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Follow for pre-construction, developing, and building a AI prop-tech startup in Canada + US Building @bucky_build with @m_mcintosh2

Toronto
Joined July 2025
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About to go heads down for the next two days in an accelerator kick off but wanted to give an update ...🧵 First launch of Bucky today ! A first step in many launches to come, but if you're interested in building a home or homes, and are one of the many amazing people that is apart of making that process happen, then check out our first launch of Bucky. Will be adding more details to this thread throughout the day as I get break. Thank you to everyone along the way. buckybuild.com producthunt.com/products/buc…
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Any developers specifically targeting these future sites for transit oriented development? lot of good places to make nice medium density walkability near transit.
The first Ontario Line tunnel boring machine, Libby, has broken through at the future King West Station after tunnelling its way 1.3 kilometres from Exhibition Station. It’s another great sign of the progress being made on the transformational Ontario Line, which is supporting 4,700 jobs every year and putting nearly 230,000 people in walking distance of transit. news.ontario.ca/en/release/1…
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Foreign investment just came back to canada RE 🫣
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"Budget 2026 extends the ban on foreign purchases of existing residential properties to January 1, 2029, but it also exempts new residential properties. I want to congratulate the federal government on making that distinction. " #Budget2026
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texas single family 🤩
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Awesome Transit Oriented Development
We proposed 490 units of much-needed housing across from Long Branch GO Station, just a pleasant 22-minute train ride from Union Station. City Planning wrote a positive staff report recommending approval. Community Council, in an election year, demurred. We appealed, went through a contested OLT hearing, and prevailed. On Friday, we received the decision. It's time to build.
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Mark Savic retweeted
Concrètement, les débuts de Manhattan ressemblent à ça : (816, 5e avenue, 1869).
La raison pour laquelle nous avons oublié comment une ville croit comme une forêt, ou comme un être vivant, est assez simple : le processus de croissance organique est opéré pour une très large part non par la puissance publique mais par des particuliers, des marchands de bien, de petits promoteurs… Autrement dit, l’initiative n’est pas celle de la collectivité ou d’un urbaniste, mais celle d’un acteur qui voit une opportunité de répondre à ses besoins à travers un projet de construction, ou même de répondre à ses propres besoins. Cela peut être votre voisin : et c’est là qu’on voit (un projet du voisin, ça fait un peu peur…) comment nous ne sommes plus habitués à l’idée d’une ville fondée sur une certaine liberté de grandir. Nous concevons une ville comme un objet dessiné une fois pour toute, avec plus ou moins d’esprit et de talent. Il faut en fait la voir comme un milieu, un écosystème physique au sein duquel un écosystème d’acteurs opère en répondant aux besoins les uns des autres. Le rôle de la collectivité, ce n’est pas de tout prévoir, tout décider, tout arbitrer, tout réaliser : c’est de créer les conditions matérielles, réglementaires et servicielles pour que cet écosystème physique puis cet écosystème économique et social, prospèrent et se portent bien. Ces conditions c’est : un bon plan, de bons réseaux, de bonnes dessertes, des systèmes de mobilité efficaces de bon équipements, de bonnes règles urbaines pour guider la croissance, et une fiscalité qui permettent à l’ensemble de se maintenir et d’investir dans le futur. Une ville aussi bien conçue soit elle ne peut pas, par définition, répondre aux besoins mouvants d’une société. Elle ne peut répondre aux besoins qu’en s’adaptant, que grâce à la liberté données aux acteurs d’adapter leur environnement à leurs besoins.
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So interesting watch one premier in Alberta say municipalities shouldn't control their housing policy (Edmonton), and watch another premier go hands off (BC) Both types of meddling seem like a net negative for housing with the uncertainty around what laws apply to what lands for the next investment
🪦 Here lies Bill 44 🪦 🧟‍♂️ Another housing bill is on the chopping block in British Columbia by the incoming premier Lorne Doerkson "Victoria does not know best on how to build a home in Williams Lake, whether it is a multi-unit apartment or a multiplex. Victoria really doesn't know best. In my community, there's no infrastructure, no sewage, to support that type of building." Read more at the link ⬇️ buckybuild.com/en/blog/bill-…
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in toronto you can get a PSL ramen
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I love classical architecture
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level headed take - why have we done nothing to promote the economic environment for people to have better fertility for longer, and make boost falling family sizes? It's very much "we've tried nothing and run all out of ideas"
I understand this argument from @bruce_arthur, but I think it misses three important points. 1) We have barely tried to address falling fertility and delayed family formation. This is the real existential problem to focus on. We should not conclude this is an unsolvable problem. 2) Immigration is not a substitute for productivity growth and income growth. Both are necessary if we want to afford our system through aging population as well. 3) Canada’s systems (housing, infra) aren’t able to handle fast population growth and we’ve seen that play out over the last decade. Nothing about that has changed. The reforms have not happened. I don’t understand the rush among so many centre-left thinkers to return to the old immigration consensus before we’ve really fixed anything or restored public trust. Across the West, immigration has become one of the most politically divisive issues. Canada has largely avoided the worst of the ugly nationalism we’ve seen elsewhere, and I suspect that’s partly because Ottawa actually showed it was responding to public anger over a badly mismanaged file. Why are we so eager to test it? Why risk turning immigration into the same political flashpoint here? What is wrong with showing some moderation and restraint over the next few years while we unwind the failures of the last decade? Demographic decline is existential over the next several decades, not the next few years. Ultimately, I find the logic of Bruce’s argument here to be naive and perhaps even irresponsible.
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People starting to natively install the @bucky_build plugin and MCP as a way to signup is such a cool feeling. A lot to improve on the experience and feature set but great to give people the flexibility on how they want to interact with the platform
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Mark Savic retweeted
Funny thing about technology Musk demo'ed his fling car yesterday My FSD tesla right now can't drive for 5 seconds on its own without my jerking the yoke the experience is actually worse than some other shittier self driving that's not scanning your eyes (creepy btw) to see if you look at the road
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So sad - even senior homes aren't safe from NIMBY's
L'arrondissement d'Ahuntsic-Cartierville se résigne à tuer un projet de conversion d'un ancien couvent en maison de retraite. Une pétition de NIMBYs forçant la tenue d'un référendum sur le changement de zonage a eu raison du projet. buff.ly/nr2CQVn
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Mark Savic retweeted
“….The next time a proposal for new homes, gentle density, or supportive housing comes to your street, be the voice that speaks up in support. Welcoming new homes is how we bring people in from the cold…” - @ScottAAitchison on #YIMBY voices thestar.com/opinion/contribu…
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As you invite more agents to our work, and create software factories to be more productive than ever, you’ll soon outsource everything to an agent, even the thinking. The work you will do will feel frictionless, it will feel amazing on the surface, but once you go a bit deeper, it’ll feel extremely shallow. It won’t reflect the struggles you went through, your decisions, and ideas. It will no longer remind you of you and the work you aspire to. You will turn into just another extremely efficient producer of things, but not a creator like you were before. Invite friction to your work.
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What if we solved the housing crisis with caves
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