It is strange, in talk of transportation in places like Toronto and Vancouver, how journalists miss the forest for the trees. 

Journalists sit with their 1970s magnifying glasses, describing in microscopic detail various matters related to local bus routes and local commuter trains, as if 1970s concepts and mechanisms can explain the predicament of 2017 Vancouver and Toronto.

Um, hello, journalists, you need to look up from your 1970s magnifying glasses, you need to look WAY up to the sky above you, and notice the transportation up there, the jumbo jets regularly flying back and forth between Canada and places like Hangzhou and Shanghai and Qingdao and Beijing and Hong Kong and Moscow.

Millionaires working overseas, who bought up houses en masse in Vancouver and increasingly in Toronto, frequently DO NOT LIVE in those houses. And so you get neighbourhoods of emptiness. Empty places that COULD be occupied by local workers with jobs in Canada.

Please report the full story already!