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  Thread: Three-bedroom madness
Post: RE: Three-bedroom madness
ijmorlan Wrote: (05-09-2024, 10:11 PM) -- tomh009 Wrote: (05-09-2024, 08:12 PM) -- The condo corporation will make rules (whether declaration, bylaws or condo rules), hopefully legal ones, and then ...
   danbrotherston Outside Waterloo Region 20 591 05-10-2024, 05:00 AM
  Thread: General Food, Dining and Nightlife News
Post: RE: General Food, Dining and Nightlife News
Acitta Wrote: (05-07-2024, 08:52 PM) -- Getting off the #6 bus tonight, I was dismayed to see that the Nougat Bakery at Stirling and Courtland had closed. Roua grocery store seems to be expanding int...
   danbrotherston Food, Dining and Nightlife 2,310 2,044,127 05-08-2024, 12:35 AM
  Thread: Three-bedroom madness
Post: RE: Three-bedroom madness
panamaniac Wrote: (05-07-2024, 12:08 PM) -- plam Wrote: (05-07-2024, 03:13 AM) -- This tracks with my experience in Waterloo somewhat too: Our condo (3br townhouses) doesn't allow unrelated peo...
   danbrotherston Outside Waterloo Region 20 591 05-07-2024, 06:28 PM
  Thread: Three-bedroom madness
Post: RE: Three-bedroom madness
plam Wrote: (05-07-2024, 03:13 AM) -- This tracks with my experience in Waterloo somewhat too: Quote: -- as high rents continue to make living alone prohibitively expensive for many, single peo...
   danbrotherston Outside Waterloo Region 20 591 05-07-2024, 06:49 AM
  Thread: Taxation and the middle class
Post: RE: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
ijmorlan Wrote: (05-04-2024, 12:34 PM) -- danbrotherston Wrote: (05-04-2024, 02:05 AM) -- Paying taxes != "beating up on".  Nobody is suggesting we literally eat the 500 thousandairs. -- You’re fo...
   danbrotherston Politics 111 20,683 05-05-2024, 01:31 AM
  Thread: Taxation and the middle class
Post: RE: Taxation and the middle class
ijmorlan Wrote: (05-04-2024, 10:32 PM) -- I could say a lot about this, but the thing that comes to mind is this: the property of a wealthy person or organization is, in practice, only property becau...
   danbrotherston Politics 111 20,683 05-05-2024, 01:23 AM
  Thread: Taxation and the middle class
Post: RE: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
ijmorlan Wrote: (05-03-2024, 09:25 PM) -- tomh009 Wrote: (05-02-2024, 09:54 PM) -- And while you say "not enormously wealthy", a person making a good salary (say, $100K) plus $500K+  in capital gain...
   danbrotherston Politics 111 20,683 05-04-2024, 02:05 AM
  Thread: General Road and Highway Discussion
Post: RE: General Road and Highway Discussion
KevinL Wrote: (05-01-2024, 11:44 AM) -- Strasburg got some basic traffic calming installed very recently https://i.imgur.com/Budp5Wr.png -- This kind of thing is a pretty good option for traffic...
   danbrotherston Transportation and Infrastructure 3,126 2,243,624 05-01-2024, 02:48 PM
  Thread: Taxation and the middle class
Post: RE: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
tomh009 Wrote: (05-01-2024, 11:21 AM) -- Rainrider22 Wrote: (05-01-2024, 07:01 AM) -- Um,  you are off base.  My wife and I purchased a couple of condo units that we rent out.  This was done as reti...
   danbrotherston Politics 111 20,683 05-01-2024, 02:45 PM
  Thread: Taxation and the middle class
Post: RE: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
tomh009 Wrote: (04-27-2024, 02:59 PM) -- taylortbb Wrote: (04-26-2024, 09:39 PM) -- I suspect the current spike in listings is a result of the proposed capital gains inclusion rate increase. Anyone ...
   danbrotherston Politics 111 20,683 04-27-2024, 03:09 PM
  Thread: Grand River Transit
Post: RE: Grand River Transit
SF22 Wrote: (04-26-2024, 10:14 AM) -- I haven't been able to find an actual map of where the old Route 91 actually went - I never used this one, as a student. Does anyone remember the general layout ...
   danbrotherston Transportation and Infrastructure 4,338 3,256,056 04-26-2024, 10:48 AM
  Thread: Farmland conversion and landfill sites
Post: RE: Farmland conversion and landfill sites
westwardloo Wrote: (04-26-2024, 08:25 AM) -- There is no way that they want to expropriate 700 acres to subdivide it into small industrial plots. If that was the case, they would just rezone the land...
   danbrotherston Politics 196 7,552 04-26-2024, 09:13 AM
  Thread: General Road and Highway Discussion
Post: RE: General Road and Highway Discussion
the_conestoga_guy Wrote: (04-25-2024, 12:01 PM) -- danbrotherston Wrote: (04-25-2024, 10:36 AM) -- So I did finally get a reply from staff about my comments on the Victoria St. segment: I mean,...
   danbrotherston Transportation and Infrastructure 3,126 2,243,624 04-25-2024, 01:07 PM
  Thread: General Road and Highway Discussion
Post: RE: General Road and Highway Discussion
So I did finally get a reply from staff about my comments on the Victoria St. segment: Quote: -- Good morning Daniel, Thanks for your email and interest in the Victoria Street Improvements pr...
   danbrotherston Transportation and Infrastructure 3,126 2,243,624 04-25-2024, 10:36 AM
  Thread: Farmland conversion and landfill sites
Post: RE: Farmland conversion and landfill sites
I dunno...some folks here seem perfectly willing to support this development because it offers jobs regardless of the environmental cost, and even in the face of pretty concerning transparency and pro...
   danbrotherston Politics 196 7,552 04-22-2024, 09:44 AM
  Thread: Farmland conversion and landfill sites
Post: RE: Farmland conversion and landfill sites
ijmorlan Wrote: (04-21-2024, 12:07 AM) -- Acitta Wrote: (04-20-2024, 11:34 PM) -- Are you saying that farmers are communists? -- I don’t take everything ac3r says equally seriously. -- I think the...
   danbrotherston Politics 196 7,552 04-21-2024, 02:53 AM
  Thread: Farmland conversion and landfill sites
Post: RE: Farmland conversion and landfill sites
bravado Wrote: (04-20-2024, 10:47 AM) -- Once again, I am reserving judgement until we find out what this land grab is actually for. As for the toxic chemicals claim, some things are a bit messier t...
   danbrotherston Politics 196 7,552 04-20-2024, 04:11 PM
  Thread: Farmland conversion and landfill sites
Post: RE: Farmland conversion and landfill sites
Acitta Wrote: (04-19-2024, 05:30 PM) -- Ontario NDP leader backs Wilmot farmers (https://www.therecord.com/news/waterloo-region/ontario-ndp-leader-backs-wilmot-farmers/article_ceef143f-08da-5ee1-8eac...
   danbrotherston Politics 196 7,552 04-20-2024, 06:49 AM
  Thread: Grand River Transit
Post: RE: Grand River Transit
the_conestoga_guy Wrote: (04-18-2024, 07:56 AM) -- ac3r Wrote: (04-17-2024, 05:27 PM) -- Putting the tracks on the bridge is a bad idea for many reasons. They've already spent a ton of money on the ...
   danbrotherston Transportation and Infrastructure 4,338 3,256,056 04-18-2024, 08:51 AM
  Thread: Farmland conversion and landfill sites
Post: RE: Farmland conversion and landfill sites
tomh009 Wrote: (04-17-2024, 11:33 AM) -- danbrotherston Wrote: (04-17-2024, 12:48 AM) -- The sudden negative swing of the 50-55 age cohort just stood out to me.  This also misses (or only slightl...
   danbrotherston Politics 196 7,552 04-17-2024, 06:19 PM
  Thread: Farmland conversion and landfill sites
Post: RE: Farmland conversion and landfill sites
tomh009 Wrote: (04-16-2024, 02:45 PM) -- danbrotherston Wrote: (04-16-2024, 01:33 AM) -- That's some weird population data...but the more interesting is the increase in labour participation for olde...
   danbrotherston Politics 196 7,552 04-17-2024, 12:48 AM
  Thread: GO Transit
Post: RE: GO Transit
bravado Wrote: (04-16-2024, 09:19 PM) -- The minister has already changed their mind on the UP Express changes https://twitter.com/PrabSarkaria/status/1780376796250153066 -- I mean, I’m always g...
   danbrotherston Transportation and Infrastructure 1,998 1,179,162 04-17-2024, 12:43 AM
  Thread: Grand River Transit
Post: RE: Grand River Transit
Again, as bravado and neonjoe point out, this number is a complete fabrication. It seems designed to kill the project. But in any case, the real cost of construction will be much lower, but even the ...
   danbrotherston Transportation and Infrastructure 4,338 3,256,056 04-16-2024, 12:41 PM
  Thread: Farmland conversion and landfill sites
Post: RE: Farmland conversion and landfill sites
tomh009 Wrote: (04-15-2024, 02:27 PM) -- creative Wrote: (04-15-2024, 12:32 PM) -- I often wonder what the real unemployment rate might be. To my knowledge, we don’t count individuals who have exhau...
   danbrotherston Politics 196 7,552 04-16-2024, 01:33 AM
  Thread: Farmland conversion and landfill sites
Post: RE: Farmland conversion and landfill sites
cherrypark Wrote: (04-15-2024, 10:58 AM) -- Unemployment data a short search away... (https://www.ontario.ca/page/labour-market-report-january-2024#:~:text=data%2C%20chart%204-,Unemployment%20rate%20...
   danbrotherston Politics 196 7,552 04-16-2024, 01:28 AM
  Thread: GO Transit
Post: RE: GO Transit
tomh009 Wrote: (04-15-2024, 02:17 PM) -- UP Express is crowded? That's at least good news, given how slow the start was for this service. -- My coworker said that a lot of people were riding it fro...
   danbrotherston Transportation and Infrastructure 1,998 1,179,162 04-16-2024, 01:13 AM

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