• Cyborganism@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    What we really need in Canada is for companies and jobs to spread out across multiple cities in Canada instead of being all concentrated in Toronto.

    Then maybe everyone and their grandmother and all immigrants won’t be trying to cram themselves into one small place in a country that has one of the largest areas on earth.

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      1 year ago

      The point of this article is we can and should make room in Toronto. There’s plenty of space if we accommodate with a better built form that isn’t sprawling detached homes.

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        Building density is not as simple as just putting up more apartment buildings. it requires planning for how to expand schools, make sure that utilities are not over burdened, traffic congestion and ways to mitigate it etc. Expanding suburbs have all the same problems and more. It absolutely can be done, but doing it right requires proper preparation otherwise you create new and different problems.

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      That’s on the government to build out cities in remote locations and then have extremely low costs for people/businesses to bring them in

      Also needs high speed commercial rail between the cities

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        We HAVE other cities across Canada already that could be used as other locations for companies. We don’t need to build more.

        What the government needs to do is provide incentives for companies to move. But that could mean job losses in Toronto/Ontario. Would they be willing to make that sacrifice? I don’t think so.

        I agree with the high speed rail thing though.

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          Ontario needs intermediaries between Toronto/Ottawa and Thunder Bay

          The niche is currently occupied by Sudbury and Sault which isn’t ideal

          There also isn’t really anything connecting to Hudson Bay/NW Passage (goes for the other provinces)

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      Toronto easily has space to grow to 4 million residents plus. There are vast swaths of Canada’s largest city that are built like some far-flung suburb, and that needs to change sooner rather than later

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        1 year ago

        Will you forget about Toronto already???

        Toronto isn’t the only place in Canada where people live.

        Fuck. It’s no wonder everyone else in Canada hates Torontonians. It’s like you guys think you’re the only ones in the whole goddamn country.