Reading Time: 3 minutes Cities are establishing taxes on electric cars and other low-emission vehicles to reduce traffic and raise infrastructure funds
Tag: Urban Life
The retirement dilemma: city mouse or country mouse?
Reading Time: 4 minutes Part 1: Defining the attributes of your successful retirement community
Municipalities need to rethink tax model
Reading Time: 3 minutes Property tax rates are much higher for businesses than home owners, which can cause serious problems, particularly when the economy falters
Delivery options: drone or driverless vehicle with robot?
Reading Time: 2 minutes Ford and Agility Robotics have teamed up to reimagine the package delivery business
Food-related issues are widening Canada’s rural-urban gap
Reading Time: 4 minutes For years, farmers have tried to tell their stories through social media and elsewhere – and too often failed
Canada needs to become more densely populated
Reading Time: 3 minutes We need a larger internal market that would create economies of scale and further economic productivity growth
Integrate Canada’s forgotten Indigenous into the urban mainstream
Reading Time: 4 minutes We need to follow the example set by New Zealand, which gave the Māori the economic, educational and social help they needed, while allowing them to preserve their culture
Calgary’s down, but is it out?
Reading Time: 4 minutes A former Calgarian returns to find empty office space, a battle over a multimillion-dollar hockey rink, and deserted restaurants and hotels
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
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