This article entitled People in Toronto won't stop working from home and it's impacting the city paints a relatively negative picture about downtown prospects - noting that Toronto office vacancy rates have just hit their highest level since 1995. Looks like the...
The housing market crisis in Canada has hit an all time high. Expert in demography, Wendell Cox has an eye-opening discussion with guest host David Craig about the public policies surrounding this issue, and how to solve the problems with supply, demand and...
Most communities in Canada are experiencing a housing affordability crisis. Indeed, housing affordability is now identified in numerous opinion polls as one of the top issues for Canadians. What do we mean by housing affordability? What are the root causes of...
Patrik Schumacher, managing partner of Zaha Hadid Architects, and consultant Wendell Cox are both controversial figures in the urbanist world. They joined Aaron M. Renn in conversation to talk about their beliefs and what it's like to challenge the urbanist...
For the past 14 years, Vancouver surgeon Dr. Brian Day has led the charge for health-care reform, pushing for the right of patients to pay for private care if their health and well-being are threatened as a result of waiting in a stagnant and overburdened public...
The path to net zero, based on the much disputed belief that carbon dioxide is a pollution, is more steep and impractical than most people realize. Replacing fossil fuels with clean electricity will require much more power generation and a greatly upgraded grid to...
Urban policy expert and critic, Wendell Cox, talks about “smart growth” polices, and whether they have any value for Winnipeg.
Urban sprawl critic Wendell Cox’s powerpoint presentation on Smart Growth to Lunch on Frontier audience in Winnipeg, February 24th, 2004
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John Robson, columnist with the National Post, Epoch Times and Loonie Politics discusses a variety of topics and issues facing Canada. Host David Leis and John will talk about the recent Toronto by-election, aboriginal land acknowledgements, the Middle...
Speech to the We Unify Conference In Victoria, BC, June 23, 2024 Because of time constraints at the conference this complete address was not given. But here it is! History and Application of Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms—The Charter —My Magna Carta —Our...
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Whitney Webb is not like me, sending out essays on the regular, but when she does, just wow. Working off the attempt by Wall Street to financialize America’s national parks and conserved areas, and living in Chile as she does, she found something and holy pigeon-toed...
This annual report assesses housing affordability in 94 major markets across eight nations (Australia, Canada, China, Ireland, New Zealand, Singapore, United Kingdom and the, United States). The 2024 edition focuses on data from the third quarter of 2023. KEY POINTS...