Brandon Donnelly — Daily insights for city builders. Published since 2013 by Toronto-based real estate developer Brandon Donnelly. — Page 891

I was out this past Saturday evening with my Fujifilm X-T3. I usually always have it on me when I'm traveling, but less so when I'm at home. It can be harder to be a "tourist" in your own city because things don't stand out in the same way. And oftentimes it is that novelty which sparks the desire to take a photo. But that's no excuse. So here are two photos that I took right before sunset from CityPlace, Toronto . The cranes you see in the first picture (mostly) belong to The Well .

Bloomberg recently reported that Canada admitted 321,065 permanent residents last year. This is up 12% from 2017, where the country admitted 286,479. Last year was also the largest cohort since 1913 (the year before World War I), where the country admitted just over 400,000 people.

Here is a chart from Bloomberg (it is interactive if you click through ):

Of course, Canada was a much smaller country back in 1913 (about 7.6 million people ), and so on a percentage basis we are much lower than where we were at the beginning of the 20th century. We'd have to admit close to 2 million permanent residents a year to get to a similar rate.

And that is not what is in the books. Here are the projected admissions for 2019 to 2021. All of the below stats are from the 2018 Annual Report to Parliament on Immigration .

I couldn't find a geographic breakdown for last year, but in 2017, about 40% of admitted permanent residents (or 111,925 total) ended up in Ontario and about 72% ended up in Ontario, Quebec, and Alberta (the top 3 provinces for this year). If we add in BC, it brings this figure up to 86%.

Here are also the top 10 countries of origin:

If you'd like to download a PDF of the full report, you can do that here .

I am excited to announce that Junction House is a 2019 finalist in the 39th Annual BILD Awards . The project is up for the following 4 awards:

1. Best Signage (it was probably the neon that did it)

2. Best Suite Design (large suite)

3. Best Innovative Suite Design (it's a suite from our unique 2-storey House Collection)

4. Best Mid-Rise Building Design

This last one is a "Pinnacle" award, but I'll be honest in that I don't know what that means. It sounds impressive though.

BILD received some 850 submissions this year, so kudos to the project team: Superkül , Dialogue 38 , Vanderbrand , Unique Urban Homes , DTAH , WND Associates , and others.

We spend an inordinate amount of time on our floor plans -- they are people's eventual homes. So it's nice to see a bit of that effort reflected above.