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The Palestinians are only suffering bc they elected and support Terrorists who stole the money for their infrastructure and used it against the only country allowing the Palestinians a place to live. Gaza is not Palestinian land it belongs to Israel. It's like saying the Rio Grande valley belongs to Mexico. It is oUrS. Arabs have decided the Palestinians are not worth their effort, except if it is to get rid of Israel.

Canada is fine if you have enough money. If you have no money you are a debt slave. \n\nIt's basically a 3rd world country where people with money are fine and people without struggle to afford rent and food even if they work full time.

I stopped visiting Canada 40 years ago because of insane or corrupt border control policies. I traveled to Canada from California to record an album for a popular rock star. My crew number 4 people and we had reserves a month for basic tracking in a studio there. We bought our own reels of 3 inch wide recording tape because the studio wanted twice the rate as normal and since my studio was a distributor for the mastering tapes we brought from my own inventory. Each reel of tape was 3 lbs and brought 30 reels. We got to customs and they said we owed money for importing the tape. Normally a reel would have been $180, and customs wanted $38,000 x 20, and would not let us retrieve it to take it back to the US side of the border. How can a tape worth $180 suddenly have duty of $38,000?\nIt was explained to me as the Potential Value of the tape which meant AFTER a hit song was recording in it. Most recordings are total losses and the tape cant used on a new project even if properly bulk-erased. They expected me to pay on the spot $760,000 in duties. I gave up and left the tape with them. I called the artist and said we could not do the project in Canada and we went back to California. The artist came to us a few months later and the result was a minor hit, and probably barely made its production cost since the label only distributed it in Canada. I talked to an international trade lawyer about what happened and he said customs officials were wrong in Canada but they are given full latitude with no appeal so his advice was never take anything over the border that I did not mind being confiscated. Sometimes they would let it in because it was going back out in a month, but likely they sold it off and pocketed the money. The US is corrupt on a federal level but Canada is corrupt on the local level. I moved out of the US 24 years ago have a much higher quality of life than is even possible in the US, and live very cheaply. Total cost of living with a very active social and cultural life impossible to duplicate in the US which as some of the least options for culture. And my cost of living is $1500 a month, less than utilities alone for one house in California, and that is for 2 people. Last month for example I attended world class opera, ballet and symphonies 9 times, and went out to dinner, in jazz clubs or dance clubs, visited12 top museums, and it was still under $1500 for the month. A pair of tickets to the MET in NYC for lower grade performance, sets, orchestra ad theater, was $1800!! $600 for tickets to drama for 2. Here there 237 drama theaters within walking distance of my city center home, and can walk anywhere at any time of day and be safe due to VERY low crime rates. Free medical is good. I am not citizen but still I had an operation and 10 days in a vip single room for $5300 and despite my insurance I had been paying back in California $824.month, it was going to cost me out o pocket $500,000 and one day in a recovery 12 bed room, and require paid nursing attendant for 30 days. The results were great and was treated like king.\nCanadians have lost control of their government but Americas are screwed regardless, with lower than international standards for everything, with crime, corruption in Washington, extreme cost of living, no access to culture, few if any safe parks. My adopted city is not only far more beautiful than any US city, my GF can walk, alone, anywhere in a city of 7mil at any time of day through any of the 600 beautiful parks open 24/7..at 3am. There are no homeless, and 80% of those over 20yo own their home clear of debt. No college debt despite twice the % of people having degrees. The rest of the world caught up and has surpassed the US and Europe in quality of life. \n\nI have only been back to the US 5 times in 24 years and each time I am shocked by how much the entire society has declined while most of the world outside of Europe, Canada, US, UK or Australia have dramatically improved.\nEvery year since 2008 more Americans leave the US to live elsewhere than legal immigrants arrive.

To all parents..Wakeup..Stop wasting your money sending your children for highur studies in America and Europe. Its tdme to leok East. Save your dollars..send them to China/ Japan/ Korea/ Malaysia/ Singapore/ and maybe Austraalia and New Ze'land too. Most of these are non zionists

Wow! Open immigration killed when the free money stops

Zionists journalist asking illiterate question Saudi should spend billions of Allah Subhantallah oil n gas money for the Muslim ummah on Palestinians and on the holy lands same for all other rich Arab nations.

So can you commit to rebuilding their homes, hospitals and businesses. In south africa we don't have the money you have.... Can you please help make a super difference

Come to Greece, free money and houses,mobiles free data and after 7 years Greek ID ????

I hate the transportation system in Toronto. They have no concept of how to build a train/subway system. They spen billions on never expansion of the 401 when the could be using that money on a train system that works

It's refugees from middel east and under eductaed immigrants are thr problem ..for refuheed they get frrr money

Anybody can talk without action. The fact is Arab Saudi, Egypt , Jordan should put their army in Gaza to protect Palestinians. That's what the Arab world is afraid of. Afraid of losing their thrones, afraid of dying. It's a matter of time when we die either now or later. Shame on the Arab world after 75 years still unable to have their own weapons to protect their own country. Look at China, very poor in 1999 but within 23 years capable of becoming Second world power where the United states dares not touch China. That shows that Muslim leaders are very weak in protecting ISLAM but are very good at making money for themselves. Fact .

Why don't u stop giving them oil? N why don't u call all Muslim to be united as ur money n call ll matter now

Actually many Palestinians before October 7 were tired of living in Palestine where their leaders kept all the money and didn’t produce jobs for them but because immigrating is so hard many stay!

This people dnt care suffering of Palestinian ..they care only money

As an immigrant born in Mexico and living in Canada (Québec) for the last 32 years I'm certainly going back to Mexico once I retire. Cost of living is awful and taxes are too high to consider staying in Canada.\nOur current Prime minister Justin Trudeau did help to make this much worse. Trudeau spends our money like crazy...and the worse is that he is telling Canadians that he does not care about it and he will spend much more. Better to leave?

I like what he said, but bold of him to say this when Saudi Arabia’s leaders and politicians are all corrupt and literally support Israel and give them money which then gets used by Israel on equipment to kill Palestinians and other Arabs around them.

such garbage \nthey’re not \nhelping palestinians \nall the saudi families care about is money

Im just gonna say this. I generally vote Republican. In case anyone forgets, thats who protects the constitution. Furthermore, i can take in a mother with children because women and children are our most vulnerable people. Why don't more Democrats do this instead of waste tax money on all this stuff that does nothing to help people get jobs that will allow them to progress. Also, for any christians out there, we are to treat the alien with the same consideration as we would anyone else. The arab world is blind to the core issue. Hams son Canaan took land that wasnt his and thats the Lebanese people and a bit south. Shem got the blessing from Noah and so the strife is ancient and has no resolution until Christ comes. Sorry to spoil your hopes. Also, the US is about to be destroyed so I'd look into asking Jesus for salvation now. Fellow Christian, pray up the 144k, this will all go down quickly

Anyone who know why prices are so insane? Does it have something to do with debt, money printed by central banks and the crisis of fiat money?

No we can't do that we don't have the money ey

They say that then they go back to counting their blood money

your time and work are worth appreciation and watching for saving emotions and money!

Canada is a Slave state , the Canadian government is highly Corrupted , the Canadian government keep on bringing Refugees and immigrants Recklessly ..\nMost corrupted and Looters from other nations are welcomed to Canada because they bring billions of dollars of their Looted money in Canada and the Government like it ..\nWorst of all is the Zombie attitude of so called Canadian citizen who don’t care about all these disasters caused by the government.

Hahahaha Saudis are only by the Money

Bang on the money to coin an American phrase. ???\nWhy would Arab states help facilitate Israeli government plan to remove all Palestian populations? \nAs the man says, the Palestinians dont want to leave their land, its the Zionists that want that.

This so called arab world only cares about their oil money and weapon's purchases from USA

little money ...???makes much noise

The exact same issues are occurring in Australia at the moment, yet in Australia I earn 30% more money for the same job I did in Canada, so I’m still way better off. Can confirm that groceries and things like mobile plans are way more expensive in Canada

What has happened in Canada is actually quite simple. Companies sell products and services. Companies require employees in order to sell those products and services. The difference between what the companies can those products and services for and what they pay the employees is profit. The owners of the companies want to maximize this profit, therefore want to pay employees as little as possible. Scarcity is labour is one of the driving factors behind what employees are paid. One way to decrease scarcity of labour is to bring in massive amounts of immigrants. That is exactly what Canada has been doing for decades. The owners of the companies take profits and invest it in real estate. This makes real estate unaffordable for the employees whose wages have been suppressed. Lower wages also means less money from taxes available for services like health care. We allowed our politicians to be bribed into allowing massive levels of immigration. Stagnant wage growth resulted in lowered consumptive capacity in the economy. This lead to stagnant economic activity and lowered investment into things that would make the Canadian economy more productive. What we have now is unaffordable housing. Lack of jobs. A failing health care system. An educational system where the bar was lowered to accommodate the lowest common denominator. Increased crime and substance abuse resulting from the subsequent hopelessness. Several families living in a single house. People working several low paying jobs just to try to get by. People with full-time jobs that are forced to choose between being homeless or starving to death. The immigrants that are still coming here are sleeping on the sidewalk in front of homeless shelters, or maybe scraping by delivering UberEats.

Ok hold on a second. Im an offshore person who wants to immigarte to Canada. Ive spent a huge chunk of money for IELTS and Evaluation of my education solely for thst purpose. How the greedy landlords manipulate the market is not being talked about enough. Your government decides to increase immigration because you guys have been complaining about labor shortage. And when people actuallt went, you started blaming them for driving the housing price? The majority of immigrants are living off basic salasy at an entry level job, are you sure they are the major driver?

Immigrant come to Canada for one thing only - Money Thinking a job here with the exchange rate of their own countries money is almost double What they fail to see is The cost of living here is also double...Add in the factor of low skill paying jobs And how things work We have a flood gate of new comers Soon you will have Canadians moving out

Canada is making money off the immigrants who come and pay for visa and rents etc while immigrants stay poor in Canada as they're paying more than what they benefit.

Vote for every1s money, spent it all, d es peacefully in yo sleep while everything crashs and burns around.

In my country poor means no money but you can still eat and have a small house to sleep. Here, very depressing because everything and every move needs money

Canada is run by what seems a bunch of privileged kids who inherited a lot of money and now squander it all.

The authoritarian dictatorship we live under is one big issue here. Taxing us to death, giving tax payer money to other countries for rediculous reasons (gender shit) \nHes destroying the west on purpose. Cap and trade BS. Liberals are bringing 500000 people here a year with no skills, and if they do have a skill, they arent allowed to use it. They want all the Western countries living standards dropped too third world standards so they can say we are equals. They want poor subservient plebs to build the prisons we will live under.

It is not sustainable to live in Canada anymore unless you want to be slave for rest of your life. Taxes and Prices are too high to live here.\nHealth care system is fked up along with housing. \n5 of my friends left country for better salary and life to other countries. Find good job is getting harder and harder every year. Low pay job does not even pay your rent. It becomes joke now what they did to this country.\nI have to fly out of country for full medical check up spend 2 hours and 800$ cad but i went thru test which you have to wait in canada 1 year or not permitted. Full CTI Scan MRI , endoscopy and full blood test, etc cost me 800$ and just spend couple hours without waiting so i got my result. In Canada it is not possible even you approve to go.thru test waiting time min 6.month. to visit family doctor 4 weeks waiting time. \nDo not waste your time.and money moving here there is only modern slavery here

Many recent immigrants I have known have left Canada because the cost of living is too high. From my experience they work very hard, usually working 60+ hours a week. After some time they crunch the numbers and realize no matter how hard they try they will not get anywhere so they leave. For those born in Canada we find ourselves being chased out of our hometowns because it is too expensive to live there. For myself it was either stay in Vancouver, surrendering more than half of your income to rent or move out of the city to buy an apartment. In the major cities there is a mass exodus of young people and the strategy has been to replace that exodus with immigration. The problem is that is not sustainable as now new immigrants, seeking a better life are not finding it in major Canadian cities. For those who already own property in the lower mainland the selfish mentality is to do whatever you can to deny construction, thus maintaining the scarcity and value of what little land/housing there is in desirable areas. Zoning laws are beginning to change but progress is slow and municipalities have failed to keep up with infrastructure so the growing pains is going to be immense. It's beautiful here now doubt but if I had no ties and a solid financial footing I would have left long ago. Generations ago you could show up to Canada with no money and thrive if you were willing to work hard. Now hard work won't get you anything.

Many ppl from china that was previously or currently a party members used their corruption money to purchase so many property that drove the real estate market up that is why now its hard to live in those areas .

Joe Biden is a DISASTER! Their priority is to keep sending money to Ukraine and Israel!

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See what your money can buy in Panama. Oh, and you don’t have to shovel snow no more ;)\n\nCost of Living in Panamá Comparison, Panamá vs. USA (2023)\nhttps://youtu.be/3mNmFvUgbuM

This episode of BBC ia about the migration of people from Africa to Europe . People from Africa mainly got to Europe to get good living conditions..They are risking their life and going throught the Sahara derset. They are carried bu Toyota Hilux which is one of the best vechile to go through the desert . Many people say that if you want to achieve something in life you must risk your life and he concludes that the last word is in God. There is a chance that the snugglers take their money and leave them abandont the middle of the desert . The smugglers earn a loot if money here. There a dozen of vechile and hundreds of people Willing to go to Europe every day.The percentage of reaching Europe is about 80.\nBY ARAVIND ?

Canada is garbage. I'm saving money so that I can flee this dystopia too.

Money will change hearts and minds.

American citizens are barely making ends meet due to inflated taxes yet all our hard earned money goes to fund illegal immigration. lm done voting for any of these lying Politicians. They are all the same

Healthcare is not free in Canada. We pay for healthcare from part of our paycheque. Now we also have private healthcare which costs more than the public healthcare but it is readily available, as long as you have the extra money to pay for medical services that you can have almost on demand.

It is clear now. If you want to live a very small apartment without money and friends, you can choose Canada as a good destination.?

I don't blame the people leaving Canada especially the ones who were smart with their money and saved enough in thier younger years. They probably have the freedom to live comfortably in warmer and much more affordable countries.