See graph in article:<p>Canada's emigration rate (exiting the country) was "quite high" at rougly 0.15% of popuation for 15 years 1990-2015.<p>It steadily declined to 0.07% in 2020 ... and <dramatic sting!> has now climbed a bit to 0.09%.<p>It's a trend in a small number and trends are interesting, <i>however</i> ... another interesting and true headline might be:<p><i>Canadians not leaving Canda forever nearly as fast as they used to!!</i>
Canada's always been like this.<p>I remember as a kid living in a single bedroom basement apartment with my parents and sibling in Vancouver as a kid, but we used it as a backup in case we wouldn't get a GC in the US. The racism was definetly palpable there as well, and education quality was crap compared to my average elementary school in California.<p>(Eastern) Canadians have a stick up their ass as if their QoL is better than the US, but most of their American experience is usually a rust belt town in Upstate New York or Michigan. Meanwhile, back in BC, almost every family I knew had at least one relative living in Sacramento, Spokane, Portland, Seattle, etc doing construction, municipal jobs, or something.<p>> Justinas Stankus<p>Tbf, his research is about ethnic conflict in Myanmar, so he kind of has to be in SEA<p>Not sure this post is HN related though.
Canada becomes more of a joke with each passing day.<p>The government has managed to create an economy predominantly dependent on a real estate bubble driven by money laundering and capital flight/money parking from China.<p>Simultaneously suppressing wages by increasing the population by 2% per year via trivial immigration requirements and student visas for Indian nationals that lead to PR status and allows full time work with government subsidies for the employer for not hiring Caucasians.<p>All of this in the name of allegedly compensating for young Canadians not having children to pay into the ponzi that is the CPP etc. Somehow making children less affordable is supposed to fix this.<p>Downvoting this doesn’t make it any less true. Even the mainstream media in the country is starting to realize they won’t get skewered for saying so.
Reuters is a fairly sane and neutral news outlet, but it is painfully obvious how the "Canada is shit" narrative is tied to and amplified by certain rising stars (well, one) in federal politics.<p>Its now reaching Gabo-level surrealism. Vancouver is now worse than a favela in Rio.<p>I moved from Brazil to Vancouver. BC has problems as any other place on Earth, but claiming it is a hellhole is just dumb. It is sad that these extreme and tone-deaf points of view are being mainstreamed and normalized.
Born and raised in Vancouver, still have a house in BC. Living in Paraguay, life is much better and way more friendly.<p>100x less stupid. Honestly there’s a bigger homeless problem in Vancouver than Buenos Aires, Rio, or even Asuncion.<p>That said Canada is super beautiful but Argentina has Patagonia which is better than the Rockies at a tenth of the price.<p>Most of North America is highly overrated currently. CDMX is really the only city I’d consider in NA.
A little unrelated to the article, but I had a "crash blossoms"-esque double take reading that headline. I was very concerned about what constituted "living fuels"
wtf, emmigration is in the 120,000 range while immigration is in the 1,000,000 range. This is literally the opposite of the article title. Immigration to Canada is at world war levels. You might think, 'but we're not at world war' oh but we are... but you're censored from talking about it.<p>Reuters come on. You're better then this, you aren't usually like the rest of these pretend journalists.
Natural outcome of ultra liberal politics I guess. While the U.S remains one of the most desirable immigrantion destinations in the world, largely thanks for it's strong conservative politics.