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Graham Churchill

@GraChurch

Urbanist interested in better growth. Neighbourhoods. Biomimicry. Piazzas everywhere. Make transit networks the city.

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Graham Churchill
Graham Churchill@GraChurch·
At a time when Canada is fighting to help Ukraine retain its democracy against the rule of an autocrat, we have lost sight that we are losing our democracy to autocracy right here in Ontario with the Ford Govt. thestar.com/local-richmond…
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Steve Munro
Steve Munro@SwanBoatSteve·
My MP is @juliedabrusin the Minister of the Environment. Time for some forceful words in between Mark Carney's travels hither and yon to tell DoFo and Ports Toronto that jets for YTZ is a non starter. Hard stop. Kill it off so we don't waste ages fighting it.
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Graham Churchill
Graham Churchill@GraChurch·
@DrJacobsRad This airport will make Toronto even less liveable. People are already leaving because the city has become so unattractive. No parks. No destinations. So hard to get around. Putting a full airport on the waterfront will make it even less so. What an insane action.
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David Jacobs
David Jacobs@DrJacobsRad·
This is a big deal for Toronto, and for Canada. This makes our biggest city far more accessible.
Prabmeet Sarkaria@PrabSarkaria

✈️This morning, our government announced the expansion of Billy Bishop Airport, delivering more affordable flights, new routes and convenience for the millions of people who rely on it every year. A modernized airport will strengthen Ontario’s position as a global hub, boost tourism and business travel, and create thousands of good paying jobs.

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Graham Churchill
Graham Churchill@GraChurch·
@siomoCTV To attract people, Toronto needs to be a liveable city with parks and special places people want to be. If you destroy the waterfront with an airport, who is going to live in the shithole that remains?
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Siobhan Morris
Siobhan Morris@siomoCTV·
BREAKING: The Ford government plans to declare Billy Bishop a 'Special Economic Zone' under Bill 5 to expand YTZ to allow for jets. It also, as previously announced, pushing Toronto out of the tripartite agreement that governs the island airport
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JR Urbane Network
JR Urbane Network@JRUrbaneNetwork·
Toronto has some of the slowest tram services on earth. Trams are not inherently slow but Toronto has archaic operational practices, out of date service and track design paradigms, as well as a general lack of care for them. Below are ideas on how Toronto can start fixing them:
FastTrackTO@FastTrackTO

FastTrackTO is launching and releasing our 10 point plan to fix the Toronto Streetcar network. A symbol of the city that could be great with achievable, common sense and low cost changes. The plan if implemented would transform the city. fast-track.to (1/2)

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Graham Churchill
Graham Churchill@GraChurch·
That is how economics works—supply and demand. Land is a location monopoly. Someone has it. Someone doesn’t. More people may be able to live on a given piece of land, but only by creating vertical land (building) and only if the owner agrees to it. But note: if you give the land owner the right to build, you are in effect handing him additional property rights—free money.
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Patrick Condon
Patrick Condon@pmcondon2·
Something to think about: if urban land was free housing would be affordable. Urban land is not free but was almost free ten/fifteen years ago in comparison. (In global cities like Vancouver)
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Graham Churchill
Graham Churchill@GraChurch·
Oh FFS. I’m so tired of this ignorant analysis. The price of land is a reflection of the number of people who want to live on, or own, the same location. And when you increase the rate of immigration, it has a multiplier effect on the price of land. To make land more affordable, reduce the rate of immigration and develop new cities in new locations.
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Common Wealth 🍁
Common Wealth 🍁@CommonWealth_ca·
The answer to the housing crisis lies in how we return this publicly created rental value of land back to households.
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Common Wealth 🍁
Common Wealth 🍁@CommonWealth_ca·
Dr. Paul Kershaw (UBC & Generation Squeeze) on the intergenerational conflict around rising land values “Land values have surged. They’re creating winners and losers. How can we soften that imbalance in part by asking those who’ve benefited to be a bigger part of the solution?”
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Graham Churchill
Graham Churchill@GraChurch·
Kershaw is an idiot. Land values increase when everyone wants to live in the same location. And when you increase immigration at an accelerated rate, it increases demand for land exponentially. To address the problem, economically develop new locations or reduce the rate of population growth. It’s not rocket science.
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Graham Churchill
Graham Churchill@GraChurch·
If Toronto wants to attract people, it needs parks to make it liveable, not airports that will turn its waterfront into an unattractive, unliveable shithole.
Prabmeet Sarkaria@PrabSarkaria

✈️This morning, our government announced the expansion of Billy Bishop Airport, delivering more affordable flights, new routes and convenience for the millions of people who rely on it every year. A modernized airport will strengthen Ontario’s position as a global hub, boost tourism and business travel, and create thousands of good paying jobs.

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Graham Churchill
Graham Churchill@GraChurch·
The Ford Government: Turning Toronto into an Unliveable Shithole.
Prabmeet Sarkaria@PrabSarkaria

✈️This morning, our government announced the expansion of Billy Bishop Airport, delivering more affordable flights, new routes and convenience for the millions of people who rely on it every year. A modernized airport will strengthen Ontario’s position as a global hub, boost tourism and business travel, and create thousands of good paying jobs.

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Stephen Wickens 🇺🇦 🇨🇦
Stephen Wickens 🇺🇦 🇨🇦@StephenWickens1·
An airport expanded for jets will make it much harder to add housing in one of the few areas of Toronto that is willingly taking lots of new density. Ford's overreach into municipal affairs exposes a serious problem written into a constitution designed for a 19th-century country.
Beth Levy@Beth_Levy66

Not here to debate the necessity of jets at Billy Bishop but this is just another anti democratic move by our premier. Yes, he can do what he wants and cut out municipal authority but just because he can doesn’t mean he should. The precedent has been set. Awful. #ONpoli

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Graham Churchill
Graham Churchill@GraChurch·
@globeandmail This is dumb. Toronto is already becoming unliveable. This city needs parks. Who is going to want to live here?
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Reece Martin
Reece Martin@RM_Transit·
More or less how I feel about GO Expansion. I've tried to meet with politicians but nobody seems to really care. Its very sad. This is why I moved to Toronto.
Reece Martin@RM_Transit

@anujtaxali The media largely does not care. Me making a video changes nothing.

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Graham Churchill
Graham Churchill@GraChurch·
@Graff2023 Norman Jewishness was a graduate of Malvern Collegiate in the Beaches and UofT (Victoria College).
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Brian Graff
Brian Graff@Graff2023·
The sad story of the last years of Norman Jewison's life - I missed this when it came out. I met him once, and hung around with his 3 kids in the late 70s/early 80s, at both his place downtown and his farm. I really have had little contact with celebrities, other than politicians. torontolife.com/deep-dives/bat…
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Graham Churchill
Graham Churchill@GraChurch·
@AaronGunn I don’t understand why this issue is not in the news and why Canadians are not screaming about it. Freedom of expression is the most fundamental right we have. It does not matter the content. You can’t arrest people for speaking which is precisely what the Liberals are doing.
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Aaron Gunn
Aaron Gunn@AaronGunn·
Horrible news. The Liberal Government has just successfully “censored their censorship bill” by working with the separatist Bloc Quebecois to end committee debate and ram the bill through Parliament. The bill seeks to make it easier to prosecute and arrest Canadians for political and religious expression by watering down the definition of “hate speech” and removing important safeguards against abuse. We’ll continue the fight in Parliament, but there’s no way to sugar-coat the situation. This is a dark day for free speech in Canada.
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Graham Churchill
Graham Churchill@GraChurch·
I’m with you. Canada is big. Part of our problem is that we are unable to surveil our own territory—especially in the Arctic. This leaves us weak and prey to big powers. We need coverage and presence. That means quantity. Lots of cheap sensors and drones. Match that with Telesat and AI and we might be become a leader in sophisticated interconnected Internet of Things technology.
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Brian Graff
Brian Graff@Graff2023·
We can learn a lot from Ukraine and should be working with them - I would even send troops to Ukraine but not in front line positions. Finland, Israel and Ukraine are smaller in population than us yet have militaries that are innovative and do more with less. In 1967 and 1973, Israel took old WW2 tanks and upgraded them. We had Leopard 1s and scrapped them instead of using the bodies for other things - even the Germans in WW2 did that with old Panzers where they took the turrets off. State of the art weapons are expensive to buy and maintain, but most of the time we will not be facing enemies with state of the art fighters or ships. Sometimes quantity is more important than quality, as long as something is reliable and serves its purpose - like the Sherman tanks we had compared to the Panthers and Tigers the Germans had. We should not be buying 88 F35s - F18s are far better for coastal patrols, and Ukraine is doing fine with F16s.
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Brian Graff
Brian Graff@Graff2023·
Canada is spending $ billions on 12 submarines - which are useless except to torpedo other ships... yet we have no offensive or defensive drone capacity? This is nuts. Actual troops and weapons to attack the other matter... submarines matter mainly in terms of nuclear missile launch capacity, and even then, Canada is hardly likely to do much offensively there and it would likely be too late.
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