Statistics Canada’s latest results show us that you must make more living in Calgary than other major Canadian cities to be above the poverty line, Danina Falkenberg has more in this report.
Food is actually not as bad , there's a variety of choices so one can move around. More services like food banks , city help etc. Transit is 24/7 and it allows people to move around for jobs and save on gas and insurance and while rent it's definitely expensive, the economy is mix so there's a variety of jobs in different fields not just resource base
The reporting on inflation is correct. Its simply a metric at the rate of what food is increasing. Its increasing less sharply but is never going to reverse. That's called deflation. The problem is grocery store and food monopolies. The carbon tax is a disgrace as well.
@@jaundice_japlinIf you look at grocery store ACTUAL gross profit they are below 5%? For a business that has a huge business with warehousing, staff and actual brisk and mortar stores that is really low. You can believe Jagmeet and the NDP because he lies! Look year over year and you will see that for yourself. It is the NDP way to blame corporations for their woes. The funny thing is Loblaws is completely union and he continues to wage war on them? The irony lol 🤣
Other countries can be against immigrants even if you're a fountain of money for them. Imagine how we feel when these immigrants are making Canadians poorer. Get these goofs out of here.
@@dbmuir8683 only if you are willing to teach me professor. You are supposed to start the sentence with capital letter professor if you are an English language professor.
Let's continue to donate military aid to Ukraine and hand money away. Raise taxes and let the government spend it on ridiculous things, while the entire country struggles to secure affordable food. The Canadians that voted for this Liberal government still dont realize what they have done, but to be unbiased I have yet to see any actions by the Conservatives and NDP. THey are all just talks. So much trash talk on the Liberals.
You're somewhat right about misdirected funds but look at the people receiving help as well. They pull up to the food bank in an almost brand-new car, this while talking on their cell phone speaking to a friend and making plans for where to go for lunch. No joke! I, [many years ago], was in line at the food bank and the Lady [food bank client], having her free bags of groceries packed up was all excited about the two-week vacation her family was going on, [from BC to Alberta]. Yes, everyone needs to get away from time to time but instead of adjusting one's lifestyle to fit one's present income, they reach out to food banks and the like to maintain a standard of living they honestly can't afford. Maintaining one's standard of living is not what these services are for. I'm sure she still had a Netflix account and perhaps a few others. My point is, while a food bank can help fill in the potholes on the road of life, they are not in existence so you can take vacations and keep your Netflix account. With no car, no phone, no vacations, I used the food bank for a while because I really needed it. An hour in line would yield about $40 worth of bread and groceries for which I as a single person could claim once a week. A real help. [A help no longer required.] So many people NEED the food bank. So many others believe they need the food bank. Canada's food banks are stretched beyond their ability to fulfill the real need facing low-income workers. Add to them those who refuse to cut their expenses first & you end up with legitimate recipients falling even further down between the cracks. Do you NEED the food bank? If so, please go. :) [HAhahaha, my comment went way off topic but what the heck, maybe it will help.] P*E*A*C*E [please]
@terrygelinas4593 Trudeau is the blame. In Canada, we have a healthcare crisis, food insecurity, and a housing crisis. Trudeau's overspending over taxing ,and printing of money is why we in this situation. I would suggest that you go take a economic course in learning basic economics.
If anything, Calgary and Edmonton poverty lines are accurate in comparison to the cost of living there. For Toronto and Vancouver, anything less than 80000$ is totally inaccurate.
But you pay utilities, property tax , insurance and all grocery cost every month that is way higher in Calgary . House price is high in Vancouver and Toronto but if you are able to buy in, the home price is keep going up that is your profit . In Calgary, the house price is cheap because it is up and then down when oil price is low and unemployment is high . It is happen every few years, even you buy in cheap but it will not going higher and hard to earn profit lol.
@@shanewilson8728 If you earn $55k in Calgary , you also cannot pay the rent . Rent has gone up up for over 23% since last year, average rent for small single house is almost $3000 a month now,
Hahaha media is such a puppet for Justin. Rent prices and home prices in Toronto and Vancouver.. not to mention lower pay and provincial sales tax. Calgary is the 23rd cheapest city to rent in Canada, 23rd!!! Name all of the big cities you know and count to 22 without using Calgary. They will do anything they can to make calgary look more miserable than the LIB cities so they don’t lose young adult population to Alberta. Don’t be fooled.
lower than where? Calgary's rates aren't much different than most of Canada's high-pop urban areas, countrywide, despite their local-economy being carried by massive oil-royalties
@@dbmuir8683 Calgary city council just voted to increase property taxes by 7 %, Calgary local economy is not being carried by any oil royalties. Truth is that for years the left wing city council has been at war with developers and development in the city where it is very hard to get housing built causing an artificial high. Vancouver has little land to build, Toronto is building out very you have to drive or take a train, Calgary has a lot of land undeveloped within half an hour to down town Calgary
Calgary has some of the lowest property taxes in the country, you know who has lower property taxes than us? Vancouver... So obviously property taxes are not the be all end all of affordability, might have something to do with us paying the highest energy bills out of any of the provinces, and our car insurance rates.
Not accurate - im from toronto and lived in Vancouver for 8 years before moving to Calgary. I dare anyone complaining about affordability in Calgary to go to toronto or Vancouver now. You won’t make it. As long as you work here, you’re good. I had 3 part time jobs in Vancouver and dont even ask about Toronto.
This nation is over governed, and Canadians have to foot the bill for all of this ridiculous government infrastructure. 40 million people in California support a state and federal government. 4 million Albertans have to support a provincial and federal government.
Why exactly is there a poverty line in Canada and why are people kept below the poverty line while tax dollars we pay also contribute to the $347,000 annual salary collected by our Canadian Prime Minister? Why didn't the cost of the Prime Ministers and his family vacation to Jamaica for the holidays come at a cost $162,000 to taxpayers when we already pay the Prime Ministers salary?
@@MrBuddy-r8wIn America they have the Secret Service to protect the President. In Canada, we have? to protect our Prime Minister and his family. When the Prime minister travels, even downtown for a Wendy's combo, he doesn't travel alone. Lots of people are involved. That's what makes him look so popular. Wherever he goes he's in the middle of a crowd. Peace.
@@ZeroGravity60 Thank you, now I understand your first comment and I agree with you. $32.5 million is the cost for 2022/2023, averaging $2.7 million monthly. I don't understand why people treat political leaders like celebrities when they are elected. Their campaigns should be looked at as job applications, not popularity contests.
Off course they do , Calgary and Alberta leaves you on you're own. Toronto maybe expensive but at least there's a variety of jobs 24/7 hour transit and services ...
@@anthonymorris5084 not really, there is no shortage of land or wood here to build homes. Just a slow lazy system. If it was china they would have built all the homes these bums need.
Calgary is very expensive on utilities, insurance and property tax. It is almost double higher compare to Vancouver. Calgary has no rent control. The rent has been jumped over 23% increase since last year. If you are thinking about affordable, Calgary is not a good choice.
Rent control would mean no one would become a landlord because the landlords wouldn’t be able to make the mortgage payments. So rents would be cheaper but there would be no places to rent.
Calgary has the highest property taxes in Canada. The city of Calgary says otherwise, but when I compare they are higher then BC and Ontario. This makes everything more expensive from rent to any business services.
When I was working with a disability. Well 75 percent of my income was going to rent. And then people showed bedrooms for rent. All your belongings had to fit in that bedroom. And I guess it changed to quarter my income. I had to get groceries and goto laundry mats once a week. And I didn't get to pick my roommates. Scarey. Mt landlord would only rent to men. And there were rules. Most of them took on the hotel act instead of land lord tenant act. For the safety of others. So.e places I had todo chores as well as pay rent. Lawn various cleaning. Honestly I do t know what the right answer. Getting I to a relationship that goes sour. Well one of them is going to end up homeless. I walked away. Various times. I don't date anymore. I never had the luxury to have sentimental things. I work and burn out and not have enough equity saved up for a break. Work and burn out. There is a big rush then after Christmas slows down. How did I do it. Had Tobe very resourceful. Grateful for my housing. I have trauma when I feel my housing is jeperadized.
There are too many newcomers coming into the country compared to how many people that we can help. I'm sorry that if you're not born here then what you understand how life is like.
without immigrants Canada wont survive , if your grand parents were not immigrants then am sure the generation before was already. People come to Canada for better life , not to get help.
Public health care and big government needs immigrants to feed themselves. If you do not want immigrants, privatize healthcare and keep your entitled government wants limited.
@@edwardst-pierre1020 Basically Canada has been overspending for years, primarily due to healthcare and big government. The Canadian government needs more tax revenue and are looking to exploit young immigrants who generally use healthcare services less, while contributing significant taxes (or expected to do so shortly). Currently, the Canadian government can't collect more taxes from ageing Canadians and as Canadians age they require more public healthcare services, this is a net drain on Canada. Stopping immigration will make our healthcare crumble as it is not sustainable as Canadians age. To summarize, immigration is being used to increase Canada's tax revenue base due to Canada's ageing population and government overspending.
That would reduce poverty significantly. For that reason alone it is an unlikely policy. Also that should make the government much smaller which would help all Canadians.
@@kathyd1970 The biggest government expense is healthcare. If healthcare was privatized it would cause a significant reduction in taxes (remember the government is very wasteful, they need to collect $10 in tax revenue to give pay for $1 in healthcare costs) and hopefully reduction in government. These taxes have created significant inflation, inflation slowly creates poverty for most of society and destroys private business which causes lower wages and economic decline.
@@rupasandhu6061 you sound financially illiterate: it's been proven time and again that private healthcare is a complete sham by rich oligarchs. The pursuit of profit by financial capital systematically devours public funding, erodes quality of care and degrades working conditions, all of which has lead various places worldwide to unfortunately, but unsurprisingly develop tapeworm economies which are as dangerous as they are unpredictable.
This is ridiculous. If a family of 4 only makes 55 grand in Calgary after taxes then they are spending 60-70% of their income on housing. And the kids will more than likely share a bedroom. I am fortunate enough to have bought a house 18 years ago, because if I didn’t I would not be able to afford rent for my family of 4 in anything other than a 1 bedroom basement suite. When coming up with these statistics you need to redo them for a family of 4 starting out, and not using people like me to bring down that number. A family moving here would see that and think it sounds reasonable since they will make more than that, then be shocked when they try to survive here. I would say this number should be closer to 70 grand. My mortgage is lower than it would cost to rent, but I make more than that and my wife now has been forced to work full time, and we still find it difficult. And buy a house in Calgary? I did the math- the cost of a house has gone up by over $1800 dollars a month over the past 18 years since I bought that first house. Every month you don’t own a house then it is going to cost you another $1800 when you finally do. And they say kids these days will have to save up 22 years for a down payment, then at least 30 years of mortgage payments, meaning say goodbye to retirement for at least 90% of people. Now that is depressing.
The system is broken and the floor for many will give way within the next 24 months. Best claim your available parking space now. :( [Investor tip: Invest in cardboard, cardboard, and pup tents.]
Going to be same price. When ndp liberal mayors comes in. Spending happens. When spending happens taxes goes up. When taxes goes up……. Cost of living goes up.. make sense?
Last year we spent 1 billion housing illegal immigrants 😢and 1 billion on the war in ukraine 😮50 billion in unneeded covid policy😊30 billion for battery plants😅image if you only got a 1percent kick back 😅😅😅😅😅😅😅
Reduce income tax which would give nuclear family more money to work with. To many people looking at the same home is causing the housing market. There are too many international students while we can't help our own people in crisis.
Assberta voted CON provincially. I think THAT has far more to do with it. You fail to realize how much more your life is impacted by the provincial govt, not the Feds. But yeah, keep blaming the NDP, a party that's never once had federal power, cause something something communism. Nutcase right wingers everywhere.
Nenshi started the problem with his battle with developers. You cannot get anything built in Calgary for decades now building materials are through the roof. Calgary has a huge amount of land all around the city Toronto/ Vancouver would love this, no reason for a shortage of rental units or housing to buy which is increasing housing costs
I simply do not believe this. The income taxes. No PST. Gas at the Costco in Calgary is $1.039. Edmonton is the $.0.90s vs Metro Van at prolly $1.60 plus a litre. Housing is MUCH cheaper. Groceries and goods likely the same. Ultilities are maybe a bit more in Alberta than Metro Vancouver. Insurance is same. I just moved out of White Rock and back to Calgary. Lived in Metro Vancouver 5 years 2018 to 2023. Was paying MORE to RENT half the 59 year old house vs the mortgage (to be renewed) on the new 2500 square foot modern detached in Calgary. And landlord in White Rock could have raised rent $2,500 to prolly $4,000 a month. You can get a decent home in Edmonton for $300 to $400k. Vs Vancouver MINIMUM of a million out in the Fraser Valley. This is horseshit.
Probably not the easier plan, but Canada should definitely consider investing/creating a Publicly-owned supermarket chain across the country to secure affordable food prices and increase competition in Canada against the greedy corps. Food banks is not the solution to the problem.
Food has always been affordable across Canada, even in a time when grocery chains were making record profits year after year. There is just as much competition in grocery stores today as there were 40 years ago. The main difference now and decades ago is that we are paying far more taxes on everything today than we ever did 40 years ago. Maybe we shouldn't be taxing farmers on their fuel and drying their grain. Another reason why the cost of food is going up is because of the hidden tax of inflation. When the federal government is borrowing and over printing a record amount of money is why we are seeing record inflation. But now the liberal government wants to ban plastic, and if you shop at a grocery store, everything is wrapped or comes in plastic. Food distribution companies that make and pruduces our food will have to retool and get new equipment and find some other material other than plastic to wrap their food ,and that cost is going to get passed down to the consumers.
in reality, majority of people make less than that amount... it is achieveable for family but not individually but that is before tax.... so i guess most people are poor... canada. what a country...
@thefreshairchannel7510 Property appreciate better here, overall cost of living lower comparing to Calgary. I am in IT field and have more jobs in comparison to Calgary.
@@brownnomad6805You could also be richer in Seattle than you’d ever be in Vancouver working for a tech company. Two hour drive away and the wages are double that of Vancouver for jr positions.
@zaspalia For sure USA earns better but then I have to watch my back all the time with the violence that's going on over there and crimes. Not to say Vancouver is perfect as we do have petty theft and drugs issue which is in some area. Although, i live outskirts of Vancouver which is much better. However, overall I am more content in Canada. I am sure there are families in USA in safe neighborhoods but I don't see myself living there.
I am trying to picture a family income of $55k with two adults and two kids.... Maybe Edmonton. Not Calgary. Vancouver and Toronto.... Laughable. The only way these cities would be equal is if all (families) are living in a box or a van down by the river like Chris Farley. Then equal cause no money. This report does not consider middle class. Affordability.
This is inaccurate. These incomes don't add up. In Vancouver and Toronto, you have to be making well over $200,000 a year to be able to live in both cities comfortably. Maybe more than $200,000 a year. $55,000 a year to live comfortably in Calgary, this is misleading. To live in Calgary and avoid poverty you have to make more than $55,000 a year. Calgary is expensive to live in. These people in to get the facts straight.
