These two developments are interesting in their singular megaproject-esque visual impact, even through they eschew the blockbusting nature of said developments (In a past life, these developments would've probably sat upon a massive windowless podium!).

CANDU and our nuclear energy program still remain something to be very proud of as Canadians.

Exactly, during a decade of global uncertainty and centrifugal forces spinning nations apart, what was needed was a leader who could lead Canada, patch up its institutions (hardly decayed through back then), and reaffirm its federal identity. Instead, Canada and Canadians got blamed and shamed...

No surprise that the pathological altruism shown in these 'programs' was quickly taken advantage of. It's literally the same case of the removal of visa requirements from Mexico for 'goodwill', which apparently flew into the headwinds of reality. Good luck trying to get these visitors to...

The issue for me is not the quality (we all know it'll be premade and shipped frozen), it's that many Tim Hortons are already criminally understaffed, and this is adding yet another menu item for them to deal with.

The big noise coming out of this seems to be taxes (2/3rds capital tax is the new sound-byte), spending, and deficits.

Rapido Trains (Canadian model train maker) is accepting preorders for their HO-scale Gloucester model subway trains. Might be nice even as a display piece if you don't run model trains. https://rapidotrains.com/ho-scale/complete-train/ttc-g-class-subway.html

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/documents-shed-light-on-probe-into-ttc-ceo-rick-leary/article_baf0f6d0-f5e7-11ee-9611-a7de944acfd8.html

Not quite zoning, but mass-timber highrises up to 18 stories are coming to Ontario: https://www.sudbury.com/local-news/high-rise-wood-building-code-to-permit-18-storey-wood-buildings-8579093

https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/justin-trudeau-how-to-fix-the-broken-temporary-foreign-worker-program/article_c27f214f-1fa2-5fdf-af61-5a7642e4eb7c.html

https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/quebec-premier-threatens-referendum-on-immigration-if-trudeau-fails-to-deliver-1.6840162

My opinion- the argument would be stronger if you developed some rough floorplans and tower floorplates showing how a housing and library programme can co-exist on this site. Massing is just massing (not a real building), and it doesn't show how the interiors will be arranged (i.e. will...

Hotwheelization of our car infrastructure?

Comparison to other countries from the Economist. It’s very clear, the Trudeau government has been an unmitigated historic disaster. There is fundamentally no reason why our country needed to be set on this trajectory.

Canadian companies are too miserly to even do that, nearly everyone at the fast food register, delivering food, or in the kitchen these days is an immigrant or TFW from the Philippines/Indian subcontinent. Minimum-wage immigration (wage suppression & socialized costs) + cartelization/lack of...

Wow who'd guessed that a government with an unelected head that stumbles from crisis to crisis and does the opposite of what its constituents ask for would quickly lose the patience of its electorate?

Can we just go back to building tower slabs in the suburbs instead of this debased-Vancouverite debased-modernism?

Yes, but memetic status is entirely unpredictable (who knew it would be seized on as the 'rain tax' by global social media), and dependent on a variety of contextual issues. In this case, Chow is continually viewed with suspicion by the right-wingers and the Sun (Kinsella particularly has a...

Aka opponents/social media have seized onto it as a "rain tax" and that has gained a memetic life of its own, so depsite Chow's assertions, it is being being paused to allow the media attention to focus elsewhere/quietly sent behind the shed to be shot. It's just politics, next time get ahead...