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As one who has followed the reporting and the reports: the reporting is sketchy. Don't believe the hype. [Edit]: Also don't rely on Douglas Todd's opinion piec
by msie 7y ago
As one who has followed the reporting and the reports: the reporting is sketchy. Don't believe the hype.
[Edit]: Also don't rely on Douglas Todd's opinion piece. He plays fast and loose with the "facts" in that piece and he's notably against immigration.
- swebs 7y agoFeel free to go into detail or link some sources. "Dude, trust me" isn't going to convince many people.
- msie 7y agoMost of the stuff by global news is written by Sam Cooper. If you read his pieces he reports on a lot of hear-say, letting the reader's imagination fill in the pieces. Also he likes to inflate the effect of money laundering such that it is the source of all the problems: high real estate prices and the opioid drug epidemic - which is highly simplistic. In a way he is giving what the people want. If you read the government report on money laundering, they don't really go into detail about how they came up with that 5 billion dollar figure. And then they estimate the effect of money laundering could affect RE prices from 5-20%. So, a lot of guessing. A billion here, a billion there...who cares, right? All the reporters just report on these numbers as facts.
- 99_00 7y agoDouglas Todd cites his sources: University of British Columbia professors.