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Canadian General Election (OT) - #elxn42: October 19, 2015
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Property Brothers would be amazing and I would watch the shit out of that, although I think the optics on that wouldn't be great. "Watch the PM as he spends millions of tax dollars on his house"
firehawk12
Subete no aware
I don't see why you can't take all the furnishings out. Unless the ceiling, walls and floors are special in some way.
They can just move that shit to a new house. Or take the opportunity to get better shit. Looks like grandma's knitting room.Shes crazy. That 1880s interior is full of historical value.
Shes crazy. That 1880s interior is full of historical value.
This looks like any old person's house. It's also hella ugly.
Nor to mention that according to that article, it's not even 1880s interior, it's 1950s
This is an oversimplification. They've been rolling out community mailboxes for like 20 years and it almost certainly has had an impact on their bottom line. Even with package delivery I doubt they'd be profitable now doing home delivery to all the new suburbs that have been built in that time.
Dr.Guru of Peru
played the long game
I actually have door to door delivery and I hate it. I *gasp* live in the city, and don't like my shit being left out where anyone can snatch it. I get all my important mail and packages mailed to my parent's community box.
gutter_trash
Banned
it's a house that hasn't been maintained.
They should just buy a different house that is up to spec.
It has only been officially the PM's house since the 1940s, so prior to that it wasn't the official residence
They should just buy a different house that is up to spec.
It has only been officially the PM's house since the 1940s, so prior to that it wasn't the official residence
A friend on facebook posted a link to some 'news' article (rebel media?) about the renovation of 24 Sussex. I'll paraphrase "The first thing he wants to do is spend $10 million of tax payer money to renovate the Prime Minister's house? It's not modern? Of course not! It's an old, heritage building".
Didn't even mention the Asbestos stuff.
A globeandmail article posted here says Canada Post is in loss this year and nicrease in parcel delivery does not make up for decline in letters.
Honestly, it'll cost less to build a new, modern, efficient house than to renovate that one.
Generally I'm against tearing down historic structures, but this one, from all I've heard lately, seems to be a lost cause.
Andrew Younghusband and the crew from Canada's Worst Handyman would be amazing.
Oh god,. It would end up like the house the town builds for Flanders on the Simpsons after his is blown down
Imagine Trudeau finally getting all fed up and yelling at everybody.
AW HELL DIDDILY DING DONG CRAP
CAN'T YOU MORONS DO ANYTHING RIGHT
Calm down, Justiniddilydiddily...they did their best shodillydiddily iddily iddily...at least the asbestos is riddilydiddilydiddily...
matthewwhatever
Member
For anyone disappointed with the Sun's election day cover...
I just needed to see the word 'hell'.
Needs more flames or devil horns or something. It's still not terrifying enough!
I have it mostly done, but I figured it shouldn't go up until Trudeau official gets sworn in.
Breaking news: Sohi confirmed to be the winner of Edmonton-Millwoods. Margin changed from 80 votes... to 79 votes.
http://edmontonjournal.com/news/pol...-winner-following-edmonton-mill-woods-recount
So shame on Uppal's team for calling a recount despite the margin being over the 0.15% as per Elections Canada guidelines.
http://edmontonjournal.com/news/pol...-winner-following-edmonton-mill-woods-recount
So shame on Uppal's team for calling a recount despite the margin being over the 0.15% as per Elections Canada guidelines.
Hahaha! What a loser. Even Toet (CPC) in Elmwood-Transcona didn't call for a recount and he lost by 51 votes (like 10-12 votes away from an automatic recount).
I appreciate the fact that our most pressing matter in politics now is what to do with 24 SussexCanada you make me happy~
Agreed. Looking at this news article though, we should build a much nicer place:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/24-sussex-photos-world-leader-homes-1.3294982
I'm a little surprised you're not advocating they put all MPs up in a single condo building with their out of town staff in one next to it. All within walking distance of Parliament of course.
That would make sense. We should be the first country with a prime minister penthouse instead of house. It could be a huge skyscraper. I like your thinking.
EDIT - Well not huge, but just a bit taller then Place De Ville. Have it the most predominant skyscraper on the landscape, right next to Parliament with the rest of downtown.
It should look like the Woolworth Building in NY as it matches the architecture style of parliament. Give the Prime Minister the top part, and the rest is government buildings:
Eh, I don't think there's any shame in it. He's entitled to ask, and I don't think it's a very high price to pay that that request be honored when it's only a bit less close than required when people's votes are at stake.
Glad he didn't win, though, even so.
I'm coming around on the idea of tearing down and rebuilding 24 Sussex. We could make it super efficient and futuristic to showcase the future of Canada instead of the past. Like one of those "green home" exhibits.
I'd just hope they don't do anything modernist. It should evoke the old architecture, without looking like a cheap imitation thing like a lot of buildings that try this seem to do.
I'd just hope they don't do anything modernist. It should evoke the old architecture, without looking like a cheap imitation thing like a lot of buildings that try this seem to do.
Yeah, if they end up doing the rebuilding option, I'd rather something neoclassical. More modern style paradoxically tend to date much more quickly.
I would also tie in a website showing the monthly savings from what it used to cost to heat and cool the place, and if they do something with solar, then the power savings as well. All to generate interest in "going green" and making improvements to your own home. Granted 24 Sussex isn't a typical home in Canada, but it still is a home... and a good way to showcase what is possible, showing actual monthly results, and can be part of the green initiatives they campaigned on.
Simon Belmont
Banned
Triple LEED Platinum certified building. Not solar though as we're hoping for the skyscraper
No building can be taller than the peace tower in Ottawa.
Ooops, for some reason, some sites last week were reporting that the percentage was 0.15%. It's actually less than 1/1000th of the total votes cast according to EC documentation here: http://www.elections.ca/ele/pas/39ge/jud_e.pdf
firehawk12
Subete no aware
A new house would be one of those glass box modernist things that people seem to like so much. lol
That said, a new house would them to pretend to do the green power thing - they could install the Tesla home battery and have the house be an example of a "green" house.
Simon Belmont
Banned
Well I'll be damned. The height restriction law was only until 1973.
Edit: there still are height restrictions, but it's a lot more specific than "in Ottawa". I don't think you'd be able to build a skyscraper as close as you're talking.
Edit: there still are height restrictions, but it's a lot more specific than "in Ottawa". I don't think you'd be able to build a skyscraper as close as you're talking.
Ottawa is such an ugly downtown though. I've only been there once so wasn't able to experience much of it, but still walked around Parliament, checked out Rideau centre, and the area of downtown between them. We drove by the Prime Ministers home.
Parliament was nice but everything across the street was ugly.
Parliament was nice but everything across the street was ugly.
This hasn't been true for 30-40 years, the NCC has strict control over the height of buildings around the Parliament area, but there are many buildings taller than the peace tower in Ottawa (and there's one being built in little Italy that's going to be over 45 stories tall).
Downtown Ottawa is basically dead after 7pm, so no one cares too much.
Simon Belmont
Banned
My wife lived in the glebe when she was in undergrad. I thought that area was hella nice.
Yeah but it's embarrassing how low profile Ottawa and non-iconic it is as a city.
Maybe we should move it to Toronto, Vancouver, or Montreal.
That area is nice, but I was mostly referring to the area just south west of parliament, where all the financial buildings are.
Simon Belmont
Banned
Eh, the market isn't dead by 7. Don't base your view of the city by the one day you spent there.
It's weird, only really the US and Canada have such low profile cities as their capitals.
Japan's capital is Tokyo, France is Paris, UK is London, South Korea is Seoul, etc.
Essentially the biggest city or one of the biggest cities tends to be the capital city everywhere in the world except for North America.
EDIT - It's probably just due to the nature of our countries and/or colonies being formed before they were developed. Also a lot of other countries moved their capital cities after war or revolution events which we haven't experienced.
EDIT 2 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_purpose-built_national_capitals I guess there's also countries like Australia that have same thing.
Japan's capital is Tokyo, France is Paris, UK is London, South Korea is Seoul, etc.
Essentially the biggest city or one of the biggest cities tends to be the capital city everywhere in the world except for North America.
EDIT - It's probably just due to the nature of our countries and/or colonies being formed before they were developed. Also a lot of other countries moved their capital cities after war or revolution events which we haven't experienced.
EDIT 2 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_purpose-built_national_capitals I guess there's also countries like Australia that have same thing.
Simon Belmont
Banned
What about Mexico Tabris?
They need to come up with a term for North North America
Simon Belmont
Banned
Racist North America?
That's the US + Calgary.
Dude, you've only visited once. You sound like my dad when he visited Vancouver once and told me that it was a terrible city. And your view runs counter to pretty much everyone who visits the city. the Parliament area of Ottawa has a European flavour to it that you won't find in other cities, except maybe Montreal or Quebec city.
That's true for weekdays but not weekends, the market is busy on the weekends because we have two universities and a college in the city and all the university students come out.
Pretty much every financial neighbourhood of every city is dead after working hours. I was staying in the financial area of Gangnam while I was in Seoul, it too was pretty much dead after 7 everyday(including weekends).
Pretty much, some people here, especially Tabris, have a misguided and outdated view of the city.
There's a reason why Ottawa is the capital, it lies right between the two financial hubs of Canada, Montreal and Toronto. And it's not as low key as you make it sound, I'm in Korea right now and a lot of South Koreans know about Ottawa before I even mentioned where I'm from.
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