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I also think we need to distinguish between a centrist image and true centrism in terms of policy positions. Hillary Clinton arguably was pretty far to the right within the Democratic party based on policy issues, but opinion surveys show that the electorate perceived her as being very liberal...

The problem with centrists is that many people perceive them (often not unfairly) as being fake and only taking positions to appease various factions of the electorate. Conventional wisdom is that swing voters are reasonable people who shy away from extreme, ideological positions, and are...

In terms of historical precedents, I've been thinking a lot about 19th century France, basically from the end of the First Empire (1814) to the putting down of the Paris Commune (1871). I'm no historian, but my impression of that period was that there was a vacuum of political legitimacy. No...

Jimmy Kimmel just got yanked off the air for joking that Kirk's killer was actually a MAGA Republican. University professors are being fired for speaking out against Trump. How long before we see Democratic politicians arrested for "inciting violence"? Or masked ICE agents standing guard outside...

I have a soft spot for these walk-up apartments on 34 ave. They have a very cool, retro look with their block glass windows.

Time to sell stocks. If there's a new proposal for this site, it means the economy's about to crash.

Are you suggesting that Vancouver is somehow an easy place to find affordable housing? I accept that drugs are a big part of the problem, but housing is also part of the problem. There are plenty of people with addictions who live seemingly stable lives in a private home, but they're only one...

Unfortunately, the Trump administration just put out an executive order banning federal funds for any "Housing First" program - even thought it was a Republican idea (one of a few good ones to come out of the Bush administration). I guess, like EVs and mRNA vaccines, they think it's not manly...

I once had a real estate agent try to tell me that a house west of Richmond Road and 37th street was "in Marda Loop", so anything's possible.

If they could actually solve the tree problem, it would be fine to keep the design minimalist. Here's an image from Toronto's Sugar Beach only 4 years after it was built in 2010. I was there earlier this summer and the trees are even larger. As far as I can tell, they've had great success using...

Unending construction. Lines running out of indie bookstores. Calgary's become a real city!

Is there no active frontage going into this building? Isn't this stretch of 11 Ave supposed to be the "Design District" and also the remnant of Electric Avenue? This project would probably single-handedly strangle any chance of this area to actually become a destination.

In old timey newsreel voice: "Beltline Bunker Bites the Dust!"

On the other hand, the diagram doesn't show how challenging the terrain is along some of those other corridors. The Edmonton-Calgary corridor is practically a straight line along flat ground. No mountains in the way. No Canadian Shield. No large bodies of water to deal with.

"Action for today, vision for tomorrow." Sounds like an Al Gore spoof from the Simpsons: