Land & Numbers
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Just saw someone on Reddit refer to a population pyramid graph as a "Population stack of spinning shawarma meat" and now I'm not sure I'm ever going to be able to present one of these the same...
October 30, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Just saw someone on Reddit refer to a population pyramid graph as a "Population stack of spinning shawarma meat" and now I'm not sure I'm ever going to be able to present one of these the same...
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Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.
harpers.org/archive/1941...
harpers.org/archive/1941...
Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson
harpers.org
October 1, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.
harpers.org/archive/1941...
harpers.org/archive/1941...
Ignoring the fact that 2/3 of folks on Medicaid are already employed, there is just such a great historical track record of government ordered mass mobilizations of non-agrarian workforce into farm labour... 🤨
Brooke Rollins on farm laborers: "There will be no amnesty. The mass deportations continue, but in a strategic way. And we move the workforce toward automation and 100% American participation, which with 34 million able-bodied on Medicaid we should be able to do fairly quickly."
July 8, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Ignoring the fact that 2/3 of folks on Medicaid are already employed, there is just such a great historical track record of government ordered mass mobilizations of non-agrarian workforce into farm labour... 🤨
CanCon not only allows us to punch above our weight creatively, it also is low key one of the best policies for social identity and cohesion we've had in the past half century.
What's your hottest take about Canada?
July 2, 2025 at 12:09 AM
CanCon not only allows us to punch above our weight creatively, it also is low key one of the best policies for social identity and cohesion we've had in the past half century.
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New indicator out from StatCan (and CMHC) today, quarterly estimates of asking rents in metro areas. Looks to me like there are no hedonic adjustments, critically for things like furnished/unfurnished units and location within CMA. But either way, good to see StatCan now working with listings data.
June 25, 2025 at 3:03 PM
New indicator out from StatCan (and CMHC) today, quarterly estimates of asking rents in metro areas. Looks to me like there are no hedonic adjustments, critically for things like furnished/unfurnished units and location within CMA. But either way, good to see StatCan now working with listings data.
Perhaps one of the best visualizations of the positive impact of Canada legalizing contraceptives and birth control in the 1960s. You can mark the spot where C-48 passed (Oct 1964) by how most women were now widely able to choose when to have kids.
Fun. Canadian version:
June 24, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Perhaps one of the best visualizations of the positive impact of Canada legalizing contraceptives and birth control in the 1960s. You can mark the spot where C-48 passed (Oct 1964) by how most women were now widely able to choose when to have kids.
As someone who very much appreciated robust municipal data sets...
Yeah, those should not be in the same orbit as attainable housing or so many other issues.
Yeah, those should not be in the same orbit as attainable housing or so many other issues.
the global report on city happiness that said Vancouver was happiest city in North America said housing affordability was just as important as the number of publicly available municipal datasets
but nobody cares about publicly available municipal datasets if they can’t afford rent
but nobody cares about publicly available municipal datasets if they can’t afford rent
May 28, 2025 at 3:12 AM
As someone who very much appreciated robust municipal data sets...
Yeah, those should not be in the same orbit as attainable housing or so many other issues.
Yeah, those should not be in the same orbit as attainable housing or so many other issues.
"When truth leaves us, when we let it slip away from our hands... we become vulnerable to whatever monster screams the loudest."
May 8, 2025 at 5:58 PM
"When truth leaves us, when we let it slip away from our hands... we become vulnerable to whatever monster screams the loudest."
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With CBC now having called all ridings it's time for the land-vs-people-vote animation.
April 29, 2025 at 11:56 PM
With CBC now having called all ridings it's time for the land-vs-people-vote animation.
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I don't think it can be understated that it feels like the entire globe is watching Canada tonight. Reuters, Aljazeera, and BBC all have live feeds happening and its their top story on the home page.
This does not feel normal and given the current global landscape, it's both ominous and humbling.
This does not feel normal and given the current global landscape, it's both ominous and humbling.
April 29, 2025 at 1:26 AM
I don't think it can be understated that it feels like the entire globe is watching Canada tonight. Reuters, Aljazeera, and BBC all have live feeds happening and its their top story on the home page.
This does not feel normal and given the current global landscape, it's both ominous and humbling.
This does not feel normal and given the current global landscape, it's both ominous and humbling.
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Not our beloved Fraser Street... My heart is broken. I feel so sick reading the horrific details of what people experienced at this evening's attack. This is a violent violation of a special safe place shared by so many, on a day to celebrate Lapu Lapu. Take care of each other.
April 27, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Not our beloved Fraser Street... My heart is broken. I feel so sick reading the horrific details of what people experienced at this evening's attack. This is a violent violation of a special safe place shared by so many, on a day to celebrate Lapu Lapu. Take care of each other.
What I wouldn't give for Elections Canada to revise the rules so that parties are not allowed to participate in the debates until they've released fully costed platforms...
April 22, 2025 at 5:26 PM
What I wouldn't give for Elections Canada to revise the rules so that parties are not allowed to participate in the debates until they've released fully costed platforms...
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Canadian household formation peaked in 1981. While Quebec City and (until recently) Montreal managed to translate income growth into increased household formation, household formation declined in many other parts of Canada. It's mathematically impossible to reverse that without building more homes.
April 18, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Canadian household formation peaked in 1981. While Quebec City and (until recently) Montreal managed to translate income growth into increased household formation, household formation declined in many other parts of Canada. It's mathematically impossible to reverse that without building more homes.
As someone that wrote their own masters research project on land value capture tools, this is an interesting article that should be discussed more - particularly amongst BC planners and policy makers.
April 2, 2025 at 6:51 PM
As someone that wrote their own masters research project on land value capture tools, this is an interesting article that should be discussed more - particularly amongst BC planners and policy makers.
"It's not just defining what we're against. We, the next generation... have to say that we're going to redeem the dream."
Strong moment of reflection and direction from Booker's filibuster.
Strong moment of reflection and direction from Booker's filibuster.
Booker: "I confess that I have been imperfect. I confess that I've been inadequate to the moment. I've confess that the Democratic Party has made terrible mistakes that gave a lane to this demagogue. I confess we all must look in the mirror and say 'we will do better.'"
April 1, 2025 at 10:20 PM
"It's not just defining what we're against. We, the next generation... have to say that we're going to redeem the dream."
Strong moment of reflection and direction from Booker's filibuster.
Strong moment of reflection and direction from Booker's filibuster.
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When did Elon lose your respect? It depends on when he first showed up in YOUR field and claimed to know all about it. For social media people, that was 2022. For cave rescuers, 2018. And for transport professionals, around 2017. Fine @shigashide.bsky.social piece.
blog.ucs.org/steven-higas...
blog.ucs.org/steven-higas...
Transportation Professionals Saw Elon Musk’s Lies and Disdain for the Public Firsthand.
We can't sit on the sidelines now.
blog.ucs.org
March 20, 2025 at 2:23 PM
When did Elon lose your respect? It depends on when he first showed up in YOUR field and claimed to know all about it. For social media people, that was 2022. For cave rescuers, 2018. And for transport professionals, around 2017. Fine @shigashide.bsky.social piece.
blog.ucs.org/steven-higas...
blog.ucs.org/steven-higas...
First rule of hockey, protect yourself, protect your teammates. If the other team isn't going to respect that, elbows up. Sorry neighbour.
Trudeau: "I want to speak first directly to the American people. We don't want this. We want to work with you as a friend and ally. We don't want to see you hurt either. But your government has chosen to do this to you. As of this morning, markets are down and inflation is set to rise dramatically."
March 4, 2025 at 4:37 PM
First rule of hockey, protect yourself, protect your teammates. If the other team isn't going to respect that, elbows up. Sorry neighbour.
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No, this is the most ashamed you've felt as an American *so far*.
February 28, 2025 at 7:10 PM
No, this is the most ashamed you've felt as an American *so far*.
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me: it’s just a hockey game
also me:
also me:
February 21, 2025 at 4:50 AM
me: it’s just a hockey game
also me:
also me:
That was cathartic.
a woman is holding a canadian flag on a street
ALT: a woman is holding a canadian flag on a street
media.tenor.com
February 21, 2025 at 4:32 AM
That was cathartic.
Anyone who's served on a strata council for a building with an elevator will be able to tell you the elevator mafia is very much a thing. Effectively zero competition in this space.
February 18, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Anyone who's served on a strata council for a building with an elevator will be able to tell you the elevator mafia is very much a thing. Effectively zero competition in this space.
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fondly remembering when the most embarrassing new york times coverage of canada was “they’re calling it c-day” instead of “after we conquered those cute perky people which of our leaders would they vote for?”
February 18, 2025 at 4:15 AM
fondly remembering when the most embarrassing new york times coverage of canada was “they’re calling it c-day” instead of “after we conquered those cute perky people which of our leaders would they vote for?”
Truly saddened to hear of Shoup's passing. He was a catalyst for so much in our field and his work is so incredibly important to this day. Rest in piece Don.
I'm deeply saddened to share that Donald Shoup passed away last night. He was the ideal academic—curious, methodical, and concerned with turning ideas into real-world change. TAing his parking course these past few years has one of the greatest honors of my life. Rest in peace, Shoup Dogg.
February 8, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Truly saddened to hear of Shoup's passing. He was a catalyst for so much in our field and his work is so incredibly important to this day. Rest in piece Don.
Pertinent vibe check in the face on everything that is happening:
"We don’t need any more irony-poisoned hot takes or cathartic, irreverent snark. We need to collectively decide what kind of world we actually do want, and what we’re willing to do to achieve it."
"We don’t need any more irony-poisoned hot takes or cathartic, irreverent snark. We need to collectively decide what kind of world we actually do want, and what we’re willing to do to achieve it."
You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism
Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them, Janus Rose writes.
www.404media.co
February 5, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Pertinent vibe check in the face on everything that is happening:
"We don’t need any more irony-poisoned hot takes or cathartic, irreverent snark. We need to collectively decide what kind of world we actually do want, and what we’re willing to do to achieve it."
"We don’t need any more irony-poisoned hot takes or cathartic, irreverent snark. We need to collectively decide what kind of world we actually do want, and what we’re willing to do to achieve it."
"My reluctant nationalism boils down to thinking there’s something good here that could be made much better. It’s driven by a desire to preserve our sovereignty so we can work out for ourselves how to do better and, in the process, to fight for those within our borders to live how they wish to live"
Canada is a country worth fighting for against anyone who’d roll up and sock us in the kisser, goddamn them.
I will still stand up for my country and our right to decide for ourselves how we want to live.
www.davidmoscrop.com/p/confession...
I will still stand up for my country and our right to decide for ourselves how we want to live.
www.davidmoscrop.com/p/confession...
Confessions of a Reluctant Nationalist
I'd throw a punch to fight for Canada's sovereignty while reserving and exercising my right to criticize this country. That's a fine form of patriotism.
www.davidmoscrop.com
February 2, 2025 at 6:58 PM
"My reluctant nationalism boils down to thinking there’s something good here that could be made much better. It’s driven by a desire to preserve our sovereignty so we can work out for ourselves how to do better and, in the process, to fight for those within our borders to live how they wish to live"