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They're very controversial in the US, where they've been used to redevelop a lot of inner-city neighbourhoods. A good example is the Oak Lawn/Old East Dallas area of Dallas (basically, the area of the inner-city north of Dallas' central business district). Just by looking at Google Maps'...

The aqua/taupe combination reminds me of knickknacks that Indigo sold in the mid-2000s. I associate the 1990s malls more with turquoise and magenta:

It's next to an onramp and across the street from a gas station. I think this is a pretty good use of space, all things considered.

My statement was about 50% joking and 50% serious. There's a kind of aspirational boostism in Calgary that can seem almost defensive, like it's masking a sense of inferiority. On the other hand, it is really nice to be living in a city that feels unambiguously that it's future will be better...

In my mind, the main sign that Calgary has really become a *great* city is when Calgarians stop talking about how great their city is and start complaining about how much better it was a decade ago. I have a similar view of the two cities as @adamyyc. The one thing that would bring me back to...

I don't know that this is a fact. There are many types of mental illnesses. It's probably best to think of them as mutually reinforcing. Anyway, we've tried for decades to rehab addicts who live on the street. Without a stable living arrangement, it's virtually impossible to resolve both...

You're putting words in my mouth. I never said anything about having empathy. I simply presented the real dilemma that homeless people already get routinely arrested. We cannot just arrest our way out of this problem. You can't demand a "better option" when you haven't even suggested a solution...

The National Housing Act was first passed in 1938. You think all that suburban housing that was built between the 1940s and 1970s was built with minimal government intervention? To add to @darwink's point, it's not a question of government vs. private sector. There are things the government...

Per capita immigration rates were higher in the post-WWII period. The thing that has changed is not immigration policy. It's housing policy. We are not building housing in the same way we did in the post-WWII era (for better or worse). Anyway, it's weird that people would be bemoaning...

The reason it's so expensive to live in Ontario is because so many people move there and the population keeps growing. There are ways to lower the cost of multi-residential units, but there's no solution to lowering the cost of single family houses. There's not enough land left in southern...

Ontario grew by almost 800k in the last census! No one there is paying attention to interprovincial migration.

Here’s the full Abacus poll: https://abacusdata.ca/alberta-politics-deep-dive-december-2022/ There's a lot of really interesting survey questions in this to explore. They have the NDP up by 8 points province wide. Weirdly, the have the parties tied in Calgary, the NDP up by 32 in Edmonton, and...

Another poll coming out from Abacus. They haven't released the horse race numbers yet, but they did post the following image to Twitter. We can kind of infer the horse race numbers from this image. The "reluctant UCP" voters are defined as people who voted UCP in 2019 but will not be voting UCP...

Obviously the building would be so beautiful that they’re reroute the parade just to walk by it.

The NDP's 2015 victory and 2019 loss was more about electoral math than any world events or economic indicators. They won because they unexpectedly united the progressive vote while the right splintered. Once the PC and WR parties merged, it's hard to see any scenario in which the NDP would hang...

There's a new Angus Reid Poll out that has the UCP up by 4 points (48 to 44) provincially. However, it also has the NDP leading by 11 points in Calgary (51 to 40). They show a higher lead for the NDP in Calgary than in Edmonton, so I'm not sure what to think about that.

One thing I'll add to that list is the collapse of the Alberta Party. In 2019, they averaged 9.4% in Calgary ridings, and got double-digits in 7 of the 23 ridings that the UCP won. Not every single one of those votes will go to the NDP, but they sure as hell aren't going to Danielle Smith.

# Ridings UCP lead over NDP, 2019 election NDP wins if a 25% vote shift Calgary 26 18.7% 19/26 Calgary Exurbs 6 45.5% 1/6 Edmonton 20 -18.2% 20/20 Edmonton Exurbs 7 17.2% 5/7 Red Deer 2 36.1% 0/2 Lethbridge 2 6.4% 2/2 North 9 47.2% 1/9 Central 10 56.1% 0/10 South 5 51.3% 0/5...

Finally, the good people of Cougar Ridge will no longer be denied access to formal Scottish attire!

Here's the infographic: I'll admit, I'm a little skeptical about the extreme regional variation in the Leger poll, where the UCP has a huge lead outside Calgary and Edmonton, while trailing by double-digits in both major cities. I know there's an urban/rural divide, but there is a lot of...