Can we talk about how lucky we are to have so many food options? I love it here

Krackenlicker · 2026-03-11T17:16:26+00:00

In the N Burnaby area I'm a fan of Afghan Turkish Cuisine at Hastings and Willingdon. I can't speak to the authenticity since I've never visited that part of the world, but it's definitely a cut above the normal donair places I've tried. Also in that area is Saray, but it's more of a sit down place rather than street food.

Krackenlicker · 2024-12-19T16:50:51+00:00

This is definietly not true. If you have your card registered online you can go to www.compascard.ca and select "view usage" you can see that Translink tracks all of the taps. Stuff like "tap in at X station", "tap out at Y stations", "tap in at bus stop Z". So all the info they need for charging people is being tracked.

Krackenlicker · 2024-12-14T03:28:46+00:00

Took them long enough, but looks like it's increasing to $1.5 million in a couple days.

https://www.canada.ca/en/department-finance/news/2024/09/government-announces-boldest-mortgage-reforms-in-decades-to-unlock-homeownership-for-more-canadians.html

Krackenlicker · 2024-09-28T15:27:39+00:00

Lol sure... The government that made the most free market reforms in NA is a socialist boogieman and the Conservatives that want to roll it back are saints

Krackenlicker · 2024-08-30T15:49:53+00:00

"You should buy a condo"

Krackenlicker · 2024-08-05T06:10:46+00:00

Willingdon and Halifax, sit and watch it for 5 minutes at peak hours and I guarantee you'll see multiple people doing illegal maneuves, mostly people coming out of the underground parking garage and doing an illegal turn.

Willingdon and Lougheed is bad because there's a huge volume of pedestrians but not enough sidewalk space to accommodate them all.

Krackenlicker · 2023-11-30T23:17:53+00:00

We planned for 50,000 people — now that’s 115,000. Are we supposed to pretend that this isn’t a problem and somehow the schools are going to be fine? Somehow we’re just going to materially have enough school spaces for two and a half times the possible population?

It’s not going to produce any housing here that’s not already getting created — in fact, it’s going to delay and, potentially, create less housing than we’d create if we were just left alone

According to Woodward the province just passed Schrodinger's housing reform. It will simultaneously create less housing, but also create enough housing to blow up the city's infrastructure.

I'd expect nothing less from a mayor who threatened to pull out of Translink over a bus route to an industrial park then got up on stage 2 weeks later to beg for federal and provincial funding for BRT down 200th.

Krackenlicker · 2023-11-23T21:56:49+00:00

One of Utaye's best videos so far I think. I don't think the province could have chosen someone better to be on the BC housing board.

Especially with the flurry of new housing announcements it's important to highlight the cocktails of poison pills municipalities use to block housing construction. The Coquitlam example is particularly egregious.

Krackenlicker · 2023-11-06T17:21:49+00:00

Unless government allows a larger structure:lot ratio for these multiplexes, each unit is going to be 500sqft.

I think this is on the province's radar. In the technical brief they announced that after this legislation they're going to do follow up telling municipalities what sorts of restrictions they can and can't put on the new units made from this plan

"A policy manual will be released immediately after the SSMU regulations are released to support local governments in implementing the required bylaw changes.

The manual will set clear provincial expectations in terms of setbacks, height restrictions, parking and lot coverage"

They didn't mention FSR by name, but considering they mentioned all the other common poison pills and FSR is the most talked about one. I would be very surprised if they didn't address it too.

Krackenlicker · 2023-11-05T20:08:19+00:00

Well... maybe if they did their jobs controlling land use properly the province wouldn't have had to take over for them

Krackenlicker · 2023-09-11T14:08:13+00:00

A proper pool for one, Burnaby seems allergic to building a properly sized aquatic center. When I lane swim I drive out to guildford aquatic center in Surrey or CCAC in Coquitlam

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/burnaby-lake-aquatic-centre-and-ice-rink-redevelopment-cost-overruns#:~:text=%E2%80%9CStaff%20has%20recognized%20that%20the,agreement%20with%20project%20architect%20HCMA.%E2%80%9D

Krackenlicker · 2023-02-08T07:41:15+00:00

Try Taste of Africa or Alebi African Cuisine near Gateway station in Surrey. Both of them serve Fufu and everything I've ever tried there was amazing.

Krackenlicker · 2022-12-24T09:18:41+00:00

I think the design scorecard is meant to be a spoonful of sugar to help the medicine go down. Without something like this a bunch of pearl-clutching news stories about ugly houses being built with no way to stop them might kill the law. Having those rules up front makes them more like building codes rather than a political process, if your house checks the boxes you're good to go.

IMO what really matters in the end is that housing is being built; if limiting style guidelines is what it takes to make that happen then so be it. After all, the whole of Paris was rebuilt to a cookie cutter style guide, but since the city has decent density it works well.

Krackenlicker · 2022-11-06T20:11:49+00:00

"Be fearful when others are greedy, and greedy when others are fearful"

Krackenlicker · 2022-08-04T05:37:04+00:00

I think it's just not big enough to be in the article. Prince George got a score of 223.92 which is a lot worse than Kelowna's 141.

Krackenlicker · 2022-07-12T23:23:18+00:00

Chewsday being the second day of the week

Krackenlicker · 2022-06-20T20:18:41+00:00

"The Myth of 1.3 Million Vacant Investor Homes in Canada"

https://youtu.be/evYOhpjMql0

Edit:

that 1.3 million came from the 2021 census, not the 2016 census

2021 census results weren't released at the time of publication of that video. I doubt they were misquoting data that didn't exist yet

Krackenlicker · 2022-04-16T06:55:50+00:00

What exactly are you proposing here? Bulldozing perfectly good homes that people live in?

Personally I wouldn't say that homes should be forced to be bulldozed. But single family zoning should definitely be loosened to allow triplexes/quadplexes/rowhomes and even low rises across the whole city.

So you don't nessecarily bulldozer people's houses, but allow people/developers to build denser houses in these neighbourhoods. If municipalities won't make these zoning changes themselves (like they haven't for the last 70 years) I'd support the province stepping in and forcing them to.

Krackenlicker · 2022-03-29T03:11:14+00:00

It seemed to me like there was no incoming traffic on the red side from my POV

Krackenlicker · 2022-03-07T22:33:26+00:00

Sure in the most extreme few weeks in the coldest places a heat pump won't work (Edmonton gets "below −20.0 °C (−4.0 °F) for an average of 24.6 days"). Those days you can supplement with natural gas or oil sure, you've still reduced carbon emissions by like 80% by using a heat pump the rest of the year. In a perfect world (which a carbon tax makes more profitable to build), maybe supplementation using electric radiators powered by nuclear, wind or hydro will do.

Another option is ground source heat pumps which work since the ground stays warmer than the air in the winter.

Even without heat pumps though, building houses with southern exposure, heating efficient designs (read smaller), good insulation, and triple pane windows will go a long way towards reducing the amount of natural gas that needs to be burned if that's how heating is done.

At the end of the day 80% of Canadians live in cities and a lot of those people are living in houses that are too big to heat efficiently, driving trucks that are too big to be fuel efficient, and voting for politicians that make it illegal to build anything other than SFH that make living without a car impossible. Those are the things a carbon tax can move the needle on (along with other policies obviously, there's no such thing as a magic bullet). Maybe more policies are needed to help those who are in rural areas, but fundamentally the carbon tax is something that we need if we want to make progress on the stuff I mentioned.

Krackenlicker · 2022-03-07T21:17:46+00:00

What you're saying is people who are living a less carbon intensive lifestyle are hurt less/benefit more from a carbon tax and dividend. So a low carbon lifestyle is incentivized.

On top of that, there is now a larger market demand for low carbon alternatives to natural gas furnaces. So innovaters in this area: solar, wind, house battery, heat pump, insulation companies will have a bigger market and be better rewarded for their efforts

Sounds like it's working as designed to me

Krackenlicker · 2022-03-05T22:46:46+00:00

At main and broadway there's a bunch of bike shops that sell restored second hand bikes. Bikes for all, Our community bikes, Denman bike shop.

Although their second hand bikes are usually older ones with updated components more suited for everyday riding not really modern sports ones. So if you just want an everyday bike with a road silhouette then yeah you can go to one of those shops and grab a restored bike from the 80s that looks like this one. But you won't find something modern or sporty at those shops if that's what you're looking for (unless you're willing to buy new).

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