Recent content by lenaitch

I agree. Criminal matters are for the courts and discipline matters are for the service. I'm not aware of any system that combines or in-houses both but I don't really know. The Calgary video was nasty. Seeing as he is described as avoiding jail time then the assumption is there was a...

Fair enough but I think there are good and not-so-good ways to do it so the neighbourhood dynamic isn't disrupted. A fourplex with each unit of a decent size on a single lot might be a bit much but using two lots (or go deep if it is a deep lot) immediately doubles the density. 'Never...

I had a 79; one of the most pleasurable and fun to drive cars I ever owned (next to a Miata). As a typical Asian import of the day, though, it ran like a top long after the body disintegrated.

I hear you. I live in the weeds for a reason. Interesting about the fourplexes. I don't follow the issue that closely but apparently the feds favour them for density which has a tie to federal funding. In Ontario, the premier hates them for some reason. I'm not sure I would call a fourplex...

It makes sense . . . until it doesn't. During COVID lockdowns, couples living in tiny condos determined that they needed more space ('I don't like you that much'), got a COVID dog and/or had a kid. Many went looking for larger condos but multiple bedroom condos are really scarce in Toronto, so...

Since you asked. No doubt the sources will be dismissed as suspect or biased but I'll just drop these here: https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/29/politics/trump-intelligence-briefings/index.html#:~:text=Trump%20rarely%2C%20if%20at%20all,analyst%20tapped%20for%20the%20job. (apparently he liked...

On another forum I follow that is mostly younger urban or urban-centric members there is vocal call for capital gains on primary residences to be taxed (some say at interest level) to unlock the wealth that boomers are hoarding. To many, boomers are the cause of all that is currently wrong...

The travel grant is also for travel within the north to regional cancer centres, etc. Work on the Northlander has already begun; trainsets ordered, infrastructure upgrades started. Target for 2026. The other travel options are fly our of one of the cities (not cheap) or, of course, drive.

Didn't Maverick already figure that out with a nap-of-the-earth approach, a Star Wars-y launch and a high-g exit?

I can fully appreciate that. I've visited a friend, retired Ontario municipal copper who moved down a few years ago and before Portapique and experienced the community's 'displeasured' with the RCMP. The "as much as they can be" part will be the expensive last mile. Outside of federal...

Be that as it may, you said it can't, I pointed out that it can.

I'm not familiar with CBR area. We have a couple of similar situations here is Ontario as well, although smaller.

You may be right, but I don't necessarily subscribe. I'll take your word that the tax base is growing, but is that province-wide or just in the Halifax area? I don't get the sense that the rest of the province is booming along, and rural taxpayers may be ill-disposed to make up the 30% or...

We did the 'three monkeys' thing before WWII. To be fair, a lot of countries did but, even after it started, we still did our best to simultaneously look the other way and appear intensely interested at the same time. How many houses have fire extinguishers? How many would have smoke...

It seems at least one province doesn't like being cut out of the discussion. https://edmonton.ctvnews.ca/alberta-tables-gatekeeper-bill-on-federal-funding-cites-housing-money-as-last-straw-1.6841795