Oshawa is considering licensing rooming houses and restricting the number of rooms to four.

Maclean’s reported that licences would cost $1,000 and that last fall police “raided” student houses searching for copies of leases.

It is crazy to see from Waterloo where lodging houses have been licensed for years, since 1986, and the city is still struggling to balance the wants and needs of residents and students in an inclusive community.

When I was at school I wrote about housing loads. Here are some of my pieces:

• City housing policy flawed 17 Mar 2004
• University and city debate housing | 75 metres no longer the issue 25 Feb 2004
• Heard but not heeded 14 Feb 2003
• The state of Housing II 20 Sep 2002
• Growth in housing and demand 27 Jun 2002

Oh, yeah here is an example of a resident complaining sillily (Area resident tells of 23-kegs and sex on the lawn)

I have heard that there are new develpments in Waterloo as they consider new measures. I should look into it.

Steve Jobs just announced a light, thin, solid state ultraportable computer — the MacBook Air.

Apple MacBook Air Looks Absolutely Amazing Gizmodo

In other news, I just bought some shares in Apple this morning.

Well, I should have called and investigated earlier myself, but TGAM wrote about it today.

Homer-Dixon to leave U of T for Balsillie centre TGAM 15 Jan 2008

“He is exactly the kind of senior scholar we are looking for,” said Ken Coates, dean of arts at the University of Waterloo, which runs the new Waterloo school in partnership with Wilfrid Laurier University. “He is wonderfully enthusiastic about what it is we are all about here.”

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Mr. Coates said the hiring of such a widely respected academic is a milestone for the school. “We have the potential to do something quite dramatic here.”

Is Homer-Dixon coming to Waterloo? 1 Jan 2008