Housing crisis everything crisis www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

In a fight between ideology and economics, economics wins every time

Great to see. Zac and Jeremy have been not only consistently strong housing champions but more importantly back that up with action

Victoria still has the lowest unemployment rate for cities outside Quebec More than double in Nanaimo!

I mean just shockingly good. Currently doing a big refactor of the database on a project I'm working on. It's been working for about half an hour and has touched nearly 40 files, so far all the changes make sense and are well implemented.

Me to the 10 year old: it’s a little whittle Clara bear, she’s so cute! Her: mommy where do I buy poison?

Municipal election year is coming up. Stay tuned for a lot of things coming from HFL.

Despite me being an actual person, Threads regularly decides to suspend my account and now wants me to upload a selfie to verify. I'll take that as a sign to close my account there instead.

Paper: Rising housing costs in the US are responsible for 51% of the decline in fertility rate drive.google.com/fil... Meanwhile, fertility rate in BC is plummeting

Come to think of it I don’t recall our couch previously having a tail

Huh? It’s not always economical to do so but if you pay people to do the work it’s easy.

Continually impressed at how damn good GPT5-codex is in agent mode. It can remain coherent for some pretty wide-ranging refactoring tasks across many files and does a great job checking and validating its work

This will be a case study in every engineering school for years www.timescolonist.co...

Fun build with the kids

For a while housing opponents believed that supply and demand doesn't apply to housing because of nebulous reasons they were never able to explain. Now that rents are dropping, they are trying to argue that only demand affects housing, not supply. Increasingly absurd

Asking rents still trending downwards in Victoria Combination of lots of new rentals built and slower population growth.

"Popular in your country"

In general, a seemingly large gap between the promised dollar savings vs actual planned cuts in what is done We are kidding ourselves if we think we’ll hit those operational savings with this dithering on the margins.

Thanks AI!

I didn’t overeat candy I just went on a one day bulk 💪

Trick or treater distribution 114 kids here

Reasonable. Though profs would generally have access to a corporate AI that doesn’t train off inputs in which case the first one isn’t necessary

Heartbreaker

Group of parents lingering on the street to follow the game

Whatever it takes to put scratch on the table

One problem, I can’t really see

This is gonna be our house tomorrow for the parents who drew the short straw on taking the kids out

Amazing AI, no notes

I wish there was a way to convey how much of a big deal this is to me, I wish you could feel it. Our work on housing policy, condensed in a single report, has finally been translated to English. You can download it here: carrefour.vivreenville.org/publication/... (Click "Télécharger le PDF")

Why! So disappointed in Colwood for denying 66 homes. Colwood Corners is designated for high-density development according to the 2018 Official Community Plan. What is the point of a community plan if everyone ignores it? #yyjpoli #yyjpolitics #colwood #hfl #homesforliving #housingcrisis

More non market homes More rentals More ownership homes More townhouses More single stair apartments More family friendly units More small units for singles More towers And most of the battle is just not opposing those things, then the rest of the effort can go towards getting non-market funded

What happened to Ken Sim’s 3-3-3-1 plan for approvals? Triplex should be approved in 3 weeks under that plan. As far as I can tell, not only are they nowhere near 3 weeks but there has been no discernible progress on approval times at all Happy to be proven wrong

Good. Lets talk about how to make sure Chinese cars can still support Canadian jobs & preserve privacy, but there is absolutely no point in continuing to pretend that if we bend over enough the US will strike a fair deal on autos. electrek.co/2025/10/27/c...

Yup. Huge blind spot

The only good thing about X is community notes. Every other social media platform needs this.

Thinking of getting this tattoo

Next time we should force them to count in base 2 to make it extra secure. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

An upside [for Canadians] to the deterioration in the Canada-US relationship is that Ottawa is now more open to the idea of adopting EU standards over US ones. Hopefully this continues to building standards as well. motorillustrated.com/volkswagen-c...

Wouldn’t it be nice if we allowed these infill housing forms in Victoria?

Groundbreaking of 500 homes at a range of rental prices including BC housing affordable homes, plus a major grocery store. This mixed use project will be transformative for the North end of the core. #yyj #housing @christineboyle.bsky.social

Uhh.. what is this AI slop doing in a supposedly peer reviewed journal?

Towers aren't the only way to achieve urban density, accessibility, walkability, and affordability. We can also incrementally evolve our existing n'hoods with small-lot single-stair apartment buildings.

I kept holding up Burnaby as a place that did SSMUH right. So much for that. Time for the province to up the minimum standard that cities can get away with

1 year progress Body fat: 31% to 24% Blood pressure: 133/84 to 114/66 🏋️‍♂️😊

National security threats before: ✅hostile foreign powers ✅terrorists National security threats now: ✅immigrants ✅trees ✅steel ✅cars ✅cows ✅solar ✅aluminum ✅water ✅windmills ✅not enough babies

The federal reserve doing some high quality forecasting

Google: Dear customer, we are crippling your perfectly functional hardware because it would have cost us 48 cents/year to keep supporting it. As a gesture of goodwill we will let you pay us a couple hundred dollars to keep the ability to adjust temperature from your phone Never buying Google again

Grid scale batteries are changing our electricity system. Excellent new visual story on batteries in FT today shows just how far this technology has evolved. Fasten your seatbelts, this is just the beginning. ig.ft.com/mega-batteri...

The outcry over AirBnB is largely a story of a long term housing shortage crashing straight into a short term housing shortage