The Houston Galleria and Galleria Dallas

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Galleria 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galleria_Dallas 

Texas is a place where thinking BIG has been going strong for almost a century. 

By the year 1900, NYC had to start thinking and building on a big-city scale, simply out of necessity.

https://www.nypl.org/blog/2015/03/11/nyc-big-apple 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Apple 

In contrast, backwater BC has a tough time keeping up with Alberta and Washington State. Especially with Ontario and Quebec. BC is 75% mountainous and has a seawater barrier on its west side. Still, its almost as if some people would like to have a wall around BC, or even a forcefield like out of Star Trek. 

Keeping things small and backwards in BC whenever possible seems to be part of a multigenerational symbolic agenda. 

Its as if there is something like a BC Mind Virus (BCMV).

Texas has more people than Australia and California has more people than Canada. Despite its overall size, Canada has less than 1% of the worlds population. 

Singapore is on an island that's smaller than all of NYC or Chicago, even. Yet, it has proper big-city trains, bridges, roads and buildings.

A look inside the new Oakridge Park

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/oakridge-park-mall-vancouver-completion-opening-photos 

There should have been at least 5 car trains stopping at all the stations by now. Unfortunately, because of backwards Vancouver and backwater BC planning standards, the Canada Line stations are only level and long enough to accommodate a 2.5 car joke of a train. 

https://thecanadaline.com/station-history/oakridge-41st

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Oakridge+Park+Mall

Canada Day by the Bay returns to White Rock waterfront July 1

 https://surreynowleader.com/2026/05/25/canada-day-by-the-bay-returns-to-white-rock-waterfront-july-1/ 

https://www.whiterockcity.ca/364/Canada-Day-by-the-Bay 

Vancouver was almost not going to have any July fireworks, but now it still might be able to have a 1 night special.

https://604now.com/cancelled-events-vancouver-2026 Fortunatly, backwards Vancouver doesn't have the power to stop White Rock, or any other city in BC from having such celebrations.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/vancouver-park-board-fireworks-event-approved-9.7179405

At least Vancouver looks like it will have 1 night of summer fireworks, but none on December 31.

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouver-summer-fireworks-2026-planning-english-bay-park-board

https://parkboardmeetings.vancouver.ca/2026/20260427/REPORT-2026CityofVancouverPublicFireworksCelebration-SpecialEvent-20260427.pdf

Construction means stal̕əw̓asəm Bridge closures this weekend and next

 https://www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/article/construction-means-stalwasm-bridge-closures-this-weekend-and-next/ 

Time in backwater BC doesn't matter, the old bridge just had 4 lanes and the new bridge will only have two lanes each way for quite a while. Of course no bus and HOV lanes, no wide emergency lanes and no wide shoulders. That would go against the BC bottleneck-chokepoint planning mentality. Just like an absurd 2 car train for the Canada Line and a 3 lane Lion Bridge with no bus and train tunnels to help it.

Apparently, narrow bridges and short trains are better for backwards BC.

That's the BC Mind Virus (BCMV) at work once again.

The Gardiner Expressway

 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/gardiner-expressway-construction-time-halved-1.7615052 

https://www.blogto.com/city/2025/04/gardiner-expressway-construction-time-lapse-toronto/

https://www.gftinc.com/project/gardiner-expressway-section-5-detailed-design/

https://www.toronto.ca/services-payments/streets-parking-transportation/road-maintenance/bridges-and-expressways/expressways/gardiner-expressway/gardiner-expressway-rehabilitation-strategy/

https://www.grascan.com/projects/new-ramp-construction/

https://undergardinerprp.ca/  https://thebentway.ca/

https://torontolife.com/city/admire-gardiner-expressway-not-tear/

Significant events in the history of Asian communities in Canada

https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/campaigns/asian-heritage-month/important-events.html

 https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/chinese-head-tax-in-canada 

https://humanrights.ca/story/chinese-head-tax-and-chinese-exclusion-act 

https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/governments/multiculturalism-anti-racism/chinese-legacy-bc/history/discrimination/federal-head-tax 

https://bcanuntoldhistory.knowledge.ca/1880/the-chinese-head-tax

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_head_tax

Komagata Maru Remembrance Day

 https://voiceonline.com/premier-eby-on-komagata-maru-remembrance-day/ 

https://vancouver.ca/people-programs/guru-nanak-jahaz-remembrance-day.aspx

https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/komagata-maru 

https://www.canada.ca/en/parks-canada/news/2016/08/the-komagata-maru-incident-of-1914.html

https://scroll.in/article/1093033/immigration-history-why-vancouver-should-not-rewrite-the-komagata-maru-record

Canada Line station platforms being extended for interchange hub with Broadway Subway

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/canada-line-broadway-city-hall-station-platform-extension-millennium-line-interchange Fortunatly, the planning for the TTC Subway, Montreal Metro & Edmonton LRT, all have much longer stations than what backwards Vancouver settled for. 

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/skytrain-canada-line-rebuilding

Once all of the YVR-Canada Line stations have 50-metre-long platforms, it will become quite apparent that the long-range planning for 5 car trains wasn't seriously considered. The 50 m stations will only be long enough for a 2.5 car joke of a train. 

However, there is a potential to work around this particular manifestation of the Vancouver Mind Virus. Selective_door_operation can allow for longer trains, despite the ridiculous short Vancouver stations. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_door_operation#International_variations

There is such a problem with Vancouver and BC in general of not properly planning for future transportation infrastructure expansion. 

https://www.railforthevalley.com/latest-news/zweisystem/the-skytrain-lobby-get-over-it/

The new Capstan Station recorded SkyTrain's fourth-lowest ridership after one year

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/skytrain-capstan-station-ridership-canada-line 

Wow, this picture almost makes it look like its a big-city train station and not just a 2 car train joke. The CLine should have opened with 5-6 car trains, or at least 3 car trains. Any station can have the potential of becoming more popular, especially when there are more residential and business structures close to it.

How Copenhagen built a metro for free https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzamwVH3CXU&t=8s At least this could run 3 car trains right from when it started.

Total government costs of FIFA World Cup in Vancouver and Toronto could reach over $1 billion

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/fifa-world-cup-vancouver-toronto-canada-pbo-cost-estimate

5 dead, 10 injured after falls into Vancouver's Grandview Cut over the past decade

 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/grandview-cut-falls-9.7202509  

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Grandview+Cut

Ottawa and Alberta agree on pipeline construction timeline

 https://globalnews.ca/news/11851090/mark-carney-danielle-smith-energy-deal/ 

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/carney-smith-energy-announcement-mou-9.7200652 

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/ottawa-plans-to-greenlight-alberta-oil-pipeline-construction-by-fall-2027-no-private-proponent-yet/

Briiliant Lady cruise ship

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brilliant_Lady  Length 277 m (908 ft 10 in)

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/brilliant-lady-virgin-voyages-canada-place-cruise-ship-vancouver 

https://www.travelandtourworld.com/news/article/a-new-era-in-alaska-brilliant-lady-debuts-for-virgin-voyages-first-west-coast-season/ 

https://www.cntraveler.com/ships/virgin-voyages/brilliant-lady

https://www.travelandtourworld.com/news/article/tag/canada-place-terminal/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_Voyages#Current_fleet 

https://www.reddit.com/r/VirginVoyages/comments/1rk8emf/brilliant_lady_cruise_a_complete_review/

Senior in critical condition after alleged vehicle ramming in Vancouver's West End

 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/police-vehicle-ramming-crash-vancouver-west-end-9.7200915 

https://www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/article/senior-critically-injured-officers-hospitalized-after-vehicle-ramming-incident-vancouver-police-say/ 

https://vancouversun.com/news/vancouver-west-end-vehicle-ramming-three-hospital 

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vehicle-rampage-jeep-vancouver-park 

Residential streets are usually narrow and intended for slow moving traffic. This fool didn't seem to care.

Major streets and roads don't necessarily have a central traffic divider, along with some highways. However, any major highway should have a safety traffic divider. Ideally, any bridge with 2 way traffic should have a safety barrier.

The AI boom sidelined sustainability and has caused data center safety concerns

 https://fortune.com/2026/05/14/anthropics-spacex-compute-deal-comes-as-ai-data-center-backlash-grows-fueled-by-both-real-grievances-and-conspiracy-theories/  

https://news.gallup.com/poll/709772/americans-oppose-data-centers-area.aspx 

The carbon and water footprints of data centers and what this could mean for artificial intelligence https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666389925002788 

https://opportunitygreen.org/data-centres/reports/data-centres-threaten-energy-systems-climate-goals

https://www.wri.org/insights/us-data-center-growth-impacts

https://www.lincolninst.edu/publications/land-lines-magazine/articles/land-water-impacts-data-centers/ 

https://ucalgary.ca/sustainability/mobilizing-alberta/climate-action-blogs/will-ai-data-centres-raise-water-and-power-use-alberta Since Canada is cold for half of the year, its amazing that there aren't more AI data centers. 

https://www.siemens.com/en-us/industries/data-centers/cooling-infrastructure-ai-optimization 

https://www.eli.org/vibrant-environment-blog/ais-cooling-problem-how-data-centers-are-transforming-water-use

Vancouver mayor submits motion to cut back on some climate bylaws for the sake of affordability

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouver-mayor-city-climate-bylaws 

So, after all threes years, no money went towards a city and a regional bus bridge network. The existing bridges are too narrow to accommodate 2 express bus lanes, so there should have been parallel bus bridges built by now. 

The Canada Line wasn't designed to have at least 5 car trains, only a 2.5 car joke of a train, someday. Since 2009, only 2 car trains have been running, when there should have been 3. Despite the ridiculously short stations, there should have been modifications to have at least 3 full-size cars by now. Its as if not enough funds still haven't been put towards such a short train , since 2009.

Is the SkyTrain (YVR) Canada Line under-built and nearing capacity, because of Short platforms and trains?

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/short-platforms-and-trains-is-the-skytrain-canada-line-under-built-and-nearing-capacity

Its one thing to build a line with stations that are only a 3rd of the length of a Montreal Metro station, but to no not properly allow for enough future level clearance is so inept.

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/skytrain-canada-line-rebuilding 

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/canada-line-skytrain This and the 3 lane Lion Bridge should get an award for the blatant symbolism of not wanting to build proper big-city infrastructure in backwards BC.

Why Canada Can’t Finish Its Own Highway

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7kr9ehBy-g  

Why Canada Can’t Build High-Speed Rail https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4MmGa6KemY

Golf courses and LARGE AI data server facilities

 https://www.reddit.com/r/nanaimo/comments/1t6spq5/about_that/ 

While the BC part of Canada is notoriously heavy on various restrictions and especially reducing the scale of things, golf courses and AI server farms might be in a special category. As land in urban areas continue to rise, several urban golf courses could be repurposed for housing or parks. Thus, golf courses might be better suited to be farther away from urban areas.

An AI_data_center can be problematic if its too close to an urban area. However, if its even out in the wilderness, an AI_data_center can cause environmental damage and other problems. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_data_center#Environmental_footprint 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opposition_to_AI_data_centers 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_data_center#AI_data_centers_in_space

The urban trifecta of backwards Vancouver

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/trifecta 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trifecta#History 

Ideally, for some small thinking cities, the plan is to symbolically have mostly short buildings and short trains and mostly narrow bridges.

That seems to have been the goal of Vancouver over the past several decades. In contrast, Brisbane after its Expo 88, was able to really go into big city planning mode, because it doesn't have anything like the excessive Vancouver restrictions holding it back. 

1 The+Typical+Vancouver+Size+Stump+Building No office tower has been permitted to have a 40th floor. https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=The+Stumpy+Post+building+in+Vancouver Never-mind 40 or 50 stories, it wasn't even allowed to have 25 floors.

2 YVR-Canada+Line A 2 car joke of a train. 

3 Lions+Gate+Bridge A 3 lane joke of a bridge.  

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=backwards+Vancouver