In the meantime, let’s keep the coal plants running 🌱

Looking at Edmontons continued success in ramping up missing middle and think about how Halifax could’ve done more

NEW BLOG POST Edmonton's housing momentum didn't stop at the end of 2025. Q1 2026 data is in and Edmonton is on track for another strong year of homebuilding in the places people want to live. The rowhome revolution continues. 🧵 #yeg #yegcc #yimby jacobdawang.com/blog/2026/q1-building-permits/

Similar idea to what I wrote about last summer, Via's Ocean service is bad, and doesn't even try to serve the Maritimes actual population centers deny.substack.com/p/scrap-the-...

Reminder that this “glut” of small units was approved under a planning process that took ~2.5 years to complete. Almost like that process is designed to allay the concerns of people who already own homes and has zero to do with the new homes themselves. www.thestar.com/real-estate/...

It's so annoying when people act like gas station operators or oil companies pocket gas tax holidays. They don't!

C’était pas une analyse plutôt qu’une expression d’idéologie. Le publique aurait bénéfice plus d’avoir quelqu’un avec plus d’expérience sur les autoroutes de péages que « mes vacances en Europe » youtu.be/CJf6Qm2v5Zk?...

Oh my god Calgary's mayor 🥲 calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu...

Municipal politicians are routinely extremely destructive and bad faith with no consequences, because their voters bear none of the consequences

New blog on Nova Scotia's resource push, jobs, and construction open.substack.com/pub/deny/p/d...

If you wanted one article to understand our housing crisis, this is it

I got a cheeseburger despite having cheeseburger-making hands

Don’t people love taxing big business?

Can we go back to the gatekeepers Pierre?

Hell yea

Tolls ease congestion

Nova Scotia is on a glide path to smacking anyone who moves and buys a place with a doubling in property tax, and there’s ~zero discussion from the province about not doing that

Ok I move away and NOW Nova Scotia is sexy??

ICYMI: why England has the world's worst student loan system.

Incredible the many ways in which the UK is devouring its young people

Can't make sense of what a $1.16bn cut to VIA rail looks like. Could be delaying/cancelling capital plans, or drastic cuts of long haul services...

New blog about the Nova Scotia budget open.substack.com/pub/deny/p/t...

Nova Scotia still eeking out interprovincial migration is very impressive

New data: Nova Scotia population slips -0.2% quarterly to end 2025, year-over-year rate slows to 0.08% - the slowest rate since 2015

It frustrates me that property taxes are called regressive without much support. Maybe in 1975 but in today’s Canada owning a home(s) is the marker of above average economic status

Building gas "peakers" is good, IMO, especially if you plan to ramp up wind big time.

“The neighbourhood’s been dealing with this for a long time and we really just want it to be over.” And yet council ushers everyone towards a court battle and a lengthy demolition. The province needs to step in and buy the building (at a poor price)

BLOG: I'm obsessed with with developer's mistake story and wrote about what should happen next and why open.substack.com/pub/deny/p/o...

Wow this is stupid

Asking rents are the most affordable they've been since pre-COVID

I'm sure toxic masculinity plays a role, but in my experience the lack of doctors and wait times matters too

No sympathy! Make it deeply financially costly, but let people move onto the extra housing!

Yeah, cool, so a short 🧵 about Halifax's finances. Right now, after 14 or so year of taxes Halifax is at the precipice of a debt crisis which has the genuine potential to be destabilizing to our government. Most likely reforms instead of revolution but destabilizing none the less. Why now? /1

1/ The NS government says families will save $1,400 from tax cuts. But averages hide who really benefits. We ran the numbers. 🧵

People like this should at least have some goddamn shame

Very good piece by Neil Lovitt of Turner Drake on the CAP www.turnerdrake.com/who-wears-th...

On the shameful news that council might raise taxes on new housing open.substack.com/pub/deny/p/w...

This was the best thing we had going in terms of solving the housing shortage. Affordability Andy and the gang are going to screw over young people and renters

What history tells us about Halifax’s budget debate by @stillots1.bsky.social

Robie Street heritage demolitions and Erica Hilton’s death are not related By @katieyingram.bsky.social

I think a lot of people want Nova Scotia's austerity budget to be about reverse class warfare, or trickle down economics. But the biggest single cause of a big deficit is the HST cut last year. That wasn't about helping the rich

"Ample" here is generous. Current under construction stock accounts for only about half our estimated housing shortage. So...

What's better: Ferries or LRT? We're going to choose neither

An obvious case to make the equivalent units deeply affordable, and thus money losing for the property owner

BREAKING: Bridge tolls coming back, but only for EVs

I wasn’t ready for how emotional the councillors would be…

Canadian cities need to pull themselves up by their own taxbases