Recent content by YZT580

they are knocking down the neighbour's house because it is cheaper by far to put two residences or more onto a city lot than it is to install the new infrastructure required to expand the city outwards. For the same reasons it is cheaper for the developer to pay the city a sum in lieu of...

What possible advantage is there in tearing down the odd building for what a dozen thrown up apartments? Vast areas of Eastern Europe suffer from the same blight: the soviets tore down whole neighbourhoods to build what have to be amongst the ugliest buildings in the world to house the masses...

You are correct. There is no free society. All groups are constrained by particular rules that govern their behaviour. The difficulty lies in an organization that defines its parameters after the fact which is the case in many of these disciplinary actions. Currently, if you go on a racist...

if a person is unable to express an opinion without fear of social consequences as you so nicely put it then you are not living in a free society. If the government doesn't back up your freedom to speak on an issue then they are de facto aiding and abetting society's censorship. This is all...

At least in my town, every application for doubling up on lots is accompanied by an application for a change to set-backs, parking, or ground coverage.

not quite true. There are numerous examples of people getting fired recently for making a statement that didn't fit with the woke concepts; including politicians being thrown out of their parties

fractional issue only. The best bang for the buck is to preserve the Amazon and green up the cities so they are less of a heat sink. CO2 spreads well into the atmosphere so its effect should be felt universally. Its not. The Antarctica hasn't warmed at all whilst the Arctic has significantly...

During the early years of covid, our Co2 output dropped sharply yet there was no corresponding drop in temperatures. This should have been an indicator that we were chasing the wrong culprit. Water vapour has a far greater influence on temperatures than does carbon as does methane but neither...

true I suppose but it is very apparent that many have been well maintain above the water line and show a lot of wear and tear below. That applies to even the well maintained ones. The primary exceptions being the cruise lines of course

you really think so? Sitting next to Lock 1 on the Welland might just change your mind about that. Most going through are showing significant rust, dents, scrapes. I believe that they require an out of water inspection every 5 years and I can assure you that when they leave the dry dock many...

agreed but it does work out to be a good way to have money for the sunset years. Most of us can't save, invest, and put kids through school at the same time as paying the rent. Having a mortgage payment is to my mind just a form of forced savings.

actually, it does. If you don't know, don't do anything; First line because we don't know enough about what influence we are actually having, if any, on global climate change. Full stop. We don't even have enough accurate and uncontaminated thermometers to give us reliable temperature...

until you can verify the difference don't do anything. The historical record shows that there was more CO2 a long time ago. Temperatures were higher, a long time ago. Oh and CO2 levels were lower a long time ago and temperatures were lower a long time ago. And we had nothing to do with any...

So if the population hasn't increased, there shouldn't be any panic requirement for new housing and we know that isn't true. Somewhere there are a whole bunch of people in this country who haven't been accounted for. Primarily students and illegals I would guess. So your provinces are...