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Those numbers are crazy. There is no way Etobicoke doubled its population in the 1980s, or Scarborough lost a third of its pop that decade. The numbers CDL linked to are correct. They show the suburbs growing steadily during the 1970s and 1980s. By about 1990 the last of the agricultural lands...

There is no reason immigrants can't also be professionals. There is certainly no planning aim to keep immigrants out of the core, though the rapid increase in housing prices have reduced some of the traditional immigrant reception areas. There is no planning goal to bring professionals to the...

Ouch: Pleased to see someone with such sound fiscal management is running our city.

Now Magazine has a good set of articles this week on the rise and fall of the Entertainment district. I just used them as a source to spruce up the Wikipedia aritcle.

That's really great. I'd always heard that there was a brick paved street in the Beaches, but never knew exactly where.

I imagine he means Danforth east of Greenwood, which went from being a vibrant urban community to one fo the sadder commercial strips in the city after the construction of the subway.

This branch also serves CityPlace and the Entertainment District, two of the fastest growing parts of the city.

They're comparing one unfunded plan with another. What's the issue? And if you read the report itself, they also compare the funded Transit City lines with Ford's plan, and Ford's plan still loses out.

I don't think there is any problem comparing two plans that cost different total amounts. Isn't that exactly what several people did back in October handing out flyers with Smitherman's more extensive plan in comparison to Ford's? In this case, one plan is what TEA wants, the other is what...

The Toronto Environmental Alliance released an infographic today comparing Ford's plan with Transit City: Large size

Just abolish it. You're never going to get fair representation through (look at what happened to the far more moderate attempted change to the commons).

Agreed, it's not that those houses are unique, but they really make that part of town. They preserve some old Yorkville charm and prevent the area simply being a financial district style sea of skyscrapers.

Caplan is a backbencher, and isn't speaking for the Liberal government as a whole. He's also the fellow who was kicked out of cabinet for the eHealth scandal. He might rightfully have some bitterness against both Smitherman and McGuinty, so there may be some other motives to his friendliness...

Exactly. Miller did make service cuts, for instance to garbage pick-up. But those cuts made everyone very upset. People like the idea of cuts, but if you announce something specific to be cut people get very unhappy. Miller also froze non-union wage increases, slowed union wage hikes to a level...

What made up the $10 billion deficit was revenue leaping from $48 billion to $62 billion. Similar increases were seen by governments across North America due to the economy, so Harris doesn't get much credit for the increase. It's also something of a myth that Harris made deep cuts to overall...

The Tories in no way eliminated the debt. It was $96.6 billion when they took over, and $138.8 billion when they left office. The deficit was $10 billion in 1995, but was $5.6 billion in the Tories' final year in 2003. They did manage to balance the budget in 2001, but only by the one time cash...

By saving the province, are you reffering to how Harris ran up the debt and left a $6 billion deficit during the some of the best boom times we ever had?

I don't think it's accurate to say that it delayed transit expansion at all. If instead of announcing Transit City, Miller had in 2007 announced the Sheppard East subway was his priority, today we'd be at about the same stage as we are with the SELRT: very initial construction. Federal and...

Very few councillors spent anywhere close to the limit, so cutting expenses to $30,000 doesn't affect much. Because of rapid back-to-work legislation, essential service designation for the TTC is also pretty meaningless.

Council just voted to kill the car tax, which wasn't a big surprise. All three mayoral candidates opposed it. The vote was 39 to 6. More notable was the vote on Vaughan's motion that no services be cut as a result of the lost revenue, which the Ford team voted down.