The idea that it’s councils job to optimize the economics rather than developers is a funny one

"Ooops we fucked up and made the system we had for training preachers the exclusive gate for all postindustrial white collar occupations."

Dang, my sympathies. We've done it a couple times, was perfect weather the first time, not windy and just below freezing. Absolutely frigid the second time, so we hit up the museums and galleries.

Oh man do I have the place for you:

If there's a successful secession referendum in either Quebec or Alberta, I will start a party specifically on that 'Fuck You' platform.

I do not think the PQ appreciates how tired Western Canada is of their shit, and how the reaction to a successful independence referendum would be punitive to the point of cruelty.

Pictured: a prior generation's cookie-cutter housing

But Stephen, what if the rich people who buy those apartments don’t actually live in them?

Rich people paying union construction workers high wages to build a fancy building, then paying high property taxes on that building while not using any government services is a terrible outcome,,, to me.

Yeah, its one of the more promising aspect of federal housing policy at the moment:

The tragedy of the Notley government was oil price collapse being both the main reasons why they: (1) won; and (2) didn't have fiscal space for big & fast policy that might have stuck.

I am the sort of middle class cosmopolitan who will go to any religious institution he is invited to out of sheer curiosity, unless I dont find them interesting, in which case I won't.

Someone had an interesting essay a while back about the 'southernizarion' of rural America, how places like rural midwest & New England were homogenizing through radio/fox/social media.

Unfortunately, Canada too, due to the massive US cultural influence