What annoys me is that our policy wonks don't grapple at all with how to restore this magnet. It's like housing affordability is an ethereal feature, forever lost now.

Mr Savoie is a legend. Though it’s interesting that he names the maritimes huge pull of cheap living, and then doesn’t seem to reflect on how to recreate those conditions

Kaohsiung’s HSR station is nearly on the edge of the city

Looking at Edmontons continued success in ramping up missing middle and think about how Halifax could’ve done more

2026 Q1 Edmonton building permit report – Jacob Dawang A first look at 2026 building permits through Q1, tracking whether Edmonton will continue the record-breaking momentum of 2025.

NEW BLOG POST

Edmonton's housing momentum didn't stop at the end of 2025.

Q1 2026 data is in and Edmonton is on track for another strong year of homebuilding in the places people want to live. The rowhome revolution continues. 🧵

#yeg #yegcc #yimby

jacobdawang.com/blog/2026/q1-building-permits/

Leaving Halifax? I'd be curious your feel on the "fullness" throughout the journey

In my view the main problem is its length, a 1,300 km journey where delays compound, and much of through scarcely populated rural NB and Quebec. The Halifax to Moncton bit works fine

Ive written before about the ocean. It is not worth saving. It is not well used.

Right, that's why mine connected to the ferry in pictou, best chance at getting islanders on board

Similar idea to what I wrote about last summer, Via's Ocean service is bad, and doesn't even try to serve the Maritimes actual population centers
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Two boxes with arrows looping between. The first box says "These shoebox condos are gross. Stop building them. We need more family-sized units!" And arrow labelled "Oppose this building" points to a second box, which reads "These are luxury condos. Stop building them. We need starter homes." The arrow pointing back to the first box also says "Oppose this building".

Reminder that this “glut” of small units was approved under a planning process that took ~2.5 years to complete. Almost like that process is designed to allay the concerns of people who already own homes and has zero to do with the new homes themselves. www.thestar.com/real-estate/...

Worried about « household » definition here. Someone at 30 living with parents isn’t a household yet….

It's so annoying when people act like gas station operators or oil companies pocket gas tax holidays. They don't!

Gotta follow @roryjohnston.bsky.social

huh? What about?

État des routes au Québec : faut-il ramener les péages? | Zone Info YouTube video by Radio-Canada Info

C’était pas une analyse plutôt qu’une expression d’idéologie. Le publique aurait bénéfice plus d’avoir quelqu’un avec plus d’expérience sur les autoroutes de péages que « mes vacances en Europe »
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Speaking from experience now it appears Ottawa's LRT is lower capacity bus often times

What I imagine for every Robie street LRT idea...

looked at how many of those units are actually being built because of the blanket rezoning, and how many of those were actually at an affordable price point,” he said. Article content “Typically, it’s all about a $600,000 bungalow being torn down and being replaced with four $700,000 luxury condos. Article content “Young people have been sold this false promise that as long as we build more and more expensive condos for the developers, housing will somehow trickle down to them. Article content “That’s a pipe dream.”

Oh my god Calgary's mayor 🥲

calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu...

Municipal politicians are routinely extremely destructive and bad faith with no consequences, because their voters bear none of the consequences

Does he know meme

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Does Tim Houston know the economy he's leading? Resource push distracts from province's real gains in building

New blog on Nova Scotia's resource push, jobs, and construction
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If you wanted one article to understand our housing crisis, this is it

good point

No import, only export (dog meme)

I got a cheeseburger despite having cheeseburger-making hands

Don’t people love taxing big business?

Can we go back to the gatekeepers Pierre?

The feds bail out Ontario municipalities How the same deal could zero-out taxes on new homes in Nova Scotia

We also need the other provinces to gain, so not to reward Ontario and BC's bad decisions open.substack.com/pub/deny/p/t...

The feds bail out Ontario municipalities How the same deal could zero-out taxes on new homes in Nova Scotia

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