War, huh, yeah
What is it good for?
Absolutely nothing
Say it again, y'all
War, huh (good God)
What is it good for?
Absolutely nothing,

Don’t make me tap the sign

Top: People complaining that a proposed 18-storey development in Old Montreal would be too big.

Bottom: People complaining about rent increases in older, more affordable neighbourhoods.

These are connected! Blocking new buildings puts pressure on the rest of the housing market.

Shown here: Donald Trump pardoning convicted fraudster in exchange for 1 million in bribe money.

You cannot be pro-immigration and anti-infill housing at the same time. It is an oxymoron. We cannot properly welcome new people - whether from abroad or within - without building affordable places for them to live. The Canadian political class largely fails to understand the scale of our problem.

10/10. No notes.

A planner once explained to me that they couldn't just allow low-rise apartments in Neighbourhoods citywide because the lot fabric in North York is different from downtown so you need different rules. But, like, why is it bad if the lot fabric in North York gradually changes over the next 20 years?

Okay so my editor gave me some space to write the thing. New from me at TVO. www.tvo.org/article/anal...

A quote indicating the urban planners often like to pretend the market for housing doesn't exist.

Quote indicating that planners often care more about implementing their plans that in creating good outcomes.

10,000%

This is a must-read piece.

www.tvo.org/article/anal...

Trump is the one who surrendered unconditionally.

Doug Ford's "strong mayor powers to build more housing" used to block supportive housing project

Make America Greatly Depressed Again!!!

morning

Government won’t say how much it is spending on its ‘Protect Ontario’ commercials | Globalnews.ca Questions from Global News to the premier's office asking for a full list of different campaigns and how much they are budgeted for have gone unanswered.

Ontario government protects Ontario government by not saying what Ontario government is spending to tell taxpayers how the Ontario government is protecting them.

Toronto: we have a chance to do a thing!

The Antichrist wants you to know he will be committing war crimes.

Wakes up Easter morning.

threatens war crimes.

Mocks an entire religion.

Does not show any class or morals.

Every GOP with any shred of self respect should resign. It’s past time. If you remain you are choosing to fight on the side of evil.

The Doug Ford government is moving to shield politicians from scrutiny. Here are secrets the new law would have kept under wraps The Star has for decades used freedom of information legislation to hold governments to account.

The Doug Ford government is moving to shield politicians from scrutiny. Here are secrets the new law would have kept under wraps

I am particularly annoyed by Toronto's response on minimum lot size. They say they don't want minimum lot size reform because it could limit the construction of multiplexes. This totally ignores that multiplexes have been far more likely to be built in areas that don't have *any* minimum lot size.

I have long since abandoned any presumption of good faith in cases like this. Toronto is lying about a positive policy change because the utmost priority of city planning is preserving political power — not achieving actual positive outcomes.

Guys don’t laugh. This actually IS thinking two moves ahead.

The more people they charge with fraud the more pardons Trump can sell.

‘A giant question mark on our future’ — Kitchener sounds alarm over development charge shortfall Changes to the way development charges are collected are on pace to put Kitchener in a serious financial bind, city staff warned councillors this week.

Translated: we have kept our property taxes artificially low via development charges like every other city in Ontario, and now we're facing the consequences for short-term political thinking.

(nb: Kitchener used millions in DC $ to foot a state of the art rec centre the entire region will use)

Ontario - Support For Exempting The Premier + Ministers From Freedom Of Information Requests:

Oppose: 65%
Support: 21%

Liaison / March 29, 2026

To Move Past False Choices, Housing Funders Must Embrace Supply Responding to criticism of his call for funders to “take a side,” Ned Resnikoff makes a case for a grand bargain among progressive housing advocates.

“The choices are not between market reforms and housing justice, but between an all-of-the-above strategy and one that rejects the best available evidence on housing supply and affordability out of hand.” - @resnikoff.bsky.social

Council needs to take an overall planning approach to consider all the development projects currently either approved or in the planning stages in this neighbourhood. The current low-rise heights in this neighbourhood are reflected in the existing approved official plan. That is why we are opposed to amending the official plan.

When the City does an "overall planning approach" (multiplexes, rooming houses), they often keep change small, saying that anyone who wants to build more can apply for an amendment. But residents view the OP as sacrosanct and amendment applications as an attempt to "break the rules."

PC: “everything is impossible. Vote for me!”

Free trade with China ASAP for unlimited cheap EV imports. And immediately start building dense walkable neighborhoods with connected bike lane networks with speed and at scale.

The coming energy crisis is going to get nasty.

One thing we know for sure. Whenever the government of Ontario appoints a housing task force they will definitely and for sure implement said task force’s recommendations.

Other countries need to step up and solve this problem we've created because otherwise we will not help those countries the next time we cause problems for everyone else.

Yes!*

*the municipalities in question didn't have to do development charges, and they're now being paid to stop throttling new housing via taxes.

Improvement? Yes.

Good. Eeeeehhhhhh.

Probably the best option on the table.