It's time for a game of "Guess That Density." Based on Councillor Burnside's anticipation of a "long battle" over "as much density as possible, regardless of the consequences," how many units do you think were proposed on this site in his ward? Clues in 🧵⬇️ before the big reveal later.

Jacob is extremely good on this beat, and I believe instituting Edmonton reforms in the suburbs of the GTA (Toronto probably needs more ambition) would alleviate pressures on the entire country. High prices in Halifax are partly a result of NIMBYism in Markham.

Of course the French are using Linux, they're all about Wine with their apps.

I want whoever replaces Brad Bradford in Ward 19 to run on this, and then do everything - height limits, DCs, lot coverage, work with the province on single stair, elevator reform, whatever - to achieve it.

We need to allow our urban 'single family' neighbourhoods to evolve. Our vision: Accessible, zero emission, bright, social, bike oriented, #singlestair homes - allowed on individual residential lots - everywhere.

NIMBY, annoying: housing for whom? JMM, wise: planning for whom?

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nice qube. but is it intelligent

"The system's power comes not from its truth, but from everyone's willingness to perform as if it were true, and its fragility comes from the same source. When even one person stops performing, when the greengrocer removes his sign, the illusion begins to crack" - Mark Carney

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Robbing Peter to pay Paul Blart Mall Cop

Time for the Toronto Heritage Grants to be awarded. 58 Rose Avenue gets $20,000 to repair their dormer. They got $10,000 5 years ago to remove stucco. Essentially the city has decided these millionaires get a property tax refund! Nice work if you can get it. secure.toronto.ca/council/agen...

”This is a world of compensations; and he who would *be* no slave, must consent to *have* no slave. Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it.”

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I have to travel back in time and stop All Gore from inventing the Internet.

NEW POST While cities across North America struggle with housing shortages, Edmonton is proving that zoning reform works. In 2025, for the first time in history, the number of homes permitted in 5-8 unit rowhomes surpassed detached homes. 🧵 #yeg #yegcc #yimby www.jacobdawang.com/blog/2026/zb...

That being said, Etobicoke, North York, and Scarborough *still* have lower densities than what they thought they should aim to achieve by 1980.

"The chair of this committee frequently says that in Ontario, we zone for buildings, not for people. But when we have a report that says adding new buildings will create complete communities and we couldn't possibly do that in Rosedale, I wonder if that's true."

Chotiner: So you ate the plums? Interviewee: Yeah, they were delicious. Chotiner: The ones in the icebox? Interviewee: Yeah, they were so sweet and so cold. Chotiner: And to be clear - it was YOU that was saving them for breakfast? Interviewee: Wait, wait, hold on -

Some pundits find it odd that Heather McPherson has a full back tattoo of Gerry Adams, but most Edmonton women go through a Provisional IRA phase before reverting to electoralism, and it's distracting from the real issues in this NDP leadership race.

I firmly believe that there should be a Year Without Shakespeare in which every Shakespeare play in every theater's calendar is replaced by new work from a local playwright. I think that would be good for both theater and society.

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Isaac Chotiner has invited me to sample some delicious Amontillado wine and I don’t know guys but I think I’m going to come out of this interview seeming like *quite* the wine expert

In many ways, Donald Duck is Mickey Mouse's Vegeta

you guys are being very cynical about this but the real explanation is that bears and Bigfoot are buddies. They like to hang out and do stuff together

Oh wrestling is fake? Then explain this

Stop the count!

JK Rowling police officer ass name.

It's time to talk about the misuse of the development review pipeline. This isn't a criticism of Matt's article, which makes use of a resource that the City provides and also highlights some of the councillors mis-using the pipeline to avoid doing more on housing. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Logging on to FanDuel to make a two way parlay on the Liberal Party of Canada winning the next election, and the Washington Generals finally beating the Harlem Globetrotters.

Seems like a bad business model to open a lakefront span without billions of dollars of public money. Hope it works out for them. www.blogto.com/travel/2024/...

On the same day The Star runs an op-ed from Brian Mulroney's old advisor who tortured the facts so much he's being condemned by the UN.

I agree with him so much, I call him Willem Dafriend.

"The English worker hates the Irish worker as a competitor who lowers his standard of life. This antagonism is artificially kept alive by...all the means at the disposal of the ruling classes." -Marx

Incredible work, a problem across the anglosphere. Happy to see the research in a Canada specific context. Obviously unhappy to see the problems.

One of those weird ways Canada is "ahead" of the States is that the last time conservatives were in power, they killed the census!

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My "organized crime group that doesn't kill people at boxing weigh-in's" T-shirt is raising a lot of questions already answered by the shirt.

[PITCH MEETING] FILM EXEC: listen up jerks. our industry is in shambles. i’m looking for one great idea. something to inspire audiences, leave them in tears of rapture ME: (hand shoots up in excitement) EXEC: something other than ‘the brothers karamazov but with full penetration’ ME: (lowers hand)

Me when I learn there's an essay due in twenty minutes and I don't know what course I'm in:

Fun medieval fact! The term 'Reply Guy' actually takes its name from Guy de Réplaille, a 12th-century abbot known for his prolific but inconsequential letters to multiple noblewomen

highway jammed with broken heroes on a last-chance power drive? you may be entitled to compensation

Nick Mantas ran on banning rooming houses. Lily Cheng, who defended this, ran on banning supportive housing. Stephen Holyday, who supports this, wants the homeless to sell their blood for money. Real devil quoting scripture hours.

I think there's 0% chance that contracting out to a non profit, with associated bid costs and contract management costs, will save more than the $0.71/hr to pay workers less. But this will waste hundreds of hours of staff time.

I think Brendan's ideas here are mostly clear. A few caveats: 1) The Western Canadian electorate is more anti-Liberal than Ontario and the east, which have way more seats. So an alliance in Ontario would probably produce more coalition seats, while in the west it might cause weird party switching.