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Vancouver Rezoned 10 Neighbourhoods at Once. The Land Won't Build Itself.
City Council's first-ever Official Development Plan plus BC's Bill 44 and Bill 18 have triggered simultaneous rezoning across 10 Vancouver neighbourhoods in 2026 — but collapsed presales mean most of that upzoned land sits idle.
$2.19 Billion in Federal Transit Cash — and TransLink Is Still Broke
Ottawa's Canada Public Transit Fund looks like a rescue. It isn't. Here's why TransLink's $600M structural deficit survives every announcement.
Ottawa Spent $2B on Sovereign AI Compute. Azure Is Still Winning.
Federal and BC dollars are flowing to SFU and UVic supercomputers — but the fine print of Canada's compute strategy is actively subsidizing the hyperscaler dependency it claims to fix.
Vancouver Rents Fell 5.7% — The STR Ban Gets the Credit It Didn't Earn
BC's Airbnb crackdown removed 7,000 listings and made great headlines. The vacancy surge to 3.7% had a different driver — and renters already housed got nothing.
BC Fintech's AI Advice Tripwire Already Fired — December 2024
CSA Staff Notice 11-348 confirmed existing securities law governs AI advisory tools. BC fintech founders shipping LLM features may be running unregistered portfolio managers right now.
BC Stacked $53.5M in AI Tax Credits. The Fund Names Are Murky.
No verified 'Cascadia VC' writes $1M+ AI cheques in Vancouver — but BC's subsidy architecture explains exactly why founders keep hearing the name.
BC Small Businesses Owe USD Debt — at a 22-Year Low Loonie
The CAD hit 0.696 USD in February 2025, turning every unhedged USD obligation into a slow-motion insolvency trigger. Here's the math BC operators aren't running.
99% of BC Homeowners Didn't Appeal. The 2026 Roll Rewards the 1% Who Do.
BC Assessment set $2.75 trillion in property values for 2026 — and almost nobody pushed back. Here's why this year's $90B Lower Mainland drop changes that math.
$300M to AWS: Canada's Sovereign AI Compute Plan Has a Contradiction
Ottawa committed $2.9B to build Canadian-owned AI infrastructure — then wrote a nine-figure cheque to US hyperscalers. BC universities are caught in the gap.
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