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Huh? It's very much human nature to pick singular aspects of taxpayer spending and discuss it - particularly in a forum dedicated to that. That is precisely what 99% of the posts in the Politics section of this forum are about. And it tends to be what elections are about, random wedge issues...

What do they become? The current old buildings at least have architectural charm, and are quite large. In 50, or even 20 years from now, a lot of these buildings will become "slums".. some would say places like ICE condos are already there.

People are doing the math, and realizing they come out ahead with renting. On average, the difference in Toronto/GTA seems to be about 1500-1800 per month (comparing renting vs mortgage for the same unit). As long as you are putting your down payment and that difference away in an average ETF...

Alvin's campaign was very confusing. The look of his materials seemed to present as the progressive choice, but he wanted 0% tax increases (which is actually tax reductions given inflation) for wealthy homeowners, he wanted nothing to do with cycle infrastructure - it's like he played to the...

The Shoppers here isn't really a "standard Shoppers". It has a fresh fruit/veggies area, and fresh bread/pastries/meats as well. For a long time this area had no grocery nearby, and it acted as the local grocery option for many people living in the area (Farm Boy across the street has changed...

Are the current employees at the Etobicoke Civic Centre at the West Mall going to moved here? Will this house the council for the Etobicoke-York Community Council? I get that it's more central, does the old ECC close? Never really understood what happens over there.

I like it. This area needs this kind of intensification, it's such a nicely kept area, walkable, nice streetscape with art and nice lights in the winter. Hope the retail is a restaurant. People living here would likely walk west to Cordova and down the steps by the Tridel buildings to...

What's also interesting about Mississauga is that the most eastern parts of the city (ie., closest geographically to Toronto - and to Pearson) are the least desirable parts of the City. Malton, and to a lesser extent, Applewood/Dixie/Rockwood and the entire Burnhamthorpe area are where the...

Yep, I don't get it. Played sports as a kid and into my 20s. Never understood these overweight adults thinking they have anything to do with a 20 year old kid winning or losing. But I guess it's the feeling like you're part of something bigger. For a lot of people, this is their life. I guess we...

You don't need a proper/standalone university for a medical school, see NOSM. In fact, a Barrie/Simcoe campus of NOSM could probably work. Yes I know Barrie is not in "Northern Ontario", but somehow being connected (maybe with a different campus name / criteria for entrance), it could work...

I don't see how land this expensive could be viable unless it were to have 30-40 stories. Condo sales are unstable right now.

Thought the closure of Lynx would have helped Flair.

It's interesting. Most people who are in rent-controlled units pay significantly below market rate (as they should), and might be the ones who could afford a little more. There's nothing that protects those in the post-2018 built units, who, logically, would be the ones already paying the most...

I don't think they will pony up. There is anti-Toronto sentiment out there. There are people in Ontario/Canada who have modest 200k houses who pay more in taxes than people in Toronto with 2 million dollar homes, but Chow wants them (outside of Toronto) to pay even more so she can rename Dundas...

The comments I read "People will rise up! Rexdale will burn! The streets will run red with blood because the average speed of the LRT is x kph instead of y kph!" felt to me like a tongue-in-cheek mocking of someone who is advocating that Rexdale deserves faster transit that is on par with the...

This post really doesn't sit well with me. This "this is good enough for the people of Rexdale" has a hint of something... to it. We aren't making the downtown crowd along the Yonge corridor, or along Boor, wait these kind of times/spdees, but for the people of Rexdale, "yeah, let em wait."...

If it does have an average speed of around 16km/h, it is very similar to the other streetcar speed in Etobicoke, the 501 Queen average speed along the whole line is said to be around 18km/h, surely faster in the section along the Queensway that is grade-separated. This fits much more in the...

36 mins to go 10km? lol. This isn't going to be convincing anybody to get out of their car. Happy with how quickly they finished this, but we need to do better. I don't even want this line on our Rapid Transit/Subway map, certainly not the "stops" that are not stations, this should appear on...

I thought they were trying to avoid confusing people with using Eglinton in station names along a line named Eglinton. Scarlett Woods would make sense, but would likely be confusing with a Scarlett station just west of here. Maybe "York", "Roseland", "Topham Pond", or "Nunziata" or "Frances...

We - who live in Toronto, don't want our transit dollars spent in York region. Enough. We have enough high density areas in our own city that need rapid transit that have way higher density than anything in York region (think Humber Bay shores). We don't want to be connected to you with our...