Especially now that wall-to-wall carpet is out of fashion, the average American wood frame apartment is a noise pollution disaster. If you have an inconsiderate upstairs neighbor and a useless property manager, you basically just have to live with a lot more stress and a lot less sleep for a year.

We've made a lot of progress but our inner and outer suburban neighbourhoods remain zoned in many cases at four units maximum. We aren't going to get fourplexes at a huge scale and apartments in the cores will remain pricey for some time. We need to think slightly bigger.

Also, the Whos have the right length for the Christmas season: put up decorations the night beforehand. That's it.

To hell with 12 days of Christmas, and prison for 14 months if you play Christmas music in November.

Exactly. Coddling them is not helping them or anyone else, and makes things worse for others.

Hard times are war, depression, tyranny. Not "I saw on my smartphone that people I don't know are reading books at a library in another town at a voluntary family event that I didn't attend." FFS.

There's also a housing accelerator program from Trudeau's time that pays municipalities to fix zoning that has a couple years of funding left. It got quite a few places to legalize missing middle although some are trying to walk it back now. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Land use reforms are provincial jurisdiction. A federal bill to exempt homes over $1.5 million from federal sales tax is about to be signed into law, although it only applies to first time buyers. www.parl.ca/DocumentView...