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continues to be very funny that vancouver built a brand new neighbourhood on the edge of the city and after a decade there’s no school or community centre or transit and the developer in charge of everything is pulling out

good job good effort

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Some ideas for more? @translink.ca #newwest

Photograph of a mural on a skytrain post

Photograph of a mural on a skytrain post

Photograph of a mural on a skytrain post

Photograph of a mural on a skytrain post

Real murals on skytrain concrete! #newwest Thanks @translink.ca

Doubling up @jensvb.bsky.social

There are 86 million family households and 49 million non-family households (which average 1.34 adults).

The gap between current household size and the long-term trend is about 15 million adults, which would have formed about 11 million non-family households if they averaged 1.34 adults.

This is honestly one of the most anti-Jewish things I’ve ever seen from the United States government.

Douglas Todd: Jarring 18-storey tower on leafy Vancouver street a sign of the out-of-scale times About 10 steel-and-glass highrises, much like the one proposed for Yukon and 14th, are set to arise among character homes within the Broadway plan zone. https://vancouversun.com/opinion/columnists/douglas-todd-18-storey-tower-vancouver-out-scale-times

Douglas Todd: Hundreds of quiet east Vancouver side streets upzoned for six-storey apartment blocks Some residents in the vast Rupert and Renfrew area did not know their pleasant side streets had been upzoned for six- to eight-storey apartment blocks. It calls into question the city of Vancouver's murky "engagement strategy." https://vancouversun.com/opinion/columnists/douglas-todd-hundreds-of-quiet-east-vancouver-side-streets-upzoned-for-six-storey-apartment-blocks

'Monstrosities' or the evolution of housing? Multi-unit buildings on single-family lots gain traction in B.C. cities The number of multi-unit developments on single-family lots is increasing in B.C. neighbourhoods dominated by single-detached houses. Opinions vary over what these changes will mean for communities. https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/multiplex-feature

Anakin/Padme meme I oppose this building because it's too tall It's just this building, not all new housing? You are not against all new housing, right?

A storey in four acts as captured by local news media:

18 storeys is too high, we’d be fine with 4-6 storeys

6 storeys are too big, we'd be fine with multiplexes

Multiplexes are monstrosities, we are fine with existing post-Second World War bungalows

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We're pretty skeptical too. Because there's been quite a bit of speculation about this particular image, we asked him about it, and he denied it.

But frustratingly, he's not been willing to give us more details about what the picture he saw showed, exactly... or where it came from.

Kanwal Sibal • 6h The Iranian ship will not be where it was if we had not invited it to talk part in our Milan exercise. We were the hosts. I am told that as per protocol for this exercise ships cannot carry any ammunition. It was defenceless. The Iranian naval personnel had paraded before our president. The attack by the US submarine was premeditated as the US was aware of the Iranian ship's presence in the exercise to which the US navy was invited but withdrew from participation at the last minute, presumably with this operation in mind. The US has ignored India's sensitivities as the ship was in these waters because of India's invitation. We are far from politically or militarily responsible for the US attack. Our"responsibility" is at a moral and human plane. A word of condolence by the Indian Navy ( after political clearance) at the loss of lives of those who were our invitees and saluted our president would be in order.

Holy crap, if I’m reading this right: India invited the US and Iran to take part in a military excercise in international waters, where the Iranian warship would attend *without ammunition* as per protocol.

The US then went to war with Iran, pulled out of […]

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Kanwal Sibal @KanwalSibal • 6h X The Iranian ship will not be where it was if we had not invited it to talk part in our Milan exercise. We were the hosts. I am told that as per protocol for this exercise ships cannot carry any ammunition. It was defenceless. The Iranian naval personnel had paraded before our president. The attack by the US submarine was premeditated as the US was aware of the Iranian ship's presence in the exercise to which the US navy was invited but withdrew from participation at the last minute, presumably with this operation in mind. The US has ignored India's sensitivities as the ship was in these waters because of India's invitation. We are far from politically or militarily responsible for the US attack. Our"responsibility" is at a moral and human plane. A word of condolence by the Indian Navy ( after political clearance) at the loss of lives of those who were our invitees and saluted our president would be in order.

Some context to the Iranian boat that was targeted by US off Sri Lanka coast

Former Indian FM: “US was aware of the Iranian ship's presence in the exercise to which the US navy was invited but withdrew from participation at the last minute”

Russia is main beneficiary of Iran war-fuelled spike in oil prices
• Rise in crude prices gives Kremlin breathing room after recent slump in oil revenues
• Yet Moscow could struggle to boost exports amid drone attacks in Black Sea ports & sea ice in Baltic terminals
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

*CHINA TELLS TOP REFINERS TO SUSPEND DIESEL, GASOLINE EXPORTS

"Asia Scrambles for LNG as Qatar Output Halted, India Begins Gas Rationing" gcaptain.com/asia-scrambl...

Every country in Asia is facing the same energy supply disruption, but they have vastly different levels of preparedness. Japan is the most prepared nation, with 254 days of oil reserves.
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Aha government and mcclure

Whaaa..? What are these projects? Where can I read more?!

Very exciting to see new single stair proposals in Victoria BC! A result of municipal leadership, BC Building Code Changes, and a New City Plan. These builds would have been completely impossible several years ago and now we’re seeing the results - larger units + cross ventilation #singlestairs

The Bride! review – Jessie Buckley is electrifying as frizzy-haired, black-tongued monster’s wife The actor has a blast as bride to Christian Bale’s lonely creature in Maggie Gyllenhaal’s darkly comic and gleefully bizarre reimagining of the 1935 film

www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ma...

When a city budget is frozen, guess what ... things get cancelled!

How many core city competencies (road safety) will be nixed by the time Ken Sim is gone?

At least the Bitcoin idea was completely shot down ...

Rubio: "Let me explain to you guys, Iran is run by lunatics, religious fanatic lunatics"

A BloombergNEF chart by Jenny Chase's team, showing solar build forecasts over time for selected quarters since 2011. In 2011, we only had two-year forecasts and they were flattish at 30-40GW/year; over the years, these forecasts drift upwards and generally are lower than what actually happened. In 2021 we started doing forecasts to 2030, and they were also flattish, though also hilariously drift upwards. In 2024 we expected solar build to rise from just under 600GW, to about 850GW in 2030; as of 1Q 2026, we cut this slightly in the long run.

BNEF's forecasts for solar build over time. We drastically* underpredicted what China would deploy in 2023 and 2024, and the effect of Russia invading Ukraine in 2022.

We cut forecasts in late 2025 because the long-expected cannibalization is biting hard. But now there is a new fossil fuel squeeze.

So glad #newwest BC is on that list too!

To Cut Housing Costs, Some States Are Easing Fire Safety Rules

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/b...

“In the past two years, Colorado, Connecticut, Maine, Montana, New Hampshire, Texas and Tennessee have approved code changes allowing just one stairway. In July, Washington will join them. California, Hawaii, New York, Minnesota, Oregon and Virginia are conducting studies exploring the code change.”

To Cut Housing Costs, Some States Are Easing Fire Safety Rules

@nytimes.com covers #singlestair with @holz-bau.bsky.social and @stephenjacobsmith.com and co

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/b...

AI slop cartoon of a four winged seagull enjoying a cocktail at a tiki bar

Gotta lean into it at this point. Develop a mythology of #newwest gulls and their superior appendages.

They should make some more fucking ram how about that

Probably less than all that by the time the stair calculation is correctly done, and wall thickness of course.

50x120 ft lot=6000sqft. Sixplex is capped at FAR 1.0 so 1/3 lot coverage for 3 floors. So 2000 sqft gross buildable.

Scissor stair 3ft wide x2x10ft rise plus 6x6=36sqft landing = 100sqft. So 1900sqft gross to live in.

Lets do 40x30ft=1200sqft 3beds one side; and 28x25ft=700sqft 1beds on the other.