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Matters such as quality and connoisseurship are not "entirely subjective" at all. And to be precise, I'm being elitist...not pretentious. As in I think some people are better at things than other people. What you do is at least partly informed by your audience, so the level of connoisseurship...

So can I....the level of connoisseurship in the general public is incredibly low. Always was really, except we used to manage to cater to better taste.

The "Toronto sign" has overstayed its welcome. Keeping it in NPS personifies all that is wrong with its so-called revitalization. It's the public realm equivalent of a hoodie...it might be popular, but it doesn't make it any less embarrassingly unimaginative. By all means....go to NPS to...

I think the case he was trying to make, was that prepping the island airport for jet service was less difficult and/or cheaper than prepping Downsview for passenger service. Which I think I think is incorrect. But let's get back to reality....it makes more sense to prep an airport for jet...

Porter's plan called for extending the main runway from 1216 meters to 1658 meters, so a "few" meters is actually 442. The current estimate for this runway extension is $92 million. But wait!!! There's more. Outside consultants say that’s not long enough for Bombardier’s CSeries jets, and...

If and when Pearson reaches it's absolute capacity, the island airport's comparatively insignificant passenger numbers are never going to represent any kind of relief anyway. So that argument is a non-starter. And how does that translate into never being able to accommodate passenger jet...

z Except my point is not to find an alternative to the island airport....we don't need a "regional airport" at all. Pearson has the capacity to handle all the passenger traffic we can throw at it. Didn't we just spend 1/2 $billion building a rail link that can get you to Pearson faster than...

Not that they are very profitable (and never have been), but PT doesn't care about what's good for the city...it only cares about keeping its head barely above water to meet its mandate of financial self-sufficiency or face extinction (it should have been dismantled years ago for not meeting its...

You still don't seem to get it. This hypothetical, vague "monitoring entity" people seem to be alluding to wouldn't have a practical function. What you are really saying is they need to change the laws in place. What you may be calling "deceiving" may really be something the builder is...

Oh for crying out loud. Read your frigging contract. It will spell out what leeway the developer has. If you don't like it....don't sign it. If when you take possession of your property you think the contract has been violated....sue them. It is your responsibility to mitigate your...

What I'm saying is that there is no role for a 3rd party monitoring body to play here...it would be superfluous. The tools you need to deal with any conflicts that may arise from the business contract you have between yourself and the developer already exist.

The only "monitoring" body required here is....the purchaser. We have legislation in the form of the Condo Act and the Building Code, plus we have contract law and the court system. There really is no other necessary tools for the condo speculator. It's the consumer's responsibility to decide...

Didn't pull it off...bit of a dog's breakfast I'm afraid. Amplified by the simpler, yet better fit and finished condo next to it.

Noth'n wrong with that.

The poor man's Richard Serra is actually Royden Rabinowitch's ÉLOGES DE FONTENELLE out front of the Metro Convention Centre. Strangly enough, the maquettes for said sculpture was actioned off at Waddingtons yesterday (no bidders) Slipstream was supposed to work off just sunlight during...

In this case it does. The sculpture was supposed to convey motion by utilizing 70 prisms on a rotation of one degree from each other to accommodate this. It now appears to only have only 17 prisms. So it doesn't even perform the function it was designed to do. It's a complete failure on any...

No...not like that at all. Your liability for paying for something you break in a store depends on negligence law and circumstances. Paying for damage to rental property depends on contract law and what is spelled out in the Residential Tenancies Act. Try renting a car and bring it back...

Slipstream was designed to be 135m long. CF spends $120 million trashing it's own property, then pays $2.5 million for a sculpture that hasn't worked in 4 years and is somehow now a truncated version of it's original size (ruining the monumental nature of it). Besides not being great art in...

This is not the case at all...tenants are responsible for all damages. The RTA states this. A nominal damage deposit is a reasonable requirement, and is the norm in other jurisdictions. Ontario is an exception...not the rule. What I was referring to earlier about the prov govt treating...