Scott

More cities should have ziggurats

We used to be a proper country

Breaking up the massing's final boss

As a former combat arms guy, I saw this and I laughed. Then my back laughed. Then my knees laughed. So funny.

The irony is that a lot of the replies to that and reactions to McPherson's comments is to purity test over the use of the phrase "purity test"

Trevor Tombe: The budget warning that Canada cannot ignore

The real danger lies not in the growing size of today’s deficit, but in failing to plan prudently for what comes next.

My latest for @TheHubCanada on federal finances: thehub.ca/2025/10/01/... #cdnecon #cdnpoli

City of Kelowna report on repeat offenders says the system is failing British Columbians The City of Kelowna is once again calling on higher levels of government to act immediately to improve public safety across British Colu...

“According to the paper, 15 people accounted for 1,335 police files in Kelowna in 2024, an average of 89 each and a negative contact with the RCMP every four days.”

www.kelownanow.com/watercooler/...

BC Greens’ new leader wants to bring back rental tool extinct since the '70s | Urbanized The BC Greens’ new leader says it’s time to revive a housing tool scrapped in the 1970s. Here’s what she told Daily Hive.

dailyhive.com/vancouver/bc...

Describing upzoning and filtering as “trickle down” economics while calling price controls a viable solution displays a level of policy ignorance or willful blindness on housing that I hoped we had put behind us here in BC.

The average Canadian leftist believes they are an American living in the year 2024. The only obstacle to the resolution of every social and economic ill is a willingness to tax billionaires and strip the military budget, and direct the presumed-to-be-infinite income to their favourite non-profits.

Also, not sure Don Davies knows that rural folks are already using community mailboxes

And I thought Ford's 401 tunnel was a stretch as a "nation building project" but that's nothing compared to using that to describe not having to walk down the block to pick up the 3 non-junk mail letters that show up every month.

I think the problem is they did try to compete and were unsuccessful at it. Not sure how much is management vs union intransigence.

Either way, from 2019 to 2023, their package market share dropped from 62% to 29%.

There is probably some room to get their package service cost structure to be more competitive with others in that market.

But at the end of the day, the decline is driven by technology and there isn't going to be a fix outside of something crazy like banning email

Would anyone miss having to toss out a mailbox full of flyers and junk mail daily instead of twice a week?

Folks, the delivery of junk mail to your door does not a nation make

I'll believe the UBCM delegates are sincere about this when they remove all the barriers to housing in their own municipalities.

A right to housing necessarily requires a right to build housing. Anything else is empty symbolism.

Like if you take seriously the idea that this is about dangerous infectious diseases that are a serious threat to both the ecosystem and agriculture then it’s not something that ought to be postponed for a year while the Supreme Debate Club ponders their feelings about it

A lot of politics of this era is breaking ancient truces and assuming that the other-side won't fight back

You can take my Tylenol from my cold, train obsessed hands

If its a small reactor why cant I fit it in my pocket? Checkmate Atom-bros

Oh for sure. That is entirely inappropriate

I barely open it anymore. But when I do, at least once a month I have to go though and select "not interested in this" to dozens of algorithmic slop posts in order to get the feed into something remotely usable that shows me my friends posts.

Just terrible and not worth it

This is one of those cases where the scandal is saying out loud what everyone already knows.

In addition to saying its all about Quebec, the minister also admits that he knows licensed legal gun owners aren't the problem and that the program is misdirected

He has some good points about infrastructure liabilities of small towns in the middle of nowhere Minnesota. But that has nothing to do with the problems of SF or Vancouver

Where is a reason it's called Strong Towns, not Strong Cities

Marohn's approach is completely insufficient to dealing with the problems of growing, high demand cities

This is why the Charles Marohn, "gentle density" approach is bullshit and doomed to failure.

The NIMBYs will tell you that they just want gradual densification, *but they are lying to you!*

I couldn't think of a bigger way for any federal government to signal that it is fundamentally unserious than to back this nonsensical project

Palpatine gif *Somehow Elizabeth May is back again*

May asks to stay on as Green leader after saying she would step aside - National | Globalnews.ca While Elizabeth May already has indicated she doesn't intend to lead the party into the next election, she's asking Green members to vote for her to stay on as leader for now.

The year is 2098, the reanimated corpse of Elizabeth May changes her mind again about stepping down as Green Party Leader

globalnews.ca/news/1143116...

happy 3²/4²/5² to ask those who celebrate