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We need to address the missing middle https://storeys.com/ontario-condos-getting-smaller-detached-homes-get-larger/

Fair, but similiarly anyone who truly made "decades-long plans" cannot reasonably claim to have been counting on the massive shift we saw in the last 4-6 years from said fuck up, and as such measures to bring prices back to a pre 2019 reality cant be fairly described as a "rug pull"

"Follow the money" as part of an argument skeptical of the science behind human caused climate change is one of the most puzzlingly ironic things you see

I had the same reaction. I also had it when I saw the means testing was individual, whereas both CCB and GIS are by household/couple. It's been top of mind since someone posted the article late 2023. I don't know what frustrates me more- that the waste exists or that it's being slept on as...

While true, I'd argue that there's a difference between how you're defining "investment" vs the article and what's been happening over the last decade. Optimizing your own housing situation as an investment in your own future vs. widespread adoption of housing as a speculative asset class and...

91k for 2024

HIJACK The OAS at 68.3Billion and rising. 6-10B going to the wealthy annually. That's literally 100x higher than the sum of ArriveCan and gun buyback scandals every single year, AND RISING. Hell including the 40m MetoWe stood to be paid for that scandal is a rounding error. Scandals are...

Good quick read. Touches on a lot of issues and solutions - and why they won't be implemented- already in this thread. https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/housing-prices-affordability-real-estate-1.7170775

Are you suggesting scrapping the ITC system all together, or just that business not get refund money back in periods where their ITC's are higher than their HST charged? By capital cost deduction, do you mean that it should be amortized? It would still have to be tracked- how is this reducing...

IMO cutting taxes prior to getting the budget in order AND properly funding the CAF would be incredibly irresponsible.

Horses for courses / apples and elephants An apartment building/condo complex/ stacked townhomes that tie into existing urban infrastructure is undoubtedly more efficient where feasible. Land lease in a rural setting? Different ballgame. A couple of shared wells, integrated septic/grey water...

What part of relaxing land-use restriction to both densify and take advantage of a lower cost of building to quickly increase affordable supply (with a yard and driveway) is a copout?

In a similar vein- Mobile homes could provide affordable housing option, but industry says it needs help

Here I was thinking the natural segue would be a comparison of comparisons- the LAV 6 and it's hypothetical suite of variants + Leo 2A4M vs. contemporaries, the M113 + LEO C1 vs. Abrams/Leo 2/Chieftan + Bradley/Marder/Warrior the likely conclusion is that if all the pieces were in place...

As the primary infantry vehicle? Depends on what decade.

I think a lot of it comes down to the platform wearing 3 decades worth of bad implementations across two different fleet recapitalizations. Thousand LAV Army Volume 1 was too light, and tried to create doctrine around a purchase decision (direct fire trinity) Thousand LAV Army Volume 2 was...

Disappointment on timelines, lack of firm commitments, excess of exploration aside - what do we think of the... principles? fundamentals? of the review? Is this something that a serious government could take as a foundational building block to build from and provide more money, tighter...

Well, exploring said things. Lots and lots of exploring.

Soon? The article's lead picture featuring armed soldiers has nothing to do with subliminally associating the accused with the military- nothing at all

I got thinking about this. Identification began on June 2017. Options Analysis Jan 2019. Contract award Sept 2019. 26-27 total months to award a contract to replace 2 fleets and deliver 8 variants/ capabilities in two different hull configurations- with a novel design. 2.5B for 360 vehicles...