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Development Charges are Artificially High Due to Failure to Plan for 1.5 Million Homes
Municipal goals and plans are two very different things
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Moving from Me vs You to Us vs Them
An interview with pollster David Coletto where we discuss the precarity mindset of Canadian voters and the upcoming 2025 federal election
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Meredith Martin
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Mike Moffatt
, and 
Sabrina Maddeaux
Did Development Charges Cause Metro Ottawa to Grow by Over 1000km in Size?
Part 1: An exodus of young families and the region's growing geographic footprint
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Why is Toronto hoarding infrastructure dollars?
Money sitting in a bank account does not address crumbling infrastructure
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Mind the Wage Gap
Unpacking the growing wage gap between American and Canadian workers
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Meredith Martin
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Mike Moffatt
, and 
Sabrina Maddeaux
Countervailing Tariffs Could Add Over $1B a Year to the Cost of Homebuilding
We do the math so you don't have to
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Development Charges Continue to Skyrocket
Burnaby's are up $73,900 in just two years
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Reece Martin has a Vision for Canada’s High Speed Rail Future
Either we build high speed rail or we high speed fail!
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Meredith Martin
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Mike Moffatt
, and 
Sabrina Maddeaux
Young Families are Leaving the GTA in Search of Family-Sized Homes
With a high population of people in their early 20s, this trend is likely to escalate unless more homes are built.
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Mike Moffatt

February 2025

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