Month: June 2024

New housing: skyrocketing costs for infrastructure, but there’s a way. All the details in the report “A Jump Start”

TORONTO – Canada needs to build more homes and it needs to do it as fast as possible. But there is a… “but”: this will imply the need to increase spending on municipal infrastructure like roads, sewers, water mains, public transport, schools, parks, fire stations… and according to the report “A Jump Start” by former city manager and Ontario deputy minister Michael Fenn and the Canadian Urban Institute (funded by the Canada Infrastructure Bank), the average cost of such infrastructure could exceed $100,000 for each newly built home (you can download and/or read the whole report here: A-Jump-Start). (more…)

CORRIERE CANADESE / ‘Ricchi a tutti i costi’, commedia nera all’italiana

TORONTO – In un’epoca in cui alcuni settori dell’industria cinematografica sono diventati terreno fertile per attivisti politici, è incoraggiante vedere il ritorno nei cinema di una commedia apolitica, tagliente e leggermente offensiva. La recente uscita di Netflix di “Ricchi a tutti i costi” è una gradita pausa rispetto ai film appesantiti da un’agenda a cui il pubblico si è recentemente abituato… Read More in Corriere Canadese >>>