There are 17M people in the Netherlands, but Amsterdam (900k) is smaller than Ottawa (1.1M).

I was referring to patchwork of smaller cities that make up the country. It's not a bunch of urban center, surrounded by a green belt, and then spread out rural communities. But a pretty even distribution of walkable likeable cities scattered around.

This doesn't look like suburban sprawl. It's advertised as a self contained city of 45,000 people. That's basically the Dutch model.

I don't understand. They use all the right words: 15 minute city, public transit, mixed and walkable neighbourhood, compact housing, local food supply. www.tewin.ca

What's wrong with the project?

I don't think that sexual orientation has to determine social sensitivity. A gay sub can be bigoted, and a straight person can be open.

The "normal gay" is not culturally "staight", he's culturally conservative.

Wonder if the conservative politicians and voters fear mongering about a wealth tax on home equity know about property taxes...

Last Hungarian election was in 2022, where Fidesz won 54.13% of the popular vote. Trump didn't win with absolute majority, but still won the popular vote, receiving 49.8% (77.3M) against 48.3% for Harris, while Clinton only received 48.2% (65.8M votes).

That's an untrue generalization. Trump, Erdogan and Orban were elected by popular demand, the last two by absolute majority. Russia's elections aren't counted. China doesn't hold elections.

Fortunately Canadians are not a homogenous block. There are those of us who do like bike lanes, and insulation, and knowing what is in our food, and are actually bi - or tri, or quad - lingual. And have an aversion to AC, pickup trucks and large SUVs, and have taken the bus.

We're already on our third Spiderman and ninth Batman. Antman is tricky, because Paul Rudd stopped aging. But in general these animal-themed superheroes are dropping like flies.

Carney should have handed him an iPad. Works for most toddlers.

There's no "collateral" damage on a Russian military airbase in 2025.

Would be fun if Ukraine sneaked random containers with drones into Russia that are now rolling on the roads with unassuming drivers, waiting for the right GPS coordinates to pop the top, and unleash the drones. Might only cost a million or two per unit.