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[-] girlfreddy@lemmy.ca 39 points 1 month ago

The provincial maximum on rent-controlled apartments last year was 2.5 per cent, but Sharpe’s building has no limit because Ontario Premier Doug Ford removed controls on any rental units built or occupied after November, 2018.

Drug Fraud ... the asshole of Ontario.

[-] Jarix@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

If ontarians keep voting the fucker in office, perhaps they have a problem with their culture

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It's not so much that they voted him in, as that they didn't bother to vote him out. Turnout was 43.53% in the last election.

[-] Glide@lemmy.ca 39 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Using AI to automate collusion while holding no personal accountability.

"But what if the invisible hand was an AI algorithm?"

[-] undercrust@lemmy.ca 22 points 1 month ago

DREAM Unlimited (DRM-T) is the company in question (Dundee Real Estate Asset Management). They are the head corporation that provides management services under MSA contracts to their sub-advised companies, DREAM Industrial REIT (DIR.un-T), DREAM Office REIT (D.un-T), and probably the actual company in question, DREAM Residential REIT (DRR.un).

There are many, many REITs (real estate investment trusts) in Canada, public and private, and what makes them a fairly good investment is that they absolutely relentlessly fuck the renter class. They need to be banned or have returns regulated, like utility companies.

[-] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 month ago

Guess who else has an REIT.

That's right, Galen Weston.

He is fucking you more than piper Perri in a gangbang.

https://www.choicereit.ca/

[-] northmaple1984@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Why bring Galeb Weston into this, lots of middle class people are invested into REITs. My best friend talks about his investment in them all the time. Hell, there's a half decent chance my RRSP and my kids RESPs are invested in REITs as part of the broader fund they are part of.

[-] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

That doesn't make it good for society lmfao.

The 2008 Stock Market crash is a good lesson in this, they bundled subprime loans and turned them into securities which made it into mutual funds, pension funds and generally securities held by corporations.

[-] northmaple1984@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

You missed the point of my post, which was why call out Galen Weston specifically when probably the majority of people, included many middle class people, are invested in REITs one way or another? Like, is it somehow bad that Galen Weston does it but not bad that my best friend ans I do it?

[-] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

Holding a reit as an investmenr and creating the ecosystem for hiking rent prices by monopolizing ownerahip are not the same thing. I, for moral reasons, do not hold reits because I see what the companies are doing and its' effects.

[-] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 month ago

AI hElPs PeOpLe LiVe BeTtEr LiVeS!

We should outlaw all the tactics used by the worst offenders until the renter/landlord relationship returns to a reasonable level of sanity. These fucking parasites are destroying the Canadian economy by further concentrating wealth - we've come a long way from "I have an extra bedroom since my kid moved out" and landlording is now a business and should never be given the benefit of the doubt.

[-] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago

Here's a trivial test of this is price fixing: Does this system use material non public information to determine prices?

The answer is yes, and therefore it should be illegal and the users of the system charged for it.

This app violates price fixing laws, market allocation laws, and supply restriction laws. it needs to be banned and subpoenaed so that every user of it can also be charged.

[-] friendly_ghost@beehaw.org 2 points 1 month ago

Pretty sure this violates Asimov's first law of robotics

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