That was a hell of a game! A little bit of BS refereeing of course, but the guys played really well, they absolutely deserved the win. This is arguably the best result the 🇨🇦MNT has ever achieved, semi-finals of this level of tournament. Guaranteed two more games against top rank opponents...

A lot of the poor decisions of the past are either things that were built (ring road) or not done (delays leading to inflation) -- in which case it's just present reality, like it or not. Many of the others are unquestioned assumptions (we should use a design-build megacontract; car traffic...

Every year it feels more like an urban festival with all of the buildings around the grounds. Took this about a minute before they shut G-Eazy on the Coke stage down due to the severe thunderstorm warning

Here's the 2024 numbers from the Altus construction cost guide: (I included Van because I'm cutting and pasting from a PDF). Assuming 800 sq ft floorspace per unit (note that not all the floorspace is in the unit - halls, common spaces, etc. so 800 sq ft might be reasonable for half 1 BR half...

It's interesting to see similar changes and rates elsewhere; the above is Metro Vancouver's numbers; it's interesting that we use less water than them given that I can't imagine they water their lawns that much. My understanding is that Australia is the leader in urban water usage; one source...

Here's a historical snapshot, with 1961 and 1986 populations. (All data federal Census obviously.) 1961 is a reasonable proxy for the start of the car age; it's old enough that getting Census data is a real pain (so I don't have most of the numbers). 1986 is conveniently when Calgary was half...

I read other soccer forums, and the American fans wish they had a coach like Marsch. I'm impressed with the defensive structure he's put in place. As he said, 8 clean sheet halves of 10, against world class opponents 🇦🇷🇫🇷🇳🇱 or at least World Cup calibre opponents. 🇨🇱🇵🇪 Excited to see what is...

Listening to the live briefing, sounds like indoor water restrictions are over! Hooray!

It was thought to be a shorter, more positive take on the original slogan... "we just shat another one out". :p

I'm happy that it looks like ownership has bought in for a rebuild, but I'm worried that we always seem to get just a little less than we should on every single player going out. None of the players we've gotten rid of have been rip-offs, but getting a little less than average every single time...

Engagement is now closed, but I noticed a page for engagement around building multifamily on the south Franklin park and ride lot. Four alternatives were shown; with two different designs for bus loops (a P-shaped loop closer to the station and a smaller Q-shaped loop shown below) as well as the...

If anyone is interested in (part of) the gory details of some of this, I saw a teardown of a Montreal occasional paper tap card (the image below is the antenna that both transmits data and powers the chip; the chip is the dot in the lower right -- they come on a wafer of 100,000 for $9000, i.e...

I think we're going to need to hear soon about the Stampede and what impacts it might have. I don't know for sure if the Stampede has a water use impact (in the way that it obviously has an electricity use impact with all the lights, sounds, etc), but I wouldn't be surprised if it did. From...

This might be too general a construction update for this forum seeing as how it's in a different province, but the Museum of Anthropology at UBC has demolished and completely rebuilt the landmark Great Hall for seismic reasons, and the 85-year old architect (Nick Milkovich) who oversaw the work...

Somehow, between universal quality of life improvements and the brain poisoning of the algorithms, there are a bunch of people out there who don't seem to understand that clean running water, pasteurization, vaccination and so on are massive public health infrastructure achievements that we all...

I don't really think so. First, for the unaware: a superblock is a semi-pedestrianization policy from Barcelona. The figure below shows roughly the scheme: This is the best diagram I can find, but essentially the outer roads around a 3x3 grid of blocks remain more or less untouched, while the...

It's a major building that needs loading docks, I think that can be generally agreed on. Looking at the existing footprint here, there's only two sides that could possibly have loading docks; the southwest side along the LRT tracks and the north side where there's parking. From a...

Well, I guess I was today years old when I learned that Calgary was larger than the Philadelphia and Barcelona metro areas, and as close in size to Montreal as to Edmonton. If the basic facts like population can't be sourced correctly, I'm not sure I have a lot of faith in that site's ability to...