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Urban Planner in Development and Citybuilding (Precincts, Districts, Affordable Housing)
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More cars than people
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Or to constitutional oversight
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Vancouver NIMBYs always feel more emboldened because thereās not OLT equivalent.
They can win the battle through political leverage
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Wasnāt sure what point they were making about backyards.
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LibreOffice does not perform to the level that Excel does for financial modelling and shouldnāt be considered equivalent
Pirated Adobe products donāt synch properly for collaboration
And stability, as stated, is a key issue for autodesk products and Rhino
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Excel, Rhino, Creative Cloud, autodesk platforms
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I depend on a LOT of software that doesnāt have Linux support or is extraordinarily unstable
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It was much much cheaper when I stayed there in early January
GI was highly walkable at that time, so few people driving there
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granvilleislandhotel.com
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Thereās a hotel on GI.
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Good luck with it friend!!
All good. I was borne to debate this stuff non-stop.
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We both have the proper spelling :)
But I assure you were quite different people
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You're asking basic questions about RFPs that the documents themselves answer
If you have a specific issue with their answer you can cite it
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On Bluesky? No.
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Have you reviewed any RFP scoring matrices yet?
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Try importing one. You will find there are many protectionist hoops.
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There's a scoring matrix and procurement laws that each address those issues
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You'll find automotive manufacturing is HEAVILY subsidized when it comes to local jobs.
Feel free to do some googling about that. EVERY announcement talks about local job creation.
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And public projects all have similar requirements
Downsview has a CBA. Federal infrastructure projects have a CBA.
The public sector sets a high standard for industry
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Well the entire RFP is public for any of the projects you're discussing
So instead of projecting your own ideas of what it might be you could just go look at the scoring matrix
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Versus all the other procurement requirements and conditions you haven't taken issue with.
Why have liability and bonding requirements?
Why require audited financials?
Why have engineering stamps?
Bid rigging and poor actors made these requirements necessary.
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Have you been through the procurement process dude?
It's competitive. All the documents are public.
It's not sole source and it's not nob-competitivr
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There's no subsidy.
You are taking issue with a procurement policy that prioritizes bids from groups with a diverse work force
And more specifically it sounds like you have a problem with Metrolinx's Indigenous first procurement policy...
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This looks like any small, mid-west HVAC company?
The chutzpah of these folks to feel they're a dominant and superior force
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I was almost certain that renaming bases would lead to sponsored naming rights
Like Fort Liberty Mutual
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The forced deprecation of otherwise working PCs is horrid.
My 2014 rig and 2017 laptop are both kitted out, high performance workhorses
Neither is eligible to upgrade to w11 due to extraordinarily stupid reasons
Windows full screen pop up says "time to buy a new computer!"
Why is that up to you?
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it's not a give. It's ensuring a massive spend of public money goes towards local jobs.
There's no subsidy involved.
I don't think you understand enough about it to be commenting like this.
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A CBA is different from a CBC
CBA helps direct some employment opportunities associated with the project to local companies, especially those whose labour force is comprised of underserved populations
It is NOT the cash transfer you see in CBCs enabled under S.37 of the Planning Act
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I can't say I always get it, but I'm doing my best to learn the history I wasn't taught.
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John Oliverās investigative reporting
Viceās gonzo war correspondents embedded with rebels in Syria
Some of the best reporting arises from the oddest sources
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Desktops, the SUV of poasting
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Phrasing
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TfL leverages public (and acquired) land around stations for housing/public benefit
I canāt speak to a North American example. BART probably.
Most transit requires some form of expropriation so it follows that youād leverage the land acquired to an end that covers costs.
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People forget that:
1. Universal rent control was introduced in 1974
2. A forward exemption was introduced in 1992
3. Wynne govt converted to universal in 2017
4. Ford introduced forward exemption in 2018
1992-2017 was a long period people forgot about
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They do. IO (on behalf of Mx) has 2 different programs under the TOC program
1. More fragmented holdings/less sophisticated owners: they acquire and assemble
2. More sophisticated/larger tracts: work with land owner
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Oof.
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It was insufferable.
It insisted so much upon itself.
And I love academic fiction.
It was a no for me.
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Was waiting for this report to drop. Thanks for flagging.
Curious to see how they structure the workout
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Let me know what youāre looking for in terms of co-op and future career stuff.
Itās a small industry, happy to hop on a call and support your growth any way I can
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Dude, per my original post these are traits white males struggle with
Weird to jump down my throat about it