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Western Canadian well versed in city building & social movements. Mostly keeping tabs on the goings-on on a better platform.

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Cumulative distribution of units added by distance from closest LRT stop. Existing, under construction and funded, building permits 2009-2025.

Cumulative distribution of units added by distance from closest LRT stop. Existing, under construction and funded, building permits 2009-2025.

2025 is based so far. #yeg #yegcc

12.05.2025 02:36 πŸ‘ 24 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

there is no β€œepidemic,” he is almost certainly going to say it is vaccines and, well, stay safe everyone.

10.04.2025 17:44 πŸ‘ 24839 πŸ” 4007 πŸ’¬ 1112 πŸ“Œ 388

But sure, also brag about how soon you'll also put on another rager.

09.04.2025 18:01 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

And all your neighbours want to punch you and your friends in the face for doing it and disrupting the neighbourhood AGAIN.

09.04.2025 17:59 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Countries like Cuba, under sanction from the US, had to develop systems of maintaining and self-modifying old equipment to get by. Congrats America, guess you thought that approach worked so well you're now doing it to yourselves πŸ‘.

08.04.2025 21:58 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Unintentionally stimulating Canadian and Mexican border cities by using them as pass-throughs to avoid and minimize these outrages tarriff fees will be the funniest outcome of this whole ridiculous situation.

08.04.2025 18:40 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Just figured out where these fake tariff rates come from. They didn't actually calculate tariff rates + non-tariff barriers, as they say they did. Instead, for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us.

So we have a $17.9 billion trade deficit with Indonesia. Its exports to us are $28 billion. $17.9/$28 = 64%, which Trump claims is the tariff rate Indonesia charges us. What extraordinary nonsense this is.

Just figured out where these fake tariff rates come from. They didn't actually calculate tariff rates + non-tariff barriers, as they say they did. Instead, for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us. So we have a $17.9 billion trade deficit with Indonesia. Its exports to us are $28 billion. $17.9/$28 = 64%, which Trump claims is the tariff rate Indonesia charges us. What extraordinary nonsense this is.

james surowiecki has discovered where the completely fabricated trump tariff rate has come from for each country

"...for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us."

02.04.2025 22:32 πŸ‘ 12475 πŸ” 5332 πŸ’¬ 448 πŸ“Œ 1277
Animaniacs SING-ALONG 🎀 | Yakko’s World | WB Kids
Animaniacs SING-ALONG 🎀 | Yakko’s World | WB Kids YouTube video by WB Kids

A complete list of every country now thoroughly pissed off with America.

youtu.be/V1508wboZXk?...

03.04.2025 00:21 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Moreover, the one resource we desperately need to defy an authoritarian regime is TIME. And even if we can’t always stop them, we can stall for time. We can force them to drag it out. We can make them burn their precious resources on having to slow down and reset repeatedly. Time is a win.

01.04.2025 19:38 πŸ‘ 1171 πŸ” 274 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 4

America's self immolating delusion that blanketly killing off, deporting, and firing swaths of people will somehow lead to increased purchasing power and record corporate gains is equal parts fascinating in its idiocy and unbearably morbid to an outside observer.

01.04.2025 16:05 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

What's disturbing and i hadn't realized is how much of the other percent just try to ignore the lie or pretend its theatre, until it's directly affecting them.

26.03.2025 17:45 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

There's an old stat I cant find again for the life of me - you can convince 30%+ of a society's ppl to go along w/ ANYTHING stated by an authority figure (post WWII experiment? tested w/ obviously false math answers being told repeatedly were correct) Seems to repeatedly hold true in modern context.

26.03.2025 17:45 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump to declare fentanyl β€œWeapon of Mass Destruction," per draft EO A copy of the draft was obtained and reviewed by The Handbasket.

SCOOPβ€”Trump plans to issue an executive order designating fentanyl as a "Weapon of Mass Destruction," per copy of EO reviewed by me. Source at State speculates purpose is to designate cartels as terrorist orgs/justify military ops in Mexico/Canada.

Context/full text of draft only on The Handbasket:

18.03.2025 18:18 πŸ‘ 6021 πŸ” 2584 πŸ’¬ 1062 πŸ“Œ 2412

Jk. Even Arstotzka had more consistent policies and rules to maintain even a sliver of a functioning economy.

17.03.2025 23:15 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Anyone make a 4-year cut of the Papers, Please! theme yet?

17.03.2025 23:14 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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How a Columbia Student Fled to Canada After ICE Came Looking for Her Ranjani Srinivasan’s student visa was revoked by U.S. immigration authorities. That was just the start of her odyssey.

FWIW for transportation reform advocates who think this stuff isn't connected to your issues (which it absolutely is), this woman was a doctoral student in urban planning.

17.03.2025 15:16 πŸ‘ 41 πŸ” 16 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

β€œBut it won’t be affordable,” neighbours in $2M homes complain about a proposed apartment building

14.03.2025 14:30 πŸ‘ 41 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Hey Maine, Vermont, Washington, New York, Massachusetts, Oregon.... the line is artificial, come on up.

We have healthcare, gun control, rank higher on nearly every metric, and our judicial system is built to provide actual checks and balances.

13.03.2025 20:33 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
point access block rendering from edmonton PAB design guide

point access block rendering from edmonton PAB design guide

point access block floor plan from edmonton PAB design guide

point access block floor plan from edmonton PAB design guide

point access block rendering from edmonton PAB design guide

point access block rendering from edmonton PAB design guide

point access block floor plan from edmonton PAB design guide

point access block floor plan from edmonton PAB design guide

rad. the city of edmonton's alternative solution path for point access blocks is now live.

check out the design guide (scroll down the page a little)

family sized homes. units w/ decent light and ventilation

incredible effort initiated by @michaeljanz.bsky.social

www.edmonton.ca/business_eco...

12.03.2025 20:03 πŸ‘ 113 πŸ” 24 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 7

Heck, at least 6 someones are getting an arm to help them up, instead of a boot to the ladder they're climbing.

11.03.2025 17:20 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Canada needs to take an economic wartime footing: find more trading partners, do what it takes to build infrastructure that allows us to be independent of the yanks, everything

11.03.2025 15:04 πŸ‘ 212 πŸ” 25 πŸ’¬ 13 πŸ“Œ 6

....which Russia stole wholesale from America, using secret [ie totally made up] WMD labs to justify military action during the war in Iraq.

We know where this goes, and we cannot take it lightly.

09.03.2025 16:42 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

An erratic and unstable person moves in next door and starts making threats against you and others on the block.

Can you say for sure they’ll do something? No.

Do you take it seriously? Hell yes.

09.03.2025 00:39 πŸ‘ 86 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

"They're saying it's not about fentanyl, you're saying it is". Guess we better weight the responses as equal.

wHo CouLd PoSsiBLy kNoW tHE aNSwEr??????

04.03.2025 19:57 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I wonder if America realizes that trust in America won't be rebuilt just by voting for a president with a different approach, if the threat of the current kind of president being elected is always looming.

04.03.2025 14:53 πŸ‘ 651 πŸ” 131 πŸ’¬ 40 πŸ“Œ 26

Great op-ed, and also an opportunity to remind - from their mil. $ house, partner to Better Infill's main spokesperson fought for a 1/3 reduction of units in compassion house for cancer patients & family to 'protect' homeowner across the street. Better for whom? edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n....

27.02.2025 17:12 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Need to expand the market for lumber? Build the houses Canada's been kneecapping itself over.

Need to expand the market for Canadian steel and metals? Build the high-speed rail system.

Multiple solutions are at our fingertips if we just muster the basic courage to do them.

13.02.2025 19:17 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0