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When you toss in several years of taxpayer funded election campaign advertising exclusively for the OPC with restrictions on every other party, it would appear so.

I walked by it on Thursday, and it truly is beautiful. It didn't occur to me until now how much it mimics the work done at the Dineen building 140 Yonge (@ Temperance)—From the dark restored original street-level frontage to the solarium-style top floor add-on...

That wasn’t the point though. The point was reclaiming energy through the storm water system. Few renewables aside from river hydroelectric and geothermal are predictable. Using a storm water system, which is already designed to capture and slow-release excess water, seems natural.

SMRs—at least the rector itself—can be as small as a shipping container. It’s often the support buildings that take up the most space. There’s no reason the reactor couldn’t be built underground with support buildings above on an area the size of a football pitch. Doable for just about any...

I’m not talking a full-on ravine-sized storage pond here. I’m talking building more storm water management facilities like the DR&CW project and adding a turbine to the release. Unless my knowledge of physics is wonky, a sustained angle path from the old shore to the new shore could make up for...

Why we aren't diverting stormwater from north of St. Clair to gravity-fed above-ground storage is beyond me. Especially knowing that climate change will give us many, many more of the types of storms we've seen recently. Store and release through turbines back to the lake when needed or the...

To date, I cannot ever recall a Canada Post vehicle parked illegally.

Frankly, we need better access to Sunnyside and the Humber river area. If drivers get to keep the Gardiner, the least we could do is get the waterfront west line moving pronto, and give better access to all of that parkland.

For all the crap that FedEx generally is; they’re doing awesome stuff with bikes and micro vehicles.

Just on Friday, I watched a Purolator truck park in the eastbound Bloor bike lanes at the corner of Ted Rogers Way while I sat outside of Starbucks. The driver was inside the manulife offices for well over 20 minutes and he already had a ticket on his windshield (I think they keep them there to...

We really should have income-geared fines here and corporate-specific charges as well. $50 is still little more than daily parking in some lots in the city, and $200 for blocking a bike path is a small amount for delivery companies like UPS and especially Purolator who regularly park in the...

Oh man. That's an image that could get construction shut down completely for an investigation. Lack of hardhat and smoking in the workplace. ;)

Tunnel boring machines (TBMs) are very often completely bespoke, and always set to a certain tunnel width. Some single machines now simultaneouslylay tunnel walls while digging. It’s important to have the structural support follow the creation of the tunnel as soon as possible, when not digging...

Squab I’ve had a couple of times (and didn’t much care for it—I prefer fowl that’s less lean), but those were farmed and properly cared for. Who knows what manner of disease your common winged petri dish carries. I mean geez, I’ve seen one nibbling away a cigarette butt.

I don't have a balcony, but would love one if only to grow a few herbs and space for a table and chairs to eat dinner in the fresh air. But then again, pigeons.

Not sure what this has to do with the Mayor specifically.

Hubris, ignorance and lack of paid sick days are unfortunately still a thing.

Or the big, tall metal one at Grange Park, which had the ability to get children up to warp speed near instantaneously. So much so my daughter feared it. I believe it's since been altered, but that slide was dangerous. Shallow sides and high speeds made for problems. I personally witnessed...

Funny that were in a place where one could presume historical studies are more fact than interpretation.

Complaining about one singular aspect of "taxpayer spending" is virtue signalling, that is when it's flat out not pure dog whistle. Every square of toilet paper in a government facility is "taxpayer's money"; shared resources is kind of the point of the social compact and having cities. I'm...