Outhit is more of an opinion writer disguised as a journalist due to the fact he's paid as a reporter.
Overall, everyone at The Record is terrible and the entire paper has a strange anti-development, heavily conservative minded approach to development in Waterloo Region these days. Years back, when they closed their original offices on Fairway Road, they were glorifying the renaissance of downtown Kitchener when they took over Market Square office space, the city was starting to do rework the streets and City Centre/Kaufman/Eatons/Arrow Condos were going up. Then it just feels like one day they did a 180 and started to constantly complain about how new developments in residential, office and infrastructure projects was problematic. Feels like it coincided with the LRT construction when they were pumping out articles about how disruptive it was. Not sure what went wrong. I used to respect that paper and in my youth, I even had a lot of my own stuff published there promoting development.
Overall, everyone at The Record is terrible and the entire paper has a strange anti-development, heavily conservative minded approach to development in Waterloo Region these days. Years back, when they closed their original offices on Fairway Road, they were glorifying the renaissance of downtown Kitchener when they took over Market Square office space, the city was starting to do rework the streets and City Centre/Kaufman/Eatons/Arrow Condos were going up. Then it just feels like one day they did a 180 and started to constantly complain about how new developments in residential, office and infrastructure projects was problematic. Feels like it coincided with the LRT construction when they were pumping out articles about how disruptive it was. Not sure what went wrong. I used to respect that paper and in my youth, I even had a lot of my own stuff published there promoting development.