Strange scenes at Planning and Housing Committee yesterday: a heritage listing of a 1930s 4plex in Leaside was upheld over objections of residents and neighbours. The residents clearly know what's up, even as the City sticks to canned lines that listing is no big deal, doesn't impede development.

Thank you to everyone who came out!

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> whenever you suggest Olivia Chow should use her strong mayor powers to enact citywide zoning reforms to end the housing crisis

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Great outdoor walk today in the Don Valley with the @tonewlibs.bsky.social!

Thank you to everyone who came out to our hike on Saturday! It was so great to be out in the sun, enjoying Toronto's greenspaces and having great conversations.

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Industrialization, specialization, and trade is the worst form of human social organization, except all the other ones

I am hearing word that supporters of sixplexes on Council do not think the vote will get 50% to legalize them. But here is the thing, @MayorOliviaChow has every ability to invoke Strong Mayor powers to move it along with 1/3 of council support. (1/3) 🧵👇

The power may have gone out, but we got our bubble tea anyway! Thanks to everyone who came out tonight!

Just one more study bro! Maybe if we break up the policy review phase 2 into 3 stages, and then break it up further into different study areas, it'll work better! 😀😀😀😀

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i think it’s cool that the furthest left people who have any relevance in american politics reverse engineered “ban renters from rich neighborhoods” from first principles.

I useful reminder, when folks insist without any evidence that the 'neo-liberal' world order has obviously failed or whatever, that this is the global poverty trend graph since 1820: I suppose you can argue these trends are *unrelated* but it's hard to argue liberalism ruined everything.

I hear this myth all the time and it’s bizarre. Rich people hire property management companies to handle all the logistics for them and still get 90% of the rent each month. The idea that landlords are forgoing free money en masse makes no sense.

keeping this for later

This dynamic has been around since the 19th century, it's basically the central insight of Leninism, that you need a Vanguard Party of professional revolutionaries because the actual proletariat is usually too interested in wages and working conditions to commit the cause properly.

I see it is up to us to be too pro-technocrat, then.

literally a party of NPCs

Thank you to everyone who came out last night to our monthly social I was impressed by some of our members who made New Liberal bracelets! I personally took a "Neoliberal" one, I love being a contrarian. If you want one and to hang with the community, hopefully we'll see you next month!

My local Shoppers shilling for global free market capitalism. We love to see it, thank you Galen Weston.

critical geographers really won't stop until they ruin the one last affordable first-world metropolis

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Amazing, the city is moving to actually zone for the housing they want. Removing layers of discretion is essential for Vancouver planning and development to become more predictable and transparent.

Thank you to everyone who came out tonight to out meetup! Was a great time.

Urging Canadians not to "buy Canadian" so much as "buy not-US." We benefit from being integrated in a global trading order, and if the US is withdrawing from that, we have reason to strengthen trade with the rest of the world.

Upon further thought Instead of playing around with existing buildings, build out a pier (are we digging up enough dirt with all our subway projects?) Commercial centre that's like 40% outdoor terraces on each floor (coverable for winter). And a big public plaza for festivals

dang, Toronto could really use something like this

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Thank you to everyone who came out to our meetup last night! Very interesting to hear the talk about the upcoming election(s?) and where our Liberal parties might go.

ITT: Americans bewildered+lashing out at the idea that fascism could ruin their lives How beautiful that capitalism has coddled them so much that they can't fathom anything happening for any reason other than individual preference and convience. If only the rest of the world operated this way

I do YIMBY activism in Calgary and the number of leftists who want to blame a few capitalists or whatever instead of the hordes of retirees who show up to every council meeting to scream about a duplex exhaust me more than the actual NIMBYs

Everyone seems to understand intuitively why a sudden shortage of housing = a spike in demand = a rise in prices But in cities across N. America, people somehow still argue with a straight face that adding housing would have no impact on prices www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...

The take I am most certain of that gets me in the most trouble is just "The reason homes are so expensive is because there are not enough of them, so we really really really need to build more of them."

This Kind Of Smart, Walkable, Mixed-use Urbanism Is Illegal To Build In Most American Cities (its literally a delivery service inside a Bakery)

Still hard to believe this is what has spawned so much rage and countless ridiculous op-eds. Like 20 separated bike lanes in a city of 3 million people. That was "too much" accommodation???

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The problem is that this dumbshit is simply known as populism: give simple and easier answers to complicated issues and it has no political allegiance. But liberalism is too passive and thinks self-evident truths will win out in the Information Age. It's a info war dummy and liberals lost.

From the outset of the Bernie Sanders phenomenon, it was clear that it wasn't an appeal to actually pooling resources for social insurance, rather "there are infinite money pools to raid for ourselves" The mirror image of conservatives saying all their money goes to funding "welfare" for others

Very much not the point of yesterday's press conference, but I really like the imagery and symbolism of Parliament being under construction

See, Québec CAN into Nordic countries!! (Confirmé : le Québec est un pays nordique)

We might want to stand on guard for this country. We promise to at the start of every sporting event.

Do not validate his "legitimate grievances". From coast to coast to coast - tell him to fuck right off, and do it loudly - knowing there will be consequences but the consequences are better on this path than the other.

The incoming President of the United States is saying he will use economic force to conquer our country. Expel their ambassador. Cut off any conversation about tariffs. Be prepared to have the tariffs applied. We put up with this now, in one sense or another we lose our country.

With the immigration brouhaha of the past two years, people have come to think of Maximum Canada as an ideological project gone amok But *this nonsense* is why we need Maximum Canada. A bigger country is harder to throw around and can inflict more pain in retaliation

fascinated by a rhetorical strategy i see all the time now, which is making up an extreme edge case to argue against doing anything for the public good, and doing this from the putative left.

it is, effectively, a view that nothing should be done to solve any problem if there might be a trade-off somewhere for someone who you could code as “marginalized.” it is just anti-government conservatism with a different aesthetic!