@alex-krits.bsky.social
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It's actually vaguely understandable why dumb people become simps for China (unlike for Russia, where it genuinely makes no sense ever) when the US Republican Party is genuinely this vulgar in how they use even the theory of it causing harm to others.
January 24, 2026 at 5:10 PM
It's actually vaguely understandable why dumb people become simps for China (unlike for Russia, where it genuinely makes no sense ever) when the US Republican Party is genuinely this vulgar in how they use even the theory of it causing harm to others.
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"The government was warned by the people it charged with studying the issue both what was needed to turn the province’s housing sector around and what the risks of inaction were. Four years later, and the government has largely chosen inaction, when it hasn’t opted for outright bad actions."
January 23, 2026 at 12:39 PM
"The government was warned by the people it charged with studying the issue both what was needed to turn the province’s housing sector around and what the risks of inaction were. Four years later, and the government has largely chosen inaction, when it hasn’t opted for outright bad actions."
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the nationalism of the person under tangible military threat is not really comparable to the nationalism of the person making those threats, sorry
January 21, 2026 at 2:51 PM
the nationalism of the person under tangible military threat is not really comparable to the nationalism of the person making those threats, sorry
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“The strong do what they can" is what Athens said right before destroying itself. New piece on the Carney Doctrine, Vaclav’s grocer, and American hubris.
hegemon.substack.com/p/the-strong...
hegemon.substack.com/p/the-strong...
The Strong Will Suffer What They Must
Vaclav's Grocer and American Hubris
hegemon.substack.com
January 21, 2026 at 4:54 PM
“The strong do what they can" is what Athens said right before destroying itself. New piece on the Carney Doctrine, Vaclav’s grocer, and American hubris.
hegemon.substack.com/p/the-strong...
hegemon.substack.com/p/the-strong...
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We have a consultation problem. I write about a Toronto rec centre that will have taken 14 years to plan, cost at least three times the original budget - and be a bad building.
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
What is the cost of consultation?
Toronto recreation centre that started as $40-million project in 2016 has ballooned to nearly $113-million before construction even starts
www.theglobeandmail.com
January 20, 2026 at 3:41 PM
We have a consultation problem. I write about a Toronto rec centre that will have taken 14 years to plan, cost at least three times the original budget - and be a bad building.
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
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"[Ontario] wants the jobs that EV manufacturing can bring but apparently doesn’t want anyone to actually buy EVs — certainly not if the price is even modest consumer subsidies." — @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social
ANALYSIS: The big challenge for Doug Ford with Chinese EVs? Ontarians might like them | TVO Today
The premier worries that, once we let them in, they’ll be hard to get rid of. But that’ll only happen if drivers demand them.
amp.tvo.org
January 20, 2026 at 6:55 PM
"[Ontario] wants the jobs that EV manufacturing can bring but apparently doesn’t want anyone to actually buy EVs — certainly not if the price is even modest consumer subsidies." — @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social
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This new Toronto Subway order works out to be over 300,000 INT$/ linear meter of train. Shenzhen Metro Line 5's additional 39 sets of 6 car trains cost less than 90,000 INT$/linear meter of train.
January 20, 2026 at 4:55 PM
This new Toronto Subway order works out to be over 300,000 INT$/ linear meter of train. Shenzhen Metro Line 5's additional 39 sets of 6 car trains cost less than 90,000 INT$/linear meter of train.
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The substance of this piece by Bravo and Perks is correct… But the framing is a problem. 2/3 of all new housing is city-supported? That is not a victory. It is a sign of a housing market in collapse.
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
This is the only way Toronto will ever truly tackle its homelessness problem
Without federal and provincial support, Toronto can only do so much.
www.thestar.com
January 20, 2026 at 3:26 PM
The substance of this piece by Bravo and Perks is correct… But the framing is a problem. 2/3 of all new housing is city-supported? That is not a victory. It is a sign of a housing market in collapse.
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
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Note that populations were basically flat in the big 6 census metropolitan areas in 2025 due to the big change in federal TFW policy but only Toronto saw a big decline in housing starts. Should tell local politicians and planners that we're the problem but most (not all) of them are still in denial.
January 17, 2026 at 2:12 PM
Note that populations were basically flat in the big 6 census metropolitan areas in 2025 due to the big change in federal TFW policy but only Toronto saw a big decline in housing starts. Should tell local politicians and planners that we're the problem but most (not all) of them are still in denial.
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this will never stop being funny
January 17, 2026 at 1:43 AM
this will never stop being funny
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It’s weird how this debate focuses either on reactionary “we’re being replaced!!!” Anxieties or bleeding heart “well we need to support families” and not “hey an economy where everyone works in eldercare is gonna be fairly unproductive and suck for workers”
I’m gonna say it: it’s stupid how psychotic people get when birthrates are discussed. If you scream at and shout down anyone who isn’t a handmaids tale type when the subject comes up, then the policy space is going to be dominated by them, for what’s clearly going to be a consequential issue.
January 13, 2026 at 6:59 PM
It’s weird how this debate focuses either on reactionary “we’re being replaced!!!” Anxieties or bleeding heart “well we need to support families” and not “hey an economy where everyone works in eldercare is gonna be fairly unproductive and suck for workers”
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it does bother me that many realists take this statement as showing the eternal wisdom of their ideology when it's thucydides demonstrating the pitfalls of imperial hubris
January 6, 2026 at 5:17 PM
it does bother me that many realists take this statement as showing the eternal wisdom of their ideology when it's thucydides demonstrating the pitfalls of imperial hubris
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some people love quoting "the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must." That was Athens saying that at the height of its empire. Few of those people seem to remember what happened to Athens the very next year.
January 6, 2026 at 5:14 PM
some people love quoting "the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must." That was Athens saying that at the height of its empire. Few of those people seem to remember what happened to Athens the very next year.
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For those keeping track at home, Housing Now started in 2019, and at least right now it doesn't look likely to create any affordable units by the end of 2026.
January 7, 2026 at 2:02 PM
For those keeping track at home, Housing Now started in 2019, and at least right now it doesn't look likely to create any affordable units by the end of 2026.
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The amount of “this is clearly about oil” posting across all platforms as story after story comes out where the oil industry is saying that the oil isn’t worth extracting is making me feel a little insane
January 4, 2026 at 2:54 PM
The amount of “this is clearly about oil” posting across all platforms as story after story comes out where the oil industry is saying that the oil isn’t worth extracting is making me feel a little insane
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This is part of a bigger trend of the political valence of oil disconnecting from the actual economics of O and G. I keep telling people to do a little humorous anthropology and read the industry sub Reddit. Half the posts are joking that the industry boosters are morons or old and out of touch.
The amount of “this is clearly about oil” posting across all platforms as story after story comes out where the oil industry is saying that the oil isn’t worth extracting is making me feel a little insane
January 4, 2026 at 2:59 PM
This is part of a bigger trend of the political valence of oil disconnecting from the actual economics of O and G. I keep telling people to do a little humorous anthropology and read the industry sub Reddit. Half the posts are joking that the industry boosters are morons or old and out of touch.
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Waterloo Region is about to shoot itself in the foot with a new hospital decision, so I wrote a blog post on why locating hospitals is so important, and the *many* better places they could put this one.
open.substack.com/pub/nextmetr...
open.substack.com/pub/nextmetr...
An Urgent and Avoidable Transit Mistake in Waterloo Region.
A Transit-Forward Town Takes A Step Back.
open.substack.com
January 1, 2026 at 6:07 PM
Waterloo Region is about to shoot itself in the foot with a new hospital decision, so I wrote a blog post on why locating hospitals is so important, and the *many* better places they could put this one.
open.substack.com/pub/nextmetr...
open.substack.com/pub/nextmetr...
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new GWU National Security Archive release
putin in his first meeting with bush, june 2001, already pining for the empire
putin in his first meeting with bush, june 2001, already pining for the empire
December 25, 2025 at 5:18 PM
new GWU National Security Archive release
putin in his first meeting with bush, june 2001, already pining for the empire
putin in his first meeting with bush, june 2001, already pining for the empire
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Sounds like it was totally about NATO, huh?
new GWU National Security Archive release
putin in his first meeting with bush, june 2001, already pining for the empire
putin in his first meeting with bush, june 2001, already pining for the empire
December 25, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Sounds like it was totally about NATO, huh?
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MNTO member Hana Suckstorff has penned a reflective piece over a small apartment proposal that lost at CoA and is now being appealed at TLAB.
On the nature of "neighbourhood character", and what is lost when we apply it only to built-form.
hsuckstorff.substack.com/p/saving-the...
On the nature of "neighbourhood character", and what is lost when we apply it only to built-form.
hsuckstorff.substack.com/p/saving-the...
December 24, 2025 at 3:46 AM
MNTO member Hana Suckstorff has penned a reflective piece over a small apartment proposal that lost at CoA and is now being appealed at TLAB.
On the nature of "neighbourhood character", and what is lost when we apply it only to built-form.
hsuckstorff.substack.com/p/saving-the...
On the nature of "neighbourhood character", and what is lost when we apply it only to built-form.
hsuckstorff.substack.com/p/saving-the...
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Official data is in today, and US solar continues to grow rapidly, with generation up 21% compared to last year!
December 23, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Official data is in today, and US solar continues to grow rapidly, with generation up 21% compared to last year!
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russia really brings out the worst people from all sides, the tankies and the maga chuds united in defending one of the worst regimes on earth. best example of horseshoe theory since molotov-ribbentrop
December 19, 2025 at 12:57 PM
russia really brings out the worst people from all sides, the tankies and the maga chuds united in defending one of the worst regimes on earth. best example of horseshoe theory since molotov-ribbentrop
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Allowing Small Single Stairs building in Toronto would unlock many more homes to be built
And now the State of Minnesota found that these buildings are also safer.
And now the State of Minnesota found that these buildings are also safer.
A new bombshell modeling report by the State of Minnesota has found that small single-stair buildings with smoke-separated stairwells are likely to be SIGNIFICANTLY SAFER than typical double-loaded apartment buildings
December 18, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Allowing Small Single Stairs building in Toronto would unlock many more homes to be built
And now the State of Minnesota found that these buildings are also safer.
And now the State of Minnesota found that these buildings are also safer.
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Stalin, a supremely paranoid man, was positive Hitler would not invade Russia in 1941 because a two front war would obviously be very dumb. But it turns out dictators do very dumb things.
December 18, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Stalin, a supremely paranoid man, was positive Hitler would not invade Russia in 1941 because a two front war would obviously be very dumb. But it turns out dictators do very dumb things.