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hah. Like they've ever cared about looking bad.

I think the main reason people still say "Highway 10" or just "Ten" in Mississauga is because "ten" has one syllable and "Hurontario" has 5. Nothing to do with the actual road and its highway-ness. Ten just rolls off the tongue better. I still call it Hwy 10.

From the Star: http://www.thestar.com/news/ontario/article/695503 Ontario Chief Justice calls for new Toronto courthouse Sep 14, 2009 03:43 PM Tracey Tyler LEGAL AFFAIRS REPORTER It's been hailed as an important example of late 20th century design and was once the largest...

I don't mean tourists... I mean newly arrived citizens of Toronto, who blend in far more than they would in other places because of a) Toronto's diversity; and b) the fact that almost everyone already here is an immigrant or from a recently-immigrated family and hence is not fazed by the arrival...

Yes. Live and let live. Here, you can't really spot someone on the street and mark them as an outsider. Chances are, that person HAS recently come from somewhere else, but it doesn't really matter to anyone.

NIGHT MARKET!! I find it ludicrous that in a city this large and full of this many Asians, the extent of night market is two nights a year in a small parking lot way up in Markham. I would hope we'd have more than just 2 weeks a year, but Night Market at the CNE would be an acceptable...

We ARE damn lucky. I have a friend who grew up in Iran and she gets panic attacks from these air shows -- fighter jets flying overhead really don't signify fun in the summertime to her. I didn't grow up dodging bombs myself, so I'm able to appreciate the air show as something fun and cool, but...

aww, no Tiny Talent Time? That's what I associate most with CHCH.

I see only 3 or so films a year in the theatres, and then again, only those which are improved by watching on a really big screen (ie. action films with lots of explosions). Otherwise, I'd rather watch movies at home. I suspect this is true of many people. When everyone has piles of DVDs...

But plenty of people spend thousands just to lie on a beach. If a Canadian beach was available in the Caribbean, it would probably attract the people who'd otherwise have gone to Cuba or Jamaica or the Dominican Republic.

It probably won't be taught at the slowest pace anyway -- more likely some "average" pace which will be too fast for some and too slow for others. And if you can't engage them, they'll just get bored and disturb those who are actually trying to learn. Skipping grades is also awkward...

back to the original thread: "Dundas Square" is just fine. What's the point in changing it now? Re-naming things just seems so lame and fickle, especially when a thing was originally named in honour of something/someone. Find something new to name if you want to honour something -- it's...

I think there's a little more to it than that. For all the recent immigration, the systems of Canadian life (like schools, government, media, law enforcement, etc) were built by and are still largely run by 'old-hand' Canadians. So things like what we expect of our governments, law and order...

I don't get how "cold" can be a selling point for a beer.

Same here. At my elementary school, the boundaries were such that no student lived more than a 10 minute walk away. For me it was something like 5 minutes. High school was about 25 minutes away. And TONS of kids took transit there.

Isn't this just an issue of lack of education in Canadian history? Canadians are just so low-key about these matters naturally... Since immigration has occurred so quickly and in such great numbers, the Canadian identity is bound to be shifting. This doesn't make us less unique or dilute our...

Yeah. I'm sure *liability*, not accessibility, is the real reason for these closures.

Don't forget immigration. Anyone who immigrated here during that era is probably a huge Trudeau fan. I am the child of two, and so are a great many of my friends.

Greater attention to detail/aesthetics in all things in the public realm. Entirely doable things like keeping places not just clean but tidy, keeping roads/sidewalks/street furniture/storefronts in good repair, making sure trees don't die shortly after planting, etc. Fresh coats of paint for...

And that trail isn't a bike-only path but one of those "multi-use" paths, so you can still run into people. I used to commute along Burnhamthorpe quite often, from Cawthra to Mill Rd. About half of the way has a path; the rest of the time I'd use the sidewalk. I'd encounter maybe 10-15...