Pastel Ponylady
@pastelponylady.bsky.social
Canadian. RE Bubble watcher.
Homeowner who believes HOUSE PRICES MUST FALL and remain attainable with local incomes. Nothing else will help FTHB, and even many existing owners.
Homeowner who believes HOUSE PRICES MUST FALL and remain attainable with local incomes. Nothing else will help FTHB, and even many existing owners.
Time magazine ate the Beaver. 🤣
'Made-up quote' in Canadian satire site The Beaverton fools Time Magazine | CBC News
In a recent article about the United States' strained relationships with other countries, Time Magazine included a made-up quote from Canadian satire site The Beaverton — seemingly as fact.
www.cbc.ca
November 29, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Time magazine ate the Beaver. 🤣
#Ontario #CanadianRE
How odd.
"Resale condos in an earlier phase of this same development, units just under 600 sq ft, have recently sold for around $370K (roughly $650 per square foot).
Yet in early November, five units in the newly completed phase sold for over $1,000 per square foot."
How odd.
"Resale condos in an earlier phase of this same development, units just under 600 sq ft, have recently sold for around $370K (roughly $650 per square foot).
Yet in early November, five units in the newly completed phase sold for over $1,000 per square foot."
November 29, 2025 at 5:46 AM
#Ontario #CanadianRE
How odd.
"Resale condos in an earlier phase of this same development, units just under 600 sq ft, have recently sold for around $370K (roughly $650 per square foot).
Yet in early November, five units in the newly completed phase sold for over $1,000 per square foot."
How odd.
"Resale condos in an earlier phase of this same development, units just under 600 sq ft, have recently sold for around $370K (roughly $650 per square foot).
Yet in early November, five units in the newly completed phase sold for over $1,000 per square foot."
Oh my this ad is indeed delightful
November 28, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Oh my this ad is indeed delightful
So it took loss of life including children and devastating a family that made the news across Canada. But I guess we will see if this gets enforced in any meaningful way. Hopefully Brampton don't kowtow to slumlords that regularly protest at city hall again.
November 27, 2025 at 6:55 PM
So it took loss of life including children and devastating a family that made the news across Canada. But I guess we will see if this gets enforced in any meaningful way. Hopefully Brampton don't kowtow to slumlords that regularly protest at city hall again.
#Ontario Built in 2021, facing 2 million in repairs
Townhouse exteriors appear to be owner responsibility but shared land w infrastructure part of their condo corp, including the playground that fell into the collapsed storm💧 system.
"Several owners told CBC they’re facing financial hardships"
Townhouse exteriors appear to be owner responsibility but shared land w infrastructure part of their condo corp, including the playground that fell into the collapsed storm💧 system.
"Several owners told CBC they’re facing financial hardships"
Townhome owners stuck footing $2M bill after stormwater system at new-build complex collapses | CBC News
Dozens of townhome owners in Vaughan, Ont., are facing massive bills — now up to about $2 million collectively — to replace major damage to their recently built complex. Some owners point to what they...
www.cbc.ca
November 27, 2025 at 3:42 AM
#Ontario Built in 2021, facing 2 million in repairs
Townhouse exteriors appear to be owner responsibility but shared land w infrastructure part of their condo corp, including the playground that fell into the collapsed storm💧 system.
"Several owners told CBC they’re facing financial hardships"
Townhouse exteriors appear to be owner responsibility but shared land w infrastructure part of their condo corp, including the playground that fell into the collapsed storm💧 system.
"Several owners told CBC they’re facing financial hardships"
If you have renters in your family, consider giving potentially life saving gifts this holiday.
Battery smoke alarms
CO detectors
Fire ladders
ABC fire extinguisher.
Fire blankets.
Also with your own household, make a fire escape plan, and as the bluesky post shared says, TEST your smoke alarms!
Battery smoke alarms
CO detectors
Fire ladders
ABC fire extinguisher.
Fire blankets.
Also with your own household, make a fire escape plan, and as the bluesky post shared says, TEST your smoke alarms!
November 26, 2025 at 4:11 AM
If you have renters in your family, consider giving potentially life saving gifts this holiday.
Battery smoke alarms
CO detectors
Fire ladders
ABC fire extinguisher.
Fire blankets.
Also with your own household, make a fire escape plan, and as the bluesky post shared says, TEST your smoke alarms!
Battery smoke alarms
CO detectors
Fire ladders
ABC fire extinguisher.
Fire blankets.
Also with your own household, make a fire escape plan, and as the bluesky post shared says, TEST your smoke alarms!
Out of town RE owners, and slum landlords of Vancouver properties welcome that property tax savings. They don't need or enjoy the city's parks and services that will be hit w cuts to pay for this.
Adjusting the property tax increase for inflation, we can see that the zero-percent budget represents a 2% tax cut in real terms, the largest in the last 16 years.
November 26, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Out of town RE owners, and slum landlords of Vancouver properties welcome that property tax savings. They don't need or enjoy the city's parks and services that will be hit w cuts to pay for this.
Normal home owners not sweating a property tax increase, esp if it means their city services are kept up.
Rich absent owners, Vancouver RE slumlords among those who DGAF if the Vancouver library branches cuts programs, aquatic centre continues to crumble, or baby change tables vanish to save them $
Rich absent owners, Vancouver RE slumlords among those who DGAF if the Vancouver library branches cuts programs, aquatic centre continues to crumble, or baby change tables vanish to save them $
Look who's gonna pay for Ken Sim's tax break for the super-rich:
"most park board program and service fees will rise next year by an average of about 5%...swimming lessons, skate rentals and admissions to public golf courses, attractions and parks, among other things."
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
"most park board program and service fees will rise next year by an average of about 5%...swimming lessons, skate rentals and admissions to public golf courses, attractions and parks, among other things."
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Vancouver Park Board hikes fees amid divisions over 0% property increase plan | CBC News
The Vancouver Park Board has approved a series of fee increases in its 2026 budgets following a tense meeting Monday night, with commissioners split over how the mayor’s push for a zero per cent prope...
www.cbc.ca
November 25, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Normal home owners not sweating a property tax increase, esp if it means their city services are kept up.
Rich absent owners, Vancouver RE slumlords among those who DGAF if the Vancouver library branches cuts programs, aquatic centre continues to crumble, or baby change tables vanish to save them $
Rich absent owners, Vancouver RE slumlords among those who DGAF if the Vancouver library branches cuts programs, aquatic centre continues to crumble, or baby change tables vanish to save them $
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Is that why he got rid of speeding cameras that demonstrably worked in school zones? To stop people from being killed?
Ontario to strengthen dangerous driving laws in honour of father killed this year
Ontario to strengthen dangerous driving laws in honour of father killed this year
TORONTO - Dangerous driving penalties are set to soon be strengthened in Ontario, as the government has tabled a bill in honour of a father of three who was killed
www.thestar.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Is that why he got rid of speeding cameras that demonstrably worked in school zones? To stop people from being killed?
Come on,
Pest control is really basic building maintenance. Monitoring/preventative program should always be in place in multifamily housing
All it can take is one unit not saying anything & DIY'ing "fixes" to infest others. Ppl can feel ashamed to bring up pests thinking they'll be seen as 'dirty"
Pest control is really basic building maintenance. Monitoring/preventative program should always be in place in multifamily housing
All it can take is one unit not saying anything & DIY'ing "fixes" to infest others. Ppl can feel ashamed to bring up pests thinking they'll be seen as 'dirty"
Cockroaches, mould, flooding: East Vancouver mother shares BC Housing horror story
YouTube video by CityNews
youtu.be
November 25, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Come on,
Pest control is really basic building maintenance. Monitoring/preventative program should always be in place in multifamily housing
All it can take is one unit not saying anything & DIY'ing "fixes" to infest others. Ppl can feel ashamed to bring up pests thinking they'll be seen as 'dirty"
Pest control is really basic building maintenance. Monitoring/preventative program should always be in place in multifamily housing
All it can take is one unit not saying anything & DIY'ing "fixes" to infest others. Ppl can feel ashamed to bring up pests thinking they'll be seen as 'dirty"
Reposted by Pastel Ponylady
What a juxtaposition from @citynewstoronto.bsky.social:
- 5 killed in rental home where city officials allege an absentee landlord wasn't following by-laws
- Doug Ford changes the law to make it easier for landlords to evict tenants raising health and safety issues
- 5 killed in rental home where city officials allege an absentee landlord wasn't following by-laws
- Doug Ford changes the law to make it easier for landlords to evict tenants raising health and safety issues
November 24, 2025 at 9:06 PM
What a juxtaposition from @citynewstoronto.bsky.social:
- 5 killed in rental home where city officials allege an absentee landlord wasn't following by-laws
- Doug Ford changes the law to make it easier for landlords to evict tenants raising health and safety issues
- 5 killed in rental home where city officials allege an absentee landlord wasn't following by-laws
- Doug Ford changes the law to make it easier for landlords to evict tenants raising health and safety issues
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12 people in a semi that wasn't even supposed to have a second suite. Also wonder if testing was ever done w fire alarms by LL
Until something major changes, preventable tragedies will keep happening. Overcrowded homes w illegal suites all over the city. Hope this LL didn't have any more of them
12 people in a semi that wasn't even supposed to have a second suite. Also wonder if testing was ever done w fire alarms by LL
Until something major changes, preventable tragedies will keep happening. Overcrowded homes w illegal suites all over the city. Hope this LL didn't have any more of them
5 lives lost, including an unborn baby, in Brampton house fire, says relative - Four members of the same family as well as an unborn baby died as a result of a house fire in Brampton late last week, says a relative who was not home at the time of the blaze.
5 lives lost, including an unborn baby, in Brampton house fire, says relative
Four members of the same family as well as an unborn baby died as a result of a house fire in Brampton late last week, says a relative who was not home at the time of the blaze.
bit.ly
November 24, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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12 people in a semi that wasn't even supposed to have a second suite. Also wonder if testing was ever done w fire alarms by LL
Until something major changes, preventable tragedies will keep happening. Overcrowded homes w illegal suites all over the city. Hope this LL didn't have any more of them
12 people in a semi that wasn't even supposed to have a second suite. Also wonder if testing was ever done w fire alarms by LL
Until something major changes, preventable tragedies will keep happening. Overcrowded homes w illegal suites all over the city. Hope this LL didn't have any more of them
Or more concerned w competition of PBR & social housing units ppl would want to live in further dropping demand/prices the for-purchase speculative garbage could attain (gleefully gobbled by investors for yrs to flip or rent leading to bubble peak) vs actual concern for Cdns ability to buy a home.🤷♀️
Government Interference
YouTube video by Angry Mortgage Podcast
youtu.be
November 23, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Or more concerned w competition of PBR & social housing units ppl would want to live in further dropping demand/prices the for-purchase speculative garbage could attain (gleefully gobbled by investors for yrs to flip or rent leading to bubble peak) vs actual concern for Cdns ability to buy a home.🤷♀️
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A Washington resident died of complications from an infection with a bird flu strain never before reported in humans, the state Department of Health said.
Read more: https://cnn.it/4o796sL
Read more: https://cnn.it/4o796sL
November 22, 2025 at 2:43 AM
A Washington resident died of complications from an infection with a bird flu strain never before reported in humans, the state Department of Health said.
Read more: https://cnn.it/4o796sL
Read more: https://cnn.it/4o796sL
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Join us on a ride in solidarity with tenant & housing advocates from across Ontario meeting at Queen’s Park on National Housing Day to stop Bill 60!
Saturday Nov 22nd.
Meet at Christie Pits Park at noon.
Ride to Queen's Park.
www.cycleto.ca/stop_bill_60_solidarity_rally
Saturday Nov 22nd.
Meet at Christie Pits Park at noon.
Ride to Queen's Park.
www.cycleto.ca/stop_bill_60_solidarity_rally
November 20, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Join us on a ride in solidarity with tenant & housing advocates from across Ontario meeting at Queen’s Park on National Housing Day to stop Bill 60!
Saturday Nov 22nd.
Meet at Christie Pits Park at noon.
Ride to Queen's Park.
www.cycleto.ca/stop_bill_60_solidarity_rally
Saturday Nov 22nd.
Meet at Christie Pits Park at noon.
Ride to Queen's Park.
www.cycleto.ca/stop_bill_60_solidarity_rally
Are we surprised?
Bet some of these kids can pay for a more lavish life than I ever had working. Crime pays, especially w the disparity in quality of life vs older gens experienced and still increasing housing/food insecurity it will simply get easier and easier to recruit new kids into crime
Bet some of these kids can pay for a more lavish life than I ever had working. Crime pays, especially w the disparity in quality of life vs older gens experienced and still increasing housing/food insecurity it will simply get easier and easier to recruit new kids into crime
Why teens are being recruited to commit violent crimes | Full episode | the fifth estate
YouTube video by the fifth estate
youtu.be
November 21, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Are we surprised?
Bet some of these kids can pay for a more lavish life than I ever had working. Crime pays, especially w the disparity in quality of life vs older gens experienced and still increasing housing/food insecurity it will simply get easier and easier to recruit new kids into crime
Bet some of these kids can pay for a more lavish life than I ever had working. Crime pays, especially w the disparity in quality of life vs older gens experienced and still increasing housing/food insecurity it will simply get easier and easier to recruit new kids into crime
Yup. Just ask ppl in small BC communities w/o the provincial principal residence requirement how bad their local rental situation is.
RE investors buy our housing stock to ST rent, not LT. Needed workers either have to BUY a home most can't afford, or be willing to live in an RV/run down unit
RE investors buy our housing stock to ST rent, not LT. Needed workers either have to BUY a home most can't afford, or be willing to live in an RV/run down unit
This could threaten thousands of long-term renters and encourage bad faith evictions before next year’s FIFA World Cup.
Rents are down 10% partly because of these STR rules, but the BC Conservatives are trying to weaken and support repealing them entirely.
We won't let them.
Rents are down 10% partly because of these STR rules, but the BC Conservatives are trying to weaken and support repealing them entirely.
We won't let them.
November 20, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Yup. Just ask ppl in small BC communities w/o the provincial principal residence requirement how bad their local rental situation is.
RE investors buy our housing stock to ST rent, not LT. Needed workers either have to BUY a home most can't afford, or be willing to live in an RV/run down unit
RE investors buy our housing stock to ST rent, not LT. Needed workers either have to BUY a home most can't afford, or be willing to live in an RV/run down unit
#Brampton Keep reminding me why I left.
You could write letters, you could scream but nothing was done about the growing slumlord problem in the city
Investors chopped up homes to fix a maximum # of tenants w NO REGARD to safety/easy egress out in a fire
Now people are dead. This was preventable
You could write letters, you could scream but nothing was done about the growing slumlord problem in the city
Investors chopped up homes to fix a maximum # of tenants w NO REGARD to safety/easy egress out in a fire
Now people are dead. This was preventable
Investigators to ‘pull apart’ Brampton home in hunt for those missing after fatal fire | Globalnews.ca
Peel Regional Police say two people are dead while four people are seriously hurt, including a child, after a house fire in Brampton early Thursday.
globalnews.ca
November 20, 2025 at 8:48 PM
#Brampton Keep reminding me why I left.
You could write letters, you could scream but nothing was done about the growing slumlord problem in the city
Investors chopped up homes to fix a maximum # of tenants w NO REGARD to safety/easy egress out in a fire
Now people are dead. This was preventable
You could write letters, you could scream but nothing was done about the growing slumlord problem in the city
Investors chopped up homes to fix a maximum # of tenants w NO REGARD to safety/easy egress out in a fire
Now people are dead. This was preventable
Whose the pig Trump? Hint, it's not her.
I think it's time to listen to the entire Pink Floyd's Animals album this weekend. #Music
I think it's time to listen to the entire Pink Floyd's Animals album this weekend. #Music
Roger Waters - Pigs (Three Different Ones) (Live)
YouTube video by Roger Waters
youtu.be
November 20, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Whose the pig Trump? Hint, it's not her.
I think it's time to listen to the entire Pink Floyd's Animals album this weekend. #Music
I think it's time to listen to the entire Pink Floyd's Animals album this weekend. #Music
Some of the comments are killing me, 🤣
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November 20, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Some of the comments are killing me, 🤣
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everytime B.C. does a test of its emergency system I'm brought back to 2021 when the government hadn't used it for years
and didn't use it for the deadly heat dome or deadly flooding
and then the government had a tantrum when they were called out on it
and then immediately started using it
and didn't use it for the deadly heat dome or deadly flooding
and then the government had a tantrum when they were called out on it
and then immediately started using it
November 19, 2025 at 10:01 PM
everytime B.C. does a test of its emergency system I'm brought back to 2021 when the government hadn't used it for years
and didn't use it for the deadly heat dome or deadly flooding
and then the government had a tantrum when they were called out on it
and then immediately started using it
and didn't use it for the deadly heat dome or deadly flooding
and then the government had a tantrum when they were called out on it
and then immediately started using it
If highly skilled immigrants that work in healthcare services are the ones leaving in the largest volume, shouldn't that necessitate further recalculating elsewhere? You'd think we can't continually add people who will need services like healthcare without the healthcare workers to support everyone
Why are so many skilled immigrants leaving Canada? | Hanomansing Tonight
YouTube video by CBC News
youtu.be
November 19, 2025 at 9:13 PM
If highly skilled immigrants that work in healthcare services are the ones leaving in the largest volume, shouldn't that necessitate further recalculating elsewhere? You'd think we can't continually add people who will need services like healthcare without the healthcare workers to support everyone
Who benefits from home prices rocketing?
Not those fleeing abuse when fleeing means precarious finances & housing.
"should I have just stayed" #HousingCrisis #BC
4% of people leaving transition housing find SAFE & AFFORDABLE housing. 75% remain temporarily sheltered or return to their abusers
Not those fleeing abuse when fleeing means precarious finances & housing.
"should I have just stayed" #HousingCrisis #BC
4% of people leaving transition housing find SAFE & AFFORDABLE housing. 75% remain temporarily sheltered or return to their abusers
Majority of people leaving abusive situations can't find stable housing in B.C., report finds
YouTube video by CBC British Columbia
youtu.be
November 19, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Who benefits from home prices rocketing?
Not those fleeing abuse when fleeing means precarious finances & housing.
"should I have just stayed" #HousingCrisis #BC
4% of people leaving transition housing find SAFE & AFFORDABLE housing. 75% remain temporarily sheltered or return to their abusers
Not those fleeing abuse when fleeing means precarious finances & housing.
"should I have just stayed" #HousingCrisis #BC
4% of people leaving transition housing find SAFE & AFFORDABLE housing. 75% remain temporarily sheltered or return to their abusers
Yeah? Nobody wants to live in a crappy little box forever. Sell a specucondo in Toronto/GTA & still places in AB that $ can buy a proper house close to a city
In ON still have to go to some weird town hours away you didn't know existed for the same upgrade in space/getting something sitting on land
In ON still have to go to some weird town hours away you didn't know existed for the same upgrade in space/getting something sitting on land
Calgary is the top destination for GTA migrants
YouTube video by CTV News
youtu.be
November 18, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Yeah? Nobody wants to live in a crappy little box forever. Sell a specucondo in Toronto/GTA & still places in AB that $ can buy a proper house close to a city
In ON still have to go to some weird town hours away you didn't know existed for the same upgrade in space/getting something sitting on land
In ON still have to go to some weird town hours away you didn't know existed for the same upgrade in space/getting something sitting on land
#BC #RentalCrisis People working locally living in RV's around where I live too, like here I wonder, will all I have to do is check airbnb?
Will I see hundreds of units for short term vacation rental? Not all of them would have been LT rentals before, but a decent portion surely would have.
Will I see hundreds of units for short term vacation rental? Not all of them would have been LT rentals before, but a decent portion surely would have.
Some Salt Spring Island employers taking housing into their own hands as vacancy dips
YouTube video by CBC British Columbia
youtu.be
November 18, 2025 at 6:51 PM
#BC #RentalCrisis People working locally living in RV's around where I live too, like here I wonder, will all I have to do is check airbnb?
Will I see hundreds of units for short term vacation rental? Not all of them would have been LT rentals before, but a decent portion surely would have.
Will I see hundreds of units for short term vacation rental? Not all of them would have been LT rentals before, but a decent portion surely would have.