• Em Adespoton
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    What we need is further investment in tech hub towns and cities, like Halifax did. In places that don’t burn/flood seasonally and have a reliable power supply. If that got spread out, housing wouldn’t be as much of an issue.

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      The number of places that don’t burn or flood is only going to get smaller as climate change ramps up

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        Yep, if people don’t pull their shit together we are gonna need to ban those camping or the fire will effectively erase camping grounds. (yes, I know natural cause fire exists.) We still have somewhat advantage in terms of fresh water precipitation so we don’t need to import drinking water. But we still need some general civil engineering to deal with those flood/fire/heatwaves/arctic vortex cause they are going to be more common.

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          (yes, I know natural cause fire exists.)

          Everyone knows it, and they’ll still overlook that like 98% of wildfires are caused by negligence vs nature.

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          But not invulnerable. Water is a growing problem in the Prairies, and as we’re seeing from drought conditions in Southern Alberta, Canada is not immune from the problems we’re seeing in the US.

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            As a Manitoba resident, let me tell you, if we’ve got one thing going for us, it’s that we have more water in our province than most countries.

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          They’re far from invulnerable, the nature of climate change is feedback loops, all it’s going to take is an unusually hot, dry summer and some bad luck and you’ve got crop failure.

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      I fully agree with you and it’s encouraging to see things like “Alberta Is calling” campaign. But, I wish the federal goverment would be more involved in spreading the immigrants around our vast land. It feels like all they do is set targets and “job done”…

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        You mean the radio spots that tell me I can own a house for 400k in Alberta? As much as I want to believe that that’s not complete bullshit, I think it is bullshit and pity everyone who goes through just to come back to wherever they were before.

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          You can totally own like a nice 3-bedroom house in a nice area in Winnipeg right now for 400K. My house cost that much and even had a finished basement and is one, a much bigger plot than most houses.

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            But then you have to live in Winnipeg. There’s a reason everything is cheap there

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            Up to a few years ago, you could have the 400k 3-bedroom AND a postal code that looks like ‘banana’ as well. BONUS!

            Not now, though. Everyone found out and barely beat the investor scum to snap it all up.

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        the federal goverment […] all they do is set targets and “job done”

        But, that’s kinda their job. We have premiers to do the regional work, and usually trust them to do right (sit DOWN, Mr Ford).