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Time to diversify our home choices and styles. Here are some winning examples. Scot Hein is an adjunct professor in the master of urban design program at UBC. He was previously the senior urban designer with the City of Vancouver. SHARES Craft beer tastes better. Apply its lessons to how we build affordable homes and liveable neighbourhoods. Photo: Shutterstock. Forty years ago, Molson, Labatt and Carling O’Keefe collectively owned 96 per cent of Canada’s beer market. Their shared monopoly produced little experimentation with a reliance on traditional formulas...