Reading Time: 3 minutes Taxis and ride-sharing services can happily co-exist. Even cabbies are starting to get that
Category: Municipal
Environment-friendly “plyscrapers” blocked by red tape
Reading Time: 3 minutes The USDA estimates every four storeys would save the same amount of carbon emissions as created by 500 cars every year
World needs a Canadian perspective, steeped in small-town values
Reading Time: 3 minutes Our store of creative capital, entrepreneurial risk taking, peacekeeping and a welcoming attitude to folks ‘from away’ rooted in our small-town history
Houston, we have a problem
Reading Time: 4 minutes While scientists are cautious about attributing any particular weather event to global warming, the trend is ominous, particularly as sea levels rise
Ontario housing measures offer short-term gain but long-term pain
Reading Time: 3 minutes As much as rent control could benefit some existing renters, in the long run it reduces the incentive to build new rental housing
Uber, open skies, free markets mean better energy efficiency
Reading Time: 3 minutes Open markets and free trade help consumers economize on energy consumption while reducing CO2 emissions
Don’t just blame speculators for soaring housing prices
Reading Time: 3 minutes Falling interest rates are an often-overlooked contributor to rising home prices in Canada’s most desirable markets
Putting a price on the movement of people and goods
Reading Time: 3 minutes Introducing tolls on roads and bridges to help pay for transportation upgrades is an equitable solution to a vexing urban problem
The prohibitive cost of living in Metro Vancouver
Reading Time: 3 minutes The extraordinary run-up in real estate prices like the one experienced in the Lower Mainland raises the odds of a painful market correction
Ontario government’s focus on foreign buyers misses the point
Reading Time: 3 minutes Focus instead on reducing the time it takes to obtain a building permit and the per-unit costs to comply with regulations, which amounts to almost $50,000