Canadian Cities with Jennifer Keesmaat | The Herle Burly

[@sakttan]

Excellent interview. Thanks for producing the great content.

[@rdf1972]

Excellent episode. Highly informative.

[@montroyalbynight8107]

Great anecdote about the "lifecycle" for many 1st gen immigrants moving out to the suburbs. As Kory says in the other show it would be hard to stop them from making that decision... It also artifically subsidizes the previous poor decisions and turns many new immigrants into financial bagholders for the previous owners. But I've also met many of these people later in their life complaining about how none of their or their friends' kids stay. They drive an hour back into the city to try and reconnect with what's left of their cultural community. I wish there was an effective policy way to prevent this cultural decay but it's a vicious politcial cycle. Frankly I think only the heavy weight of time and this same loss occurring over more generations will slowly eat away at inefficient sprawl as a concept. In the meantime we have to do our best to ensure the cities as a whole don't pay too heavy of a price for these mistakes.

[@trailsofanoldrunner]

P3 appears to work with the Gordie Howe bridge project. As a Windsorite I’m amazed everyday watching it take shape - truly awesome

[@SheriOberman]

Great conversation. Thanks.

[@rometimed1382]

LOL I kept writing up "what about governance" ... "what about the media"... "what about accountability"... and Jennifer has the same questions lol. So what can we do to actually have governance, media and accountability in each of these fields?

[@karinturkington2455]

I'm so glad I live in Montreal rather than Toronto.

[@JohnW-b5f]

Keesmaat says she played clean andJohnTory ran a dirty campaign. I guess that character issue was decided for good a few years down the road.

[@karinturkington2455]

The giant video screens must have cost a lot of money. Whose decision was that? Who wants to walk around with those big looming noisy things and their constantly moving images. Very stressful.

[@babsharris6724]

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[@pt93music]

This lady sounds like a 15 minute city cheerleader. It’s always great to hear someone with the “just take the train” mentality. Believe me, if that were an option in most of the country more would do that. She would be a great finance minister since her attitude is in perfect lockstep with our current one. Something tells me that if push came to shove, Mrs. Keesmaat wouldn’t relinquish her car. Not sure why she expects others to do so without hesitation.

[@marshallleslie8808]

There are a lot of claims in this podcast that can be challenged. Most important - the King Street pilot project - where credit has to be shared with others. The first attempts at a pilot were made in 2001 and 2007. The 2007 proposal came close and credit there must be paid to then TTC chair Adam Giambrone, Toronto's then Chief Planner (the late) Ted Tyndorf, and former Mayor David Miller. Ms. Keesmaat has to share credit for the successful implementation of the pilot with former TTC CEO Andy Byford, and the Toronto planner who led TOcore (the downtown plan) Gregg Lintern (who happened to succeed Ms. Keesmaat). BTW Swerhun Associates did a good job in the lead-up too .... Mr. Herle you appear to be genuinely perplexed by the whole housing topic (ditto Leichnitz, Teneycke and Reid). It's a common problem, and it's not new, because it goes back to the '70s when market rental construction activity collapsed. Why don't you invite on a couple of guests who have been around for awhile and actually built something? That would be worth watching ....

[@nealgray4071]

This was banana pants and confirms everything ppl assume about urban elites. The casual disdain for a place like Regina? The admission gov staff worked to thwart an elected official's mandate? The outright rejection of what ppl say they want in life? This all seems so wacky, it's almost bizarre she agreed to put this on record.

[@mikesmith-nj1ij]

Challenges? Too few spots for too many people. It gets nuanced from there. I wonder if the plan all along was to bring in too many people so that present SFH owners/voters would have less ground to stand on in terms of rezoning. "How dare you want to live on a street exclusively stocked with bungalows! You need some 8 plexes on your quiet street. Don't you know people are living under tarps?" City planners love density but do current homeowners? Not so much.

[@fbhank]

Ahh The entitlement of home owners

[@mikesmith-nj1ij]

@@fbhank Entitlement. You mean paying higher mortgage payments, taxes and insurance? Membership has its privileges I guess. But maybe you're right. And why stop there. Maybe it's time we dispense with private property. Why should anyone be entitled to own something? Why can't we all just share everything? Sorry, perhaps I should have just assumed you were rage farming with that witty retort.

[@montroyalbynight8107]

@@fbhank this shill/bot posted in the first 11 minutes after the video went up about nothing specific that was said in the first 11 minutes. If you don't like garbage in your politics, understand how it gets to be vomited out in front of you.

[@andrew20146]

A more likely explanation is that the government increased immigration to prop up home prices so that their base does not experience a massive loss of paper wealth.