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For me, PP really dug his own hole here with a bit of bad timing due to Trump's attacks on our sovereignty and an inability to pivot from opposition to leader. Seems to be another case where a party really gets confident buying their own propaganda, instead of listening more to what people are...

Cool to see this one happen - it was not on my radar as a scheme that I thought was likely to ever come to reality.

Liking the new design, the scale and material remind me of Japan. Great spot for this kind of thing. I am increasingly confident that the Westbrook station area is legitimately moving from a nice planning dream to an active TOD area to watch. there's so many low/mid-rise developments that are...

So if those bookings fail to materialize, that's an enormous collapse in bookings. What percentage of Westjet and Air Canada's capacity is positioned to Canada - US routes?

Totally agree on going for leafy trees in urban contexts. Love this infill forest approach for any other area - it's a slow process but so worth it. If nothing happens to those trees in Nose Creek, we got another Fish Creek-caliber forest pathway park in about 50 years.

General advice is to only make statues and name things after real people after they pass so their legacy can be defined with a bit more certainty and clarity. There's plenty of ways to honour someone who is still alive through awards, jersey raising etc. Nothing is perfect because people and...

5/1s scattered all over along secondary and primary corridors plus continued incremental gains everywhere else via R-CG / H-GO style townhomes at 8 - 16+ units replacing 2 units positions Calgary to hit +10,000 people / km^2 threshold in a lot of areas in a few decades, about 2 to 3x the current...

This is a great example of small innovations that we need more of here - seemingly minor things that don't necessarily cost a whole lot but make an incrementally important distance to speed transit up. This type of thing only happens when transit agency cultures are based on a relentless focus...

These 6 storey apartment blocks exactly what the doctor ordered to offer housing choice at a materially significant scale in areas with historically so few options. The scale of these 30 - 100 unit buildings works well as they are large enough to make a real increase in the overall housing...

I totally get that and appreciate some of the technical considerations that make this stuff complex as @darwink summarized well. Of course, Ontario's Presto isn't going to win any awards for cost-effective and timely execution - but if it's always that complicated, overly expensive and with...

Yeah that part is all good, we’ve saved some money and are future-proofed … but also it’s 2025 and it’s a transit system for a city approaching 2 million people. When are we just going to live in the present and start acting like a contemporary transit agency that’s actually interested in...

Presto in Ontario is exactly that - can use the same card in Ottawa or the many various Toronto area transit agencies. There's some technicalities to figure it all out - but it's hardly new tech and it's 2025 - common fare card systems have been done the all over the world at provincial and...

Maybe it has something to do with methodologies of Statscan and others to create this data, but the same dataset that we've been talking about says the net number of non-permanent residents is down nearly 30,000 in Q4 2024. So Statscan data doesn't align with the article. Whether or not that...

Depending on how low those non-permanent resident numbers go, we seem likely to be entering a period of pretty small provincial growth (although for now at least, still relatively high compared to other provinces). The dramatic collapse of non-permanent immigration numbers is just beginning so...

For a brand-new place that's high but not outrageously so, particularly for a suite that includes in-suite laundry and air conditioning. It's been a while since I rented, but I recall both being rare features in older buildings and they always command a premium. My preference was always older...

I have always liked this proposal - simple with a good podium, just a competent looking tower making it seem easy. It would be really funny and amazingly petty if this was actually the reason they stalled the project for 9 years.

Will be interesting to see how the airport transborder trips start to decline and to what degree. The land border has seen a sharp pull-back, to well below the pre-COVID trend line. Article mentions trips in Feb 2025 on land border were down to 80% of what they were pre-COVID. That's a big drop...

Awesome news! Any rumours on the future tenants?

Probably every street could use an underpass in practice for vehicles and/or pedestrians. Pedestrians will benefit the most from additional crossings as they have such a high time penalty to go to another underpass. There's obvious benefit to drivers too, but less as drivers aren't as impacted...