As for Your statement Hydrogen, I was blunt as it is equivalent for me to tell CERN I don't believe their LHC is safe and to provide evidence to me that it is otherwise I don't believe them. First of all, I am NO ONE in that arena that they would even care to provide the slightest proof, and when it happens, it happens.
All very interesting, but the hand-wringing over the LHC is also based on hearsay, innuendo and supposed "insider knowledge" (it was physicists, after all, who brought up the issue of earth-gobbling black holes as a potential outcome). It's all made for some great yellow journalism, some fear-mongering and even some death threats. The RHIC at Brookhaven National Laboratory was also feared as being capable of creating black holes, causing a transition into another quantum mechanical vacuum and producing strange matter. None of that happened.
So far, with respect to 1 Bloor East, what we have are references to "insiders" who don't want to speak out about what they supposedly know. Also, there does not appear to be any published references to the specific financial situation of this project. What
does exist is a tighter lending environment than that of two years ago, but that is a reality for
all developments, and not for this one alone. This project has already sold a considerable number of units - which suggests a degree of viability from that perspective. If the knowledge of imminent cancellation is so certain, then why does work continue on the site? It would suggest that, for the time being, this project is active. Evidence otherwise is not yet at hand.
WE are still waiting to see if it hopefully goes under so it can be picked up.
It is interesting to read that you hold out
hopes that this project fails. I guess that must say something. However, there would be no guarantee that any subsequent replacement would be built either.
Yes, for outsider nobodies (like me), the official cancellation from the developer will count far more than statements about knowing someone who knows someone who is an expert who has information that they don't want to talk about (not that I don't enjoy reading about this stuff; some of it may even turn out to be true).