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There are dozens of local CBC news broadcasts all over the country and they all feature someone with similarly strong enunciation and clipped pauses for emphasis. She certainly has…

I'm hugely in favour of adding non-market housing anywhere it can be added, but the author declaring it a different fix to the housing crisis from zoning is naive at best. Non-mark…

A phrase I heard from a tv writer on a podcast was "note behind the note". The gist of the conversation was about TV execs giving all sorts of bonkers notes all the time that are u…

There is at least some truth to induced demand with new housing driving an influx of new residents, especially in cities with economic opportunity. Just like transportation induced…

Taxing unrealized gains is a terrible idea, but I do think we need to expand the definition of realizing a gain. 0.1%ers borrowing against stocks and others assets and paying littl…

> A truck and a tank have a lot in common Maybe in 1942. Modern tanks cannot be built on highly specialized production lines that build road vehicles without years-long re-tooling.…

Another option is just stick to a smaller circuit. 80% of 15A x 120V = 1.4 kW 80% of 20A x 240V = 3.8 kW Just going from a standard 15A outlet to a 20A/240V nearly triples the amou…

30K would be on the higher end for air source. My install this year was 25k CDN including a lot of duct work. 40K is also on the low end for geothermal. I'm guessing you were able …

There are many passenger vehicles with brake-by-wire, but only one I'm aware of with steer-by-wire: cybertruck

We're already there. Emmanuel Clase is under investigation for fixing pitches and can't play right now. I don't love sports betting in general, but I really hate betting on short t…

Betting as a major sponsor and league endorsed? Yes, very new. We've come a long way from the black sox and Pete Rose being banned for life over gambling https://en.wikipedia.org/w…

I'm a huge fan of the automatic balls and strikes challenge system baseball is going to adopt. Awful calls need to be struck from the game and this should do that. Tonight my Blue …

Bruce C was scrapped 15 years ago. There is extensive long term refurbishment of the existing reactors that includes uprated capacity, but there isn't currently any plans to add ne…

Single stair is one of the reforms I'd most like to see. At the time 2 stair requirements were adopted it was vital, with devastating urban fires a common occurrence. We have so ma…

It costs a lot less to build transit infrastructure before or at the same time as everything else compared with adding it later, even if the line is underused as density is added. …

Overground is a great example of how to re-use existing rights of way, but I do think London is a bit in the sheer number of under or dis-used lines that were available. DLR is a s…

Great example from just this week. Here in Ontario the province passed a law directing themselves to remove separated bike lanes from Bloor Street, University Avenue, and Avenue Ro…

North American fire departments are among the biggest blockers of urban road safety improvements here, demanding huge lanes for huge trucks. Those lanes leave tons of space for oth…

Bus lifespan is 15-20 years max and needs tons of maintenance during that time. Trains last 40 years and go 100,000 miles+ between failures. Trains are a bigger upfront investment,…

Frequency is freedom. Nothing feels slower than standing still. Sitting in congested traffic sucks, and so does loitering on a train platform or a bus stop. When the vehicle arrive…

Both examples of Great Society metros that were on the bleeding edge of what was possible in the early 70s. Automatic train control advanced rapidly, with both Vancouver SkyTrain a…

Canada Line is a bit weird since it wasn't built by Translink and doesn't use the same technology as the rest of SkyTrain. It was under built by the P3 out of caution for opening i…

The elevated steel structures of the NYC subway and Chicago El have nothing in common with modern elevated rail. Modern concrete guideways are small and quiet. Melbourne is elimina…

That's true, but if you've kept a lid on construction costs as light metros tend to do, the public will embrace building new relief lines that bring more service to areas with mode…

There are off the shelf trains, tracks, and stations already. It's one of the key ways many european and asian operators deliver tons of transit for the dollar.