The One in Toronto is soon to become Canada's tallest building

 https://www.blogto.com/real-estate-toronto/2025/03/one-toronto-canada-tallest-building

In order to provide a sense of scale, a couple of short bindings in the area are referenced. These small buildings would be among the tallest in stumpy Vancouver.

Two_Bloor_West is like a classic Vancouver stump building, but in Toronto.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Bloor_West#History  In 1972, it was already taller than any building in BC at, 148.74 m (488.0 ft) with 34 stories. Even in 2025, its equivalent to being the 2nd tallest office tower in Vancouver & BC.

2_Bloor_East opened in 1974 at 135 m (443 ft) with 35 stories. It would still be among the 10 tallest office towers in Vancouver. However, in Toronto its just another stump of a building.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2_Bloor_East#History

Even The+Simpson+Tower from 1968, would still be among the tallest office towers in Vancouver. Yet, it's just another stump in Toronto.

Vancouver just isn't allowed to have buildings as tall as those in Seattle & Calgary, Toronto & Montreal or LA & SF. However, stumpy Vancouver is allowed to build what would be impressive by Victoria-Prince+George-Kamloops standards. Its all part of the backwards Vancouver and think small BC mentality. 

If you can't build a wall around BC, the next best thing is to constantly remind everyone with imposed small-scale symbolism. Unfortunatly now, BC is several decades behind with its infrastructure. 

West Point Grey Safeway redevelopment

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/4545-4575-west-10th-avenue-vancouver-point-grey-safeway-redevelopment-approved

https://vancouversun.com/news/vancouver-council-approves-rental-towers-west-point-grey

Very short and small, but a lot of people would be upset if Mr. Bulldozer crashed through their yards and cleared a larger area. Of course that won't happen, because the building permit doesn't go beyond the designated site.

However, the very delayed Safeway redevelopment in East Vancouver could soon be a nice playground for Mr. Bulldozer. Some people might be afraid of Mr. Bulldozer ploughing through their properties. But again, the Broadway Safeway redevelopment doesn't extend onto anyone else's property. 

Port of Vancouver

 https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/national-business/tariff-tumult-is-shaking-consumer-confidence-says-port-of-vancouver-ceo-10348885

The Port of Vancouver is several decades behind with its infrastructure. Perhaps the new series of tariffs & subsequent slowdown will help to ensure that Vancouver's port infrastructure will remain stunted for may more years. 

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/thornton-tunnel-burnaby-fake-house-canadian-national-cn-railway

At a time when it would have been so much cheaper in the 1960s, the Second+Narrows+Rail+Bridge and the Thornton_Tunnel should have been built wide enough to eventually accomodate 2 sets of tracks.

https://www.burnabynow.com/local-news/access-upgrades-complete-from-burnaby-rail-corridor-to-north-shore-port-terminals-cn-5422775

The New_Westminster Rail_Bridge should have been twinned a few generations ago. Really, a new 2-4 track bridge should have been built at least a few decades ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Westminster_Bridge#Proposed_changes 

https://events.decorporate.ca/TAC2024/abstract/submission-summary.php?y=cGFwZXJJZD0xMDI5OTI=

Great Northern Tunnel in Seattle

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Northern_Tunnel Unlike in Vancouver, BC, Seattle made sure that this is a double track, freight & passenger train tunnel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsiPzr_zKO8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GcpG0naFLY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuhyRY84xfU

New company takes over Metro Vancouver incinerator amid expansion plans and opposition

 https://www.nsnews.com/economy-law-politics/new-company-takes-over-metro-vancouver-incinerator-amid-expansion-plans-and-opposition-10350987

New acute care building at North Shore hospital opens

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/paul-myers-tower-lions-gate-hospital-north-vancouver

In some cases, BC isn't just decades behind on infrastructure upgrades, but generations.

https://www.vch.ca/en/lions-gate-hospital-redevelopment

https://www.nsnews.com/local-news/photos-heres-a-first-look-at-the-new-lions-gate-hospital-expansion-in-north-vancouver-9509230

Trump drops new tariff after Canada threatens to 'shut off electricity completely' to three US states

 https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14484583/Trump-drops-new-tariff-bombshell-Canada-threatens-shut-electricity.html

The Precarious state of Hudson's Bay made clear in creditor protection

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/hudsons-bay-canada-creditor-protection

https://vancouversun.com/news/the-bay-vancouver-struggles

https://vancouver.thebaybuilding.ca Looks like an interesting building, but it's a 3rd of the height that it should be.

https://vancouver.thebaybuilding.ca/about/

Not 60 floors or 50, not even 25 stories.

https://www.urbanyvr.com/hudsons-bay-vancouver-redevelopment/

Just another bulky stumpy building+complex, like The+Post.

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/hudsons-bay-vancouver-redevelopment-proposal

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_Building_(Vancouver)

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=The+Bay+Building+in+Vancouver

Columbia Center in Seattle

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Center , https://columbiacenterseattle.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Center#Design

https://columbiacenterseattle.com/gallery/

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4f/Columbia_Center_in_Seattle.jpg

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

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Bank+of+America

Calgary vs. Denver and Dallas

The scale Calgary is impressive, but Alberta just doesn't have the same imposed restrictions as backwater BC. 

Denver is a big city & metropolitan area in its own right, but somehow Calgary has more 50 story office towers than Denver. Dallas has more tall buildings than Calgary and Denver, combined.

Dallas is a landlocked_city like Calgary and Denver.

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

From the town of Granville to becoming Vancouver, BC, Canada

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granville,_British_Columbia

https://story.vancouver-historical-society.ca/introduction/ii-formation-of-the-city

https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/this-week-in-history-1877-a-glimpse-into-granville-townsite-when-it-was-rough

https://archives.vancouver.ca/projects/earlyvan/searchearlyvan/Vol1pdf/MatthewsEarlyVancouverVol1_Granville1885.pdf

The Evergreen Point Floating Bridge in Seattle, WA

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

The new Evergreen+Point+Floating+Bridge is certainly an improvement over the old bridge.

https://seattletransitblog.com/2008/02/25/eight-lane-520

https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/eight-lanes-for-the-520-bridge The 520 Bridge should have been designed to eventually have 8 lanes. Then in addition to having 2 general lanes each way, there not only could have been the 2 HOV lanes, but also 2 bus lanes.

At this point of the bridge is a remnant of what could have been an 8 lane section. https://www.google.com/maps/place/Evergreen+Point+Floating+Bridge

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Evergreen+Point+Floating+Bridge

Vancouver, BC makes list of world's worst cities for traffic

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouver-worlds-worst-cities-traffic

After several decades of Vancouver & the metropolitan region trying to keep most of the roads & bridges as narrow as possible, the ineptness of such an agenda is really showing. While there was a legitimate concern for the region potentially being overrun with various freeways & expressways between the 1950s & 1970s, a few key things were ignored.

https://www.tomtom.com/traffic-index/vancouver-traffic/

A network of bus bridges was never implemented. There wasn't a proper regional HOV system either. Instead of proper long-range, high-capacity rapid transit planning, the first 2 SkyTrain lines have stations that are barely more than half the length of the 152.5m Montreal Metro stations. The shortsighted Canada embasesment Line was only designed to have 50m stations.  

https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2023/02/22/vancouver-traffic-worst-north-america/

Such inept urban planning is a Vancouver, a regional & a BC problem. Fortunately, most major cities around the world aren't interested in following the backwards BC example. Where did all the money go over the coarse of several generations, because what was built is just a bunch of half-size infrastructure?

https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/local-news/vancouver-among-worst-cities-for-rush-hour-traffic-in-north-america-6596249

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TomTom#Traffic_services

All-day bus lanes plan along East Broadway in Vancouver

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/east-broadway-vancouver-bus-lanes-proposal

Field testing begins for new SkyTrain cars

 https://www.translink.ca/news/2025/march/field%20testing%20begins%20for%20new%20skytrain%20cars

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/mark-v-skytrain-testing-expo-millennium

https://www.translink.ca/plans-and-projects/projects/rapid-transit-projects/skytrain-expansion-program

https://www.translink.ca/plans-and-projects/projects/bus-projects

Brisbane-Sydney-Melbourne-SF-Boston-Toronto (B-S-M-SF-B-T)

 Auckland, NZ, along with Perth, WA and Seattle, WA have no problems with taller buildings and wider bridges than what Vancouver allows. Established cities like London & Paris, NYC & Chicago, big L.A. and even smaller Singapore, all seem to plan, spend & build more infrastructure than backwards Vancouver does. 

Cities like Brisbane-Sydney-Melbourne-SF-Boston-and-Toronto are all on a much larger scale, simply because they don't have anything like the overlapping restrictions that backwards Vancouver & BC has imposed for itself.

https://x.com/CityHallWchVAN/status/1517347123225718785?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Eembeddedtimeline%7Ctwterm%5Escreen-name%3Acityhallwchvan%7Ctwcon%5Es1 What seems big in little Vancouver is small or just average in many other cities.

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Brisbane-Sydney-Melbourne-Toronto 

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Brisbane+Airport+Railway+Line

First new generation SkyTrain begins testing on Expo and Millennium lines

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/mark-v-skytrain-testing-expo-millennium

While the stations on the Expo and Millennium lines can accommodate the new 5 car trains, as of March, it's still just 2-4 car trains. Since 2010, the Canada embarrassment Line is still only running a 2 car joke of a train. Those stations weren't even designed to accommodate a 5 car train, just a 2.5 car joke after spending billions to build it. This is another fine example of not building proper big city infrastructure for significant higher capacity. 

Fortunately, most real cities can run 6, 8 or 10 car trains. All of the SkyTrain stations should have already been roughed out to accommodate 8-10 car trains. Then it would have been so much easier and less costly to complete long stations. 

Jericho Lands project

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/jericho-lands-official-development-plan-vancouver

https://www.shapeyourcity.ca/jericho-lands , https://www.inspirejericho.ca/

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/jericho-lands-development-vancouver-bc-1.7360726

https://www.urbanstrategies.com/project/jericho/

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/jericho-lands-development-concept-west-point-grey-vancouver-june-2023

https://www.jarmanrealestate.com/jericho-lands-development-proposal/

People have gotten so used to Vancouver being a backwater in a vast country which doesn't even have 1% of the world's population.

https://cityhallwatch.wordpress.com/2025/02/10/jericho-coalition-demands-halt-draft-odp-jericho-lands

There is quite a reluctance for small-minded Vancouver to not allow what's big by Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Toronto & SF standards.

https://x.com/CityHallWchVAN/status/1517347123225718785?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Eembeddedtimeline%7Ctwterm%5Escreen-name%3Acityhallwchvan%7Ctwcon%5Es1 There are only a handful of cities in BC where an attempt of tall buildings can happen. That's because most of BC is a mountainous wilderness, or simply just wilderness. 

https://cityhallwatch.wordpress.com/2020/03/06/lights-out-at-vancouver-house Some people might be jelouse that others might have 2 or 3 homes, just like having 2 or 3 motorized vehicles. Should people in BC be limited to only have 1 home & 1 moto-vehicle? The next step would be to impose an AI run point system to discourage people from having no more than 1 or 2 kids.

https://www.international.gc.ca/world-monde/issues_development-enjeux_developpement/priorities-priorites/agenda-programme.aspx?lang=eng

https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/3923923?v=pdf

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Brisbane-Sydney-Melbourne-Toronto-SF

Renderings of the City of Delta's $130-million new aquatic centre

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/winskill-aquatic-and-fitness-centre-delta-detailed-design

The Bentall Centre complex vs...

https://www.bentallcentre.com/burrard-exchange , https://www.bentallcentre.com

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/bentall-centre-vancouver-buy-bc-initiative-free-retail-space

The shortest buildings at Bentall_Centre aren't even 25 floors.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/30/Bentall_Centre_2018.jpg

The 3 tallest buildings at Bentall_Centre were not only forbidden to have a 50th floor, they don't even have 40 floors. Indeed, given Vancouver's strict height limitations, it was tough enough just to be permitted to have 35 floors. 

Bow_Valley_Square in Calgary was permitted to build a little taller than the Bentall Centre complex.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0c/Bow_Valley_Square.JPG

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto-Dominion_Centre

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d2/The_buzz_of_the_6ix_%28Unsplash%29.jpg

Of course one of the stump buildings in the Toronto complex is still a little taller than its stump counterpart in Vancouver. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto-Dominion_Centre#Technical_details

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embarcadero_Center SF

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/25/EmbarcaderoCenterHighlight.jpg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Center Houston https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Center#Three_Allen_Center

Vancouver developer and philanthropist Peter Wall dies at 87

Born in Ukraine, he immigrated to Canada in 1948 and became one of Vancouver's biggest developers https://vancouversun.com/news/vancouver-developer-peter-wall-obituary

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/peter-wall-vancouver-developer-dies-1.7476721

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-peter-wall-vancouver-developer-philanthropist-and-political-insider/

https://storeys.com/peter-wall-financial-vancouver-obituary/

https://president.ubc.ca/communications/2025/03/06/ubc-tribute-to-peter-wall/

Future of London Drugs at Woodward's uncertain due to crime area

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/london-drugs-woodwards-vancouver-crime-theft-shoplifting

The old Woodward's_Building used to be in the old part of downtown. Then by the time of its redevelopment, the area was starting to decline.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodward's_Building#Redevelopment

Without an adequate amount of police patrols & security, a business area can easily decline. A lot of the crime & poverty is as a result of various socio-economic issues.

No building in strict Vancouver is allowed to be as tall as the new Hudson's_in_Detroit. Short and stumpy Vancouver buildings just can't attain the same scale of a Hudson's_Site.

https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/detroit/2025/03/04/hudson-detroit-tower-last-glass-panel-installed/81399071007/

The tallest part of the new Woodward's complex wasn't even allowed to be as tall as the old Hudson's in Detroit. That's because unlike Detroit, almost everything in Vancouver is watered down in scale.

Detroit has had a rough & tough reputation for generations, yet its been able to gradually recover from its economic slide. 

Of course the QLine streetcar in Detroit was up & running long before Vancouver might ever get around to reviving part of its streetcar network. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QLine#Route Backwards Vancouver just might become one of the last cities to revive parts of its streetcar system.

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Service cuts at City of Vancouver 311 and TransLink make it harder for citizens to get information

 https://cityhallwatch.wordpress.com/2025/03/05/service-cuts-cov311-translink-harder-getting-info

Of course as Vancouver gets even more expensive, pay more for less services.

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/translink-operating-funding-fiscal-cliff-bc-budget-2025

Don't have enough funding put towards maintaining rapid and efficient public transit.  

Living Shangri-La tower in Vancouver

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_Shangri-La

The hotel component is just a small part of the building.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_Shangri-La#Residences

Paradox Hotel in Vancouver

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

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

Hotel Georgia and Tower

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel_Georgia_(Vancouver) The stump hotel building doesn't even have 15 floors, when it should have been 30, even back in 1927.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel_Georgia_(Vancouver)#The_Private_Residences_at_Hotel_Georgia

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/42/Private_Residences_at_Hotel_Georgia_2015.jpg Another 48 story shortfall. However, the building still might be equivalent to having 51 floors.

Wall Centre Complex in Vancouver

The One_Wall_Centre tower could have and should have been the first 50 story residential building in Vancouver, but it's windows only go up to 48.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/73/One_Wall_Centre.jpg There is the equvalent of 3 aditional floors above the windows. However, if there is no 13th floor, then its actually 47 plus 3, so it is a 50 story building. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Wall_Centre#Construction

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_Centre_(Vancouver) The complex should have had a 50, 60 & 70 story arrangement. But the tallest building in the centre doesn't even have windows up to the 50th floor.

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/peter-wall-financial-corporation-vancouver

Expensive Vancouver is becoming even less popular with renters

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/renters-interest-vancouver

Four towers up to 37 storeys proposed for SkyTrain's future Great Northern Way-Emily Carr Station

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/375-east-1st-avenue-vancouver-onni-group-rezoning-application-proposal

Nothing tall there by Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne or Toronto standards, yet the land is very expensive.

Fairmont Hotel Vancouver, BC

 https://www.historichotels.org/hotels-resorts/fairmont-hotel-vancouver/

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

Fairmont Royal York Toronto

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

Canadian Bank of Commerce Building (Commerce Court North)

 https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b8/The_Canadian_Bank_of_Commerce_Building_%28Commerce_Court_North%29.jpg

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2e/BankofCommerce1930.jpg It would take until 1977 for strict, stumpy Vancouver to permit a building to rival this.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/29/Commerce_Court_West_2021.jpg When the 57 story tower wasd built in the 1970s, the tower from the 1930s would still rival anything in Vancouver.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/41/Toronto_-_ON_-_Commerce_Court_West.jpg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIBC_Square Strange that this wasn't a 55 & 65 story office complex, or even a 65 & 75 story development. 

Royal Bank Tower Montreal

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Bank_Tower_(Montreal)

It would take until the early 1970s for stubborn Vancouver to permit a building to rival this. 

Major rush-hour delays on the Alex Fraser Bridge

 https://www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/article/alex-fraser-bridge-police-incident-causing-major-delays/

No funding in B.C. government’s new budget to avoid TransLink's service cuts

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/translink-operating-funding-fiscal-cliff-bc-budget-2025

This all fits in with short trains & no express bus bridges. Apparently, short trains & mostly narrow bridges helps people to get around. Its too bad that some of the climate taxes can't go towards big city infrastructure. 

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/translink-metro-vancouver-transit-service-cuts-risk

SODO guideway construction (Seattle)

 https://seattletransitblog.com/2025/03/03/sodo-guideway-construction/

Kelowna, BC, Canada

Kelowna and the Okanagan+Valley+Region not only should continue to be the 3rd largest urban area in BC, but really start to rise above its backwater scale.

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Kelowna

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=K-V-PG-K

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Kelowna-Victoria-Prince+George-Kamloops

Kelowna-Victoria-Prince George-Kamloops

There seems to be an unwritten rule that as long as Vancouver, BC builds things that are impressive by Victoria, Prince George and Kamloops standards, that's good enough. Kelowna is set to be the biggest urban area between Greater Vancouver and Calgary. Kelowna has already been able to build taller than what's in Victoria-Prince+George-Kamloops.

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Kelowna-Victoria-Prince+George-Kamloops

or

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Victoria-Kelowna-Kamloops-Prince+George

New West advocates for 'urgent' funding for fairs, festivals and events

 https://www.newwestrecord.ca/local-arts/new-west-advocates-for-urgent-funding-for-fairs-festivals-and-events-10315379

It's difficult for such a provincial backwater to behave like a proper city, but having fairs & festivals is a good thing for any thriving city to have.

New Westminster 2 weeks after water main break

 https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2025/03/03/new-westminster-mayor-water-main-break-next-steps/

Even a small city like NW can have big problems.

https://www.newwestrecord.ca/local-news/cause-of-ruptured-water-main-in-new-west-is-still-unknown-10258948

https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2025/02/21/new-westminster-water-main-break-problems-residents/

Queensborough in New Westminster, BC

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queensborough,_New_Westminster

 https://www.newwestrecord.ca/local-news/new-west-to-spend-10000-to-hold-council-meeting-in-queensborough-10305559

Little NW should have annexed at least half of Lulu_Island by the 1870s, when there wasn't much of anything there yet.

44 Montgomery Tower in SF and 611 Place in LA

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/44_Montgomery 1967 https://buildingsdb.com/CA/san-francisco/44-montgomery-street-building 

This could have and should have been the first building in SF over 600 feet tall. 

https://sfyimby.com/2021/08/number-20-44-montgomery-street-financial-district-san-francisco.html Given the building sites limitations, it wasn't able to have a plus sign shape +.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/611_Place 1969 https://buildingsdb.com/CA/los-angeles/611-place-building

This should have been the first building in LA to be over 650 feet or 200m in height.

https://la.urbanize.city/post/long-empty-dtla-office-tower-being-marketed-prospective-tenants It was able to have a plus sign + shape.

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=611+Place

The Curse of Zombie Buildings

 https://www.bcg.com/publications/2023/countering-the-surge-of-zombie-buildings

https://hotelsmag.com/news/what-a-zombie-building-is-and-how-to-breathe-new-life-into-them/

https://www.pionline.com/real-estate/zombie-office-buildings-stagger-through-american-cities

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-07-12/inside-a-struggling-dry-cleaner-in-a-dtla-zombie-building 611 Place

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=611+Place

Bellevue, Western Australia

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellevue,_Western_Australia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellevue,_Western_Australia#Railways

Fortunately, the Transperth_C-series_trains are allowed to be longer than what's in the BC part of Canada. 

Train length	143.35 m (470 ft 4 in)
Car length	24 m (78 ft 9 in)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transperth_C-series_train#History

From a backwater BC perspective, its amazing that the Transperth_C-series_trains are allowed to be so long. Almost as long as a Montreal Metro train, but closer to the length of the Stockholm Metro trains. It would be chaos if Perth, Montreal & Stockholm had to have short trains like backwards Vancouver does. 

Bellevue, Washington

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellevue,_Washington

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellevue,_Washington#Transportation

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

Unfortunatly, the Portland MAX trains are shorter than the nice, long Seattle trains. 

While the Link_Light_Rail trains don't run as frequently as those on the Canada (embarrassment) Line, the stations were allowed to be so much longer, right from the start. Then its just a matter of eventually running more trains each hour. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_light_rail#2_Line_(South_Bellevue-Redmond) 

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Bellevue

Ballard Light Rail At-Grade

 https://seattletransitblog.com/2025/02/28/ballard-light-rail-at-grade/

https://seattletransitblog.com/2025/02/25/automate-ballard-link/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballard,_Seattle

Canadian provinces meet in effort to reduce interprovincial trade barriers

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/anita-anand-interprovincial-trade 

Fortunately, Australia never adopted internal trade barriers like Canada did.

https://vancouversun.com/news/bc-eyes-nova-scotia-bill-reduce-interprovincial-trade-barriers 

https://www.thestar.com/business/winners-and-losers-in-interprovincial-trade-barriers-game/article_de610080-f468-11ef-9b5c-03c88f79396e.html 

https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/article/why-is-it-so-hard-to-do-business-between-provinces 

https://www.conferenceboard.ca/insights/insights-blogs-time-to-rethink-internal-trade-in-canada

There are some things that Australia got correct early on, why Canada is still trying to sort some issues out.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/interprovincial-trade-barriers-4-ways-1.7453530 

"Canada has free trade agreements with 51 countries, and yet we have never been able to institute free trade within our own borders.

Despite decades of discussion, an array of non-tariff barriers still limits the free movement of people and goods across our provinces. From professional certifications to supply-managed products to regulations in a wide variety of industries, restrictions on interprovincial trade flows prevail." https://financialpost.com/news/economy/beyond-borders-internal-trade-barriers

https://www.ctvnews.ca/business/article/interprovincial-trade-barriers-what-they-are-why-they-exist-and-how-to-cut-them 

Federalism and Sub-National Protectionism: a Comparison of the Internal Trade Regimes of Canada and Australia https://www.queensu.ca/iigr/sites/iirwww/files/uploaded_files/SmithAndrewWorkingPaper2015.pdf

An active storm track and changeable temperatures could make for a messy March across much of Canada

https://www.theweathernetwork.com/en/news/weather/forecasts/march-2025-outlook-canada-to-see-march-madness-as-winter-transitions-to-spring

 https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/anita-anand-interprovincial-trade 1

https://vancouversun.com/news/bc-eyes-nova-scotia-bill-reduce-interprovincial-trade-barriers 2

https://www.thestar.com/business/winners-and-losers-in-interprovincial-trade-barriers-game/article_de610080-f468-11ef-9b5c-03c88f79396e.html 3

https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/article/why-is-it-so-hard-to-do-business-between-provinces 4

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/interprovincial-trade-barriers-4-ways-1.7453530 5

https://www.ctvnews.ca/business/article/interprovincial-trade-barriers-what-they-are-why-they-exist-and-how-to-cut-them 6

Former B.C. deputy finance minister to lead audit of North Shore sewage plant

 https://www.burnabynow.com/highlights/former-bc-deputy-finance-minister-to-lead-audit-of-north-shore-sewage-plant-10304011

While a Burnaby to North Vancouver express bus and rail link is a good idea, there should also be a link between Vancouver and West Vancouver. Unfortunatly, so much extra money will be going toward a shit-pipe and a shit-box, instead of a rail tunnel & a new bridge. So many people are still in denial, but urban planning & funding in BC is really the $HIT$ for Greater Vancouver.

https://www.burnabynow.com/economy-law-politics/fractures-deepen-as-metro-vancouver-faces-governance-review-10305334

So much money was wasted on a $HIT-BOX and a $HIT-PIPE that could have gone towards a train tunnel near the LGB.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/vancouver-island/article/metro-vancouver-should-not-be-a-gravy-train-bc-asked-to-partner-in-regional-governance-review

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=$HIT-PIPE

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=SHIT-BOX

Officials Delay Expected Approval Date for West Seattle Light Rail

  https://www.theurbanist.org/2025/02/28/trump-delay-approval-for-west-seattle-light-rail/

Four gantry cranes to be deployed for Surrey-Langley SkyTrain construction this year

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/surrey-langley-skytrain-construction-gantry-launcher-crane

Metro Vancouver regional district governance review changes

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/metro-vancouver-regional-district-governance-review-changes

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/metro-vancouver-treatment-plan-audit-1.7239051 Why have a train tunnel fromWest Vancouver to Waterfront_Station in Vancouver when instead, you can put a few extra billion dollars into a North Shore shit-pipe?

"The reasons behind the escalation are the subject of duelling lawsuits between the contractor Metro Vancouver fired and the regional district, but the now $3.9 billion is five times beyond the original $700 million budget Metro set a decade ago and more than double a revised $1 billion budget from 2021.

The issue’s complexity lies in the fact that Metro Vancouver’s sewage treatment services are broken up into four sewerage areas, unlike the drinking water system that is operated as a single entity.

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The sewerage areas are: North Shore; Vancouver, which includes UBC and parts of Burnaby and Richmond; Lulu, which is most of Richmond and Fraser, which is most other Metro municipalities.

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All municipalities pay for the capital costs of new facilities, but those within each district pay a bigger share for facilities in their own district." https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/metro-vancouver-will-pay-for-north-shore-sewage-plant

https://www.nsnews.com/in-the-community/north-vancouver-district-asks-province-for-public-inquiry-on-sewage-plant-debacle-9777554 So much extra money will have to be paid out for a shit-box & a shit-pipe cost overrun. A few extra billion dollars could have easily paid for an improved Canada+Line and extension from downtown Vancouver to Park+Royal and the Horseshoe+Bay ferry terminal.

https://vancouversun.com/news/new-westminster-mayor-sides-with-metro-vancouver-in-surrey-spat Surrey wants to eventually become the biggest city in BC. That means not having similar restrictions that Vancouver, NW & Victoria have. Surrey wants to have taller buildings than restrictive Vancouver. First, it will have to rival Burnaby & Bellevue, WA and ultimately, Vaughan, Ontario. Instead of having 1 big downtown area, there will be a few town centres as well. 

While Surrey might want to have more autonomy, its still part of the Metro_Vancouver_Regional_District.

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=SHIT-BOX

50-metre pool at new Vancouver Aquatic Centre becomes by-election issue

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouver-aquatic-centre-pool-by-election-issue

Unlike most cities, Vancouver has had a history and mentality for refusing to think on a big scale.

Is Too little being done to fix Vancouver’s hotel room shortage crisis?

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouver-hotel-room-shortage-crisis-solutions

How can a city that wants to cultivate its tourism business not encourage more hotel development?

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/keefer-house-hotel-vancouver-chinatown 

There just aren't enough BC+hotels to meet current and future demands. 

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=hotel+rooms 

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=BC+hotel+shortage

Commercial-Broadway SkyTrain station

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/commercial-broadway-skytrain-station-overpass-reopens

https://www.translink.ca/schedules-and-maps/station/commercial-broadway/schedule

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial%E2%80%93Broadway_station

Expansion of Vancouver General Hospital campus proposed

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouver-general-hospital-vgh-expansion-900-990-west-12th-avenue

105 story pinnacle-one-yonge-skytower

 https://www.blogto.com/real-estate-toronto/2025/01/pinnacle-one-yonge-skytower-construction/

The Burlington Canal Lift Bridge

The Burlington_Canal_Lift_Bridge only has 4 lanes, but that's OK, because the 8 lanes of the Burlington+Bay+Skyway+Bridges are right beside it.

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

https://www.hopaports.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Burlington-Canal-Lift-Bridge.pdf

https://www.canada.ca/en/public-services-procurement/services/infrastructure-buildings/bridges-docks-dams/burlington-bridge/deck-replacement-project.html

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Burlington+Canal+Lift+Bridge

The Burlington Bay James N. Allan Skyway Bridges

The Burlington_Bay_James_N._Allan_Skyway went from being like a 4 lane BC bridge to an 8 lane Ontario crossing. That took place from the late 1950s to the mid 1980s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burlington_Bay_James_N._Allan_Skyway#History

There is a point where it would be likely to have 2 HOV lanes or 2 bus lanes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Elizabeth_Way#St._Catharines%E2%80%93Hamilton

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Burlington+Bay+James+N.+Allan+Skyway

Bike Lanes

 https://vancouver.ca/files/cov/map-cycling-vancouver.pdf

https://www.translink.ca/rider-guide/bike-and-ride-on-transit/cycling-in-metro-vancouver

https://visionzerovancouver.ca/2023/04/27/anti-bike-city

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/best-bike-routes-metro-vancouver

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Bike+Lanes

Bus Lanes

 Given so many narrow streets & bridges in Vancouver, its difficult to have a proper bus lane network, even for the metropolitan region.

https://vancouversun.com/opinion/op-ed/opinion-bus-lanes-urgent-vancouver

https://vancouver.ca/streets-transportation/bus-network-improvements.aspx

https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/local-news/vancouver-new-dedicated-bus-lanes-translink-2024-9267523

https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2024/11/18/burnaby-hastings-street-bus-lane-city-council/

https://visionzerovancouver.ca/2024/07/10/take-action-add-bus-lanes-to-translinks-priority-routes/

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Bus+Lane

HOV Lanes

With so many narrow streets & bridges in Vancouver, its difficult to have a proper HOV lane network, especially for the metropolitan region.

https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/transportation/driving-and-cycling/traveller-information/routes-and-driving-conditions/hov-lanes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-occupancy_vehicle_lane

https://www.drivesmartbc.ca/lanes/using-hov-lanes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-occupancy_vehicle_lane#Canada

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-occupancy_vehicle_lane#New_Zealand_and_Australia

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=HOV+Lane

hollywood-theatre-in kitsilano and york theater in east-vancouver

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/hollywood-theatre-kitsilano-vancouver-new-ownership

https://henriquezpartners.com/projects/york-theatre/

https://heritagevancouver.org/top10-watch-list/2008/6-york-alcazar-theatre-1913-saved/

https://vancouversun.com/entertainment/new-new-york-theatre-a-celebration-of-cultural-heritage

Hundreds protest Vancouver mayor’s plan to pause construction of supportive housing

 https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/economy-law-politics/hundreds-protest-vancouver-mayors-plan-to-pause-construction-of-supportive-housing-10293110

https://globalnews.ca/news/11050284/vancouver-mayor-supportive-housing-pause-debate-protest/

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouver-temporary-pause-supportive-housing-downtown-eastside-approved

Park board votes to request 50-metre pool at Vancouver Aquatic Centre

Amended motion came after dozens of people spoke out against a redesign plan that would cut the pool in half https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/aquatic-centre-50-metre-pool-1.7468681

This horrible multigenerational half-size Vancouver and BC mentality is so firmly entrenched. At least if a half-size Vancouver Aquatic Centre, like the half-size Canada+Line, was designed to eventually become a proper big city facility, that's one thing. However, certain people just wanted to have a half-size Vancouver Aquatic Centre, just like a half-size Canada Line. Indeed, the objective was to have infrastructure deliberately designed to just be another Half-A$$ED small-scale backwater BC joke.

Let it fall-apart like the crappy & inadequate Pattullo+Bridge, then just build a half-size joke. It's all part of the mentality to not want more people living in BC, which is almost 2 dozen times larger than Switzerland.

Fortunately, enough people believe in a growing Vancouver & BC, so the new Vancouver+Aquatic+Centre will be a proper big city infrastructure redevelopment. While the argument to just build a half-size facility to save money might make sense to some people, unless it was designed to eventually be brought up to a full-size standard, it's a sad joke.

The Burrard+Street+Bridge (BSB) was originally planned to have a permanent 6 lane upper deck & 2 streetcar tracks on a lower deck. Unfortunatly, the BSB was Vancouverized to become scaled back & remain incomplete. Had there been a nice & wide bike-bridge built next to it, then the BSB could have still had a 6 lane deck. Then there could have been either 2 bus lanes or 2 HOV lanes. Unfortunatly, everything is funneled into just another 4 lane BC bridge. 

Since backwards Vancouver wants to be one of the last major cities to bring back streetcars & tram-trains, there has been a mutigenerational lack of interest in completing the lower streetcar deck. 

Burnaby's REVS Bowling gives update on future as tower development looms

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/revs-burnaby-update-stay-open

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/bc-pre-sale-home-early-marketing-period-extended

pattullo-bridge-crash-safety-petition

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/pattullo-bridge-crash-safety-petition

langara-ymca-vancouver-redevelopment-approved

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/langara-family-ymca-vancouver-redevelopment-approved-musqueam

Park Board backs 50-metre pool for new Vancouver Aquatic Centre after outcry over proposed small replacement

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouver-aquatic-centre-new-50-metre-pool-feasibility-decision

Vancouver needs to build things that aren't just impressive by Prince George, Kamloops and Kelowna standards.

Nevermind Seattle, strict Vancouver, BC will have less tall buildings than Bellevue.

As of 2025, Vancouver, BC only has 2 buildings taller than what's in Bellevue,_Washington. Eventually, Bellevue will have at least 5 building that are at 600 feet, while Vancouver will only still have two buildings over 600 feet.

Nevermind Toronto, Vancouver must have no building that would rival the tallest in Mississauga and Vaughan.

https://canada.constructconnect.com/dcn/news/projects/2024/11/massive-master-planned-community-aims-to-bring-tallest-towers-to-vaughan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_Canada#Under_construction

Since BC was never able to build a wall or create a forcefield around it, the next best thing was to continually water everything down as much as possible. Thus, the symbolism to have short trains, mostly narrow bridges & short buildings, is all part of not properly planning for growth.

Singapore and Sydney don't have this problem, as they don't have to contend with anything like Vancouver's type of restrictions.

Toronto is a big city like Chicago. Montreal has restrictions, but not as extreme as Vancouver. Unfortunatly, Montreal has yet to become a big city on the scale of Melbourne, let alone Paris or NYC. 

Big upgrades coming to Horseshoe Bay ferry terminal in West Vancouver

 https://www.nsnews.com/local-news/big-upgrades-coming-to-horseshoe-bay-ferry-terminal-in-west-vancouver-10286391

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/bc-ferries-horseshoe-bay-terminal-upgrades

Its such utter foolishness & inept planning to not have a rail rapid transit line between the Horseshoe+Bay+ferry+terminal and downtown Vancouver, but this is backwards BC.

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Horseshoe+Bay

$2-billion Richmond Hospital redevelopment

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/richmond-hospital-new-redevelopment-acute-care-tower-contractor

Having a big hospital in Richmond is important, not only because YVR is part of Richmond, but there are a lot of people travelling between Delta, Richmond & Vancouver.

City of Surrey to withdraw from Metro Vancouver's Regional Growth Strategy

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/surrey-withdraw-metro-vancouver-regional-growth-strategy

Surrey is destined to become the largest city in BC, but in order to achieve that, it has to be freed from the backwater BC mentality. Surrey needs to think and build like a proper big city.

Another earthquake for B.C., less than four days later

 https://www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/article/second-earthquake-in-four-days-strikes-off-bc-coast/

TransLink ponders a name for Metro Vancouver's bike lane network

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/translink-metro-vancouver-cycling-bike-lane-network-name

Site C dam's electric generation capacity grows to 50%

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/site-c-hydroelectric-dam-bc-hydro-capacity-milestone

Delta-hospital-emergency-room-closed-staffing-challenges

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/delta-hospital-emergency-room-closed-staffing-challenges

https://www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/article/delta-city-council-holds-emergency-meeting-after-hospitals-weekend-long-er-closure/

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/delta-hospital-er-closure-1.7466840

https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2025/02/23/delta-emergency-room-closed-second-night/

Every city or major municipality should have a big hospital and other appropriate infrastructure. Of course there should be a good working arrangement for all hospital staff.

Unfortunatly, Delta seems to have been treated with a backwater mindset for generations. The East side of Delta is like an urban extension of Surrey. The West side of Delta has a major seaport and a ferry terminal & a big shopping mall. Unfortunatly, it seems in accordance with the backwater planning mentality, that there is no train linking the ferry terminal and the shopping mall to Richmond & YVR, on the horizon.

Watered-down Vancouver and BC

Auckland & Seattle and especially Sydney and SF are very scenic cities. Yet, none of them has taken a watered-down approach to the extent that Vancouver has. Indeed, a mandate to thwart, restrict & limit things, has been part of the water-down Vancouver agenda for generations. This watered-down approach or agenda, has become a clever way to hold back all kinds of infrastructure in the Metro_Vancouver_Regional_District. The mentality to keep things small & backwards is all part of the horrible symbolic desire to not build for a big future. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro_Vancouver_Regional_District#Geography

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro_Vancouver_Regional_District#Regional_planning Not planning to have trains as long as the Montreal Metro or the Toronto Subway, was an utterly foolish and inept decision. However, it makes sense from a congestive planning perspective.

In the meantime, a short train system can still work efficiently. Thus, there is no good reason as to why the SkyTrain can't be upgrades to the same level as the 24hr Copenhagen_Metro. However, BC is so stubborn & isolated with its approach to things, it would be quite a challenge to get to the standard of the Copenhagen_Metro, but it should be possible. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copenhagen_Metro#Route Eventually, backwards Vancouver will require proper long trains like on the Stockholm_Metro and the Montreal_Metro. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_Metro#Rolling_stock

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal_Metro#Models

Not planning & building a regional network of express bus and HOV bridges, was also foolish and inept decision. However, that also makes sense from a congestive planning perspective. Indeed, bottleneck or chokepoint planning is something that commuters don't like, but BC urban planners seem to perpetuate it every year. Of course the lack of infrastructure funding is also a big problem.

Unfortunatly, with Greater Vancouver having such an anti-bridge mentality, it makes it difficult to have a proper regional Bus_Rapid_Transit network. Yet officially, the region isn't against having a proper BRT network. Funneling busses onto the same narrow bridges with cars & trucks is idiotic. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_transport#Environmental_impact

5 Daily Vancouver-Seattle trains being eyed by Amtrak Cascades service

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/amtrak-cascades-service-improvements-targets 

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Amtrak

Hundreds climb thousands of stairs for Hustle Chicago at former John Hancock Center

 https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/hustle-chicago-former-john-hancock-center-2025/

https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/hustle-chicago-stair-climb-takes-fundraising-to-dizzying-heights/3680870/

https://www.beck-technology.com/blog/how-did-they-build-that-john-hancock-center-chicago

https://www.architecture.org/online-resources/buildings-of-chicago/875-n-michigan-ave

875 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago

 https://875northmichiganavenue.com Formerly the John_Hancock_Center.

https://www.beck-technology.com/blog/how-did-they-build-that-john-hancock-center-chicago

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

https://360chicago.com  https://360chicago.com/cloudbar

https://360chicago.com/experience

https://www.chicago-voyage.com/en/hancock-observatory-chicago.html

https://www.architecture.org/online-resources/buildings-of-chicago/875-n-michigan-ave

Manulife Centre in Toronto

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manulife_Centre , https://manulifecentre.com

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Manulife+Centre

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/07/Manulife_Centre.jpg 51 floors in 1974, but this should have been the first 65 story residential tower in Toronto.

https://www.skyscrapercenter.com/toronto/44-charles-street-west/2979 166 m / 545 ft

Fortunately, 44 Charles wasn't just 44 stories. Indeed, it was the first 51 story mixed-use residential & office complex in Canada, but it should have been taller. Chicago has had the 100 story John Hancock Center since 1969. If Toronto couldn't have its own 100 story building in the mid 1970s, similar in scale to the John_Hancock_Center, there should have been two buildings with more than 50 floos. 

https://www.cushmanwakefield.com/en/canada/properties/for-lease/office/on/toronto/55-bloor-street-west/s119707755-l This should have been the first 55 story office tower outside of downtown Toronto.

https://www.loopnet.ca/Listing/55-Bloor-St-W-Toronto-ON/17793768

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b2/Manulife_Centre_2022.jpg Its like there was an obligatory Vancouver stump that had to be part of the development. It's a stump, because it's windows don't even rise over 20 floors. This stump building should have been 55 stories at 55 Bloor.

https://urbantoronto.ca/database/projects/manulife-centre-podium-and-streetscape-renewal.19539

This is a nice, wide Toronto building, but it got Vancouverized or miniaturized, right from the start.

https://www.cbre.ca/properties/retail/details/CA-Plus-268572/manulife-centre-55-bloor-street-w-toronto-ontario-m4w-1a5 It would have been quite impressive if it opened as a 55 story tower.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/industry-news/property-report/article-torontos-manulife-centre-adds-a-more-friendly-facade/

https://sgconstructors.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/55-Bloor-Manulife-Redevelopment-Profile.pdf

https://urbantoronto.ca/news/2018/09/glazing-enclosing-manulife-centre-addition-bay-and-bloor.33926

https://www.bgis.com/assets/documents/BMO-Case-Study-RetroCommissioning-BMTT-55-Bloor.2023.09.11_r6FINAL.pdf

Australia was able to go above 99 floors before Canada. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia_108 Actually has 100 floors.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STH_BNK_by_Beulah 102 floors.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_Canada#Under_construction

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinnacle_One_Yonge 105?

New-Laws-and rules-coming-to-Ontario-in March

 https://www.blogto.com/city/2025/02/new-laws-rules-coming-to-ontario-march/

Donald Trump keeps talking about Canada as the 51st state. Why isn't King Charles saying something?

 https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/king-charles-canada-politics-foreign-travel-invictus-games-1.7462594

Most people in Denmark and the Netherlands have a doctor. Here's what Canada can learn

 https://www.cbc.ca/radio/whitecoat/most-people-in-denmark-and-the-netherlands-have-a-doctor-here-s-what-canada-can-learn-1.7463900

Metro Vancouver Regional District considers $22M in budget cuts

 https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2025/02/21/metro-vancouver-regional-district-22m-budget-cuts/

https://vancouversun.com/news/seeking-savings-metro-vancouver-board-considers-funding-cuts-seven-programs

https://globalnews.ca/news/11016648/vancouver-mayor-ken-sim-board-metro-vancouver-waste-of-time/

https://www.biv.com/news/real-estate/metro-vancouver-reviews-waiving-development-charges-for-inclusionary-housing-10158466

Not enough money for an express bus and train tunnel between downtown & the North Shore. 

https://vancouversun.com/news/metro-vancouver-on-track-with-north-shore-wastewater-treatment-plant-final-price-still-uncertain

However, there are plenty of funds for an overbudjet shit-box!

https://www.nsnews.com/in-the-community/north-vancouver-district-asks-province-for-public-inquiry-on-sewage-plant-debacle-9777554

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/what-you-need-to-know-north-shore-wastewater-treatment-plant-1.7235368

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=SHIT-BOX

TransLink seeking public input on about 60 proposed bus routes changes

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/translink-burrard-area-transport-plan-proposed-bus-routes-survey

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=bus+lanes

Inside Europe's $1BN Abandoned Mega-Build

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

City of Vancouver's chief urban planner signals major reforms for more flexible building development

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouver-flexible-building-development-policies

Big backlash over smaller pool plan for new Vancouver Aquatic Centre sparks petition

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouver-aquatic-centre-proposal-controversy

Just because backwards Vancouver gets a lot of rain, that doesn't mean that almost everything should be symbolically watered down.

Why have a Canada+Line with 152m long stations, like on the Montreal+Metro, when a 50m joke of a station provides excellent watered down symbolism? Why have bridges wide enough for bus & HOV lanes, when everything can be funneled into just 2 lanes each way? 

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