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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:

My first thought seeing this picture was "where in Calgary is this?" until I noticed the John Hancock Center in the background. It's a testament to how much development has been happening here that we can look like Chicago from some angles.

I think the "Ford" that @badc0ffee was referring to was Mayor Rob Ford, who tanked the "Transit City" LRT plan developed under Mayor David Miller, which had federal and provincial support. John Tory followed Rob Ford's "subways, subways, subways" campaign message. The province (under the...

If you want to know why Doug Ford cares about building transit out to Toronto's suburbs, this is what they look like:

I agree that we shouldn't pit road and transit investments against each other, in part because lack of transit investment will ultimately create negative impacts on roads as well. With the collapse of the Green Line, Calgary's existing road network will have to absorb the bulk of increased car...

There was a time when building Calgary up into a model city was a centrepiece of the Alberta Conservative agenda, and part of what made the PCs such a big tent, dominant party. Remember when Ralph Klein was the champion of the LRT network? Now that UCP is a rural grievance party focused...