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Right-Wing Trolls Are Freaking Out After Learning They Can Get Sued For Calling People 'Groomers' On The Internet (pressprogress.ca)
submitted 11 months ago by MapleEngineer@lemmy.ca to c/canada@lemmy.ca
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Other right-wing accounts variously reacted by describing the move as Orwellian, lamenting the death of free speech and even contemplating leaving Canada for good.

Oh no. Not that. Please no.

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[–] Templa@beehaw.org 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

"Murtaza Haider is a professor of Real Estate Management at Ryerson University. Stephen Moranis is a real estate industry veteran."

oh yes very unbiased people right here

Edit: Seriously though, after reading the article this doesn't bust any myth at all. The only "source" cited is the census map and they don't even take their time to transform that data into something that's proving their point. That's just a piece of opinion, it isn't proving anything.

[–] m0darn@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

And what about the several hundred thousand cottages scattered across Canada that might be labelled unoccupied on census day...

...Many of them ought to be considered vacant homes. So how close does that get us to 235,000?