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Yeah, while it would be lovely if city councillors or admin did lurk here, I don't know how likely it is. I think it's up to us to take the great ideas that we hone here to them, and we could definitely stand to be more organized and consistent in doing so.

Groups target turning character homes into co-ops to protect neighbourhood heritage https://edmonton.taproot.news/news/2025/11/07/groups-target-turning-character-homes-into-co-ops-to-protect-neighbourhood-heritage Some excerpts:

He's far from the only German to be a little obsessed with Canada.

We certainly aren't representative of the broader population, but development and infill are no longer niche topics in Edmonton.

If you look at any aerial view of Toronto, it's clear that the greenbelt is the least of their problems.

It was quite nice. And I can confirm that the fire pits look cool as hell in person, although they don't seem to give off much heat.

I just stumbled upon an article by Mike Eliason that exactly captures my thoughts on this building (and why I think the obsession with things like 'massing' is terrible). It starts out: In Praise of Dumb Boxes https://www.theurbanist.org/2018/08/22/in-praise-of-dumb-boxes/

Granted that the chances of reversing the decision on the Spruce Avenue school seems slim—who actually controls these decisions that we can complain to? Even if this one's as good as gone, we can still try to put on pressure to preserve the rest.

Higher Ed Strategy has a nice writeup on the budget and its implications for post-secondary teaching and research, but this bit stuck out to me as having broader relevance:

Oof, I hope not. I'm there at least once every couple of weeks and while it's never packed, there are enough people that I imagined it to be fairly successful.

It's funny to read what people thought at the time. From Dane Ryksen:

You can walk from here all the way to CCIS without really feeling like you're moving from one building to another.

A talk by Richard Sutton as part of U of A's AI Day. It wasn't a great talk, but it was still fun to hear about reinforcement learning from Mr. RL-maximalism himself

There's a new Daily Grind location here, plus a merch store right next to it.

A big win for Canada and for ordinary Americans, although cynically you could argue that the court is trying to take away the gun that Trump is pointing at his foot.

Inshallah 🙏

The wall of invulnerability may be starting to crumble, and if it does I expect it to come down fast. Big if, though.

Every time I see Peregrine Point it makes me so mad.

As a wise man said...

I'll have to make the trip up to see it sometime soon. (Is the Mustard Seed Church still standing? I wanted to go up to see that one again too.)