Plus, on top of that, HRM has been *fighting* agglomeration economies since before amalgamation. The business parks are entirely an attempt to pull economic activity out of the downtown core.

And "fairness" is a terrible lens for this analysis. Is it fair that folks who don't want to ride the bus for status reasons get to park their private vehicles for - often - less than the cost of bus fare? ($6 single ticket round trip vs $2/hr across all but the most in-demand zones at peak times)

Quebexit gonna go great for sure eh

The rest of Ontario: “how dare Toronto? We’re going to vote for Ford to punish them!”

(Services collapse and housing prices soar as people just move out of Toronto)

TRoO: “clearly we’re not punishing Toronto enough!”

Please tell me “&” is actually part of their legal company name because that would be an incredible level of petty dickishness

And they’re kinda a fucking mess; you can’t even work out who won elections a decade ago without tracing through a series of mergers and schisms

Yeah and I don’t think one could precisely claim that Japan’s in good shape. My understanding is that the LDP clings on more or less because no one believes any of the other parties will do better.

Japan’s been pretty consistently under a right wing nationalist government since 2012 hasn’t it?

I’m sure the Sir John A humpers are going to be very normal about this

I was actually surprised that parking had increased by more than inflation from when I started driving and went looking for an explanation - and I’d started driving at the end of a period of rate stagnation.

Do we know yet what the calendar’s going to look like? The problem has always been that the narrative coming out of early states veers wildly

What’s interesting is that if you look at house prices in Halifax, you see a similar trend (2011-2021): novascotia.ca/finance/stat...

Halifax’s perceived affordability problems are due to people setting expectations based on periods of atypical stability, followed by the shock of a correction.

Oh I see. That’s good to know; I didn’t see the basis for your comments in the article but they were what made me wonder if there was a cultural factor

I should say “prominently 80s” - McDonald’s of course predates that decade, but i feel like it’s become an integral part of the particular nostalgia myth.

Similarly I would hope to see a discussion of how McDonald’s has assumed a kind of faux-retro cultural identity that even other 80s fast food restaurants don’t share, and how that might impact clientele.

1) I am immediately skeptical of the LA Times’ editorial decisions

2) I don’t think the article brought up shifting cultural factors at any point? Seems like we should interrogate whether lower income consumers prefer other restaurants or ready to go food sources

I don’t think there’s a single Democratic nomination contest since Al Gore that’s gone as expected, particularly not as expected three years out. The US system makes presidential primaries a total mess, and that’s even before the possibility of a Medical Event.

Everyone thinks that regime change via military intervention is super easy and only ever failed because those fools just made obvious mistakes.

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