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This shows us for the hick town we are. When any developer wants to build a high rise here, the only response we come up with is,"Build it higher." Never mind about the quality of life in the city, the public housing, parks, pedestrian friendly areas. We don't seem to have many rules at...

OK. point 1. I don't know if it applies in the case of a 85 plus story condo though.

The question was, what is the reason for this 'hunger for height," such as in your post saying that you loved the idea of "slender and tall." People could be anti height because of the congestion of public transit, and the blocking out of the sun to all that are at a lower height, but what are...

Reading this forum, I can never understand this hunger for height. As an perceptive poster pointed out earlier, the main factor that affects us a residents, is how much we can use the first floors in the podium, and how much of a podium the building will have to cut down on the wind tunnel...

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Hey sorry, I know spelling flames are cheap shots, but this post is asking for it. I guess it was written by a union goon.

Point 1 seems to have a lot of merit. In the same vein, Murray seems like some logical academic, and might be more appealing to the Rosedalians(sp?) than Smitherman was. On point 2, Conservatives never have a chance in central Toronto, general election or by-election. I'll have to wait until...

Cathy Crowe did well to almost double the NDP vote from the last election. It has been said that a big help for Murry, was the Rosedale Tory vote. They were so afraid of a socialist win, that about 10% of them voted for the Liberal, and the Tory vote dropped precipitously. The right wing...

question Does that mean the private sector does mismanagement better, as shown with Nortel, Enron, the Big 3 Car companies, etc., or does it mean that they can collect garbage and things more cheaply, because they usually don't pay union wages?

That's setting the bar too high. One of the goals should be alleviating poverty. Obviously poverty won't be eradicated in one term of office, or even in several. Having to say just one issue is like the Academy Award. All these worthy things, and they can only give out one award...

Talk about the old saying, "damning with faint praise." The best thing Toronto has compared to every city in Canada except Montreal is good public transit. There are many cities in the US that I've never been to, but from what I understand, most of them do not have a vibrant inner core, because...

Since I was born in Toronto in the 40's, I grew up seeing Montreal as the big city. I imagined that I would move there when I became an adult, and live what I thought was a sophisticated life style. I never envisioned learning French to do so. At that time, it wasn't an issue. We saw Montreal...

question Thanks for posting that. As there is no source listed, if you've prepared these figures yourself from the census, that seems like a huge amount of work. I'm wondering if the reason for T.O.'s more dense sprawl is because of the greenbelt virtually surrounding us bringing about more...

It's not just Vaughan. This is a general problem in the downtown. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/toronto/toronto-councillor-defends-move-to-quiet-queen-west/article1411128 The club district should be combined with the red light district, and restricted to an area where there...

Calling some idea a conspiracy, tends to cast doubt on it. That doesn't mean that there are not agreements between two people in politics all the time.I don't know whether the conjecture is true on not, but it does seem convenient for Tory. Against Smitherman, Rossi seems to have no chance...

So he takes votes from Smitherman, and he is an associate and friend of John Tory. What does that sound like? Some of us need to spell it out.

Before blaming the "anarchist/communist types" for the law breaking that goes on here, you should look at this article and video from the Torontoist: http://torontoist.com/2007/08/bon_cop_bad_cop.php The use of agents provocateurs has happened before. At the SPP protest, they got caught.

Thanks for your replies, everyone. On the last post, I don't think that it's just one or two buildings on Bay from Gerrard northward. It has become Condo Canyon, with almost wall-to-wall condos as far as Yorkville. I'll check out the buildings mentioned.

All condos that I've seen have private driveways. It's not just that they have a private driveway. The remarkable thing about this building to me, is that, though it is situated in a great walking area, visitors seem to be expected to arrive by car. To confirm what was the main door, I walked...

You replied that to my post which said; So I walked by there today to check it out, and wonder why you would make such an easily checkable erroneous statement. The main door with reception is tucked away in the back of the building off a large driveway. Even more puzzling in a forum...