Halifax Tar
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Definitely topical right now in the HRM.
Liberal (Minority/Majority) Government 2025 - ???
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Definitely topical right now in the HRM.
MilEME09
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This is where the city and province, anticipating the growth need to start getting houses built now.
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Working n this space as I do, I fully concur.There is a negative business trend, though, viz:
Canada’s 57% collapse: The missing entrepreneurs behind our growth crisis
The country that built Shopify and Lululemon is now producing fewer builders than at any time in four decades. The data should alarm us
Between 2000 and 2022, the number of self-employed Canadians with paid employees—the founders most likely to scale, hire, and challenge incumbents—fell by 57 percent, from 3.0 to 1.3 per thousand working-age adults. As Falice Chin documented in The Hub, this quiet collapse sits at the heart of one of Canada’s most consequential and least discussed economic problems: the country is producing fewer builders than it used to.
The broader picture is no more reassuring. Self-employment has slipped from 17 percent of total employment a quarter-century ago to 12.8 percent, the lowest share in 45 years. The business entry rate fell from 15.2 percent in 2008 to 12.3 percent in 2023, a fraction of the nearly 25 percent Canada achieved in the early 1980s. The Canadian Federation of Independent Business now describes an “entrepreneurial drought,” pointing to six consecutive quarters in which more businesses closed than opened—something that rarely happens even in recessions.
Canada’s 57% collapse: The missing entrepreneurs behind our growth crisis
Canada lost more than half its entrepreneurial activity. The reasons behind this 57% collapse reveal a deeper economic crisis most Canadians aren't talking about.thehub.ca
This morning I happened to read all 62 pages of the CPC Policy Framework (it was on my reading list for some time). There isn't even a section, let alone a paragraph, on innovation, expanded access capital for startups etc, or even a mention of productivity.
Seems no one is listening.
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Not unlike me with my chin ups, we’ve lost the ‘muscle memory’ in the stampede to make everyone part of the public sector over the past decade +. )
wasn't it 40% of those surveyed which is a lot different. But the article on rail traffic efficiencies spells out the problems quite succinctly and it seems to boil down to the difficulties and costs of trying to satisfy government bureaucracy and satisfy all the requirements for consultation on top of the environmental problems. So rather than fail they talk about moving and that was going on before the tariffs. All tariffs did was make it a more appealing option
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Not opposed to that idea at all. I think it’s the only way to reform the senate without opening the constitution. We just need prime ministers to agree to recommend for appointment whomever the elected nominee is. Perhaps even have the federal government run the senatorial elections. Have the legislative framework only deal with election of senate nominees, leaving appointments still within crown prerogative. Eventually a constitutional convention would develop, that would strongly require the king appoint the elected nominee. The advantage of the British constitutional model, is a lot of change can be accomplished through “just muddling through and doing it until it becomes a tradition “
This is pretty much a bang on take, I think. A convention could conceivably be established in that way, though I’d say it would take a couple decades of multiple governments of different parties consistently doing it that way.
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The current apportionment of senators needs to be addressed, though. Four senators for Anne of Green Gables is a historical abomination.
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Nobody is changing the constitution.
daftandbarmy
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Don't be mad because PEI made a smarter deal joining confederation than some others...
Fancy bridge(eventually), four senators, and the railway debt cleared? Who wouldn't take that deal?
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This misses the point of the Senate, which is to base representation on something other than population. One can make an argument the PEI be rolled into the 24 seats the “east” gets or that each province gets an equal number of senators (10 each?). However no solution will result in anything other than PEI being grossly over represented. Further as has been pointed out elsewhere, no one has an appetite for opening the constitution.
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One of the BC Terms of Union was a railway connection to the rest of Canada.Quid pro quo: Vancouver Island gets a bridge too, right?
On of the PEI Terms of Union was for the federal government to maintain a service for mail and passengers across the Northumberland Strait (which evolved into the bridge).
Both got what they asked for.
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What's your guess on the number of warm bodies HRM will gain over the next 10yrs?
Assume
- 15 Rivers continue to move forward with 8 eventually stationed in HRM
- Sub maint. facility for 5-6 EC subs
- CDC's are put into motion and build with 16 built (not at Irving in HRM) and 8 stationed on EC
- CAF enlistment continues to be successful and retention is handled
- Unknown number of Orca-like training vessels stationed at HRM
Halifax Tar
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The Premier and the Mayor want to double the size of the province in 20 years. With 500K more in Halifax, making it a million person city.
Depends on economic and political factors and the actual delivery of these defence announcements but it might be possible...
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Seriously?!
That’s 25,000/yr, that’s like 8-11,000 new homes in the greater HRM region per year. Can you build out the infrastructure to handle that every year?
Adding 100-150k over 20yrs would be quite the achievement.
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Its honestly a good thing. We need to spread the population around Canada more. No reason Halifax shouldnt be Winnipeg size in 30ish years. A million seems a stretch though.
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That’s 3.5% annual growth. Is that unreasonable?
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Yes and? Whats your point? IRCC has plenty of incentives to get people to move places. Thats how they get immigrants all the way to Yellowknife. If there's a will and jobs, there's a way.
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