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Mano Majumdar
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Pragmatism. Sustainable abundance. Specialisation is for insects. 🇮🇳 🇦🇪 🇨🇦
We require a CRD-level formula that allows municipalities to trade housing obligations.

The other municipalities can compensate Victoria for acting as a service provider to the region if they are unable to deliver housing within their own political environment.
December 12, 2025 at 11:04 PM
As a (mostly) pedestrian and (occasional) driver, road user conflicts let the real culprit off the hook—poor design that assumes perfect decision-making from everyone at all times, on pain of injury or death.
December 12, 2025 at 10:50 PM
You have a right to walk.

You also have a right to a system design that is fault-tolerant, because stress, inattention, distraction, and indecision are part of the human condition.
December 12, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Impressive and promising.

Unsurprising to see the lag in 3-bedrooms but hopeful the bylaw will make a difference. We need more family-sized apartments, including Downtown.
November 11, 2025 at 4:56 AM
This is excellent news and a credit to this Council, but more is required.

As long as we are reactive, our ceiling is the volume of inbound proposals. Council should consider RFPs to build City-funded housing. We can do more, faster.
September 6, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Thank you for sharing this. My representation to the Assembly made many of the same points, plus one more: amalgamation will become a distraction for both Councils and compete with other issues for attention. Can we really afford to put all other issues on the backburner for a year to sort this out?
July 12, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Canada needs to chart an independent course rather than attach itself to the US, join the EU, or act like a subsidiary of the UK.

This is our moment to stand out without standing apart or being subsumed.
June 11, 2025 at 10:11 PM
We have the advantage of an existing right-of-way, but I am afraid no progress will happen until the clunky ICF can be reformed or at least carries out its work through a body with a clear mandate to revive the railway.
May 31, 2025 at 1:20 AM
This is a good analogy, but not for the reasons you think. Colwood introduced a city-funded clinic to make it easier for family doctors to choose Colwood.

There are ways to de-escalate the problem even when one can't attack it directly.
May 24, 2025 at 11:24 PM
As a city we did manage to purchase a jazz club, so it does seem we have at least some room to manoeuvre when it comes to directing resources to extraordinary ends.

I appreciate the division of responsibilities, but it is a poor call in a crisis to push away a file saying it isn't our department.
May 24, 2025 at 11:18 PM
The next question is: what are we going to do about it?
May 19, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Close. There are occasions where men may wear hats indoors. These are largely occasions where one is passing through or temporarily indoors, such as in a lift or at a department store.
May 18, 2025 at 2:58 AM
This line of argument against hydrogen seems to rest on the assumption that the technology will not progress from this point. We already have methods to entrain hydrogen that prove otherwise.

That hydrogen is made from fossil fuels at all is a red herring.
May 17, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Sounds like a library with extra steps.
April 30, 2025 at 4:13 AM
C. Liberal–NDP

(Why make it a 3-body problem?)

The Bloc is provincial in every sense of the word and was openly founded for cynical ends.

The Bloc should be partnered with on a case-by-case basis, but never depended upon as part of a minority government.
April 29, 2025 at 6:38 PM