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No doubt the Liberals will require an attestation affirming acknowledgement of our genocidal past for all federal grant applicants. They already imposed an abortion support declaration on all applicants - including Roman Catholic charities- for a summer jobs program, so there’s precedent for...

Let’s calm down. Canada’s not the only country that acknowledges it committed genocide. There’s also Germany (6+ million), Cambodia (around 1 million, or 20% of the population), and Rwanda (also around one million?). So there are four of us.

George would have been so happy to hear that. https://i.pinimg.com/736x/c7/81/46/c78146e871584e0985324b0f94da4ed4.jpg

Perhaps because Toronto is incapable of learning from other cities.

Except the part where he says the Australian and Canadian economies are comparable. Australia is considerably more productive than Canada: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)_per_capita Australians are almost twice as wealthy as Canadians...

Sydney has vastly fewer street people or beggars in the CBD as well, though like Singapore it’s a lot wealthier than Toronto.

But to be fair to the TTC, they don’t care about any passengers.

It’s not a given that because the Eiffel Tower was first disliked by many Parisians and later became an icon, the Liebeskind Crystal will be vindicated over time. A closer analog is Liebeskind’s Denver Art Museum, from which the Crystal borrows heavily. Here’s the NYT review after it opened...

How is a weak, divided Canada good for the US?

It’s remarkable how fast a steel frame tower goes up, compared to our more standard reinforced concrete.

Fourteen years and one day since the start of this thread.

Mate, I’d take Australia’s status quo over Canada’s any day of the week. You develop massive new energy export projects like Gorgon and bring their output to tidewater. We don’t. Sydney’s public transit is materially better than Toronto’s, and while there’s a lot of complaining, Sydney appears...

That’s some impressively close reading.

Looks good to me. https://medium.com/@AntonDurant/designing-the-toronto-subway-scheme-881afea0beac

Mulroney doubled the federal debt in just under nine years, while claiming to be a fiscal conservative. That wasn’t exactly putting Canada’s long term economic interests first.

I just had another good baggage reclaim experience at T1. It took exactly 21 minutes for my bags to appear on the carousel, from the time I deplaned from an incoming AC flight from Lisbon. Admittedly it was mid-afternoon and T1 wasn’t that busy. But still, I’ve had two remarkably good...

Hi Tayser, thanks for adding the Sydney content to some interesting Melbourne posts. Because, you know, or the bush and all that. Seriously though, it’s great for a Toronto audience to be exposed to how things are done in the wider world. Something that’s puzzled me about Sydney for years...

And therefore no public disclosure of the relationship between Irving Shipbuilding and the Liberal Party.

Totally agree. In the unlikely event the City rebuilds Yonge, presumably they’ll almost immediately need to tear it up around the College, Dundas, Queen and King stations to deal with waterproofing issues and capacity upgrades. Then they’ll have to tear up the street repeatedly for...

KH, you seem to have an inside track on defence issues. What do you think of Sajjan?