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I think that glass fortress on top looks out of context in both scale and material, although I do like that it's scaled back, minimizing the on-street effect. I also prefer the horizontal orientation of the lines in the facade of the older rendering. The new rendering looks "prettier" but i...

OK, no Hitchcock film....but the pigeons at Bloor and Yonge were particularly perturbed yesterday. If you're partial to pigeons, a fan of feathers, or just bird brained, there are larger versions on my flickr page at http://www.flickr.com/photos/st-even/sets/ in the "Urban Critters" set. Best...

You've obviously never met my sister. Is this an active proposal?

That's terribly sensible. It's a pretty densely packed residential neighbourhood with lots of medium-rise development in the area and I can't think of any indoor recreation facilities nearby.

Haven't got a clue. But I can tell you they make for AWESOME games of Hide and Seek! I also remember the laneways as being, by and large, dirty places. Some were still dirt, as in not paved, until the 1980s. People were always getting stuck in the mud. There was an annual ritual on my block --...

Update from today's Globe......they'll be back! Race is on to find sponsors for 2009 contest Toronto out of the running for 2008, but 'the Future looks very, very bright' for a return of the race, Grand Prix CEO says JENNIFER LEWINGTON CITY HALL BUREAU CHIEF March 6, 2008 Now...

We've just come past the 7th inning stretch, still more game to play, and lots more voting to be done. I think it's actually good for the Democrats to have this go a bit longer. People are turning out in droves, the party is re-energized, and polls show most people supporting one candidate...

And the beat goes on. I've always been in favour of an inquiry and was worried we weren't going to get one. Still too many unanswered questions. An inquiry setting will have more authority, better resources and will be better organized than the ethics committee was. All partisanship BS aside...

Religion is also very strongly linked with culture, so a better understanding of religion also means a better understanding of culture in many cases and the benefits of understanding other cultures and learning from them are, man that's a long list. Whatever validity we give to religion, we...

The author of the book says he provided Paul Martin a copy of the manuscript for review in February, 2007. One year is a very long time for a sitting MP and former prime minister to sit on something like this. Isn't there an obligation to report crime -- and that's what the Liberal party is...

Because Tory was born "WASP old school privilege" he's automatically a bad choice? I hope I've misunderstood.

^^ ya, on both sides of the border.

The other question is why did the Liberals, who apparently have known about this for a year, sit on this for so long? Seems there's a little something unethical about that too. It's one thing to hold off making public a "scandal" until there's an election campaign, but it's an entirely different...

Hey, here's an idea, before anymore public name-calling begins, how about we get back to the US election? Obama Denies Assuring Canada on NAFTA New York Times Published: March 3, 2008 Filed at 7:27 p.m. ET SAN ANTONIO (AP) -- Barack Obama said Monday that his campaign never gave...

from today's Star.... Arena employee faces unspecified punishment Mar 04, 2008 04:30 AM Vanessa Lu City Hall Bureau Chief The management at North Toronto Memorial Arena has formally apologized to a radio reporter after an investigation found one of its employees used a racial insult...

Steve Munro has a detailed update on the Transit City projects following last week's TTC meeting at http://stevemunro.ca/. He's also got a link to the 44-page report presented at the meeting at http://stevemunro.ca/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/transitcity200802.pdf which is not up on the...

I doubt it, not when people are being sued. But why not sue Mrs. Cadman, or the journalist or the publishers? What I don't get is why individual Liberals are being sued when they have, essentially, repeated allegations made by Mrs. Cadman. Why isn't the Tory party suing the people who made the...

^^^ I guess this is the point where this thread merges with the other discussion on secular humanism: it all comes down to what we choose to believe in the absence of irrefutable evidence.

Pardon my ignorance, but at what point is it too late to add more floors? If there's more demand than supply, are we likely to see more floors?

At the end of the day, religion is a personal choice that MUST be respected in a democracy. But we must, in a pluralist society, treat all faiths and religions the same. One of my issues with religious presence in government institutions is that so much doctrine is antithetical to the...