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It’s time to end our obsession with bloated big cities, like Vancouver and Toronto

Douglas Todd: The future of housing affordability in Canada lies in providing support to mid-sized centres, such as Kamloops and Kitchener-Waterloo

For a vast country like Canada, the second largest in the world by land mass, we are a strangely urban place.

Our biggest cities continue to grow larger — and more unaffordable — while populations in our rural regions dwindle and many smaller cities struggle.

Canada, oddly, is far more urban than countries like Italy, where more people reside in rural areas, often in elegant towns that are the envy of North Americans.

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