This is a fascinating area of Waterloo; bordered by a highway and two arterial roads (and bisected by another), it's actually got some lovely natural areas. The unfortunate aspect is those arterial roads are about as suburban hellscape-y as it gets.
Walking on a multi-use path, had a guy on an e-moto beeping at people to get out of his way as he blew by at ~50 km/h.
I see e-bike people get defensive In The Discourse about any nominally e-bike related regulation, but we have got to find a way to get rid of this shit.
Chat is it good economics to juice demand for a supply constrained resource with public money
I am not gifted at being early to many things but waiting for a flight? You mean liminal space where no one can reach you and all you have to do is sit back and read? Preferably with a newspaper from a country you don't usually get them from? Can't think of a better use of time honestly.
Did I just argue with a joke? Part of a Bluesky educational series
I just keep thinking about this. Ford loves to pound people to shit and strut across their political bodies. All the name calling. The Lefties. Socialists. Cyclists. Gravy eaters.
But he whines like a high maintenance nepo when something doesn't go his way.
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The amount of political turmoil and energy it would take to do this (which is unwise to begin with) would be *far* better spent on building a rejuvenated cooperative federalism to take us into the next century, and a fresh look at constitutional reform. We can't put that off in perpetuity.
Maximum Canada includes a Charlottetown of 1 million people
I... I am just shocked this is being shared on main. This is a grave violation of Article 2, section 4 of the Council of Canada's Hottest Urbanists Declaration on the Locations of Transit Card Availability. We'll have to convene an emergency meeting.
@chanface.bsky.social has made a serious violation of the Council of Canada's Hottest Urbanists constitution here. It's likely we'll have to refer this to the Urbanism Court of Posting for review.
"Legendary urbanist" Rodney Chan shocks followers with pro-car propaganda: "I just want more drivers getting on the road faster"
This would unfortunately require progressive opposition parties to work together in some capacity, which I could see the GPO doing, but the OLP remains rudderless and the ONDP's raison d'etre is basically just memeposting at this point
Doesn't mean we shouldn't aspire to it though. There's tons of funding models that work elsewhere that we haven't tried at scale and would not be a permanent drag on government finances. The mid-market stuff would eventually pay for itself.
I agree in principle with Max Kerman's point that all neighbourhoods should be mixed-income, but requiring subsidized units in every building would require government funding at a scale Canadians would certainly balk at. Just doing this in Toronto would be tens of billions.
I feel neither enthusiastic or upset about floor crossings, but it's vital we remember MPs are not simply voting machines that exist to say "aye" on behalf of their leaders. We should be suspicious of anything that would limit the ability of an MP to exercise independent judgment.
Absolutely incredible.
NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman, who commanded Artemis II, took this footage from the far side of the Moon with his iPhone.
Watch with sound on.
Don't worry it'll open at oddly the perfect time for someone to make a few million on Polymarket
Likely an unpopular opinion but I think we should actually welcome and normalize politicians changing their mind on something. Buying the jet was the wrong move. Recognizing that and working to correct the issue is a good thing though.
Same energy
Is it really a mix? We solve the former by improving the latter. I see addressing both as complimentary, we just don't have an electorate that believes this.
Given the MAHA movement is gutting so much promising mRNA research, it would really behoove Canadian leaders to understand that our world class, public research universities could play an outsized role in filling this gap, but that'd require them to recognize universities are worth investing in.
The city could likely sell at least one of the lots just off Regina btw city hall and Erb for a mixed use development with ground floor retail. Parking capacity in Uptown is only fully utilized a handful of times a year (and even then, the garage is never full). That would go a long way.
Acts 2:42-47: 42 They devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. 43 Everyone was filled with awe at the many wonders and signs performed by the apostles. 44 All the believers were together and had everything in common. 45 They sold property and possessions to give to anyone who had need. 46 Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, 47 praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.
Evangelicals would have to pick up a Bible - an unheard of concept for many of them - to understand how their own teachings might have application for today's household structures. The most famous example of early Christian social solidarity had community providing for people's needs!
The concept of the nuclear family as it we understand it in North America today is barely 70 years old and is already outdated; there's no longer any predominant family formation. Less than half of households in the US today are a man and woman with children who are in their first marriage.
The evangelical obsession with the nuclear family is fascinating insofar as the founder of the Christian faith was a single, itinerant religious teacher, and the guy whose work makes up most of the New Testament (Paul) was also a single guy who thought *not* being married was the optimal life path.
I agree Regina needs more commercial but I'm not sure it generates the foot traffic that would make it as much of a destination as it could be. Dupont kind of suffers from the same thing but there's something to the idea that we could build a natural outdoor hangout that close to the library.
Michael.
My most oversimplified political belief that I keep coming back to is that you have to solve for good outcomes _and for vibes_. You ignore the vibes at your peril — and that imperils the good outcomes too
