https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/bc-vancouver-real-estate-housing-construction-policies-opinion
Despite its overall area, Canada doesn't have 1% of the worlds population, not even half of 1 %.
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Wednesday, October 21, 2026
Wednesday, October 14, 2026
Appeal court pauses Vancouver Aquatic Centre demolition until early November
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouver-aquatic-centre-demolition-pause-bc-appeal-court-decision
BC is 23 ties the size of Switzerland, but has less population. Greater Vancouver and especially the Lower Mainland of BC has the potential to be a properly planned big urban area. Despite the city of Vancouver having a slightly smaller area than Boston and SF, the size or scale of things in Vancouver are still significantly small than what's in Boston and SF. The city of Paris is only slightly smaller than the area of Vancouver, yet Paris has been able to have longer trains, wider roads and taller buildings.
Unfortunately, the VMV with its propensity to keep things small, hold things back, or just take a backwards approach, is trying to prevent a new big city version of the Vancouver+Aquatic+Centre. While a 25 m pool might be impressive for PR, PG, Kamloops, Kelowna and Victoria, Vancouver should always have at least a 50 m pool complex, especially in the growing downtown area.
Monday, October 5, 2026
Canadians react to Florida’s plan to place property tax burden on them
https://dailyhive.com/canada/canadians-react-florida-property-tax-plan
Perhaps its a block out Canada initiative.
In turn, Canada blocks out most of the worlds population. Despite having the 2ns largest national area, Canada has less than 0.005% of the worlds population. Perhaps someday Canada might have 1% of the worlds population.
Thursday, September 10, 2026
The Dutch Are Replacing This Entire Bridge — By Moving It
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eS8jNDgBr9A
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Brienenoord_Bridge
Wow, no VMV or BCMV was able to get the Dutch to reduce the 12 lane Van_Brienoordbrug_Bridge back to a 6 lane bottleneck, or even a 4 lane chokepoint.
If you are Dutch and Visit Vancouver & Victoria, BC, you will be shocked as to how scaled back the infrastructure is. So far, no 12 lane crossing has been allowed in BC. Yet, for the Dutch, big city transportation infrastructure isn't a problem.
BC is 23 times the size of Switzerland, but doesn't even have the population of one CH.
Its very difficult to think big and tall in backwards BC. Thus, it takes a long time for big things to get approved and completed.
Saturday, August 29, 2026
Vancouver International Airport (YVR) is Getting MASSIVE Upgrades
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQw18DQ4TlY MA$$IVE Upgrades? Compared to what, other provincial backwaters?
SkyTrain Front Window View - Canada Line to YVR https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxTEBfxYH0g This is very sad & pathetic that the stations weren't designed to be long enough to accommodate a 5 car train. The stations can only accommodate a 2.5 car joke of a train. The real sad joke is that the line is still only running 2 car trains on what is supposed to be a major urban area on the Pacific Rim.
Unfortunately, even if Vancouver-Surrey & Abbottsford, Victoria & Nanaimo, Prince Rupert & Kitimat were all upgraded to proper big urban areas on par with Melbourne, Sydney & Brisbane, or even Seattle & Calgary, BC just isn't as warm as Australia, or even NZ for half of of the year. Edmonton & Calgary, Seattle & Portland are able to have wider bridges & roads, and even longer trains than Vancouver to Richmond & Vancouver to Surrey-Langley.
Fortunately, the Pacific Rim part of Australia hasn't been trapped in a provincial backwater mentality like the Pacific Rim part of Canada. For too long there has been a keep BC small and backwards mindset. AKA, the BC Mind Virus (BCMV).
Running short & frequent trains could be seen as a cost saving measure initially, but unless there is a genuine to have proper long big city type trains, the BCMV still wins out. The fanatical approach to keep most of the bridges in BC so narrow has made it very difficult to have a proper regional express bus network, let alone BRT.
The 3 main seaport regions of BC, Greater Vancouver, Victoria-Nanaimo-Kitimat should become proper big city ports on the Pacific Rim. BC is 23 times the size of Switzerland, yet it doesn't even have the population of 1 CH. Canada in turn, has less than half of 1% of the worlds population.
Monday, August 24, 2026
Reykjavík, Iceland
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reykjav%C3%ADk
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Reykjavik
The BC part of Canada has more than 10 times the population of Iceland.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_Region_(Iceland)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reykjav%C3%ADk#Roads Once an urban area is busy enough, there should be a 3rd or 4th lane each way, so that there can be a bus lane or express bus lane each way. Of course, a proper BRT system requires its own right of way. Thus, its usually separated from the general traffic lanes.
Reykjavík has some overpasses and a bridge that are at least 6 lanes wide.
A key overpass with four lanes each way. This already has enough space for eight lanes.
This already has the space for three lanes each way. Nine lanes with enough space for 10.
In contrast, the Knight+Street+Bridge between Vancouver and Richmond becomes a classic 2 lane each way BC bottleneck-chokepoint. Unless a parallel bus and bike bridge is built, it will remain as an inefficient crossing. A parallel bridge could have 2 express bus lanes and 2 HOV lanes, plus 2 wide bike lanes and 2 footpaths. Two truck lanes would also be good, since Greater Vancouver is supposed to be a major port region.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keflav%C3%ADk_International_Airport
There is enough space for this to be a big airport, someday.
Wednesday, August 5, 2026
The office stumps of Vancouver, BC
No office tower in Vancouver has eve been permitted to have a 40th floor.
https://skyscraperpage.com/b106925/vancouver/the-stack
https://skyscraperpage.com/b63/vancouver/royal-centre
https://skyscraperpage.com/b5828/vancouver/b5
https://skyscraperpage.com/b66/vancouver/park-place
https://skyscraperpage.com/b64/vancouver/four-bentall-centre
https://skyscraperpage.com/b65/vancouver/the-scotia-tower
https://skyscraperpage.com/b98113/vancouver/the-exchange
https://skyscraperpage.com/b67/vancouver/toronto-dominion-tower-at-pacific-centre
https://skyscraperpage.com/b41476/vancouver/b6
https://skyscraperpage.com/b100729/vancouver/vancouver-centre-2
https://skyscraperpage.com/b7191/vancouver/200-granville-square
https://skyscraperpage.com/b68/vancouver/three-bentall-centre
https://skyscraperpage.com/b6162/vancouver/320-granville
https://skyscraperpage.com/b60/vancouver/harbour-centre The office floors don't even get above 28. https://www.skyscrapercenter.com/vancouver/harbour-centre/4144 If the Harbour_Centre office floors had continued right up to the base of the flag-pole, it would be equivalent to 40 stories. However, the revolving_restaurant is more equivalent to 35 floors. With the height to the tip of the antenna as being 177.1 m (581 ft), the flag could be considered to be at the equivalent of 48th floors. But there are no floors in the flag-pole.
Had the flag-pole or antenna not been built, the Harbor Centre would have been slightly shorter than the original height of the tallest Giza_pyramid.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pyramid_of_Giza "Initially standing at 146.6 metres (481 feet), the Great Pyramid was the world's tallest human-made structure for more than 3,700 years." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pyramid_of_Giza#Pyramidion_and_missing_tip
https://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?searchID=117075754&page=1
Only 2 buildings in restrictive Vancouver have been allowed to be taller than the Cairo_Tower and the Space_Needle. Only 1 building in Vancouver has been allowed to be taller than the Calgary_Tower.
Vancouver is about implementing short buildings, short trains and narrow bridges. Since the multigenerational power structure can't build a wall around the city to keep people out, the next best thing is to symbolically take a small scale approach to things. Thus, its very difficult for proper BIG city stuff to get built in backwards Vancouver.
BC is 23 times larger than Switzerland, yet it doesn't even have the population of one CH.
Despite Canada being the 2nd largest nation in overall area, it has less than half of 1% of the worlds population. Thus, Canada is but a spec of the worlds population.
Wednesday, July 29, 2026
Vancouver City Council kills Villages Plan after fierce public backlash
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouver-villages-plan-rejected-city-council-decision
Vancouver is a very small city in area. Indeed, Vancouver, Paris, Boston and SF, are all less than 50 square miles in city area. Despite the City of Paris being slightly smaller than the C of V, Paris has 3 times the city population. Apparently, physics is different in backwards Vancouver than it is in Paris.
Unlike provincial Vancouver, Paris is still allowed to have some wide streets and a better road system overall. Plus, with so many interconnecting train lines, its easier to get around cosmopolitan Paris.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouver The city has a land area of 115.18 km2 (44.47 sq mi)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouver#Geography
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Elizabeth_Park,_British_Columbia It is located on top of Little Mountain approximately 125 metres (410 ft) above sea level
https://en-ca.topographic-map.com/map-vzkpm2/Little-Mountain Little Mountain, elevation 125 m (410 ft)
Of course L.Mt. is shorter than Montmartre , because everything has to be shorter and smaller in provincial Vancouver.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro_Vancouver_Regional_District 2,878.93 km2 (1,111.56 sq mi)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lower_Mainland 36,303.31 km2 (14,016.79 sq mi)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris 105.4 km2 (40.7 sq mi)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris#Geography
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montmartre It is 130 m (430 ft) high
https://www.unjourdeplusaparis.com/en/paris-insolite/plus-haut-point-de-paris it is in Montmartre that the highest point of the capital is located, culminating at 130.53 meters above sea level. That's 428.25 feet, so something in-between 428 and 430 feet above sea level.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Paris 814.2 km2 (314.4 sq mi)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%8Ele-de-France 12,012 km2 (4,638 sq mi)
Saturday, July 11, 2026
First Nation files court challenge against Burrard Inlet dredging project for oil tankers
Decades ago, there should have already been a North Boundary Road bus and bike bridge beside the Iron-Bridge. Since the Iron Bridge wasn't widened to accommodate 2 express bus or 2 rapid bus lanes, a North Boundary Road bus and bike bridge would have been a huge improvement.
Canada is on the same planet as Australia, but seems to be on a different world. Asia, Europe and the US just don't seem to have the same overlapping restrictions as Canada and especially, BC.
Greater Vancouver should be on a similar city and port level as Brisbane, but the provincial backwater BC mindset keeps holding things back.
If Burrard Inlet isn't a suitable location for the tankers, then another location must be found. BC remains as a provincial backwater on the Pacific Rim and Canada has less than 1% of the worlds population. If it were possible, there are those in Canada who would like to just shut out the world and even shut Canada down.
Australia hasn't been able to do so much more than Canada simply because it doesn't have half of the year stuck in cold, crappy weather.
Friday, July 10, 2026
Why B.C. residents' anxiety over climate change is spiking
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/bc-residents-climate-change-anxiety-statcan Switzerland can fit into BC 23 times, yet BC still doesn't even have the population of 1 CH.
With Canada having only half of 1% of the worlds population, perhaps the environment can be used as a perpetual excuse to KEEP THEM OUT. So, despite Canada being the 2nd largest country in overall area, with vast wilderness and harsh winters, its too difficult to accommodate more of the worlds population.
Since most of the worlds countries are of a smaller area, but they still have a significant part of their land to accommodate more people. All sorts of environmental restrictions could be quite a clever way to indeed maintain a KEEP THEM OUT AGENDA. While people around the world get quite concerned when too much of the 3rd world is let into their country, there is a large pool of upper and lower middleclass to choose from.
Its just not economically viable to have too many 3rd world refuges, when more higher income people can actually help to balance things out. However, using overlapping environmental controls would be a very clever way to maintain the KEEP THEM OUT AGENDA.
While its understandable as to why Antarctica almost has no people, its strange that Canada doesn't contain even 1% of the worlds population.
Friday, July 3, 2026
Alberta-BC oil pipeline
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/bc-alberta-canada-new-oil-pipeline-agreement
BC has been so reluctant to bend over and accept the big pipe from Alberta.
Alberta pitches new West Coast oil pipeline to B.C.'s South Coast https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/livestory/energy-proposal-ab-bc-west-coast-july-2-live-updates-9.7251535 Albeta pitches and BC is expected to catch.
Its not Butman, but Bitumen, but BC is expected to ben over and submit to it.
https://www.alberta.ca/west-coast-oil-pipeline
Despite its size, Canada has less than 1% of the worlds population. BC has yet to have as many people as 1 Switzerland. Yet, the area of Switzerland can fit into BC 23 times.
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Racism is a risk when Vancouver and Toronto hosts the World Cup
https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/national-sports/racism-is-a-risk-when-vancouver-hosts-world-cup-but-measures-exist-bc-ag-sharma-12361474 So, this is basically the same article repeated.
https://www.britannica.com/place/British-Empire
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Empire#Rivalry_with_other_European_empires
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Empire#Expansion_and_colonial_conflict_(1707%E2%80%931783)
Despite its overall area, Canada has less than 1% of the worlds population. A global population that is mostly nonwhite.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Empire#Consolidation_and_global_dominance_(1783%E2%80%931815)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Empire#Britain's_imperial_century_(1815%E2%80%931914)
For its first century, Canada was supposed to be primarily for people from Europe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Empire#Changing_status_of_the_white_colonies
That was the British Colonial Agenda, but eventually the British_Empire had to acknowledge that most of the worlds population is nonwhite. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Empire#Decolonisation_and_decline_(1945%E2%80%931997)
There are strong arguments that Canada should be able to gradually contain a little more of the worlds population. Since a lot of the worlds population is from warmer areas, a lot of people might not like the Canadian Winter season. SW BC just happens to be the most mild part of Canada during the winter. The Lower_Mainland of BC and SE Vancouver_Island have been very reluctant to think big and build on a grand scale.
The Lions+Gate+Bridge and the Johnson+Street+Bridge are both classic 3 lane BC bottleneck-chokepoints. They are both fine examples of not wanting to build for a growing population on a world that is composed mostly of nonwhite people.
Toronto and Southern Ontario just never had the same level of small scale thinking as in SW BC. In fact, it the backwards BC approach to things just never caught on in Toronto, Melbourne and SF. They never got rid of their streetcars and trams like Vancouver and Victoria did.
https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/lzvgg7/the_british_empire_at_its_territorial_peak_oc/
As Canada started to become more multicultural in the 1960s and 70s, predominantly White city councils in BC kept imposing a small-scale approach to things.
Will some people start to say that by keeping most of the world out of Canada is good for the environment? There are already some people that would like to use nonwhites as being too much of a carbon footprint and that Canada should never have 1% of the worlds population. This would be a very clever and sinister way to perpetuate the KEEP THEM OUT agenda.
The days of Canada being officially under a British Colonial, White authority management power structure are long gone. As of 2026, Canada has yet to have half of 1% of the worlds population.
Burnaby 2050 sets the city’s long game
https://www.straight.com/burnaby/burnaby-2050-sets-citys-long-game
While Burnaby is smaller in area and population compared to Vancouver, its a lot bigger than tiny NW.
Unlike Vancouver, Burnaby can build taller than Vancouver, because it isn't bound by Vancouver's imposed height restrictions.
https://www.straight.com/burnaby/what-burnaby-builds-next-depends-on-urban-design-getting-it-right
Unlike Vancouver, Burnaby has more than just a few kilometers of freeway going through it. The highway right of way was acquired when Burnaby was still mostly undeveloped. That's the same case for Richmond, Delta, Surrey, Langley & Abbotsford.
https://www.straight.com/burnaby/in-defense-of-burnaby-middle-child-of-metro-vancouver
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Columbia_Highway_1#Lower_Mainland_section There should eventually be an elevated, high-capacity interregional commuter train along BC_Highway_1. However, BC takes a very slow approach towards dealing with congestion and mobility.
Sunday, May 31, 2026
Vancouver 450 ft and Fahrenheit 451
Was a 450 foot height restriction just by chance, or was it intentionally made to be very close to 451 Fahrenheit? Despite being around the same size as Paris, Boston & SF, Vancouver remains as a very restrictive city.
Any tall building in SL City is under 450 feet. Honolulu is still stuck around the 450 foot maximum, while San Diego is stuck at 500 feet. Even Rio DeGennaro still has shorter buildings than Vancouver, BC. Washington, DC has strict height limitations like Paris. However, W,DC could eventually set up their own equivalent of La_Defense. Its a fine example of allowing tall buildings just beyond the city limits.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit_451 (1953) By the 1950s, so many things were already banned, watered down or scaled back in provincial backwater Vancouver. Generations later, there was the No Fun City mind virus that further tried to cancel out things in such a small city with so much red tape and other ridiculous obstacles.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit_451_(1966_film) By the mid and late1960s, the city made sure that its first office tower to have more than 29 floors wouldn't be until the 1970s. Its highly doubtful that Vancouver will have an office tower at, or over 40 stories by 2030. However, Burnaby and Surrey could, because they aren't under the extreme restrictions of the Vancouver Mind Virus (VMV).
It wasn't until 1973 when Vancouver allowed its first building to be taller than the Los_Angeles_City_Hall. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_City_Hall
The Scotia_Tower (stump) is a good reference point to visualize the small scale of backwater Vancouver, as its about the same height as the Los_Angeles_City_Hall at 453'.
https://www.skyscrapercenter.com/building/scotia-tower/4396 453'
https://skyscraperpage.com/b65/vancouver/the-scotia-tower 452'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Wall_Centre It opened in 2001 at 157.8 m (518 ft). Its 49 feet shorter than the Philadelphia_City_Hall.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia_City_Hall Opened in 1901 at 548 ft (167 m).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit_451_(2018_film) By 2018 it was quite apparent that Vancouver was in the process of allowing for more buildings over 450 feet. However, nothing has been permitted to reach 700 feet, so far. A tower over 1000 feet would help to water down its provincial mindset.
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SF, Sydney & Auckland are just as scenic as Vancouver & warmer throughout the year. They all have taller building than what Vancouver currently permits. Seattle is just as scenic as Vancouver, but its allowed to function like a proper big city, because it doesn't have the imposed restrictions like Vancouver has. While its cold, damp & depressing like Vancouver during the fall & winter, Seattle usually gets noticeably hotter summers than Vancouver, BC. The tallest building in Seattle is the 76 story B of A office tower.
Everything is so small or scaled back in Vancouver. Even the Greater Vancouver mountains aren't allowed to be as tall as the ones in L.A. While the San_Francisco_Bay & Port_Phillip Bay by Melbourne are big next to their cities, English_Bay in_Vancouver is so much smaller. Its even smaller than Elliott_Bay by Seattle.
Vancouver really needs to have bus and HOV bridges built next to its mostly narrow & congested bridges. Only a 5 car Skytrain is the max on the first 2 lines and ultimately, just a 2.5 car joke of a train on the YVR-Canada Line.
Selective+Door+Operation can allow a short train to have an extra car at each end, despite a shorter platform.
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Australia like the USA, has some big & tall cities on the Pacific Rim. However, Vancouver symbolically kept watering down its size, because that's how you demonstrate a reluctance towards proper urban planning & growth.
Oddly enough, the imposed small scale Vancouver mentality & agenda wasn't adopted by most cities around the world. Officially, there is no Vancouver Mind Virus (VMV), but somehow something like it keeps manifesting, just like the BCMV.
Despite its size, Canada has less than 1% of the worlds population. Its been difficult enough just for Canada to even have half of 1% of the worlds population.
One expects Melbourne and Sydney to be proper big cities. However, Australia has big stuff at both ends of the country.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Leo_Hielscher_Bridges#Design Its a 12 lane crossing in Brisbane.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narrows_Bridge_(Perth) 10 lanes with 2 commuter train tracks in the middle.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brisbane_Skytower It has 90 floors. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q1_(building) Almost has 80 floors.
Perth Central_Park_(skyscraper) at 51 floors and 108_St_Georges_Terrace at 50. Very restrictive Vancouver still won't permit any office tower to have a 40th floor. Calgary and Seattle each have a few over 50 stories.
So far, provincial Halifax hasn't been allowed to be on a similar scale as Boston and Montreal.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angus_L._Macdonald_Bridge 3 lanes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._Murray_MacKay_Bridge 4 lanes.
The scale of Vancouver is kept below that of Calgary & Seattle or even Auckland, in some ways.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lions_Gate_Bridge A classic 3 lane BC bottleneck-chokepoint. No parallel bus and truck tunnels and especially, no LRT tunnel.
Provincial backwater Victoria isn't allowed to be on a similar scale of Wellington, NZ.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnson_Street_Bridge Another BC 3 lane wonder.
Friday, May 29, 2026
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.
Monday, April 20, 2026
A record number of British Columbians are leaving Canada
Despite its overall land area, Canada has less than 1% of the worlds population. A crappy economy in recent years and cold weather for half of the year helps to keep Canada from ever having 1% of the worlds population.
Texas has more people than Australia and California has more people than Canada.
Saturday, April 18, 2026
Tuesday, April 7, 2026
B.C. orders West Vancouver to implement plan to build more homes and meet its target
https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2026/04/07/b-c-orders-west-vancouver-build-more-homes/
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/land-covenants-1.5442686
https://globalnews.ca/news/7182842/vancouver-councillor-racism-bc-real-estate/
https://vancouversun.com/news/staff-blogs/a-short-history-of-racism-in-b-c-and-globally
https://thelaurier.ca/discriminatory-covenants , https://www.youtube.com/shorts/qlgyR3x73iQ
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Residential_segregation_in_Greater_Vancouver
https://forbiddenvancouver.ca/kkk-history-vancouver/
https://equity.ubc.ca/news-and-stories/debunk-myths-about-the-history-of-black-people-in-b-c
Despite the worlds population consisting mostly of nonwhite people and in spite of generations of multicultural immigration in Canada, BC is still slow to build big for the larger overlapping community.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Vancouver#Minority_representation
The Lions+Gate+Bridge is a 3 lane joke of a bridge that should have been relieved with a 7-8 lane tunnel decades ago.
The YVR-Canada+Line is a joke of a line with only 2 car trains, not 5-6.
Wednesday, March 18, 2026
Thursday, March 5, 2026
Last week's malfunction of the Second Narrows (rail) Bridge shows how dependent the Prairie economy is on this transportation chokepoint
https://financialpost.com/opinion/opinion-users-need-more-say-about-vancouvers-rail-bridges
The Greater Vancouver Region should have had all of its freight rail bridges at least double tracked by now.
https://www.cn.ca/en/stories/20250429-cn-and-port-of-vancouver-collaborating/
There is a subtle KEEP BC SMALL AND BACKWARDS mentality, but sometimes it's right in your face.
https://financialpost.com/opinion/opinion-vancouvers-port-must-up-its-grain-game
Its as if there is a VMV and the BC Mind Virus. Although no one can actually pinpoint it, the effects of it are quite apparent.
https://financialpost.com/opinion/nutrien-bypass-port-vancouver-underscores-need-change
Despite the size of Canada, it has less than 1% of the world's population.
https://www.portvancouver.com/project/second-narrows-dredging-works
Unfortunately, by not even keeping up with moderate infrastructure growth demands, Canada keeps falling behind in a world with over 8 billion people.
There should be a way to expand the economy and population, while making things more affordable.
Vancouver keeps holding back the scale of bridges, trains and buildings. This is part of a symbolic mentality and agenda to not think like a proper big city.
https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Second+Narrows+Bridge
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