Mill Woods Aurora
Recently our firm submitted a design for the Edmonton Park Pavilion Design Competition. Intended to promote design excellence and as part of the City of Edmonton’s commitment to “cutting edge” quality design, and ensuring that such a level of design and innovation is brought to all civic buildings, the competition was a fun way for … Read more
Insurance Anyone?
We’ve all got enough high school biology to appreciate that the big fish eat the little fish and so on down the line, but even simple, straight line interdependence has become a somewhat abstract concept these days. The line from our resources and capacities to our needs is getting very, very long. Salads don’t come … Read more
The Subsidy Cascade
Let’s play a game. I’ll write about municipal taxes and utility fees, and you try to stay awake. Yes, It’s that season again, in which a tale of two certainties, Death and Taxes, should be revised to Death by Thinking about Taxes, Followed by Taxes. Notwithstanding, we will now add our contribution to the subject … Read more
A New Year of Tax Fraud
Municipalities will be ringing in the New Year by ringing the cash registers, once again collecting their revenue from one slice of citizens, and using it to subsidize another. Their New Year’s resolution should be to stop this fraudulent practice, and bring tax fairness to forms of urban development that are economically and environmentally sustainable. … Read more
