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I believe the Keele to Oakwood section of the tunnel will be turned over to Crosslinx sooner than the Eglinton West to Brentcliffe section, however it doesn't make sense to operate the LRT to Oakwood and then have everyone transfer to buses to get to Eglinton West. Eglinton West will be one of...

If the driveway was there the day the bylaw come into effect it would be legal. If the driveway was built (without a permit) the day after the bylaw can into effect it would be illegal. The biggest problem is after ten or or fifteen years no one remembers when the driveway was built. Unless you...

The two machines can't operate too close to each other. One has to go first and the other follows along a few 100m behind.

If Bramptonians want a tunnel because a surface route is too disruptive they should come down to Eglinton to see exactly what a tunnel means as far as disruption.

I've noticed that in general people on the right side of the political spectrum tend to believe everyone else is bad (or a competitor to them) until they get to know them; while people on the left side of the political spectrum tend to believe that everyone they don't know is good unless they...

Urban, Suburban and Rural are not discrete categories. They are on a continuum. In all growing cities healthy neighbourhoods tend to move up the continuum towards more urban. Just because this neighbourhood was originally designed to fit into the rural/suburban part of the continuum does not...

I don't know which language is more common in Canada, but I see China as sort of like the European Union. There are lots of different languages that are related but different, Mandarin and Cantonese being the two largest, similar to German and French in Europe. One big difference is that since...

As I see it the "Multicultural Mosaic" is not about categorizing people for some specific legal or social reason, but about encouraging people who identify themselves with a particular cultural group to remember and celebrate their heritage. In other words, if you are a Mandaeian from Iraq and...

What the hell do you want? The Taj Mahal? It's a LRT station, which is effectively a gloried bus shelter. The more money they can save on this project the more money there is for other projects.

I think Multiculturism was one of the goals of Trudeau and was promoted more to make it happen than anything else. Once the Trudeau-era was over if faded from the radar.

Toronto also got a huge boost from Vietnam draft dodgers in the late 1960's and early 1970's. Many draft dodger's were university educated lads who ended up living in the Annex or Cabbagetown, and got many jobs teaching at the UofT and York, or the being administrators at City Hall.

My advice would be to specialize. Figure out where you probably want your career to go, and target positions in companies and government agencies where you particular skills can be of use. For example, with your experience in communications you could target companies and agencies that do a lot...

The "Employment" land designation was forced on every municipality in the Province by the Growth Plan for the Greater Golden Horseshoe. Every municipality was required to identify it's Urban Boundary, and then which lands within the boundary were Employment. Any changes to the Urban Boundary or...

So it looks like the existing ramp from the southbound DVP to the westbound Gardiner has a radius of about 300m which, depending on the "superelevation" (e.g. banking) puts the design speed around 80 or 90kmph. The orange warning signs leading to the ramp say 60kmph as the suggested speed...

A flag is a very difficult thing to design both from an aesthetic point-of-view and a symbolic point-of-view. The majority of the proposed New Zealand flags were bloody awful in my opinion. I think the flag above is excellent, although I think it should be mirrored so the gold is near the pole.

The problem with most of the Hybrid options I've seen from non-technical people is they assume the expressway can make a sharp bend at the bottom of the Don Valley and right along the edge of the railway. The reason the Gardiner swings so far south, next to the channel, is because that's how...

That's the most idiotic thing I've ever heard. These refugees are fleeing to get away from totalitarian regimes, and if the choose to come to Canada they will be choosing to live under the rights and freedoms granted to all Canadian citizens by the constitution. Some may choose to live a...

Regarding 1. I've heard from Chinese relatives who were formerly shop owners in the area that prior to the 1990's Chinatown (Dundas and Spadina) was largely Cantonese and since the 1990's it has become predominately Mandarin. I think perhaps the "myth" of it being Vietnamese is a...

The Westin Harbour Castle has the Toulà restaurant in that big circle thing that sits on top of the building. Great views of the lake, islands and skyline.

The station at Dufferin is going because Metrolinx had bought it for the new Dufferin Station. Metrolinx looked at buying some land from the gas station at Avenue but it was too expensive and there were other opportunities (e.g. the Mac's on the opposite corner). The problem with gas stations is...