Tag Archives: heritage

Neighbourhood fascists?

Posted on April 29, 2013 by fearlessanalyst

I’m sitting across from someone who should know better, but he says “Well I don’t want tall buildings either!”  We’ve been talking about the need for densification to reduce urban sprawl, slow down gentrification and increase affordability – my favourite … Continue reading →

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The sins of our “fathers”…

Posted on June 12, 2012 by fearlessanalyst

There we sat, in the café, a lot of Canadian history between us.  Her ancestors indigenous Canadian and holocaust survivors, mine ‘Scottish Presbyterian’ and English settlers who imposed themselves on land that may never have belonged to them. If my … Continue reading →

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