A short one after a busy weekend! Let's start off this week with Sarah Mushtaq brilliant piece that built on the discussions of Jay Pitter's recent talks, asking the question around how city amenities can play a role in combating anti-black racism. Lots to think about particularly when you start mapping things. The above is … Continue reading A Few Thoughts on Week 31

Gobble, Gobble! I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving!Some thoughts on the Ward 7 By-Election. Congratulations to (now) Councillor Jeewen Gill on his victory and being sworn in as Ward 7 Councilor. An additional congratulations to all candidates who put their names forward, I am sure we will see some of them run again! I … Continue reading A Few Thoughts on Week 30

It is October which means things are getting spooky out there. Maybe this one is just me, but on my computer(s) Google maps has updated to have a green default colour on maps when zoomed out. I think the spatial and perception impacts are interesting. There are different shades of green for heavily forested areas … Continue reading A Few Thoughts on Week 29

First a bit of shameless self promotion - the next Mean, Median and Moose podcast launches tomorrow (Sept 28) at 9am - alliteratively titled Property, Portals and Poultry. So check it out! This week the University of Windsor Law Centre of Cities had a great speaker on Confronting Anti-Black Racism across Canada urban landscape. Some … Continue reading A Few Thoughts on Week 28

Big news for development in Downtown Windsor. This is certainly exciting, it will bring people and density to the downtown core but as I posed on twitter will it lower housing prices? Short answer is probably not. At the time of the 2016 Census the City of Windsor had 91,630 inhabited dwellings. In a typical … Continue reading A Few Thoughts on Week 27

Back to school Ontario School COVID Infection tracking...With high schools going back this week, lots of disruption are occurring including mass switches to online only learning. I am doing a new thing.... The Mean, Median and Moose is a monthly podcast focusing data from across Canada with accompanying blog posts providing visualizations, links to tools … Continue reading A Few Thoughts on Week 26

Labour Day weekend - The end of the beginning. Mike Moffatt put out two pieces this week that were really interesting. The recent one is on the debt services costs for the Federal Government and where they will likely go. This led to a bet with John Ivison in response to his piece here, about … Continue reading A Few Thoughts on Week 25

The final weekend of August... We did it, we survived the horrors of summer, one more week until Labour Day, oh wait... https://twitter.com/thomasjuneau/status/1299489174656090112?s=20 The two threads tied together in the link above are really important and concerning to think about. What is Canada's and to a local extent Windsor's plan if Trump is reelected? We … Continue reading A Few Thoughts on Week 24

An interesting tweet popped up on Aug 26th. https://twitter.com/JoeyColeman/status/1298625041861611521?s=20 My response to this tweet led to a whole discussion on twitter (which is awful for debating and I don't know why I do it) on whether or not Windsor should do this with it's own golf courses. Although it was never clearly stated to me … Continue reading Mid/Late-Week Thoughts: Golfing

Post-Birthday/Cottage Thoughts Where I did my thinking The health unit is looking for a supervised consumption site location in Windsor. I think Southwood Lakes or Roseland would be interesting potential locations....LOLIn all seriousness the key element for me is the proximity to eventual shelter sites. The trade off will be additional concentration of services in … Continue reading A Few Thoughts on Week 23