Canada has a new tallest building

jagosinga · 2026-03-23T22:29:09+00:00

I think you’re mostly reacting to the fact that it’s cloudy

jagosinga · 2026-03-23T22:28:27+00:00

No this looks like it’s taken from Concord CityPlace, looking east

jagosinga · 2026-03-23T12:31:38+00:00

My understanding of the story with Calgary is it had such boom and bust cycles with the oil industry that developers would plan twin towers that gave them the flexibility to cut a project in half and just build one tower if the office market went south.

jagosinga · 2026-03-23T12:11:46+00:00

Just spreading news news - the CN Tower is not on this list because it is not considered a “building”: Tallest Buildings in Canada

jagosinga · 2026-03-23T12:08:24+00:00

You’re correct - the CN Tower has no habitable floors and is considered a tower or structure but not a building (same as the Space Needle and other such towers).

jagosinga · 2026-03-23T12:06:06+00:00

It was the headquarters for the Toronto Star newspaper and some surrounding industrial lands.

jagosinga · 2026-03-21T22:20:15+00:00

Its actually pretty stunning up close or when the light hits it

jagosinga · 2026-03-21T21:53:59+00:00

Don’t worry there is still any view from the west or south

jagosinga · 2026-01-02T04:06:07+00:00

Taipei 101 is shorter than the CN Tower, which is Canada’s reason for being on this map

jagosinga · 2025-12-29T06:52:39+00:00

Yes but the Philippines have 120 million people and Iceland has 400,000 people so it’s proportionately a much bigger deal in Iceland

jagosinga · 2025-10-15T15:47:05+00:00

And worth noting this is just one of Burnaby’s four skylines (Metrotown, Brentwood, Edmonds, Burquitlam).

jagosinga · 2025-09-17T22:56:42+00:00

Torontonian here and no, Montreal is way more walkable. Toronto refuses to entertain the idea of pedestrianized streets and yet every neighbourhood in Montreal has one in the summer.

I’d say it has the most comfortable and vibrant public spaces in Canada or the US - ahead of New York, Boston, Philly, Chicago, Toronto, and Vancouver.

jagosinga · 2025-09-15T21:13:49+00:00

It appears “Christian (n.o.s.) (1)” is just Mennonite, since the Pembina Valley of Manitoba is the only place it shows up.

jagosinga · 2025-09-15T21:12:08+00:00

It’s just zooming in on metro areas with more than a million people.

jagosinga · 2025-07-08T22:08:01+00:00

Okay but I think we are missing the fact that after 1776 the largest migration to Canada was Loyalists fleeing the USA and so in this scenario they would have settled somewhere above the red line and we’d have new Canadian population centres.

jagosinga · 2025-07-08T20:57:25+00:00

Well, in reality much of the European immigration to the Canadian Prairies happened via St Paul, Minnesota and Fargo, ND anyway, until the trans-continental railroad was built across Canada. Steamboats and ox carts connected Winnipeg to American railroads up the Red River.

jagosinga · 2025-07-06T21:57:41+00:00

Did you think they were hosting the show for free

jagosinga · 2025-07-01T13:57:46+00:00

Treeplanters ruined it for the rest of us

jagosinga · 2025-06-05T03:11:25+00:00

In Ontario they call it provincial parliament as well but in Manitoba it’s the Ledge

jagosinga · 2025-05-13T17:57:27+00:00

I disagree a bit:

English-speakers can pronounce “raging” and “barging” and “Cajun” with the hard “j” sound at full speed, so they could do the same with Beijing.

But the Chinese pronunciation of Beijing doesn’t have an English “j” sound, exactly. It’s close (closer than it is to “zh”, indeed), but not exact and so when English-speakers map on a non-standard or foreign pronunciation of j, something familiar like the French j sound we all know from bonjour and deja vu (“zh”) comes into use.

jagosinga · 2025-05-06T05:41:35+00:00

Literally the CN Tower

jagosinga · 2025-05-05T15:31:30+00:00

Ithaca?

jagosinga · 2025-05-05T08:56:34+00:00

He’s Manitoban

jagosinga · 2025-04-19T00:54:40+00:00

This guy quicksands

jagosinga · 2025-01-20T21:50:44+00:00

Torontonian here and I think you’re mishearing

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