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Believe me, no one was more surprised to discover that than I was! (I transitioned a few years ago) Anyway, apparently blogTo (i know, i know) is saying the new VV will be a full-line store, not a boutique, so who knows

Speaking as someone who had to rebuild her entire wardrobe from scratch over the last few years, i like this Value Village! It'll be missed. (And replaced by the new VV that's opening on Dovercourt with less stuff at higher prices :/ )

At a quick glance, a one-bedroom on a low floor at Maple House rents for $2,600 - $2,800/month. I would assume the event you saw was for those market-rate units, since there's still a massive waiting list for actually affordable housing. It's not surprising at all that uptake is slow on housing...

Goodbye, frosted glass brick road

This is what makes it so crummy! It's the frames and mullions of the ground-floor windows. If you zoom waaaaay in on streetview you can just about make it out:

At this rate, if they ever actually start this i feel like it's gonna be another version of that building at Bloor & Ossington that's been under construction since 2009 or so

No, it was Uptown – Crystal blu has those silly cut-out glass shards in the precast, and Uptown has the window frames with a bas-relief image stamped in them that's somehow supposed to count as public art. (We're not gonna talk about the flintstones entrance at cinema tower that i secretly...

I think that caution was just for the initial flooding of the new river valley. I assume the speed is now just because it takes a while to remove a sturdy concrete-and-steel retaining wall that's mostly underwater.

If memory serves, construction is being staged so the neighbourhood doesn't lose any amenities during the buld; so, the remaining mall won't get demolished until the replacement grocery store opens, etc.

It's aluminum, not precast. It's bound to look more drab in grey weather, you lose the varying highlights of the sun hitting the different angles of it.

Yonge & Bloor is hardly considered particularly stabby (except, perhaps, in the conservative imagination, where all cities are always hotbeds of violent crime and all manner of perversion)

You, a fool, an utter buffoon: ANX is pronounced "annex" Me, enlightened, a genius for our era: "ainks" This isn't too shabby so far! The sculptural precast is definitely much more successful than, say, Avenue 151

Then don't use hyperbole like "the most targeted people", which implies that there's an oppression olympics that y'all are winning – which is self-evidently incorrect in a country where Palestinians are regularly harassed by the police, where antisemitism is on the rise, where legislation is...

I'm laughing my transgender ass off at this one

I stand corrected! (I don't live in the area, i must just always be around off-peak) Agreed that if the market does remain, it would be great if they could add more greenery, especially at the Bathurst entrance. But it's nice having an at least semi-public outdoor area that has food & drink...

Oh good, I'm glad. Honestly, this feels like a better use of the space than a park. I feel like the area isn't exactly under-parked?

I don't have a "now" to go with, but my photos app served me an "on this day" memory that made for a pretty striking "then". This is looking west from the top of the TD Centre during Doors Open, 2004. Missing from this view are all the condos of Liberty Village and the Ordnance Triangle, all the...

I never lived in the Annex, but I spent a ton of time on Markham as an undergrad and after: the victory, the butler's pantry, the beguiling, suspect video, david mirvish, honest ed's itself. It's strange to have so many memories bound up in a space that doesn't really exist any more. Live in any...

I believe the closure from Ruskin to Rupont was daily (ie, that stretch is open on weekends), for noise wall and landscaping work. We got a flyer in the mail about it, but tbh since Metrolinx has blown through all other deadlines on this I've kind of stopped paying close attention

Oh man The Third Rail is an absolute winner. Of course, if we wanted to stick with local content The Turbo Train is an option