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Now that we're talking about this, really, I've found service in the US to be highly dependent on where I was, same as here. I've had tons of bad service in NYC and Chicago, etc. (and some really excellent service, too); worst service in my life was in Boston (and I find it repeatedly awful)...

Spot on.

It's in General Discussions now.

a) Taxation for most residents in Canada is on par with many US states - can we please stop pretending otherwise? We just get much more for our money, that's all. That's a sign that our government is working, and quite well. The 'over-taxed nanny state' phrase makes you sound utterly clueless...

I think it comes down to this: New Yorkers are more open and Torontonians are more reserved. This sometimes means New Yorkers are very nice; e.g. if a Torontonian sees someone who is lost and looking at a map, the Torontonian doesn't actually go out of the way to help though he/she may think...

Capacity fills from day one on most routes, doesn't mean it's worth doing it. Expanding 6 lanes on QEW would see them fill up pretty fast, but it doesn't mean we should have 20 lane highways all over the place either. In any case, if I could change one thing about Toronto, it would be the...

Oh no, not the Toronto Party.

^ Those numbers for land acquirement are highly suspect. The citation given is the Hansard, so that's no good.

Yes, I agree with every line here.

I don't get it, except as a joke of course... I find Toronto positively stress free, uncongested, clean as a whistle compared to places most urbanists positively praise. I would maybe understand such criticism of New York (which is still a fantastic city), but Toronto... really? Of course...

'Over-taxed socialist nanny state' is code for 'I don't know much about anything, but I read the Toronto Sun and I've seen them use those words.'

Suburban home ownership is still artificially cheap, and although I far from buy the idea of suburbs all imploding on themselves in the future, there is no doubt that the cost of living for such areas is likely to increase drastically, partly because maintenance taxation for infrastructure...

Places around the border here don't have trouble dealing with US dollars, so I don't see why Turks and Caicos couldn't accept it, even if the official currency changed to CAD.

The latter.

Can you tell me what these are? I applied and interview for a job two or so years ago which was over the other side of the border. While the TN visa was zero problem, the employer explained to me that it could never convert into anything more than that. I didn't end up taking the job for...

What exactly is your beef with the implementation of the Greenbelt Plan and the GPGGH?

I really have no idea as to why that would be.

The key word here is essential services. We don't need urban planners, lawyers, public health inspectors, policy analysts, accountants, etc. etc. for a 6 week period. Construction and development permits can be stopped, non-essential litigation and research adjourned, restaurants know they...

I agree. Much of the city was rather unbearable yesterday.

Apparently the private sector bureaucrat who has to attempt to deny the maximum amount of coverage possible to boost the company's profits is somehow preferable.