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I wish you could be in charge of planning with a proper tool set to elevate project design. Someone said that lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.

I can remember this tower going up from my vantage point on Bloor Street near Varsity Stadium, and thinking what a nice addition to the skyline with its illuminated top. How the times change.

It sure looks like they had fun in those days. My mother was born on the Toronto Islands and my grandfather was a captain of the fire department. There were lots of stories about growing up around downtown Toronto - the Palais Royal, Sunnyside, Cherry Beach, and of course, the Islands.

Well it shows the highest, pointy thingy in the city.

What a cynical response from the "former Concorder". However, It's quite believable because of the dreck we see . And what does it say about this city's acceptance level. If the design and built performance levels are so mediocre in Toronto, what can be done to change that ? There appears to be...

I don't know what to make of this - in bygone days we used to say , " this and 25 cents will buy you a cup of coffee ". Hannity reported that it wasn't Donald that requested the meeting. Hmmm.

God help us if the putz is around for a third term.

Wow ! As a graduate of U of G, I'm impressed.

When are we going to stop this nonsense about Toronto trying to be some thing else ? A lot of these facile assertions about the city come from somewhere else anyway. As Northern Light says, " Let Toronto be itself, just a better version of itself. ", and stop looking over the shoulder for...

I think people following the Public Realm issue know that turning around a culture of neglect is not an overnight thing. I was born in Toronto in 1948 and have seen astonishing changes. It's still going to need focussed work, and public and private investment, to enable our public spaces to...

Sometimes I think these folks believe the nonsense they spew. Scares the bejabbers out of me.

It doesn't appear there was any thought to making Toronto a beautiful place back then. I was going to university at the time of this photo and remember thinking what the heck is going on here - building the tallest thingme right in the middle of nowhere. Toronto also rises !

A lot of people still admire Harper, and ostensibly, some intelligent ones too.

Local government had to press this, and losing 5- 4 shows this is not settled, at least in the court of public opinion. Ethics should count.

That would require some ability to argue. I've heard this tiresome refrain on the streets so often now that I doubt there's much point in even engaging in discussion, let alone argument.

And what did anyone expect ? I hear some radio stations playing same- party ads regularly. Give the listeners or readers what they want, I guess, but it seems all pretty mindless.

Just to let y'all know, there are some PPC signs on private property in the small town I live in east of Toronto.

That's about it, maybe even less time for the procedure itself. It's a pretty slick operation now, almost assembly-line efficient. I had cataract surgery this summer. Pre/post-op takes more time.

Great news ! Only a few more days left in this election about nothing - I feel like I'm in a Seinfeld time warp.

Israelson gave a tentative ok to the sketchy scheme I thought, acknowledging Ford's ham hands in the process. I guess the pivotal point for him is that there will be something, anything...I favour the Greenburg position.