While the US was founded on lofty enlightenment ideals, the only founding ideal for Canada was entitlement to a share of the pie. E.g. the BNA act promising B.C. a railway because that was it's condition for joining. Can you think of any liberal ideal that this country has not sacrificed...

Sorry, but that comment displays considerable ignorance of the history of science. You think there was a golden age when scientists lived in a intellectual vacuum - uninfluenced by their culture and environment? Right. That's why so much science up until WWII was devoted to ranking human races...

Nice infill. Hopefully it replaces a gas station (there's a OLCO closed down on the south side of Queen) or one of the many auto body shops.

Its certainly fair to say that we don't do enough to preserve our historic structure and areas. The Canadian mindset values preservation only if it doesn't cost anything. That said, those baths would have been removed to make way for the subway line if they weren't removed earlier (which they...

This free spending on Toronto Cultural institutions has got to stop. How I long for the days of Mike Harris. He understood that culture needs to pay its own way and that the path to economic prosperity lies outside the big dirty cities - in golf courses! We need more tax cuts for golf...

I've got a new job that is better in every respect than my old job EXCEPT for ease of bicycle commuting. The building I used to work in had a bike room and a shower. The building I now work in, at Yonge and King, doesn't seem to have anything like that. I need a to find a safe place to...

That's it? A Shopper's? Appalling waste of a good spot on Danforth. Commercial use is fine but it should have at least 4 stories of residential on top of it.

San Francisco uses this kind of bin for recycling, garbage and compost. You can get various sizes. Interestingly, they charge a higher rate for the larger recycling bins as wells as the larger garbage bins. I think that's a good move since recycling is still waste that you should try to reduce...

There are many troubling suggestions in that summary, that seem to be only loosely associated to the facts presented. 1) Three Cities idea. It sounds bad but seems to be an artifact of the methodology which is to carve the city up by ranges of average income. It would be interesting to know...

I'm feeling exactly the same way. I have given up riding with the arrival of the snow and I find adjusting to the TTC to be extremely painful. Whereas my 9km commute would reliably take 25 mins by bike, by TTC it is taking 40-90 minutes. Its the unpredictability of the TTC that is most...

I don't think the Cons are trying to force an election on this one - but I think that, if the Libs have any balls, they will take this issue as election bait. How could the Cons you campaign in Ontario and Quebec with this as a central campaign issue. It's death. Unfortunately, the Libs...

A lot of this discussion seems to only be considering the individual tourist as a source of tourism traffic. However, I believe the bulk of American tourism to Toronto has historically been conventions, conferences, and the like. I recall reading, back in the days of the 65 cent CAD, that...

From the Globe again: Poll shows Tory support waning in Ontario's 905 The bolded text is evidence of the basic good sense people in this province have. The rest of the article highlights what a mistake Tory has made. He should have simply focused on credibility and a centrist...

Frantic back-peddling by the spin doctors. I'll admit that the Globe headline seems a bit calculated. They're clearly out to screw Tory for the religious school funding plan. (And good for them!) Note the lengthy series of articles in last Friday and Saturday's paper about the abuses at the...

Creationism raised as Ont. election issue Too bad. There could have been some worthwhile debate about real issues in this election: pollution, transit, funding municipalities, etc. But Tory is determined to do himself in by bringing up fringe issues that the public either doesn't want to...

I have similar complaint about a lack of information on problems ahead. It was couple of months ago, on the day after that storm that took down a lot of trees and power lines - the day when the city was advising everyone not to leave their houses :rolleyes:. I was on the College street car...

Sure, it will all look nice at first. But after a few years of city workers jack-hammering the granite to fix pipes - and putting down asphalt afterwards...

Left work at 5:40 today. Walked along King from Spadina to Church before a Street car caught up with me. It short turned a Church. Something has to be done. I can't believe that the restaurant owners on King don't see the potential revenue gains from all the expanded partio space and...