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.

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.

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

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

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*

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

It would be very hard for a dispassionate analysis to conclude anything other than that the urban planning profession has been a net negative for society

this really should be framed as a policy choice, not as a naturally occurring phenomenon

This article by @mattgurney.bsky.social does a good job of articulating the tension I feel over the Edmonton Police publically opposing a plea deal the crown cut for a rather gruesome crime www.readtheline.ca/p/matt-gurne...

This is just a standard Jacobin housing article with accusof DEI thrown in

the core problem with market housing delivery is that the market-clearing price is below the cost of production. part of why this is the case is because municipalities are structurally reliant on shaking down new development to fund things like new infrastructure www.thestar.com/real-estate/...

The core problem with Gregor Robertson is that he is Yesterday’s Man

Is there a reason so much of the economic corridor discussion is focused on Prince Rupert to Churchill? By any reasonably measure, a national economic corridor would need to link up with the Atlantic coast ports and the Ontario/Quebec industrial regions

Driving from Golden to Radium today and started the PolitiCoast episode done by @sdlb.bsky.social interviewing the 3 BC Green Leadership candidates. Got almost 50% done but so far it's a great episode, Scott has asked fantastic questions for the candidates. #bcpoli

Even though he is sadly gone, John Horgan is finding new ways to make me like him

The Crackerbarrel freakout is one of the dumbest culture war things in a long time and that is a tough competition

Wild that speaking like a normal person, not someone who just walked out of a sociology seminar is considered a revolutionary insight into political communication

that the magic internet beans are so incredibly wasteful that the waste-heat could be plausibly used to heat swimming pools is not the great argument some might think it is

This is the sort of thing that ought to end governments and keep the party that let it happen out of power for decades

"we need markets for our building materials" says country in the grips of a devastating housing shortage.

Three of these would effectively render the concept of Canadian citizenship meaningless

The great thing about unsophisticated yimbyism is that it’s true

What kind of country needs a free trade agreement with itself?

The number zero

This is a good summary of Vancouver's broken planning system (by planning staff!). 871 site-specific zoning districts (27 new ones every year), 3-4 years to get a property rezoned and get a building permit council.vancouver.ca/20250722/doc...

it is genuinely weird that people are acting like the federal Canadian debt to GDP ratio is unsustainable: if anything, we don't spend enough

Can't wait to extrapolate what winning a primary against a disgraced former governor in one of the bluest cities in America means for national politics

Actually the most European thing about Canada is our strong feelings about dairy products and production.

Americans really don't understand how exceptional US military logistics is and just assume any country with a decent military can just put a large force anywhere they want on the globe and sustain it

Stephen King, unexpected Margaret Thatcher stan

Huh? That's a real reversal. I can understand some economic and diplomatic cooperation as part of a rebuilding process for the relationship. But intelligence sharing is a whole other level.

The best villians are the ones that you see where they are coming from. But the ones that just revel in their villainy are the most fun to watch

Guy that a week ago was all for declaring housing as a human right votes against housing. Go figure...

The "pivot to Asia" is the Infrastructure Week of geopolitics

The Supreme Court has truly stepped out of bounds

When are we getting new Defense and Foreign Policy whitepapers?

It's HIMARS* o'clock time in Canada * or more likely Korean Chunmoo or French Foudre time

Would the last person at the BCGreen Party please turn out the lights

Insightful piece. Three pull quotes: Anecdotally, I am good friends with a union organizer who is at the end of his rope with how many times him and his neighbours have dealt with property crime. The left won the argument on pharma/dental. But TFW/Crime requires change.

Sounds like what someone planning to attack Britain would say