The DCL's on new builds are paying for the lack of density years ago and lack of taxation on older housing stock. New builds subsidize old builds.
06.03.2026 00:26
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The DCL's on new builds are paying for the lack of density years ago and lack of taxation on older housing stock. New builds subsidize old builds.
Loved his talk at Lowy Institute....even moments of humour...
youtu.be/XebuOkKwgxg?...
and with all those extra police. No fireworks, no car free days. Do we get a refund?
Amazing project!!!
Smith was urging then-prime minister Trudeau to double the number of permanent residents Alberta could approve through the Provincial Nominee Program, up to 20,000.
Smith hoped to see Alberta’s population double by 2050, from almost five million to more than 10 million, driven mainly by newcomers from other provinces but also immigrants from “South Africa, from India, from China” and other nations.
Her predecessor, Jason Kenney, first launched the “Alberta is Calling” campaign that sought to encourage skilled workers from Vancouver, Toronto and other urban centres to move to Alberta, and even provided them $5,000.
Well deserved!!!!
"You can’t ski a brilliant sunset" Disagree....
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Same in Vancouver, not getting hit like NYC.
Haro street; downtown Vancouver yesterday...
Comes down to money and priorities. With finite funds does south of the Fraser river need it more? Surrey, Langley? If unlimited funds were available it would be Christmas all over the lower mainland.
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They prefer the other option. Sprawl out to Hope and beyond erasing all the forests and nature along the way. Novel idea: Keep the city in the city and the country in the country.
One of the best things about that street (Richards street) is they also built a downtown vertical kids park at the intersect of 2 protected bike lanes...with a coffee shop to sit and supervise the kids.
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This is the best one....5 rows of trees lining the street now. Beautiful makeover of what was a drab car sewer.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4Au...
As an example? Hornby street in Vancouver moves the same amount of cars when the bike lanes went in BUT Hornby street now moves more people than before.
I've slept in a snow cave -27C outside. The pot of water we brought inside didn't even have a sheet of ice on the top. Surprisingly warm. Outside totally different.
We’ve all trained ourselves to see car infrastructure as “normal” — and therefore its costs as invisible. Roads aren’t expensive, they’re just there. Parking spaces aren’t subsidies, they’re just “necessary”.
But a bus that runs on demand?
That’s
“spending taxpayer money”.
Here's tall buildings lining a downtown street that don't sacrifice streetscape. Still is very human scale. The trees have matured since this was filmed making it even better.
youtu.be/t4EB2wexdnM?...
"At some point, a tall building must sacrifice its limited streetscape in order to satisfy maintenance, delivery, ingress & egress for the floors above"
Completely false...You must be taking about the city you live in.
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Love it...
Hopefully she won't get elected and will fade out and just make an appearance only once a year just like Mariah Carey...
Been a very mild winter here, early spring.
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They turned the street I live on to a cul de sac dead end with a bike lane. People drive through the bike lane to access the road on the other side despite bollards.
