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There are lots of good ideas, but all of them would be detrimental to the people with money and power, so they'll never be adopted by the parties as they are.

Of course, which is why my note at the end of it not happening. This is an easy fix only in theory. You also wouldn't need to force public funding of elections per se, just, ensure that no private money can be given to candidates, and offer federal grants to all states for public funding, and...

Umm, I don't know what decade of the conservative party your thinking of, but, it's definitely not the current one. They are more likely to make a grant to resurrect the Spadina Expressway than spend money on HFR. I guess we'll find out soon enough, but, I'm not optimistic at all. Many people...

In a FPTP system, that's true, but, if we make it true proportional representation, that problem goes away. While, in our current system, I agree that 1 party on the left and 1 party on the right is better (a selfish view since I lean pretty strongly toward the left and it would ensure my...

In theory, the reform would be quite easy, a constitutional amendment which forces publically funded elections, and extremely strict rules on what financial support congressmembers can get (no PACs, no political ads from outside sources, and I would go as far as only letting them own broad...

I don't understand the criticism. Even of there's 800 candidates, do we really care? isn't it desirable to get more voices, parties, etc into our political system to shake things up? The current parties are completely and utterly devoid of any actual good ideas.

Yeah, that's true. Maybe it's time to take the train to Vancouver before it's gone or reduced, like you said. I was going to wait until my kids were teenagers, but, might not be enough time for that. Does anyone have preferences on direction and season?

I think that would be too smart, which is why it won't happen. I sometimes wonder if without Trudeau's name recognition, the liberals would have beat Harper in that election. The LPC really needs those high profile candidates to siphon off the red tory and soft NDP supporters enough to win.

The two hilarious things about this are: 1. The liberals would likely have benefited the most from this, as NDP voters would likely have libs as second choice, same with conservative voters (or 3rd choice now with the PPC i guess). 2. Their thinking at the time is that it would create fringe...

I remember some people thought the bus would be faster than the streetcar. Obviously they haven't driven or even walked by that stretch of Spadina in a while. It's just complete gridlock.

1. While theoretically the location was further away to downtown than OSC currently is, there is better transit connection there, and will be significantly better over the next several years than Ontario Place with its very long walk to anything transit. 2. The Ontario Place site is smaller =...

It's not really as simple as you say. Your solutions boil down to: - pay more money (taxi, uber, increased parking cost, congestion charge, etc) in a world where people are already struggling - take longer to get to work on a daily basis (decreased quality of life) Now, I agree that the these...

Yup, quite the pickle they've made for themselves. It would be fun to watch if we didn't also have to live here.

Yes, but that is the point of the 2 or 3 seconds, to give you time to react in case things go sideways.

Yeah, it's as if tying infrastructure to the whims of property developers might have been a mistake.

Pretty much how I was until I had kids as well. Unless your origin and destination are near the core, it's very hard to get things done with kids.

Hmm, I thought most of the track was going to be level like the streetcar tracks. In that case, I guess the only opposition you'll get is for the look, but I agree, barrier needs to be there (even half-height steel fence would be a great help, would also keep most jaywalkers off)

The tests in Canada are a joke. Sure, you have to deal with the occasional conundrum of keeping up with traffic vs breaking the speed limit, but other countries have much more intense tests, including having to prove that you can maneuver your car through an obstacle course, which most drivers...

Two issues. One is emergency vehicles. And the other, you'll have have the UT crowd yelling that it ruins the streetscape. No winning here, unfortunately.

I think the big disconnect here is that it, unfortunately, it will be a pretty heavily car dependent neighbourhood, probably somewhere between Humber Bay Shores and Liberty Village, so the road space will be required. There will be no mass-transit, except for a TLRT (Toronto LRT and the...