iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Wake up Justin The year is 2030 You are living in Mike Hurley’s basement suite There is pizza pizza in your fridge You bought $30,000 worth of assorted municipal pins as we suffer hyper inflation A chatbot is doing your charts

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Alex Potvin @alexpotvin.com · 17h

So is it like, common practice to rely on low-pay TFWs for infrastructure projects in “cost-optimized” peer countries? I’m guessing the impact on project prices isn’t as substantial as a lot of the other factors we continuously discuss but it’s worth addressing, no?

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Alex Potvin @alexpotvin.com · 17h

I don’t entertain treating cost structures like they’re immovable, but I’m not suggesting it pencils out currently, either. Don’t underestimate a government’s capacity to pull the right levers with the right motives. (Or go into massive public debt your pick I guess yeehaw)

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Alex Potvin @alexpotvin.com · 17h

This is very “nothing will ever change” type logic and it’s fallacious regardless of perspective.

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Alex Potvin @alexpotvin.com · 29/09/2026

Ahem Ottawa senators tickets on sale through Costco

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Alex Potvin @alexpotvin.com · 28/09/2026

You can technically poly-seal them to help, but if you want to cringe even more, check out the research on asphalt shingles/roof surfacing.

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Alex Potvin @alexpotvin.com · 28/09/2026

*Please* don’t post videos with this outro card, just confuses people.

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Alex Potvin @alexpotvin.com · 28/09/2026

Crazy how things just crystallize in the last few weeks of a campaign out in QC or just the general groupthink on voting. Like yeah there’s 5 parties but the pivots happen to fast sometimes.

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Alex Potvin @alexpotvin.com · 27/09/2026

It turns out that the timeline here is funky. It’s looking more and more like an attempt by the CAQ to recenter the campaign and to try to salvage it at the ballot box.

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Alex Potvin @alexpotvin.com · 27/09/2026

Bro trying to pass his overdue assignment as on time

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Alex Potvin @alexpotvin.com · 27/09/2026

I appreciate you lending your voice to my general annoyance with this crap.

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Alex Potvin @alexpotvin.com · 26/09/2026

chronically online take

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Alex Potvin @alexpotvin.com · 25/09/2026

Ah yes, party rules. Those immovable bylaws that certainly cannot be ...trumped.

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Alex Potvin @alexpotvin.com · 24/09/2026

He thought he could pull a Horgan (2020) He’s more like to be pulling a Barrett (1975) though he may squeak by with a Trudeau (2021) if he can compel people back.

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Alex Potvin @alexpotvin.com · 24/09/2026

omfg finally making it here? I was buying this en masse when I was back east.

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Alex Potvin @alexpotvin.com · 24/09/2026

Why are you grandstanding from your 21% support

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Alex Potvin @alexpotvin.com · 24/09/2026

Clarification on “new land”?

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Alex Potvin @alexpotvin.com · 24/09/2026

but they got their pizza pizza contact

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Alex Potvin @alexpotvin.com · 23/09/2026

You should see what Quebec builds all while documentaries get made about the condition of existing schools over there. Both provinces are private schooling leaders, funnily enough.

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Alex Potvin @alexpotvin.com · 23/09/2026

Government offices, 3 stroads, and the experimental farm, a couple of bankruptcied density projects and being the Gateway to Napean/Merivale. It’s well-scaled for what it is but oddly located.

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Alex Potvin @alexpotvin.com · 23/09/2026

Central Park is a weird neighbourhood in general

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Alex Potvin @alexpotvin.com · 23/09/2026

snap election BC 1975 The current margin I’m seeing seems somewhat weak but it all depends on vote efficiency and distribution imo It’s gonna be *a time*

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Alex Potvin @alexpotvin.com · 23/09/2026

I don’t even know what to troll him about anymore because he’s doing it to himself

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Alex Potvin @alexpotvin.com · 23/09/2026

odds this goes 1975 are getting pretty high

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Alex Potvin @alexpotvin.com · 23/09/2026

I choose the impossible CentreBC-Green coalition against Kareem.

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Alex Potvin @alexpotvin.com · 23/09/2026

I don’t understand the importance that is placed on party rules. This is the professional incapacitation gang.

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Alex Potvin @alexpotvin.com · 23/09/2026

How about the whole Canadian context too lol

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Alex Potvin @alexpotvin.com · 23/09/2026

Later mister, thanks for advancing the housing file.

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Alex Potvin @alexpotvin.com · 22/09/2026

Someone tell Mark to go for it

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Alex Potvin @alexpotvin.com · 22/09/2026

this is the most hilarious cycle I’ve ever seen

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Alex Potvin @alexpotvin.com · 22/09/2026

I was already cynical in 2020 but this is my peak

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Alex Potvin @alexpotvin.com · 22/09/2026

Give me a Harris style framing for this and let me know what happens.

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Alex Potvin @alexpotvin.com · 21/09/2026

Yeah, I know, I want it to happen on a provincial scale and not get shelved, though. I actually thought it was a done deal until I looked it up recently hoping stuff would come online soon. I’ve only seen one or two oddball strata ones go up in east van in the last two years.

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Bryn Davidson - Lanefab @lanefab.com · 21/09/2026

What comes after the Villages Plan? There's a lot we can/should do city-wide in our R1 zones. * Allow strata lane houses * Allow more plex units per lot (on big lots) * Allow corner stores * Allow smaller lots * Allow Accessory Commercial Units * Allow 'Affordable-Ownership' Small Apt. Buildings