Brendan Dawe
@dawe.bsky.social
Your friendly neighbourhood Vancouverite
Housing abundance enthusiast. Planning & Real Estate Consultant.
Vive le Canada. Elbows Up
Housing abundance enthusiast. Planning & Real Estate Consultant.
Vive le Canada. Elbows Up
they could have at least obliged Smith to repeal her job-killing wind-turbine nimby regulations issued last year.
November 27, 2025 at 6:57 PM
they could have at least obliged Smith to repeal her job-killing wind-turbine nimby regulations issued last year.
Russil Wvong has put together a great summary of what the Professional Reliance Act would do and why it’s a good idea
morehousing.substack.com/p/third-part...
morehousing.substack.com/p/third-part...
M216: Professional Reliance Act
TLDR: There’s a private member’s bill from George Anderson (NDP MLA for Nanaimo-Lantzville), under which engineers or architects rather than municipal regulators would bear the responsibility for tech...
morehousing.substack.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Russil Wvong has put together a great summary of what the Professional Reliance Act would do and why it’s a good idea
morehousing.substack.com/p/third-part...
morehousing.substack.com/p/third-part...
Anyone know anything about this catamaran tooling around the harbour all morning?
November 26, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Anyone know anything about this catamaran tooling around the harbour all morning?
Losing the Celebration of Light, a real city-wide event that’s open for everyone, is a true loss. I say that even if my strata has to rent fencing every summer to keep you animals from befouling the landscaping
November 26, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Losing the Celebration of Light, a real city-wide event that’s open for everyone, is a true loss. I say that even if my strata has to rent fencing every summer to keep you animals from befouling the landscaping
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This is huge news in the brewing world. I guess it makes sense. An institution that educates brewers from all over the world needs to be located in a liberal democracy, a country that is open to the world.
The Siebel Institute is relocating from Chicago to Montreal.
www.ctvnews.ca/business/art...
The Siebel Institute is relocating from Chicago to Montreal.
www.ctvnews.ca/business/art...
World-famous brewing institution leaving U.S. for Canada
A renowned American beer brewing school is heading north and getting ready to settle in at a new address in Montreal.
www.ctvnews.ca
November 26, 2025 at 4:07 PM
This is huge news in the brewing world. I guess it makes sense. An institution that educates brewers from all over the world needs to be located in a liberal democracy, a country that is open to the world.
The Siebel Institute is relocating from Chicago to Montreal.
www.ctvnews.ca/business/art...
The Siebel Institute is relocating from Chicago to Montreal.
www.ctvnews.ca/business/art...
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Great news, Vancouverites doubled up more between 2021 and 2024, so based on that baseline we now need fewer homes to accommodate future population growth!
Metro Vancouver still working hard to coordinate the worsening of our housing shortage...
Metro Vancouver still working hard to coordinate the worsening of our housing shortage...
November 26, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Great news, Vancouverites doubled up more between 2021 and 2024, so based on that baseline we now need fewer homes to accommodate future population growth!
Metro Vancouver still working hard to coordinate the worsening of our housing shortage...
Metro Vancouver still working hard to coordinate the worsening of our housing shortage...
Adjusting the property tax increase for inflation, we can see that the zero-percent budget represents a 2% tax cut in real terms, the largest in the last 16 years.
November 26, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Adjusting the property tax increase for inflation, we can see that the zero-percent budget represents a 2% tax cut in real terms, the largest in the last 16 years.
I wonder how concerned they are in Ottawa that our neighbour appears to be about to launch a war of aggression in the Western Hemisphere
November 25, 2025 at 5:43 AM
I wonder how concerned they are in Ottawa that our neighbour appears to be about to launch a war of aggression in the Western Hemisphere
Why does this keep happening?
Did I hear correctly that it will be slower and less frequent than the Finch buses?
November 24, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Why does this keep happening?
The analogy actually kind of works. “The Crown jewels“ were never the source of the King‘s power that would be “the Crown Estate” or ‘the material productive endowment of the regime’
Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.
One of the bragging rights that the US ed system had in the 20th century is that we didn't have education tracks. Essentially, any kid could go to a CC or state school & major in whatever they wanted to (obviously an oversimplification). I fear this aspect of the American dream is dying.
November 23, 2025 at 5:25 PM
The analogy actually kind of works. “The Crown jewels“ were never the source of the King‘s power that would be “the Crown Estate” or ‘the material productive endowment of the regime’
lol, LMAO even
I think this is mostly San Francisco finally shrugging off the pandemic, but it is *really* funny that rent prices in San Francisco shot up *immediately* after the city banned RealPage and other algorithmic price setting software.
My pre trends are incredible!
My pre trends are incredible!
November 23, 2025 at 4:34 PM
lol, LMAO even
Game of Life has gone Woke
November 23, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Game of Life has gone Woke
I do wish that left thought leaders could more resist the urge to problematize letting-people-build-housing-with-their-own-money
Canadians don’t need more platitudes or private market incentives, they need real solutions.
We can't rely on the market to fix what it broke. We need a massive, wartime-level investment in affordable public housing.
Housing is a human right. Let's start acting like it.
We can't rely on the market to fix what it broke. We need a massive, wartime-level investment in affordable public housing.
Housing is a human right. Let's start acting like it.
November 22, 2025 at 9:21 PM
I do wish that left thought leaders could more resist the urge to problematize letting-people-build-housing-with-their-own-money
Please confirm you have read the text on the page before you accuse Jarrett Walker of claiming that Toronto is all of Canada
When the US was swept with the new-streetcars-mixed-with-traffic fad in the 00s, Canada didn’t build a single one. They only built rail in exclusive lanes.
I wonder if that’s because most educated Canadians have visited Toronto and experienced its old streetcar lines.
I wonder if that’s because most educated Canadians have visited Toronto and experienced its old streetcar lines.
November 22, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Please confirm you have read the text on the page before you accuse Jarrett Walker of claiming that Toronto is all of Canada
Fun Fact: shortly after the first length of the Skytrain opened in 1986 Metro Vancouver had a population of 1,542,745. Since that time population has doubled, but the 1986 population is similar to Calgary, Ottawa or Edmonton today
November 21, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Fun Fact: shortly after the first length of the Skytrain opened in 1986 Metro Vancouver had a population of 1,542,745. Since that time population has doubled, but the 1986 population is similar to Calgary, Ottawa or Edmonton today
Military Spending as a share of Gross Domestic Product of the Kingdom of Two Sicilies: A Data Set that Exists
November 21, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Military Spending as a share of Gross Domestic Product of the Kingdom of Two Sicilies: A Data Set that Exists
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One of the biggest problems we have in the public transit space is that people who should be leading conversations often say things which are just completely untrue. I talk about it in today’s article:
open.substack.com/pub/nextmetr...
open.substack.com/pub/nextmetr...
The Transit "Experts" That Derail Transit.
My Grand Theory of North America's Transit Expansion Failures.
open.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:38 PM
One of the biggest problems we have in the public transit space is that people who should be leading conversations often say things which are just completely untrue. I talk about it in today’s article:
open.substack.com/pub/nextmetr...
open.substack.com/pub/nextmetr...
the People demand walkable cul de sacs. How that preference resolves itself in the real world is not so readily apparent
November 20, 2025 at 2:43 PM
the People demand walkable cul de sacs. How that preference resolves itself in the real world is not so readily apparent
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@dawe.bsky.social they might finally switch Richmond Hill onto the Don Branch!!
November 19, 2025 at 2:23 AM
@dawe.bsky.social they might finally switch Richmond Hill onto the Don Branch!!
You're not procrastinating when you play their little linkedin puzzle game, you're sharpening your brain. playing zip is good for you. Brain-embiggening, even
November 18, 2025 at 5:47 PM
You're not procrastinating when you play their little linkedin puzzle game, you're sharpening your brain. playing zip is good for you. Brain-embiggening, even
It would seem to be a simple reform here to enable crown leases to be seized for nonpayment of property taxes
A northern B.C. community faces a massive revenue shortfall after an oil company went bust without paying nearly $9 million in outstanding property taxes, interest and penalties.
Ben Parfitt reports. #bcpoli
Ben Parfitt reports. #bcpoli
A Sprawling BC Community Is Set to Lose Millions Owed by Oil Firm | The Tyee
Bankrupt Erikson National Energy leaves Northern Rockies Regional Municipality deep in the hole for tax revenues.
thetyee.ca
November 18, 2025 at 5:11 PM
It would seem to be a simple reform here to enable crown leases to be seized for nonpayment of property taxes
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Jokes aside, an accessibility standard in Canada (voluntary until it’s not) is now calling for stairs that are 1.65m wide in all new buildings. That’s 65 in…wide enough that it would require an intervening handrail, like it’s an entrance to a stadium or metro accessible.canada.ca/creating-acc...
Overview of CAN-ASC-2.2 – Emergency Egress (Exit) - Accessibility Standards Canada
accessible.canada.ca
November 17, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Jokes aside, an accessibility standard in Canada (voluntary until it’s not) is now calling for stairs that are 1.65m wide in all new buildings. That’s 65 in…wide enough that it would require an intervening handrail, like it’s an entrance to a stadium or metro accessible.canada.ca/creating-acc...
Thanks Kae and Monica
November 17, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Thanks Kae and Monica
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neat map on the carbon intensity of electrical grids
Voici une carte interactive fascinante partagée cette semaine à Moteur de recherche par notre collaboratrice Annie Levasseur, prof-chercheure à @etsmtl.bsky.social: les échanges et l'intensité carbone des réseaux électriques en temps réel. app.electricitymaps.com/map/live/fif...
November 15, 2025 at 7:27 PM
neat map on the carbon intensity of electrical grids