Maybe World War 4 will break out in Toronto after an argument about 1 St Thomas? That would be funny....
I think it's time for some comic relief.
World War 4's causes, like most wars, will be complex and multi-faceted. While the Modernists (the voices of enlightenment, and mostly unfairly characterized as elitist by their foes) and the Jacobians (the voices of urbanity) and their allies, traditionalists (known by their foes, rather unfairly, as Clewe-less or Cheddingtonistas) faced off over a number of skirmishes - the Distillery District, Pier 27, the final straw was the long battle over a building named One St. Thomas.
And this caused the Great Schism of 2008 between the Urban Toronto Forum and the new Modern Toronto Forum, one professing the faith of the deceased St. Jane of the Annex (but still drooling over interesting skyscrapers that she would have likely not appoved of), the other professing their faith for the living god of St. Peter.
The alliances broke up further when the Mississaugans felt that they could stand up on their own, and when the Urban Toronto Forum cracked over a fight about subways in Scarborough, becoming the Urban and Light Rail Forum (worshipping from the book of Steve Munro) versus the Urban and Subway Forum.
And for all the things they may agree on - liberal politics, a need for better transit, a hatred for Harper, a love of Toronto, they split over a handful of projects.
And then got back together for a big reunion not long after, because despite the back-and-forth fighting, preaching solely to the choir was never satisfying to anyone involved, and forgot why they split in the first place. (The most boring split - the Urban Mississauga Forum, returned when they figured out that saying "Mississauga is urban" to each other got tiresome quick.)
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Let's agree to disagree. I like this building, but wouldn't want too much of this kind of architecture. I can understand why people don't like it. We need to accept our different opinions on this, and lose the dismissive arguments and the combative nature - and that goes for both sides.