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Finally Dilkens will be able to focus on his role as head of the Housing Affordability Task Force Implementation team.

Omg everyone stop emailing me! I'm going to vote! I had to finish work first!

Canadian policy since 1945 was never anti-capitalist. It has consistently favoured and subsidized homeownership, and has given tax advantages to investment in homebuilding. One should distinguish between *building* homes and *acquiring* homes, but Farha refuses to do that.

I like to call it "tripwire zoning." The point isn't that anyone thinks (eg) infill townhouses pose real harms that need regulatory control, the point is to impose a process to extract rents. www.tvo.org/article/citi...

This thread is my commentary on his interview: dailyhive.com/vancouver/pe... No - absolutely not everyone agrees that we should build more affordable and accessible homes, certainly many rich people in mansion enclaves want none of that near them and they’ll make every excuse not to.

The pageantry, the athleticism, the commute! What a glorious day it was for TO's finest competitive commuters at the #ChristieCross race. Truly the pinnacle of utility cycling, the Vélo d'Or of the morning commute to the office My hats off to all #BikeTO #TOphoto #EastCoastKin #Streetphotography

There is truly no drama like school board drama. What a thread. Anyway, elections are tomorrow.

the infiltration of american style catastrophizing into our political discourse as of late is uncouth

Big if true

A walkable city means emergency T-shirt printing for political clapbacks at your fingertips.

Literally every demographer for two generations: it's gonna be rough when the boomers get past 70, everyone get ready Ontario:

Bradford says the Bloor West data suggest the city "allocated 50% of the road space for half a percentage of road users. And that doesn't work." (By this logic, there are several streets downtown where pedestrians should get MUCH wider sidewalks)

I think I'm going to do one strategic vote, one vote from the heart and one vote for the only school board trustee candidate who has a website. A nice mix.

I will say the rank cynicism of Smith demanding more provincial control over immigration when she was one of the premiers who begged for higher immigration targets just over 2 years ago is a lot to take. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Given there's one week left and housing has not been a prominent municipal election issue so far (to my chagrin), I think I'll highlight the @moreneighboursto.bsky.social municipal election platform. www.moreneighbours.ca/platforms-po...

Many people may assume that I only argue for procurement reform in architecture. I don’t. I argue for it across different sectors and markets because how we deliver procurement affect the outcome; if we want better outcomes, we need to change how we buy goods and services in the #PublicInterest 

CTV has made the (pretty easy) call: Alberta has voted not to hold an independence referendum. With a bit less than half of the vote counted, it's 77% in favour of remain.

Provincial governments are completely incoherent on this issue. Alberta UCP ran an “Alberta is calling” campaign to attract migration then also killed the most successful housing reform ever in Edmonton, the province deliberately sabotaged housing starts, on purpose. This really happened.

I'm sure there's a thesis out there about how some Americans came to believe that the words and actions of cabinet members can be dismissed as meaningless but a few online posts from Canadians are worthy of infinitely more criticism because Canada dumb lol.

We had decades to densify areas like Bloor West in more gentle ways and the residents always said no. It drove a housing crisis so bad that the province stepped in and required towers be allowed near transit stations. I doubt the residents will understand it that way. www.thestar.com/real-estate/...

Aspiring to this sort of endorsement from Lutnick.

*weeps in Ontario*

Saying that you want to "understand more about how we can repair" something and then going to the "only" place not doing the thing you want to understand is such a summary of US politics. That he's wrong about it being the only province not boycotting is just the icing on the cake.

Why does this keep happening? 😭

"cycling militants [should accept] a compromise for bike lanes in secondary grids rather than arterial roads" There is no "secondary grid." Because of Toronto's piecemeal growth, it literally does not exist. The lanes reach where people want to go. And there is nowhere else to put them.

Do you have questions about what Toronto police are up to? Well, too bad. They're not answerable to you.

A helpful tip is to hang out near a vandalized speed camera. They don't seem to be able to arrest you there.