the planner's disease is prescribing the precise form and location of housing you think people need, evidence shows us that conservatives are just as prone to it as progressives

things are simpler if you assume most people are just trying to balance cost, sq ft, and commute

I literally had an MP3 on my phone for YEARS of Matlow's questioning of Holyday, which ended with the words 'who hurt you?'

No really, it would come on during car trips if I set my phone to shuffle, a real conversation starter.

that's me, famously silent about the Ford government's housing policy

let's just check and see what the topic of my latest column is, published today
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White moose captured on camera in Northwestern Ontario tbnewswatch.com/local-news/whi…

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Ontario Premier Doug Ford Doug Ford embraces NDP MPP Sol Mamakwa after MPP Mamakwa speaks in his Indigenous Oji-Cree language for the first time in the legislature #onpoli

public health policy by generalized fraud

NEW: Late last year, in the wake of the Greenbelt scandal, senior staff in the Ford gov’t were reminded of their code of conduct obligations by the Premier’s chief of staff.

That reminder was sent on Gmail, Global News has learned.

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#onpoli

#StarExclusive : Premier Doug Ford is considering an early election call before the scheduled 2026 vote over concerns about cuts a future federal Conservative government might impose, the Star has learned. trib.al/uB41Nia

shockingly, cooking your food has benefits

Vancouver planning is fundamentally broken, we can’t even redevelop a fire hall into a more modern fire hall with added office space in a modest 4-storey 2 FSR form without creating a whole new specialized zoning district that applies to this parcel but nowhere else.

From my paper on lowering the voting age, here are a few thoughts on how young people are being treated in Britain, especially since the Covid pandemic.

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