Renovations vs. Construction is an interesting indicator of filtering. If buyers can't find a new home they want, they reno an old one, reducing the supply of depreciated homes, not the supply of new ones. Makes sense that building more drops the lowest rents the fastest.

Jerusalem Demsas@jerusalem.bsky.social · 11h ago

"For the first time ever, more people are employed by remodeling companies than by single-family and multifamily developers combined." (h/t @josephpolitano.bsky.social) www.theargumentmag.com/p/americas-e...

dude votes against apartments at the intersection of 2 SkyTrain lines and has the chutzpah to criticize others of being bad on climate stuff, ugh

3. You don't have to pretend like incorrect or baseless claims are anything more, and should call them out; you don't have to engage in "meet in the middle" midwittery. Speak with clarity about what will and won't work; even in 2026, being the person saying the true thing in a sea of BS is power.

Remember that by killing the Villages Plan, Sean, ABC, & "Green" Pete Fry scuttled Complete Communities, an essential Big Move of the Climate Emergency Action Plan. 1000s will commute in cars from exurbs & fossil gas will heat more homes, regardless of what CoV rules say.

Milwaukee, 2025

What’s happened since? A spike in reckless driving. On Ottawa’s Katimavik Road, 86% of drivers obeyed the limit when cameras were in use. Now just 20% do. In Toronto, the share of vehicles >11 kmh over the limit jumped 4x. In Guelph, the share of cars >15 kmh over has more than tripled.

Most drivers speeding at 8 former camera sites, city data shows | CBC News

New City of Ottawa data shows that fewer than half of drivers are complying with posted speed limits at eight former speed camera sites in May, months after the province banned automated speed enforce...

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49th Avenue / Cambie.

There's not much we can do about the information environment. But, as Canadians, we need to resist the poison pouring over from our southern border. We don't need to all agree with each other. But we also don't need American style polarization. We're not going to figure shit out with memes.

Bella Is a real Vancouver girl now

total seattle tree acreage lost to multifamily development from 216-2021, when 46,000 net new apartments were constructed: 24 acres. just 24.

Chim ☭@chimmysthoughts.bsky.social · 5d ago

Conservative estimate: 257,219,531.3 metric tons of CO2 Equivalent to Annual Emissions of 60,805,751 cars/year. From joteo.net/ecology-calc...

"It would be one thing if CPP was underperforming... another if they were manipulating their benchmark to pay themselves unduly... another if ... depressing growth in the Canadian economy writ-large to cover it all up. I’ll prove they're doing all three"

How CPP Executives are Manipulating their Benchmarks to Pay Themselves Before Your Retirement

An insider's perspective on the illegitimate $100 million dollar wealth transfer from Canadian tax-payers to CPP execs and employees, and exactly how they covered it up.

mathewkaminski.substack.com

two days after Vancouver city council voted down their own Villages Plan, west side residents who opposed the plan en masse are complaining that Dunbar (!!) doesn’t have any wine bars, boutiques or gyms — the kind of amenities that require neighbourhood density to support

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I haven’t clearly said how much I appreciate Lucy’s words and vote here. Once again unattainable ideals are used as cover to do nothing and we are once again set back YEARS.

Lucy Maloney@lucymaloney.bsky.social · last wk.

Yesterday, ABC walked away from their Villages Plan. The plan was not perfect and people didn’t feel heard. But here’s what was on the table: homes, for people and families, that are much more affordable than the ruinously expensive single family homes that are there today.

Yesterday, ABC walked away from their Villages Plan. The plan was not perfect and people didn’t feel heard. But here’s what was on the table: homes, for people and families, that are much more affordable than the ruinously expensive single family homes that are there today.

Redevelopment and renovations makes up about 10% of evictions. Owner use is around 60%. That doesn't mean that it isn't important to have protections for tenants due to redevelopment, but they're much more likely to be evicted due to other reasons

Michael O’Shaughnessy@mdnoshaughnessy.bsky.social · last wk.

When I was evicted it was because the owner sold our apt. We found a new place but we had to compete against many other families, and our rent went up. The approach to housing policy below would have done nothing to prevent me from being evicted and it actively made it harder to get a new home

It's extremely possible that I don't understand the business, but I would not have put Shopify on a top 5 list for moat in the AI era. Hosting individual shops seems to have limited network benefits & a low barrier for customers' switching providers. What am I missing?

One thing you can see in the latest Stancil blowup is that a sizable share of this website thinks that good intentions are the only thing that matter in policymaking, and expressing skepticism that a policy will really work as intended is equivalent to stealing food from the poor.

This pattern of politicians running against their own bureaucracies as champions of the people was tagged as "the dysfunctional dance of local governance" by Mariana Valverde when she saw it in Toronto in EVERYDAY LAW ON THE STREETS from 2012. Its biggest beneficiary? Rob Ford.

Justin McElroy 🇨🇦@jmcelroy.bsky.social · last wk.

A funny thing about Vancouver's Villages rejection happening so close to the election is Ken Sim's office posting a statement being like "we listen to the wisdom of the people" and ABC Vancouver sending supporters an email being like "we're protecting you from city bureaucrats who are garbage"

The alternative to density is sprawl, which not only requires deforestation, but also forces people to make long commutes, typically by car in this region. People who don't want new neighbors are supporting sprawl, whether or not they want to save individual trees in the yards near their houses.

I just donated the maximum amount to OneCity's victory fund, and I'd encourage you to donate whatever you can www.onecityvancouver.ca/donate

GRIDS Vancouver@grids.reillywood.com · last wk.

@lucymaloney.bsky.social was the only councillor willing to stick up for this, and I appreciate that a lot bsky.app/profile/davi...

There’s one good councillor in Vancouver for housing.

This sounds like daycare in BC.

How social care costs work in England - and why it’s mad

One in seven of us will face care costs above £100,000, decided by luck rather than need. We explain how England’s social care charging system really works.

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Agreed

I’ve seen a number of babies born in buildings I’ve built, many times due to couples having enough room to grow. Housing creates the blank pages that one day will be filled by the lives and stories of our current and future generations. Building it is so important.

Peter Waldkirch 華彼德@pwaldkirch.bsky.social · last wk.

Some nearby house-owners had lawn signs opposing these rental homes up until this building was almost completed, years after it was approved. And I am 100% certain all the people who call this building home today, and those who will for decades to come, enrich and strengthen the neighbourhood.

Great tribute to Michael Coyle (@oplopanax.ca) up at CBC. Surely just a start. He'll be sorely missed. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

B.C. man who devoted nearly three decades to rescuing strangers dies in Squamish | CBC News

Michael Coyle had worked with Coquitlam SAR for years and helped many other teams in B.C.

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Some councillors suggested doing only one or two villages as a pilot. This would not be representative, as it would concentrate development in one area & they all have different characteristics. More important: Housing is needed now! Council should approve the whole plan.

That's 44 - 42 for being willing to give it up

Polling Canada@canadianpolling.bsky.social · last wk.

Only 16% support ending supply management

I’m as pro-free speech as the next guy, but there needs to be some kind of law restricting movies over 2 hours. Masters of the Universe needed 140 minutes, really? Don't ban them outright, maybe a tax or mandatory editing if a film falls below 90% on Rotten Tomatoes?

This is a tremendous amount of copium. Data centres won't "go dark" because OpenAI loses money. Nvidia's margins can go down a LOT, the chip fabs can keep churning. Model creators can drastically reduce the R&D arms race. LLMs won't disappear just because early investors lose their equity.

The Tyee@thetyee.ca · 2w ago

In his latest book, Toronto-born science fiction author and tech critic @doctorow.pluralistic.net argues that AI will make us all reverse centaurs, or assistants to machines, if it succeeds. 🤖 @crof.bsky.social writes. thetyee.ca/Culture/2026...