• markev@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Land ain’t cheap where most of the immigrants end up going. Canada still offers a better quality of life but that will dimminish over time if housing issue is not addressed.

    • Em Adespoton@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      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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        1 year ago

        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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            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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              1 year ago

              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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        1 year ago

        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”…