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There is going to be a lot of prime real estate becoming available soon.

I could be wrong but from what I can determine The Sherwood senior's home a few blocks south of Blythwood is the first building on Yonge Street coming north from the lake that doesn't have a retail frontage. That's over 8km of retail shops (or park). Between Bythwood and Lawrence there are a...

The main reason for this difference is that since the USA is theoretically a bottom-up democracy local municipalities have certain legal rights that are on par or supersede states rights. In many states the state government can't force amalgamation or tell local governments what to do, so if a...

As I understand it, and I don't think it's ever happened in Canada before, if a minority government gets elected and then suffers a non-confidence vote almost immediately the Governor General can either call another election or allow a coalition of opposition parties to form the government. That...

Humm... maybe more people will have to use transit.

If it wasn't for the railway line they could put the Gardiner on the ground or in a trench, and bridge all the cross streets over it, for many sections.

The purpose of reconfiguring Six Points isn't to make traffic better. The purpose of reconfiguring Six Point is to unlock hundreds of millions of dollars in developable land that currently can't be effectively developed because of all the ramps and flyovers. You have to stop thinking about Six...

If you take a simplistic classic freemarket view of real estate then the cost of housing is just a matter of supply and demand. Housing prices are going up in relation to income as a result of more people wanting to buy houses. So then we need to ask - why do more people want to buy houses now...

I think the idea is that by reconfiguring the intersection you make it more pedestrian-friendly which should result in a lot more transit customers, both for the subway and the buses. Trying to get buses through that area quickly is like trying to get buses through Yonge and Eglinton quickly...

. . . except The Serrano, which uses 11 Dunbloor Road.

The biggest problem with that is street addresses. People along the north section currently have Dundas addresses and the people on Dunbloor have Dunbloor addresses. If they switch it will cause confusion.

There are two kinds of political persuasion: one for the informed and another for the uniformed. The informed are persuaded by information. The uniformed are persuaded by propaganda. You'd by surprised by how many otherwise intelligent people fall into the uniformed category. Understanding...

I think it's fairly clear that carding isn't about collecting evidence. It's about the police demonstrating how much power they have over a person in order to intimidate them. In high school it would be called bullying - "I can make you do stuff you don't want to do because you are powerless to...

All part of the plan to talk and talk and talk about transit to Scarborough but not actually build anything . . . ever.

I think the main indicator of a "World class" city is they have enough confidence that they don't need to compare themselves to other cities. They just get things done their own way. World class cities are leaders, not followers.

My guess is wood frame, with brick on the outside and drywall on the inside. If you're lucky there will be some insulation in there too. Almost all houses have been built this way in Canada since the early 1900's. If you're hoping for exposed brick walls you should have got an old industrial...

They plan on tunneling under the both subway lines (Spadina and Yonge) using a much less intrusive method. Regarding the timing of building the stations and tunnels, obviously you can't build them at the same time. You have to build one first then the other. One of the biggest hold ups for the...

I heard a rumour that the drive across the ramp might be happening before 2pm tonight. If you're planning on going tonight don't wait too long. I was just there and Lea was hanging in mid-air when I left.

Up until ten or fifteen years ago Otis elevators used to have a supply building on McCaul Street. Ironically it was one of the only one storey buildings in downtown Toronto.

I don't think Langstaff will ever be comparable to NYCC. It will be comparable to the high density areas around High Park or the Humber Bay. It may even be similar to how the Six Points area in Etobicoke is developing, but it's not going to be a "ultra high-density downtown-esque pocket"...