He wants you focused on the bike lanes so you don’t question him pushing along new highways without any environmental assessments.

And corruption scandals, totally effective ‘buck a beer’, a ridiculous tunnel. Its astonishing that the people of Ontario could be worse off.

The fact he says he’s not doing this for president Trump feels on the nose, as if he is actually doing this for Trump.

What logical plan relies on trade with the potential invader to fund our military? A more logical plan would be to source trade agreements with other countries looking to get away from the US market.

Denial is their plan. “We didn’t have climate change in the 50s and remember how great that was?”

Part of the problem is traditional suburban zoning tends to be too expensive in the long run for cities to maintain due to lots of infrastructure and low density for taxation. Moving away from prioritizing suburbia and focusing government efforts more on density could spur the changes we need and build more homes from the government investment. It could add more housing while minimizing the additional infrastructure costs the city has to take on to accommodate the housing.

You’d almost need to take your front line troops after a few days/week of methed up raids and then put them into rehab backline labor positions. Rinse and repeat until you win the war or the troops hold a methed up mutiny.

They also existed before that. They were called trams and nearly every city had them.

I also wonder how much farther their war efforts would have gone had they not wasted time, men, and resources on ineffective warfare like that massive train driven cannon. Its a lot of effort and resources to set up double track rails just to miss most of your shots.

I was so disappointed to hear he folded so quickly on the surcharge. Trump himself has said that America doesn’t need Canada’s energy at the start of his trade war. If Doug had a spine he would have put that surcharge on until a new deal has been signed. That deal should have conditions that the surcharge will come back and could increase if America wants to start the trade war back up.

Lets not play his game of flipping and flopping every few days and making big headlines, instead lets make a decision and follow through with it.

Your 2nd point doesn’t really matter if Trump follows through with “elect me and you’ll never have to vote again”.

Near record low voter turn out which is proof we really did need an emergency election. It defintely wasn’t a propaganda fueled power grab with a little bribe tossed in. What the fuck happened to our country.

We could just be less weak with our policy and demand builders build a certain % of affordable units on certain plots. We could also start a real government supported affordable unit program. A big part of our housing issues fall on trusting developers to just build what we really need when we know they only build to maximize profits.

8. Allowing cities to build more density and restricting urban sprawl. It may sound counter intuitive to restrict a bit of sprawl and SFH, but when applied properly those restrictions can help encourage upzoning and density in key areas.

Just as the system intends. We need electoral reform as part of the solution out of this cycle. Our politics often mirror some of the USA (2 party system, right vs left, candidates spend most of their time bad mouthing each other, no follow through on election promises) , given their current state, we should be doing everything we can to distance ourselves and our systems from theirs.

“An emergency happened and Pierre changed nothing about his plans just continued bashing the other candidates and now less people like him, this is so unfair” Danielle Smith

Malls came out as a solution to the lack of community a planner/developer saw in the relatively new suburban experiment. He hoped malls would blend shopping, community, and socializing all into one place, similar to how the mixed use, mid rise neighbourhoods would feel. Unfortunately the mall fell prey to captialism and as automobiles kept becoming more popular, the mall was less about community and more about a convenient shopping experience.

The developer who made the mall regrets it, it didn’t turn out to be a beacon of community like he had hoped and instead it further promoted isolation, suburbia, and car dependancy in our cities.

I think the best course of action for most of the old stores is developing the land into housing and mixing commercial and residential zoning more. Trying to find another big box store for the place is follwing the same path we have for the last 50 years, promoting further capitalism and isolation in our communities.

Redeveloping the stores into mid or high rise density would help alleviate the housing crisis a bit. Most locations are probably already pretty close to transit corridors as well, making it possible for people in these new developments to live without a car if needed, reducing transportation emissions and cost of living for those individuals. A big big big part of our housing crisis and cost of living crisis lies in the fact we almost exclussivly build SFH, many of which have been getting bigger over the years.

Canada has been threatened by our neighbour that we used to look up to. Its time to ask if we want to keep following the devleopment policy and practices they use, or consider using some of the practices more common in the European Union (transit and density) which many Canadians are ready to join.

I wonder if the survey asks people multiple times throughout multiple days. Like you ask me in the morning of a hangover I’m definitely down a few rungs compared to the night before. It would be best to know where the average rung you’re on is.

Eh, their policies are more like “fuck average canadians and protect the rich.” Their slogans and talking points are fuck Trudeau and fuck “carbon tax Carney” (carney is eliminating the carbon tax anyway which shows how poorly informed conservative slandering is).

In hockey “elbows up” is a sign a player would like to fight. In this context Canadians are telling America if you want to start a trade war and question our sovereignty, we are gonna put up a fight instead of just bending over.