Recent content by kora

Crops for cars?

Blue for Conservatives? Red Sky City? Blue Sky thinking. Yeah, I saw it when I visited and I thought, "well that's kind of obvious" and "what a waste of money", but I kind of like it. These marketing things are always meant to be very simplistic.

The Calgary Economic Region already incorporates Okotoks and the population is 1.955 million. https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/71-607-x/71-607-x2020020-eng.htm

I have a feeling that in the coming years, maybe in a decade, Calgary will often be at the top of this list

It's crazy that Calgary was still growing at 3%. 2026 is going to be even uglier for many cities in Canada, but Calgary will still post a 1.5% growth.

What is low - modified?

I didn't know they could put excavators on the roof

Alberta, and especially Calgary, has become a stable immigration destination, even surpassing BC: "Ontario (90.8%), Alberta (86.0%), British Columbia (84.9%) and Quebec (79.6%) had the largest shares of immigrants residing there five years after their admission." "In Ontario (+8,080), Alberta...

Rate of growth

Centre Street is more like Broadway in Vancouver. They went underground with Skytrain technology there because there isn't enough room for elevated. Same parallel with Centre Street. Elevated on a street with a limited right-of-way results in New-York-Queens-style elevated hellscapes.

Once the 2025 CMA estimates come out, I think we'll see a big difference in population change between Calgary and Ottawa

I mean if I was a foreign student, I think Calgary would be more of an attractive place than Ottawa. Calgary is more fun. But Ottawa is more central geographically and has the benefit of being the national capital.

Ok, but why not the same thing in Ottawa and not Edmonton and Calgary?

I just don't know how Ottawa manages to keep pace with Edmonton and Calgary in population given their consistently low housing start numbers

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