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Leo Spalteholz @leospalteholz.bsky.social · 23h

Let’s go

Shannon Waters @sobittersosweet.bsky.social · 1d

BC wants Ottawa to pick the North Coast transmission line in its second round of nation-building projects, which could be selected as soon as November

BC has previously sought federal funding for NCTL

A nod from the Major Project Office would kick things into high gear #bcpoli

“It enables Indigenous partnership, protection of wild spaces [and] low carbon metals shipped at low cost out of Canada to global markets, driving our economy and employing thousands of people.

It checks off every box that you can possibly imagine in terms of federal and provincial government priorities, as well as the priorities of every Canadian. It’s a project that we'll all be incredibly proud of and I'm very hopeful that the feds include that on their list and that is our full push right now with the feds is that particular project.”

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Leo Spalteholz @leospalteholz.bsky.social · 2d

There is no winning when your trading partner sees every import from Canada as a failure

You can’t reason the US out of a position they haven’t reasoned themselves into.

www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

'No more losing,' Poilievre tells Carney in scathing letter ahead of PM's face-to-face with Trump | CBC News

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has penned a scathing letter to the prime minister ahead of his meeting with the U.S. president on Tuesday, saying Mark Carney has been a disappointment on the tra...

www.cbc.ca

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Leo Spalteholz @leospalteholz.bsky.social · 2d

Start of swimming season

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Bryn Davidson - Lanefab @lanefab.com · 3d

4 Storey version.
8 to 16 homes on a 50x122 lot.
So, this could soon be allowed anywhere in @victoria.ca ?
@jeremycaradonnayyj.bsky.social

I guess it will depend on the actual rules adopted (FSR, lot coverage, min parking etc)

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Homes For Living @homesforliving.ca · 5d

Oak Bay is planning for 3,761 new homes over 20 years through its Official Community Plan update.

Now is the time to speak up for more housing + a more inclusive community.

Survey is open until October 14, 2025

connect.oakbay.ca/official-com...

Official Community Plan Update

A community's vision for the future, the District of Oak Bay is updating our Official Community Plan and we want to hear from you.

connect.oakbay.ca

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Homes For Living @homesforliving.ca · 6d

Saanich is hosting two in-person open houses on the updated Shelbourne Valley Plan, including important plans for new housing and stronger, more connected communities.

+ You can still have your voice heard on housing & community planning through the online survey 🙂

hello.saanich.ca/en/projects/...

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Leo Spalteholz @leospalteholz.bsky.social · 6d

Ok turns out I can’t link to the original but it’s reposted on my timeline in the original German

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Leo Spalteholz @leospalteholz.bsky.social · 6d

Translated from

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Nicole Diekmann @nicolediekmann.bsky.social · 7d

Aus dem SZ Magazin.

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Leo Spalteholz @leospalteholz.bsky.social · 7d

“In 2023 a developer spoke to us about a 7 storey replacement for the library. Neighbours voiced their disapproval of the building's height. A few months later, the proposed building grew to 12 storeys. Then a new OCP allowed it to be 18 storeys”

Good. At the hearing I asked why it wasn’t 400 units

Leo Spalteholz @leospalteholz.bsky.social · 7d

Twin towers looming, Orwellian gag orders at town hall, and we’re all going to die in an earthquake if a development gets built

The Saanich NIMBYs are not ok

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Leo Spalteholz @leospalteholz.bsky.social · 7d

Twin towers looming, Orwellian gag orders at town hall, and we’re all going to die in an earthquake if a development gets built

The Saanich NIMBYs are not ok

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Leo Spalteholz @leospalteholz.bsky.social · 9d

Grateful to Victoria councillors like Dave and @jeremycaradonnayyj.bsky.social for pushing against the misinformation on single stair and fighting for more and better housing generally

Dave Thompson 🇨🇦 @davethompsonvic.bsky.social · 9d

Among other things, one of the speakers said that there would be 240 units. The provincial regulation is 24 maximum.

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Leo Spalteholz @leospalteholz.bsky.social · 9d

Suspended

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Leo Spalteholz @leospalteholz.bsky.social · 9d

I have zero issue with people saying “we have x,y,x concerns and want to see more information on how they’re addressed in other jurisdictions”.

But adopting the defeatist attitude that a problem which has been solved many times over around the globe is somehow impossible for us is not productive

Leo Spalteholz @leospalteholz.bsky.social · 9d

Disappointed to see the reactionary UBCM call for repeal of single stair building legalization in BC.

Nearly the entire world builds single stair buildings safely and has been for decades. There’s tons of data. The idea they are inherently dangerous has absolutely no merit to it.

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Leo Spalteholz @leospalteholz.bsky.social · 9d

I just hate this defeatist “we have concerns therefore this should be rolled back”

We can’t stick our heads in the sand on this

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Leo Spalteholz @leospalteholz.bsky.social · 9d

Yup I think it’s an education problem. Simple fact is these buildings have been safely built in dozens of first world countries for decades.

So what information would those fire chiefs need to convince them it’s in safe? Or what specific reform is needed to address any remaining gap?

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Leo Spalteholz @leospalteholz.bsky.social · 9d

Disappointed to see the reactionary UBCM call for repeal of single stair building legalization in BC.

Nearly the entire world builds single stair buildings safely and has been for decades. There’s tons of data. The idea they are inherently dangerous has absolutely no merit to it.

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Leo Spalteholz @leospalteholz.bsky.social · 9d

What’s the prompt? Hallucinations definitely still happen but I find they’re down massively. In the GPT 3 days it invented an entire literature I’d supposedly written, that got a lot better with the release of 4, and I hadn’t seen it in 5

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Leo Spalteholz @leospalteholz.bsky.social · 11d

The motivational poster in our backyard gym

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Leo Spalteholz @leospalteholz.bsky.social · 11d

It’s 2025 and we have the government walking around to deliver pieces of paper to every house, 90% of which we immediately place back in a box so a different government can come back later to pick it up

Don’t need it

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Leo Spalteholz @leospalteholz.bsky.social · 12d

Based affordable housing developer

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Leo Spalteholz @leospalteholz.bsky.social · 12d

You see, the problem is that they can’t possibly meet the housing targets but also the problem is that if they allowed 6 plexes to be built they would drown under a flood of them

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Leo Spalteholz @leospalteholz.bsky.social · 12d

Narrator: it actually was just NIMBYs

First they NIMBY transit expansion then they NIMBY homes saying well we can’t be expected to allow more homes if we don’t have more transit

www.northshoredailypost.com/not-just-nim...

Not just NIMBYs: Sager calls Province’s housing targets impossible | North Shore Daily Post

West Vancouver’s mayor says his municipality needs constructive solutions along with “serious transit planning” if housing targets set by the provincial government are to be met.

www.northshoredailypost.com

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Leo Spalteholz @leospalteholz.bsky.social · 12d

I hear you 100%. Discoverability is still not great short of following thousands of people which has its own downsides.

I wonder if there even is anything like a benevolent social media algorithm though.

Fundamentally “Show me things I’m likely to engage with” is how socials breeds rage bait

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Leo Spalteholz @leospalteholz.bsky.social · 12d

The culture war has fried my brain.

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