For the better part of a decade, developers have successfully quashed efforts to block new office and residential projects in the city, and then failed to build them. Contrarian reader Marian Lindsay asks: What gives? Does anyone have anything to say about all this procrastination? This seems a ridiculous waste of time and perfectly good space. Does no-one in power find this unacceptable? Can no-one get these projects rolling? And, why, I ask, if these are private developers, are they dependent on government hand-outs? Has this just become the standard way of operating in this province? Yet, it seems to me, that...

15 August, 2011

http://contrarian.ca/2011/02/13/spirit-place-how-about-atheist-heights-instead/ Contrarian readers are sharply divided about plans to build a seven-storey old people’s apartment where St. James United Church now stands. (My own misgivings here.) First the Cons: Liz Cunningham, owner of a Charles Street creperie just down the street from the proposed apartment complex, writes: Finally somebody who sees through the smokescreen, holier than though, social justice, inclusive "nonsense." St John's United Church is a developer first and foremost. They are seeking variances on lot coverage, height, density, etc, etc, etc. That is all we should be talking about. My hat’s off though to Louisa Horne and the rest of that group. They...

26 February, 2011