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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqNF7hF5u3E Is our 'addiction' to cheap foreign labour hurting young people?  https://www.youtube....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_of_Montreal#Transportation The Life-Sized City of Montreal  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8lCEHtPm1Q...

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBESmfpB3vw https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto#Transportation The Real Reason Hwy 401 is the Busiest in...

  https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2024/10/31/3-car-crash-port-mann-bridge/ https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2024/10/28/bus-collision-breakdown-hi...

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_lane https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_transport_bus_service#Express_bus_service https://en.wikipedia...

  https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouver-apartment-1480-howe-st https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/condo-vs-apartment-whats-the-di...

  https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouver-cruise-ship-season-2024-statistics

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLs4hLIuHVY The New York Nobody Knows About  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5rnrX5ZFYo

 The BC part of Canada has been engrossed by a backwater and backward mentality since its inception. Victoria,_British_Columbia  is still a ...

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvDzrX17kFE

  https://www.the-sun.com/news/12762755/saudi-arabia-neom-workers-dying-slaves/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neom#Controversies https://en....

  https://www.nsnews.com/weatherhood-local/halloween-forecast-damp-grey-week-ahead-for-vancouver-9717912 There are always several people who...

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AY292ifYAXk

  https://immi.homeaffairs.gov.au/what-we-do/migration-program-planning-levels In several ways Australia will always win out over Canada, si...

  https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/economic-impact-immigration-cuts-1.7362448 https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/news...

  https://www.nsnews.com/highlights/north-vancouver-declares-state-of-local-emergency-3-homes-evacuated-after-heavy-rain-9717550 https://www...

The_Food_of_the_Gods_(1976)  is a standard GIANT mutant animals on a rampage movie. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Food_of_the_Gods_(film...

  https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouvers-ratty-reputation-takes-centre-stage-at-new-york-rat-summit https://www.nbcnewyork.com/new-york-...

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R42_(New_York_City_Subway_car) Train length 2 car train: 120.4 feet (36.7 m) 4 car train: 240.8 feet (73.4 m...

  https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/new-york-city-subway-opens

  https://www.the-sun.com/tech/12742902/worlds-biggest-building-saudi-arabia/

  https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/320-granville-bosa-faria-flooding-dispute It's a nice looking building, but once again, it's only ...

  https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/yvr-airport-vancouver-north-runway-upgrade https://www.richmond-news.com/in-the-community/yvrs-north-runwa...

  https://storeys.com/behemoth-17-building-development-vaughan/ No building within the city limits of Vancouver has been allowed to rival wh...

The new women’s professional soccer team wants Swangard Stadium as its home venue, but the facility would need improvements to meet league s...

  https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/canadian-transit-shout-out-reaction People are happy whenever public transit is working reasonably well an...

  https://dailyhive.com/canada/immigration-cuts-canadians-react-trudeau https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=immigration

  https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/citizen-tower-anthem-properties-burnaby-metrotown-ipo Unlike Calgary and Seattle, Vancouver won't perm...

  https://www.tremblant.ca/things-to-do/activities-products/treetop-walk https://www.tremblantactivities.com/activities/treetop-walk/ https:...

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Elizabeth_Park,_British_Columbia https://vancouversbestplaces.com/city-of-vancouver/queen-elizabeth-pa...

  https://bc.ctvnews.ca/vancouver-council-passes-motion-to-allow-police-access-to-traffic-cameras-1.7085161 This is nothing new, several cit...

  https://bc.ctvnews.ca/homeless-campers-in-crab-park-face-abrupt-eviction-process-1.7085156 Why wait until the spring when they can all be ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Science_Center https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_Center

  https://www.9news.com.au/national/sydney-harbour-bridge-crash-friends-of-jamal-choukri-call-for-better-safety-measures-on-bridge-after-tru...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._R._MacMillan_Space_Centre   https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/hr-macmillan-space-centre-planetarium-star-thea...

  https://www.surreynowleader.com/local-news/ash-scattering-pier-on-fraser-river-gets-surrey-council-nod-7602905 Perhaps it's only fitti...

https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2024/10/21/high-rise-fire-downtown-vancouver https://globalnews.ca/news/10823193/fire-downtown-vancouver-high-...

  https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/century-city-holland-park-surrey-office-rental-housing-tower Some residential towers can have some office ...

  https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/student-homelessness-bc-universities-heartbreaking

  https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2024/10/21/metro-vancouver-extreme-rain-sewer-system-overflow/

  https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/local-news/vancouver-sets-rainy-record-9684602

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQVcnHfaB8k

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harbor_Island,_Seattle https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ce/Aerial_view_of_Harbor_Island_in_S...

  https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/history/spanish-banks-point-grey-vancouver-bc-nearly-made-gigantic-industrial-port-9630175 https://www....

  https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/1-600-home-housing-project-in-vancouver-facing-delays-1.7357082

  https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/canada-highway-1-bc-interior-embarassment  Back in the day, just to have a waggon road there was quite an ...

  https://storeys.com/metro-vancouver-housing-deficit-fall-2024/ For several decades, multi-unit 4-5 story houses just weren't permitted...

  https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/highlights/clear-majority-of-canadians-say-there-is-too-much-immigration-new-poll-suggests-9674526 http...

  https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/george-massey-tunnel-bridge-replacement-skytrain-option The tunnel option should have still included an ad...

  https://globalnews.ca/news/10817048/via-rail-ontario-quebec-corridor-slowdown-cn-rule-change It's strange that over the past few decad...

  https://news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2024MOTI0112-001305 https://www.sfprhighway17.com/ The  Fraser_Valley  of BC is so lacking of infrastructu...

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Canada_(attraction)

  https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/head-on-crash-massey-tunnel https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/hours-long-massey-tunnel-crash-delay-embarassi...

  https://www.mcelhanney.com/project/highway-1-keith-road-mt-seymour-parkway/ The  North_Shore_(Greater_Vancouver)  is designed to be heavil...

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

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telus_Sky    60- storey , 222.3 m (729 ft)

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainier_Square_Tower   850-foot (260 m) tall, 58-story tower   https://www.nbbj.com/work/rainier-square http...

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Square_(Seattle)

  https://queenannenews.com/news/2024/oct/15/now-open-seattles-70m-overlook-walk-connecting-pike-place-market-and-waterfront/ https://www.pl...

  https://www.nsnews.com/opinion-lrt-remains-the-best-option-for-north-shore-rapid-transit-9643033 Ambleside,_West_Vancouver  should certain...

  https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/translink-surrey-transit-plan-east-west-bus-routes https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/bc-conservatives-childr...

  https://storeys.com/mississauga-votes-against-fourplexes/ There can be both & even all of the above. Single family homes, duplexes, mu...

  https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/translink-fiscal-cliff-service-cuts-economic-impact

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASEAN https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASEAN#Economy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASEAN#Free_trade https://www...

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropicana_Las_Vegas https://www.gettyimages.ca/photos/las-vegas-tropicana https://globalnews.ca/news/1080291...

  https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouver-dunsmuir-melville-street-coal-harbour-bike-lane

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ak4on5uTaTg Saudi Arabia is Building Neom, a Two-Kilometer Skyscraper  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhU4n...

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZOCUjjCzkU  Part 2

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naXcEOdtDGE  

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auowZtMw0uQ Why Egypt is selling a city to UAE for $35 billion  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9SGlBUMbe...

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAEQXUVqoyg https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Egypt

  https://scenariojournal.com/article/made-in-australia/ https://theconversation.com/new-cities-its-an-idea-worth-thinking-about-for-austral...

  https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/bc-government-housing-policies-supply-opinion

  https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/bc-ndp-surrey-white-rock-brt https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/bc-road-survey-results-traffic-reactions

  https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/bc-parkway-metrotown-redesign-burnaby-design-concept

  https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouver-traffic-rogers-oct-2024

https://dailyhive.com/toronto/toronto-montreal-high-speed-rail-via-route-rfp  

  https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/bc-conservatives-second-okanagan-lake-bridge-kelowna https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Kelowna htt...

  https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/pinnacle-lougheed-burnaby-western-canada-tallest-building

  https://www.the-sun.com/news/12609614/construction-of-worlds-tallest-skyscraper-starts-again/

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queensboro_Plaza_station#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/42nd_Street%E2%80%93Bryant_Park/Fifth_Avenue_...

  https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/skytrain-22nd-street-station-transit-oriented-development-new-westminster

  https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/3200-east-broadway-vancouver-rupert-station-mst-aquilini High density by a train station is always a good ...

  https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/bc-ndp-transportation-platform-skytrain-commuter-rail https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/bc-conservatives-tra...

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kLx9pXVJlw When Chicago built the Tallest Building in the World | The story of Sears Tower  https://www.y...

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeUbMs2kZSU

  https://www.miamitodaynews.com/2024/10/01/baylink-transit-linking-miami-beach-miami-rolling-ahead/

  https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/bc-ndp-bus-rapit-transit-route-west-vancouver Either a new bus, HOV & train bridge has to be built, or...

  https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/campaigns/national-day-truth-reconciliation.html https://www.rcaanc-cirnac.gc.ca/eng/1631130192...

  https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2024/09/28/north-vancouver-lane-realignment-iron-workers-bridge/ Unfortunatly, the  Iron  Bridge wasn't ...

  https://bc.ctvnews.ca/transit-service-cuts-could-lead-to-200-more-hours-stuck-in-traffic-a-year-report-1.7052872   This lack of funding ju...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKuKs0Qfy5M

  https://www.nsnews.com/local-news/west-vancouver-opens-door-to-deferring-wastewater-plant-cost-overruns-9584557 https://www.nsnews.com/opi...

  https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouver-penthouse-838-west-hastings This building doesn't even have 40 floors, so it's not that ...

  https://bc.ctvnews.ca/we-are-definitely-going-to-fight-this-east-van-tenants-living-with-no-power-refuse-to-leave-1.7053034 When a buildin...

  https://dailyhive.com/toronto/toronto-rogers-stadium-outdoor-concert-venue

  https://dailyhive.com/toronto/worlds-longest-tunnel-canada

  https://www.newwestrecord.ca/the-mix/severe-summer-weather-cost-7-billion-in-most-destructive-season-on-record-9564588

  https://www.newwestrecord.ca/economy-law-politics/climate-concerns-fade-as-survey-shows-bc-ndp-voters-rethinking-carbon-tax-9548826 If the...

  https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2024/09/22/canada-temporary-foreign-worker-program-restaurants-consequences/ Once again the issues aren'...

The  Alex_Fraser_Bridge  was opened as a 4 lane chokepoint, right from the start. No need for any  express_bus_lanes  or rail rapid transit,...

  https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.6516296 They marched over the  Cambie_Bridge , which used to have 6 lanes. Unfortunately, the bridg...

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQdmsUmUt5E

  https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/weest-vancouver-bike-lane-planters Of course with proper planning and coordination this wouldn't be a ...

  https://dailyhive.com/toronto/province-announces-toronto-lrt-line-completion

  https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/north-shore-sewage-metro-vancouver-iona-replacement-project So much financial waste, mismanagemen...

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbEjBsfhLcs It's amazing what can be done when people from Vancouver or just about anywhere from the B...

  https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/north-vancouver-music-festival-traffic-impacts-2024 It's so sad and pathetic how the  North_Shore_(Gre...

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GP-vyAwiXCM   Why ‘The Big One’ could be worse than we thought  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1qr9qnWR7...

  https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/lime-e-scooter-vancouver-launch-reaction? Each neighborhood should have been properly consulted about this...

  https://dailyhive.com/toronto/eglinton-crosstown-lrt-huge-milestone-opening https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=LRT

  https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/highlights/metro-vancouver-mayors-council-demands-action-on-transit-funding-brad-west-9533754 After dec...