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Brendan Dawe

@dawe.bsky.social
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Your friendly neighbourhood Vancouverite Housing abundance enthusiast. Planning & Real Estate Consultant. Vive le Canada. Elbows Up

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Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 6h
ya but how will the tunnel itself be bi-voltage? like directionally? power break inside the tunnel?
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Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 6h
a particularly determined provincial government could make this more of a headache (like what if Hydro Quebec won't sell you power) but as a matter of law Ottawa is not lacking for quite specific legal authority here
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Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 6h
wait how / why?
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Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 8h
Perhaps not even really the back story, the “mechanics” are there but the ideological foundations are lacking - Canadian settlement was much communitarian-tory informed and much of the homesteading regions became home to a rather rambunctious populism.
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Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 9h
The back story is definitely there, and the Dominion Land Act is essentially the Homestead Act. Doug Saunders maximum canada sorta speaks to a lot of the history there But I don’t think it weights upon the living in the same way
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Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 10h
Yes but elaborate
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Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 10h
Conservatives are inside the city! That’s an American peculiarity
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Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 14h
It would be political malpractice and bad planning to allow some 28% minority government that will be gone in a few seasons derail planning and preparation for a national project that, moreover, undermines that minority faction’s whole raison d’être
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Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 15h
Yes, if anything that’s why ripple rock wasn’t detonated earlier
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Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 15h
Few know this, but the Federal office that analyzed which of the Jersey Creams were the Richest and Best made it all the way to the Martin Cuts before being dissolved in 1995
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Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 15h
The ROYAL BANK OF CANADA Would like you to know That they have a lot of money And they would also like Your money, as well
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Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 15h
Also reported in this is issue:
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Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 15h
“Houses are expensive therefore rich people should pay less taxes”
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Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 16h
The long term benefits of projects that connect Quebec and the rest of the country seem pretty obvious to me and I suspect the PQ as well
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Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 17h
Friends I have acquired more pixels archive.org/details/dail...
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Siem De Cleyn @siemdc.bsky.social · 23h
There are only two events clearly visible in the post-war global number of deaths.
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Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 17h
Yes the Central Park Line
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Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 17h
Not to mention that Carney’s government has the votes of 700,000 more Quebecers than any yet hypothetical Plamondon government
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Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 17h
Also an EMU
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Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 17h
The PQ wants to die in the hill of making Quebec farther away from Ontario because that’s bad for the PQ.
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Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 18h
They existed! They also look quite sharp in the CN mod century livery en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CN_elec...
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CN electric multiple unit - Wikipedia
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Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 18h
See those are still technically a railway
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Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 18h
😉
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Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 18h
Only shut down in 2017
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Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 18h
The actual depiction is somewhere in Philadelphia or New Jersey just in Englewood Livery
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Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 18h
Absolutely not. OP’s gimmick is painting trains in different liveries
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Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 18h
I will see if I can acquire more pixels
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Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 18h
A series of quite short hops through Seymour narrows have been identified as bridgable since the Canadian Pacific Survey, with access to the interior via Bute Inlet and the Homathko River
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Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 18h
Alas near as I can tell while the Englewood Logging Railway (rip) did do passenger service it was always on an ad-hoc private carrier basis so there is no timetable to be modelled
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Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 18h
Stumbled upon a 1909 map from the Victoria Daily colonist of projected island railways
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Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 18h
The railway in question
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Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 19h
Carney has more votes than these people
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Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 20h
Wow smh that barbaric cultural practices hotline guy couldn’t get traction in Toronto
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Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 20h
Fishing one of the Vedder Canal meat-holes during the Fall White Chinook run is an experience every angler should have at least once
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Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 21h
Just another fine report from BC’s most popular fishery
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Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
They only just put crosswalks back in Portage and Main
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Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I’m listening for spicy takes on quantity surveyors
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Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Amazing
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Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
He is by all appearances an actual engineer who has worked in local train stations
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Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
He’s also a QS
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Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Doctorates are hit and miss, some see it as pushy and other emphasize. Like I think Hedy Fry occasionally shows up as Dr Fry
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Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Starrett
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Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
To be Sheldon or to put your P.Eng on blast on a campaign sign?
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Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
For what it’s worth, my only informed opinion on the Richmond elections is “Don’t vote for Sheldon”
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Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
“Did you know that I am an engineer?”
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Steve Lafleur @stevelafleur.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Maybe we just stop sending planners to English speaking conferences, since that's where all the bad ideas seem to come from. Get our planners all to do a rotation in France. Excuse to work on their French, and de-anglicize their planning brains.
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Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I dunno, person was a jerk first, partisan activist later
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Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Congratulations!
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Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
They are, no thanks to Lorne
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Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
We are all dumber for you having posted this
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