{"id":62958,"date":"2026-02-24T12:18:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T17:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=62958"},"modified":"2026-02-24T12:18:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T17:18:15","slug":"a-basic-reality-check","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=62958","title":{"rendered":"A Basic Reality Check"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-15584703\/far-right-scholar-fled-Vancouver-canada-affordability-crisis.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The U.K. Daily Mail<\/a>\u00a0posted an article about the experiences of someone who was not thrilled with the Trump presidency and decided to flee to Canada. It didn&#8217;t go as planned.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>A self-proclaimed &#8216;scholar of the far right&#8217; was blasted on social media after she\u00a0&#8216;fled&#8217; the United States to <a id=\"mol-35ab88d0-10c2-11f1-8ed9-47ad0083cc4b\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/canada\/index.html\" target=\"_self\">Canada<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Nope Brigade is an academic researcher who studies conservative and right-wing ideologies, and recently &#8216;fled&#8217; from the current <a class=\"class\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/yourmoney\/article-13531299\/cities-impossibly-unaffordable-buy-home.html\" target=\"_self\">Trump administration to Vancouver<\/a> &#8211; <a class=\"class\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/real-estate\/article-15546571\/us-housing-markets-san-jose-los-angeles.html\" target=\"_self\">one of the world&#8217;s priciest cities.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Brigade posted a social media video begging for help after she and her family moved from <a id=\"mol-5d139a40-10ca-11f1-8ed9-47ad0083cc4b\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/los-angeles\/index.html\" target=\"_self\">Los Angeles<\/a>, only to be hit with an even worse affordability crisis.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>&#8216;For those who don&#8217;t know, the housing crisis here is way worse than the US,&#8217; she said in the video.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>&#8216;I lived in LA for six years and I have not faced rent as bad as here.&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Brigade explained that she, her partner, and their pets moved to Vancouver on a visitor visa, which prevents them from working.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>They relocated with savings set aside, but are quickly burning through the funds and struggling to afford skyrocketing rent.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>&#8216;In Canada, I think the cost of living crisis is worse here,&#8217; she said.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>&#8230;&#8217;Especially when you are shut out of the healthcare system and can&#8217;t access any of the resources that Canadians have access to.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>&#8216;And that&#8217;s understandable, I&#8217;m not a citizen of the country, but it is making the financial situation dire.&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Most visitor visas allow stays of up to six months, and work permits are only granted to those with a temporary resident permit valid for six months or longer, according to the Government of Canada.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>After bemoaning the situation, she asked for a place to stay, specifying that they wanted more than just a room &#8211; ideally for free or at below-market rates.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ms. Brigade posted a video on X asking for free housing because she can&#8217;t afford to live in Canada without a job. Here is the solution. Come to America as an illegal immigrant&#8211;you will get healthcare, food stamps, great housing and free money. (Oh, wait a minute&#8211;those things are on the chopping block&#8211;we are becoming more like Canada). Notice she kept talking about having to flee America. At any rate, she didn&#8217;t know how good she had it in America!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, The U.K. Daily Mail\u00a0posted an article about the experiences of someone who was not thrilled with the Trump presidency and decided to flee to Canada. It didn&#8217;t go as planned. 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