10-02-2024, 09:47 PM
Meh. Who even cares anymore? Waterloo Region is a joke. It's like the Three Stooges of Ontario municipal politics. The fact we have to send these projects to a "provincial tribunal" shows what a total flop this place is. I'm not even kidding.
Waterloo Region had a growth spurt...cool. But it got big before it got mature. Nearly every decision made across this region since maybe 2008-2010 has been embarrassing. If you try to argue otherwise I will have to ask you to refrain from doing so as it is very easy to overdose on copium.
Kitchener is sort of okay. At one point one could argue it's a slightly better Hamilton or London. At best we're a slightly better Brampton. Waterloo is mostly irrelevant now that the tech bubble is slowly deflating. Pretty sure even the city itself gave up on the whole "we're the silicon valley of the north" shtick. RIP BlackBerry. Cambridge...it exists?
I know I always sound cynical but you have to look at it sensibly. Canada is supposed to be one of the greatest countries on this planet. Ontario is supposedly our best province. Waterloo Region as a whole just spent a decade plus branding itself as the most important up-and-coming city. Where the "smartphone was invented", Stephen Hawking has his name on a building, things with space or physics etc happened or whatever, one of the newest light rail systems on the content was opened...and yet we can't even seem to consistently approve housing. Or transit. Or other important infrastructure. Top that off with the Liberal government literally dumping millions of desperate poor people from the developed world into the country - outright scamming them by colluding with colleges - in order to plug holes in the cheap labour and birth rate issues that have already have us on a death spiral and...yeah.
Whether or not the OLT approves all of these towers is irrelevant because by the time they are finished, more and more people will become unhoused and the region will just become a bigger shithole than it already is.
Waterloo Region had a growth spurt...cool. But it got big before it got mature. Nearly every decision made across this region since maybe 2008-2010 has been embarrassing. If you try to argue otherwise I will have to ask you to refrain from doing so as it is very easy to overdose on copium.
Kitchener is sort of okay. At one point one could argue it's a slightly better Hamilton or London. At best we're a slightly better Brampton. Waterloo is mostly irrelevant now that the tech bubble is slowly deflating. Pretty sure even the city itself gave up on the whole "we're the silicon valley of the north" shtick. RIP BlackBerry. Cambridge...it exists?
I know I always sound cynical but you have to look at it sensibly. Canada is supposed to be one of the greatest countries on this planet. Ontario is supposedly our best province. Waterloo Region as a whole just spent a decade plus branding itself as the most important up-and-coming city. Where the "smartphone was invented", Stephen Hawking has his name on a building, things with space or physics etc happened or whatever, one of the newest light rail systems on the content was opened...and yet we can't even seem to consistently approve housing. Or transit. Or other important infrastructure. Top that off with the Liberal government literally dumping millions of desperate poor people from the developed world into the country - outright scamming them by colluding with colleges - in order to plug holes in the cheap labour and birth rate issues that have already have us on a death spiral and...yeah.
Whether or not the OLT approves all of these towers is irrelevant because by the time they are finished, more and more people will become unhoused and the region will just become a bigger shithole than it already is.