteful, they need to collect $10 in tax revenue to give pay for $1 in healthcare costs) and hopefully reduction in government. These taxes have created significant inflation, inflation slowly creates poverty for most of society and destroys private business which causes lower wages and economic decline.
@@rupasandhu6061 you sound financially illiterate: it's been proven time and again that private healthcare is a complete sham by rich oligarchs. The pursuit of profit by financial capital systematically devours public funding, erodes quality of care and degrades working conditions, all of which has lead various places worldwide to unfortunately, but unsurprisingly develop tapeworm economies which are as dangerous as they are unpredictable.
This is ridiculous. If a family of 4 only makes 55 grand in Calgary after taxes then they are spending 60-70% of their income on housing. And the kids will more than likely share a bedroom. I am fortunate enough to have bought a house 18 years ago, because if I didn’t I would not be able to afford rent for my family of 4 in anything other than a 1 bedroom basement suite. When coming up with these statistics you need to redo them for a family of 4 starting out, and not using people like me to bring down that number. A family moving here would see that and think it sounds reasonable since they will make more than that, then be shocked when they try to survive here. I would say this number should be closer to 70 grand. My mortgage is lower than it would cost to rent, but I make more than that and my wife now has been forced to work full time, and we still find it difficult. And buy a house in Calgary? I did the math- the cost of a house has gone up by over $1800 dollars a month over the past 18 years since I bought that first house. Every month you don’t own a house then it is going to cost you another $1800 when you finally do. And they say kids these days will have to save up 22 years for a down payment, then at least 30 years of mortgage payments, meaning say goodbye to retirement for at least 90% of people. Now that is depressing.
The system is broken and the floor for many will give way within the next 24 months. Best claim your available parking space now. :( [Investor tip: Invest in cardboard, cardboard, and pup tents.]
Nenshi started the problem with his battle with developers. You cannot get anything built in Calgary for decades now building materials are through the roof. Calgary has a huge amount of land all around the city Toronto/ Vancouver would love this, no reason for a shortage of rental units or housing to buy which is increasing housing costs
Hahaha media is such a puppet for Justin. Rent prices and home prices in Toronto and Vancouver.. not to mention lower pay and provincial sales tax. Calgary is the 23rd cheapest city to rent in Canada, 23rd!!! Name all of the big cities you know and count to 22 without using Calgary. They will do anything they can to make calgary look more miserable than the LIB cities so they don’t lose young adult population to Alberta. Don’t be fooled.
When I was working with a disability. Well 75 percent of my income was going to rent. And then people showed bedrooms for rent. All your belongings had to fit in that bedroom. And I guess it changed to quarter my income. I had to get groceries and goto laundry mats once a week. And I didn't get to pick my roommates. Scarey. Mt landlord would only rent to men. And there were rules. Most of them took on the hotel act instead of land lord tenant act. For the safety of others. So.e places I had todo chores as well as pay rent. Lawn various cleaning. Honestly I do t know what the right answer. Getting I to a relationship that goes sour. Well one of them is going to end up homeless. I walked away. Various times. I don't date anymore. I never had the luxury to have sentimental things. I work and burn out and not have enough equity saved up for a break. Work and burn out. There is a big rush then after Christmas slows down. How did I do it. Had Tobe very resourceful. Grateful for my housing. I have trauma when I feel my housing is jeperadized.
Assberta voted CON provincially. I think THAT has far more to do with it. You fail to realize how much more your life is impacted by the provincial govt, not the Feds. But yeah, keep blaming the NDP, a party that's never once had federal power, cause something something communism. Nutcase right wingers everywhere.
Last year we spent 1 billion housing illegal immigrants 😢and 1 billion on the war in ukraine 😮50 billion in unneeded covid policy😊30 billion for battery plants😅image if you only got a 1percent kick back 😅😅😅😅😅😅😅
Reduce income tax which would give nuclear family more money to work with. To many people looking at the same home is causing the housing market. There are too many international students while we can't help our own people in crisis.
I simply do not believe this. The income taxes. No PST. Gas at the Costco in Calgary is $1.039. Edmonton is the $.0.90s vs Metro Van at prolly $1.60 plus a litre. Housing is MUCH cheaper. Groceries and goods likely the same. Ultilities are maybe a bit more in Alberta than Metro Vancouver. Insurance is same. I just moved out of White Rock and back to Calgary. Lived in Metro Vancouver 5 years 2018 to 2023. Was paying MORE to RENT half the 59 year old house vs the mortgage (to be renewed) on the new 2500 square foot modern detached in Calgary. And landlord in White Rock could have raised rent $2,500 to prolly $4,000 a month. You can get a decent home in Edmonton for $300 to $400k. Vs Vancouver MINIMUM of a million out in the Fraser Valley. This is horseshit.
Probably not the easier plan, but Canada should definitely consider investing/creating a Publicly-owned supermarket chain across the country to secure affordable food prices and increase competition in Canada against the greedy corps. Food banks is not the solution to the problem.
Food has always been affordable across Canada, even in a time when grocery chains were making record profits year after year. There is just as much competition in grocery stores today as there were 40 years ago. The main difference now and decades ago is that we are paying far more taxes on everything today than we ever did 40 years ago. Maybe we shouldn't be taxing farmers on their fuel and drying their grain. Another reason why the cost of food is going up is because of the hidden tax of inflation. When the federal government is borrowing and over printing a record amount of money is why we are seeing record inflation. But now the liberal government wants to ban plastic, and if you shop at a grocery store, everything is wrapped or comes in plastic. Food distribution companies that make and pruduces our food will have to retool and get new equipment and find some other material other than plastic to wrap their food ,and that cost is going to get passed down to the consumers.
in reality, majority of people make less than that amount... it is achieveable for family but not individually but that is before tax.... so i guess most people are poor... canada. what a country...
@thefreshairchannel7510 Property appreciate better here, overall cost of living lower comparing to Calgary. I am in IT field and have more jobs in comparison to Calgary.
@@brownnomad6805You could also be richer in Seattle than you’d ever be in Vancouver working for a tech company. Two hour drive away and the wages are double that of Vancouver for jr positions.
@zaspalia For sure USA earns better but then I have to watch my back all the time with the violence that's going on over there and crimes. Not to say Vancouver is perfect as we do have petty theft and drugs issue which is in some area. Although, i live outskirts of Vancouver which is much better. However, overall I am more content in Canada. I am sure there are families in USA in safe neighborhoods but I don't see myself living there.
I am trying to picture a family income of $55k with two adults and two kids.... Maybe Edmonton. Not Calgary. Vancouver and Toronto.... Laughable. The only way these cities would be equal is if all (families) are living in a box or a van down by the river like Chris Farley. Then equal cause no money. This report does not consider middle class. Affordability.
This is inaccurate. These incomes don't add up. In Vancouver and Toronto, you have to be making well over $200,000 a year to be able to live in both cities comfortably. Maybe more than $200,000 a year. $55,000 a year to live comfortably in Calgary, this is misleading. To live in Calgary and avoid poverty you have to make more than $55,000 a year. Calgary is expensive to live in. These people in to get the facts straight.
Remember when 40hrs a week was a full time job
It still is in Quebec.
@@shauncameron8390 it’s all that equalization money Alberta sends
No, i do 12's+Saturdays... 8 months a year seasonal mind you.
@@shauncameron8390 how much of that confort has been stolen from the rest of Canada?
@@enriquemoran9094
Does the rest of Canada value a work-to-live culture?
Something doesn’t add up. I feel like inflation prices in Toronto and BC are being underreported.
Food is actually not as bad , there's a variety of choices so one can move around. More services like food banks , city help etc. Transit is 24/7 and it allows people to move around for jobs and save on gas and insurance and while rent it's definitely expensive, the economy is mix so there's a variety of jobs in different fields not just resource base
The reporting on inflation is correct. Its simply a metric at the rate of what food is increasing. Its increasing less sharply but is never going to reverse. That's called deflation. The problem is grocery store and food monopolies. The carbon tax is a disgrace as well.
@@jaundice_japlinIf you look at grocery store ACTUAL gross profit they are below 5%? For a business that has a huge business with warehousing, staff and actual brisk and mortar stores that is really low. You can believe Jagmeet and the NDP because he lies! Look year over year and you will see that for yourself. It is the NDP way to blame corporations for their woes. The funny thing is Loblaws is completely union and he continues to wage war on them? The irony lol 🤣
I am Canadian and this country F sucks for a while now...
I believe that diversity and inclusion with multiculturalism is killing the Canada that we used to know and I would thank trusty Trudeau
Move then
@edwardst-pierre1020 wow, you are lost!
@@terrygelinas4593 LoL
@@terrygelinas4593 we have been here for five generations and lived in the same place for ever. Don't drop off your laundry and expect me to clean it.
Let's continue to donate military aid to Ukraine and hand money away. Raise taxes and let the government spend it on ridiculous things, while the entire country struggles to secure affordable food. The Canadians that voted for this Liberal government still dont realize what they have done, but to be unbiased I have yet to see any actions by the Conservatives and NDP. THey are all just talks. So much trash talk on the Liberals.
That's because neither of them are the ruling party of Canada.
And they need to stop sending money to Palestinians.. it's not going to the people
stop blaming Ukraine, there are other wars going on in the world, and it does not look good..
We need to dismantle senate and build a completely new system. It's fundamentally crooked
You're somewhat right about misdirected funds but look at the people receiving help as well. They pull up to the food bank in an almost brand-new car, this while talking on their cell phone speaking to a friend and making plans for where to go for lunch. No joke! I, [many years ago], was in line at the food bank and the Lady [food bank client], having her free bags of groceries packed up was all excited about the two-week vacation her family was going on, [from BC to Alberta].
Yes, everyone needs to get away from time to time but instead of adjusting one's lifestyle to fit one's present income, they reach out to food banks and the like to maintain a standard of living they honestly can't afford. Maintaining one's standard of living is not what these services are for. I'm sure she still had a Netflix account and perhaps a few others.
My point is, while a food bank can help fill in the potholes on the road of life, they are not in existence so you can take vacations and keep your Netflix account. With no car, no phone, no vacations, I used the food bank for a while because I really needed it. An hour in line would yield about $40 worth of bread and groceries for which I as a single person could claim once a week. A real help. [A help no longer required.]
So many people NEED the food bank. So many others believe they need the food bank. Canada's food banks are stretched beyond their ability to fulfill the real need facing low-income workers. Add to them those who refuse to cut their expenses first & you end up with legitimate recipients falling even further down between the cracks. Do you NEED the food bank? If so, please go. :)
[HAhahaha, my comment went way off topic but what the heck, maybe it will help.]
P*E*A*C*E [please]
If anything, Calgary and Edmonton poverty lines are accurate in comparison to the cost of living there. For Toronto and Vancouver, anything less than 80000$ is totally inaccurate.
The $55k referred to in the video was for "disposable income".
Yes please ask new Indian and new african who came here last month how things used to be more affordable lol.
most African and Indian immigrants are more english-fluent than you are; you should work on improving your language-skills
Other countries can be against immigrants even if you're a fountain of money for them. Imagine how we feel when these immigrants are making Canadians poorer. Get these goofs out of here.
@@dbmuir8683 only if you are willing to teach me professor. You are supposed to start the sentence with capital letter professor if you are an English language professor.
@@dbmuir8683Language police alert lol, get a life.
@@dbmuir8683Whats your point? what are you the grammar police?
What a joke 55k for a family. You couldn't afford to live in the Atlantic with 55k let alone in the major cities.
Thanks to Trudeau 50k is poverty. I remember when 50k per year was an honourable wage.
BTS, blame Trudeau syndrome, 😅
@terrygelinas4593 Trudeau is the blame. In Canada, we have a healthcare crisis, food insecurity, and a housing crisis. Trudeau's overspending over taxing ,and printing of money is why we in this situation. I would suggest that you go take a economic course in learning basic economics.
@@shanewilson8728
Don't forget uncontrolled immigration.
@@shanewilson8728 your finger pointing and whining shows that you are part of the problem
@@terrygelinas4593 So how do his boots taste?
Clearly stats Canada didn't count the housing prices in Toronto and Vancouver. Who can live with 55k in these two cities
Need to look at rents as well
Well they said "disposable" income.
But you pay utilities, property tax , insurance and all grocery cost every month that is way higher in Calgary . House price is high in Vancouver and Toronto but if you are able to buy in, the home price is keep going up that is your profit . In Calgary, the house price is cheap because it is up and then down when oil price is low and unemployment is high . It is happen every few years, even you buy in cheap but it will not going higher and hard to earn profit lol.
Making only about 50,000 in Vancouver or Toronto wouldn't be enough to rent a broom closet.
@@shanewilson8728
If you earn $55k in Calgary , you also cannot pay the rent . Rent has gone up up for over 23% since last year, average rent for small single house is almost $3000 a month now,
I think people migrate here before because Calgary is cheaper than other major cities in Canada but Calgary now is getting more expensive...
This isnt accurate. Living in Vancouver and Toronto is much higher.
They have NO Clue when talking about the Metro Vancouver area..
Not , rent maybe expebut the rest there variety, transit allows people to save on gas and there's more options to hustle that's all
Why Calgary is so expensive?
Good thing the city councillors understand this and keep property taxes low to help …………
lower than where? Calgary's rates aren't much different than most of Canada's high-pop urban areas, countrywide, despite their local-economy being carried by massive oil-royalties
@@dbmuir8683 Calgary city council just voted to increase property taxes by 7 %, Calgary local economy is not being carried by any oil royalties.
Truth is that for years the left wing city council has been at war with developers and development in the city where it is very hard to get housing built causing an artificial high.
Vancouver has little land to build, Toronto is building out very you have to drive or take a train, Calgary has a lot of land undeveloped within half an hour to down town Calgary
7.8% increase for 2024
Good one Lol
Calgary has some of the lowest property taxes in the country, you know who has lower property taxes than us? Vancouver... So obviously property taxes are not the be all end all of affordability, might have something to do with us paying the highest energy bills out of any of the provinces, and our car insurance rates.
Not accurate - im from toronto and lived in Vancouver for 8 years before moving to Calgary. I dare anyone complaining about affordability in Calgary to go to toronto or Vancouver now. You won’t make it. As long as you work here, you’re good. I had 3 part time jobs in Vancouver and dont even ask about Toronto.
I just worked in Vancouver for 4 months and yes it is cheaper in Vancouver than Calgary. Stop with your 10 year old report it is wrong
Vancouver is worse I lived in both for over a decade
Lays are 2 for $5 everywhere. I don't get it
Why exactly is there a poverty line in Canada and why are people kept below the poverty line while tax dollars we pay also contribute to the $347,000 annual salary collected by our Canadian Prime Minister? Why didn't the cost of the Prime Ministers and his family vacation to Jamaica for the holidays come at a cost $162,000 to taxpayers when we already pay the Prime Ministers salary?
The cost of security, plain and simple.
@@ZeroGravity60 Elaborate please.....
@@MrBuddy-r8wIn America they have the Secret Service to protect the President. In Canada, we have? to protect our Prime Minister and his family. When the Prime minister travels, even downtown for a Wendy's combo, he doesn't travel alone. Lots of people are involved. That's what makes him look so popular. Wherever he goes he's in the middle of a crowd. Peace.
@@ZeroGravity60 Thank you, now I understand your first comment and I agree with you. $32.5 million is the cost for 2022/2023, averaging $2.7 million monthly. I don't understand why people treat political leaders like celebrities when they are elected. Their campaigns should be looked at as job applications, not popularity contests.
It is not worth living in Alberta anymore.
Off course they do , Calgary and Alberta leaves you on you're own. Toronto maybe expensive but at least there's a variety of jobs 24/7 hour transit and services ...
@@patricbernier7899Commented like someone who works 40 hours like everyone else but does it in Alberta
Alberta is calling!
@@patricbernier7899 commented on by a temporarily embarassed millionaire working a dead end job
Variety of jobs? For who? Indians?
calgary's mayor leaves a lot to be desired i think.
She is to busy supporting Hamas, that and she is the dumbest b!tch around
Calgary is very expensive on utilities, insurance and property tax. It is almost double higher compare to Vancouver. Calgary has no rent control. The rent has been jumped over 23% increase since last year. If you are thinking about affordable, Calgary is not a good choice.
no rent control free market Alberta's way
@@LuLU-ep7wf
Yet Alberta's housing situation is better than Ontario and British Columbia's.
Rent control would mean no one would become a landlord because the landlords wouldn’t be able to make the mortgage payments. So rents would be cheaper but there would be no places to rent.
@@ianl5560
It is not truth, a lot of cities have rent control like Vancouver and Toronto, they have a lot of landlords still.
@@janiceho6034
Like corporate landlords.
This nation is over governed, and Canadians have to foot the bill for all of this ridiculous government infrastructure. 40 million people in California support a state and federal government. 4 million Albertans have to support a provincial and federal government.
Yeah right, comparing California with Alberta is like comparing a Lambo with a bicycle. Albertans are so good, so wealthy lol.
Why are they interviewing people who cant speak English clearly
And isn't it ironic that their arrival is causing the housing crisis.
Because white anglo people dont care to talk to the news people. They are in a rush to get home and watch youtube
@@anthonymorris5084 not really, there is no shortage of land or wood here to build homes. Just a slow lazy system. If it was china they would have built all the homes these bums need.
Because they are part of calgary residents, and most likely make under $50k
Calgary has the highest property taxes in Canada. The city of Calgary says otherwise, but when I compare they are higher then BC and Ontario. This makes everything more expensive from rent to any business services.
There are too many newcomers coming into the country compared to how many people that we can help. I'm sorry that if you're not born here then what you understand how life is like.
there is actually no shortage of land or wood to build homes. just a lazy slow system
without immigrants Canada wont survive , if your grand parents were not immigrants then am sure the generation before was already.
People come to Canada for better life , not to get help.
Public health care and big government needs immigrants to feed themselves. If you do not want immigrants, privatize healthcare and keep your entitled government wants limited.
@@rupasandhu6061 what are you talking about more people means more public spending but less taxes means more spending for the government.
@@edwardst-pierre1020 Basically Canada has been overspending for years, primarily due to healthcare and big government. The Canadian government needs more tax revenue and are looking to exploit young immigrants who generally use healthcare services less, while contributing significant taxes (or expected to do so shortly). Currently, the Canadian government can't collect more taxes from ageing Canadians and as Canadians age they require more public healthcare services, this is a net drain on Canada. Stopping immigration will make our healthcare crumble as it is not sustainable as Canadians age. To summarize, immigration is being used to increase Canada's tax revenue base due to Canada's ageing population and government overspending.
With everything going for it, Canada should have the highest GDP per capita in the world. It continues to drop.
Canada has lots of land and wood, most people should own a home
@@TheFreshAirChannel Canada has lots of everything.
Is Calgary more expensive than Toronto or Vancouver combined?! If yes, I'm never going back to Calgary
Going to be same price. When ndp liberal mayors comes in. Spending happens. When spending happens taxes goes up. When taxes goes up……. Cost of living goes up.. make sense?
@@capitalgains2216
Or any other far-left nutjob like what Montreal has with Valerie Plante.
If Ab would stop sending so much money to other provinces....
Maybe if they were allowed to keep what they earned.
Bold words from the province dependant on using other province's infastructure to make that money
CRA/Govt. should exempt taxes for all under 60 K household income. Thats the least they can do to instill some faith.
Under 100k income now due to cost of living.
Haha
@capitalgains2216 no tax revenue, no government services, and higher debt
Welfare easterners, just pay like everyone in Canada
I'm sure things will get so much better once they roll out full pay medical care.
That would reduce poverty significantly. For that reason alone it is an unlikely policy. Also that should make the government much smaller which would help all Canadians.
@@rupasandhu6061 How exactly does full pay medical care raise people out of poverty?
@@kathyd1970 The biggest government expense is healthcare. If healthcare was privatized it would cause a significant reduction in taxes (remember the government is very wasteful, they need to collect $10 in tax revenue to give pay for $1 in healthcare costs) and hopefully reduction in government. These taxes have created significant inflation, inflation slowly creates poverty for most of society and destroys private business which causes lower wages and economic decline.
@@rupasandhu6061 you sound financially illiterate: it's been proven time and again that private healthcare is a complete sham by rich oligarchs. The pursuit of profit by financial capital systematically devours public funding, erodes quality of care and degrades working conditions, all of which has lead various places worldwide to unfortunately, but unsurprisingly develop tapeworm economies which are as dangerous as they are unpredictable.
So $55k after mortgage/rent costs?
No, just after income taxes.
@@FirstNameLastName-hy1pf That's an odd definition of "disposable income"--the term used in the video.
@@djayjp , yes.
Alberta is by any way doing far better than any other province in the country, especially the one to the immediate west of it.
This is ridiculous. If a family of 4 only makes 55 grand in Calgary after taxes then they are spending 60-70% of their income on housing. And the kids will more than likely share a bedroom. I am fortunate enough to have bought a house 18 years ago, because if I didn’t I would not be able to afford rent for my family of 4 in anything other than a 1 bedroom basement suite. When coming up with these statistics you need to redo them for a family of 4 starting out, and not using people like me to bring down that number. A family moving here would see that and think it sounds reasonable since they will make more than that, then be shocked when they try to survive here. I would say this number should be closer to 70 grand. My mortgage is lower than it would cost to rent, but I make more than that and my wife now has been forced to work full time, and we still find it difficult. And buy a house in Calgary? I did the math- the cost of a house has gone up by over $1800 dollars a month over the past 18 years since I bought that first house. Every month you don’t own a house then it is going to cost you another $1800 when you finally do. And they say kids these days will have to save up 22 years for a down payment, then at least 30 years of mortgage payments, meaning say goodbye to retirement for at least 90% of people. Now that is depressing.
The system is broken and the floor for many will give way within the next 24 months. Best claim your available parking space now. :( [Investor tip: Invest in cardboard, cardboard, and pup tents.]
Exciting times we live in. Perpetual crisis one after the other
Way to go Danielle Smith!
the liberal mayor Of Calgary.
Nenshi started the problem with his battle with developers. You cannot get anything built in Calgary for decades now building materials are through the roof. Calgary has a huge amount of land all around the city Toronto/ Vancouver would love this, no reason for a shortage of rental units or housing to buy which is increasing housing costs
Danielle Smith is not the Mayor of Calgary.
@@DarylRenz
Jyoti Gondek.
Paying your rent and bills affects you bank account?? Really? This is outrageous!!! 😂😂😂😂
Take a look at all the homeless in Toronto and Vancouver !
Hahaha media is such a puppet for Justin. Rent prices and home prices in Toronto and Vancouver.. not to mention lower pay and provincial sales tax. Calgary is the 23rd cheapest city to rent in Canada, 23rd!!! Name all of the big cities you know and count to 22 without using Calgary. They will do anything they can to make calgary look more miserable than the LIB cities so they don’t lose young adult population to Alberta. Don’t be fooled.
The mayor Jyoti Gondek has destroyed Calgary.
Yup. Ndp liberal mayor comes in. Spending spend happens. Taxes goes up to cover spendings. Tax goes up means cost of living goes up.
That Nenshi guy got the ball rolling.
When I was working with a disability. Well 75 percent of my income was going to rent. And then people showed bedrooms for rent. All your belongings had to fit in that bedroom. And I guess it changed to quarter my income. I had to get groceries and goto laundry mats once a week. And I didn't get to pick my roommates. Scarey. Mt landlord would only rent to men. And there were rules. Most of them took on the hotel act instead of land lord tenant act. For the safety of others. So.e places I had todo chores as well as pay rent. Lawn various cleaning. Honestly I do t know what the right answer. Getting I to a relationship that goes sour. Well one of them is going to end up homeless. I walked away. Various times. I don't date anymore. I never had the luxury to have sentimental things. I work and burn out and not have enough equity saved up for a break. Work and burn out. There is a big rush then after Christmas slows down. How did I do it. Had Tobe very resourceful. Grateful for my housing. I have trauma when I feel my housing is jeperadized.
This story brought to you by the "poverty industry". They conveniently leave out taxes when talking about expenses.
We are all poor. The rich got want they wanted. I love democracy and capitalism. Poverty Rules...🎉🎉🎉🎉😂
The problem is corruption in our government... the current "socialist" government caused these problems.
Calgary voted NDP in the last federal election...I think that has something to do with it.
5 years of UCP provincial corruption and u blame city council LOL.. Typical!
It is beyond obvious u are proudly ignorant
Assberta voted CON provincially. I think THAT has far more to do with it. You fail to realize how much more your life is impacted by the provincial govt, not the Feds.
But yeah, keep blaming the NDP, a party that's never once had federal power, cause something something communism. Nutcase right wingers everywhere.
All comments that are anti-left are having their convos hidden
@@EVIL-C
Taking on the irresponsible population growth of India without enough housing for our own.
Bro. Who are the ones pushing woke sjw ideaology,? White people. Antifa, white people, your union workers- white poeple.
@@npcimknot958
Academia- white people.
Last year we spent 1 billion housing illegal immigrants 😢and 1 billion on the war in ukraine 😮50 billion in unneeded covid policy😊30 billion for battery plants😅image if you only got a 1percent kick back 😅😅😅😅😅😅😅
Reduce income tax which would give nuclear family more money to work with. To many people looking at the same home is causing the housing market. There are too many international students while we can't help our own people in crisis.
0:06 😂😂 leave please
Send all of them there and make GTA what it was before 2016!
You know 2016 it was still very diverse😂😂😂 the difference was we didn’t lock down the economy and destroy it for 2-3 years
Go back to your county try that
How about you go back to eastern Canada
We're talking about a couple of dollars here. How's this even a story.
its only going to get worst not better ......but you can do van life its cheaper ......everybody is doing it , 22% of them in canada !
I'm looking for an astrovan. Got links.
So many are leaving this nations. Stop insulting God with evil stuff, and start repenting.
But a lot lower than Sudan and Chad !
I simply do not believe this. The income taxes. No PST. Gas at the Costco in Calgary is $1.039. Edmonton is the $.0.90s vs Metro Van at prolly $1.60 plus a litre. Housing is MUCH cheaper. Groceries and goods likely the same. Ultilities are maybe a bit more in Alberta than Metro Vancouver. Insurance is same. I just moved out of White Rock and back to Calgary. Lived in Metro Vancouver 5 years 2018 to 2023. Was paying MORE to RENT half the 59 year old house vs the mortgage (to be renewed) on the new 2500 square foot modern detached in Calgary. And landlord in White Rock could have raised rent $2,500 to prolly $4,000 a month.
You can get a decent home in Edmonton for $300 to $400k. Vs Vancouver MINIMUM of a million out in the Fraser Valley.
This is horseshit.
For every nine imigrant they brought one house was built.
Inflation is just a means of increasing profit margins and driving people into poverty
Companies don't create inflation. Governments do.
Yeah Calgary is un livable.
I make $16.25 an hr and can't survive, let alone eat. With bus passes at $115 I get to starve and no bills
$16.25 is $1.25 above minimum wage in Alberta. Plus that would come up to around $535 per week after taxes.
JUSTIN TRUDEAU GIVES CANADIANS THE PERFECT XMAS GIFT.........JUSTIN TRUDEAU RESIGNS
Kinda sounds like a liberal pointing fingers. Lol "look Alberta is struggling too". Yeah because the federal government
This is false Toronto is the most highest rate of poverty then Calgary.
This "news" story is a waist of time . the difference between cities was less than $1000 . SMH
Looks like immigration didn't benefit Alberta after all! 😂
Probably not the easier plan, but Canada should definitely consider investing/creating a Publicly-owned supermarket chain across the country to secure affordable food prices and increase competition in Canada against the greedy corps. Food banks is not the solution to the problem.
Only to end up privatized once it gets mismanaged into insolvency and there's no more other people's money to subsidize said affordable prices.
Food has always been affordable across Canada, even in a time when grocery chains were making record profits year after year. There is just as much competition in grocery stores today as there were 40 years ago. The main difference now and decades ago is that we are paying far more taxes on everything today than we ever did 40 years ago. Maybe we shouldn't be taxing farmers on their fuel and drying their grain.
Another reason why the cost of food is going up is because of the hidden tax of inflation. When the federal government is borrowing and over printing a record amount of money is why we are seeing record inflation.
But now the liberal government wants to ban plastic, and if you shop at a grocery store, everything is wrapped or comes in plastic. Food distribution companies that make and pruduces our food will have to retool and get new equipment and find some other material other than plastic to wrap their food ,and that cost is going to get passed down to the consumers.
That’s communism bro,
in reality, majority of people make less than that amount... it is achieveable for family but not individually but that is before tax.... so i guess most people are poor... canada. what a country...
You can thank Trudeau for all this mess!!!!
I made $262,000 this year. Good god how do people survive on $55,000 a year? 😂
how is that possible, i thought calgary was the cheaper place to be
i just moved from there last year and i find it way more affordable than toronto by a long shot.
Move to whitehorse
@Eric-lx8hp
Think the food price is bad here? Lol look up what it costs there.
@@jaundice_japlin
Because everything has to be flown in.
@@shauncameron8390
That's right
Desi fudu, works in walmart hvdc
Yup trudeau
Lol aberta called you and you came and now we can suffer together.
Vote on e-4701 non confidence let's have an election!!!!!
Well done to Mark carney 😅😅😅
Now even rich people are struggling. This is insane.
I am richer in Vancouver than I was in Calgary
how bro?
@thefreshairchannel7510 Property appreciate better here, overall cost of living lower comparing to Calgary. I am in IT field and have more jobs in comparison to Calgary.
@@brownnomad6805 yes makes sence. depends on your situation.
@@brownnomad6805You could also be richer in Seattle than you’d ever be in Vancouver working for a tech company. Two hour drive away and the wages are double that of Vancouver for jr positions.
@zaspalia For sure USA earns better but then I have to watch my back all the time with the violence that's going on over there and crimes. Not to say Vancouver is perfect as we do have petty theft and drugs issue which is in some area. Although, i live outskirts of Vancouver which is much better. However, overall I am more content in Canada. I am sure there are families in USA in safe neighborhoods but I don't see myself living there.
I hope tesla can develop some kind of electric camping van with solar panel. Then many people can start to live in their car cost-efficienly.
How is that the solution?
Lol so the poverty line difference is 5bills between the 4 cities😂
Wow! Ebin winning my liberal friends! You ruined the most successful province in Canada!! Now we can all be poor and homeless together!
I am trying to picture a family income of $55k with two adults and two kids.... Maybe Edmonton. Not Calgary. Vancouver and Toronto.... Laughable.
The only way these cities would be equal is if all (families) are living in a box or a van down by the river like Chris Farley. Then equal cause no money.
This report does not consider middle class. Affordability.
Yes but Calgary has the lowest tax in the country
You're talking about a margin of $509. Gtfoh.
Ha ha ha ha...i have my popcorns , as i watch the fall of the West.
This is inaccurate. These incomes don't add up. In Vancouver and Toronto, you have to be making well over $200,000 a year to be able to live in both cities comfortably. Maybe more than $200,000 a year. $55,000 a year to live comfortably in Calgary, this is misleading. To live in Calgary and avoid poverty you have to make more than $55,000 a year. Calgary is expensive to live in. These people in to get the facts straight.
Нихуя не понятно, но очень интересно)))
I hope Trudeau will help Calgary
He will never help you😂 he only takes from you
Unless your from Quebec @@Hilal-bj9ow
He will help calgary by sending in more immigrants to inflate prices lol
Fake
Is news channel against Calgary ?, I don’t think it’s right comparison. There are less taxes in Calgary compared to other places. Joke
Compare what a dentist cost in Vancouver or Toronto. Then in Calgary. This news story is dead on. 40 percent higher in Calgary
Conservatives
Calgary is Liberal/NDP-run.