Last week the city of Regina held a public meeting about Rooming Houses in the city. The meeting is part of a wider process the council is going through to try to address the dramatic housing shortage the city faces. There have been concerns from some communities,...
Housing Affordability
Winnipeg Renters Should Welcome New Condo Developments
The Corydon Avenue BIZ announced today that a new condo development containing 125 units scattered throughout 13 buildings in the Corydon/Osborne area is in the works. Predictably, knee jerk condo opponents are lamenting that new condo developments do nothing for the average renter. As it happens, they do.
Urban Policy: A Time for a Paradigm Shift
This policy paper examines current attempts to increase urban densification in Canada’s metropolitan areas, and makes a common-sense but unorthodox argument that cities would be better off embracing urban dispersion.
Public Transit is Better, but Cars Are Faster
Transit may be the better way, but it is certainly not the faster one. The latest data from Statistics Canada has revealed the most avoided truth about commuting: Transit commutes are 81-per-cent longer than those by car.
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Sustaining a Pariah State: Pakistan’s Ignominious Alliance in Afghanistan
The United Nations (UN) was born out of an idea for creating a society of nations, a global community, a brotherhood of nations built on a set of higher ideals. These ideals would give rise to a global village with accountability to each other, including social...
The Endemic Path is the Way Out
The Alberta premier’s plan to treat the coronavirus as endemic was the way out of the COVID crisis. That he is once again adopting restrictions for the province, for the fourth time, does not negate the endemic approach. But his declaration, paraphrasing President...
Suburban Thrall
For various reasons, Montreal has been losing economic ground to Toronto and other North American urban areas over the recent decades. But this could be changing. Politics and infrastructure are combining to substantially improve the competitiveness of the Montreal...
Harry’s Policy Manifesto
Powerpoint slides from Lunch on the Frontier presentation by Rev. Harry Lehotsky, New Life Ministries, Winnipeg – June 19, 2006
New Urbanists Offer Disaster Relief
IF you survived Katrina but your house didn't, you might today be living on your lot in a trailer provided by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). However ignominious, even trashy, these 300 square-foot rectangles on wheels might look, they do offer...
Big Transit rides again
Two Fridays ago the folks responsible for the Pittsburgh region's collection of mass transit boondoggles and inadequate highways uncorked another mega transportation/planning study. Ignored and unread by the tax-paying masses, as these dangerous things always are,...
Home Buyers Helped
The second annual Demographia international housing affordability survey reveals some positive news from a local and national perspective, as well as some less positive facts and arguments with respect to government regulation, particularly in the area of land supply....
Vancouver Housing ‘Severely Unaffordable’
Three cities in Canada made the most affordable list with Winnipeg in third place worldwide with a house price to income ratio of 2.4, followed by Edmonton and Quebec City, tied at 14th with an index of 2.8.
Winnipeg, Edmonton Score Well on Housing Affordability
A major new study of housing affordability ranks Winnipeg and Edmonton as among the most affordable markets in the world.
Are World’s Best Housing Bargains Here?
WINNIPEG real estate has long been renowned as a bargain in Canada, but a new study says it’s also one of the most affordable housing markets in much of the world.
Higher Prices, Fewer Choices – Manitoba’s Rent Control Failure
Manitoba’s rent control policies strangle the supply and quality of available apartments and unnecessarily increase their price.