60% is still a large part of the population. A lot of people are buying decent furniture, towels, and plates for the first time in their lives in their mid 30s, either because rent was so high in their 20s that they could only afford junk back then (with perhaps a few nice things like an iPhone...

There are side streets in the Stockyards area that are similar, like the east end of Ryding Avenue and West Toronto Street--seemingly removed from all regular city resurfacing and reconstruction schedules. The street view imagery captures them at their best, after at least 6 months of 311...

Metrolinx is the best at working in other people's communities and with other people's money. Why in all my years, I've never seen better work from the public sector.

I wanted this team to succeed, but the players lack urgency, chemistry, and drive when it matters. The team has, for years, lacked depth. Now, it's also without promising prospects because the draft picks were traded away. It wasn't built particularly well, and it feels like it's being run into...

There so many things I like about this photo. You have tastefully colourful buildings framing the public realm. You have a regional rail station with a broad main platform, an interesting station structure, and multiple platforms. There are lush mature trees. It looks mature and metropolitan...

The temporary screens along the facade with a series of triangles pointing toward the sky (adjacent to the crane) have more visual character than the architectural finishes of this building.

Many people said the same thing when Transit City was launched, which, of course, sought to build an LRT line on Sheppard Avenue East from Don Mills station eastwards. The debate as to whether to focus on LRT or subway expansion became this ridiculous battle of transit modes that progressives...

As someone who likes higher speed limits but who also likes fiscal responsibility, it's painful to read that freeways are being designed for safe travel at 130 km/h+ yet limited to 100-110 km/h. Surely, it costs more to build to that standard, yet we can't even use what we build the way it's...

We have a long way to go as a city if people expect convenient driving in a historic Old Town area.

It makes sense, though, for the default kind of housing to be multi-unit in the Toronto area going forward. We're a big metropolitan city, after all. The far suburbs of Barcelona have multi-unit housing right up to the end of the metropolitan region.

Metrolinx at the public presentation for the future project: "Rest assured that graffiti will be regularly removed by our crews." Metrolinx upon project completion:

If you want good-quality housing for the masses and to improve our absolutely terrible birth rate in Canada, this kind of project should be the default kind of housing that gets built everywhere in the GTA--from side streets of single family homes to cornfields in the suburbs. 500 square foot...

This location in a very historic area near a future transit station deserves better. No one should be proposing massive blank walls like those ones along a public street in this day and age.

The issue is that Nathan Phillips Square's original design, which was restored to a significant extent in the most recent revitalization, is too austere, empty, and sterile. That's why it was filled with features like the Peace Garden in the first place and why the same thing may be happening...

I know that we need density, especially on subway lines, but Bloor West Village's charm has always been in the narrow facades and storefronts and low-rise built form. When you look at the streetscape created by the condo projects along the north side of Bloor between Jane and Old Mill Drive, the...