You could go back to the future w/"Vincent". Or be perverse w/"Crossways".

Call it "Rockwell Square", then

Hey, why not bring back an old idea and call it "Toronto Life Square". Not after the magazine, mind you; but simply an expression of how this is where "Toronto life" takes place. Sort of like how the CN Tower became "Canada's National Tower". ;-)

Our version of Berri-UQAM?

I don't know if drug dealers abide by a "goods satisfactory or money refunded" principle ;-)

Ironically, the street preachers might be claimed as a backhanded emblem of the *success* of Y-D Square--or, for that matter, of Y-D before the square, when it was just the then-open corner atrium of Eaton Centre upon it. Remember: long before they put in the actual square, it was *already*...

Just because *you* had a homophobic experience there doesn't make it "the single most openly homophobic place in the city". In the end, it's more of a "crazies problem" than a "homophobia problem". And even crazies-wise, it's far from a Vancouver Downtown East Side (or "Queens Park during...

I'm just waiting for smart aleck instant coffee references from aging boomer grandads

Regional roads are to present-day Mississauga & Brampton what signed highways like 2 and 5 and 11 and 11A were to the pre-Y2K 416. And at least the latter, even if they were technically under municipal jurisdiction in the Metro era, had some kind of historical red-line-on-the-map "mother road...

Remember that the other thing that made the dissolution of H-N easy is that it was a simple matter of reinstating the former constituent counties (albeit now as single-tier municipalities). Whereas Peel was always a single county, so what'd you dissolve it into?

True enough, and you can say the same about Ontario Place and Zeidler. Even the anecdotes of some within this group of OP as essentially a water park and an empty vessel for Lego/Nintendo affirm that notion--you *really* have to engage to some kind of World's Fair-era all-ages optimism to...

Lest we forget https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/doug-ford-blasts-margaret-atwood-over-libraries-says-i-don-t-even-know-her/article_cb198fb3-987f-516f-968a-904beb0d9aa5.html

And scratch Doug a little, and he'll tell you that most Ontarians don't give two hoots about "Moriyama's beautiful and masterful SC building", much less about who Moriyama is.

I dunno whether anyone thought of posting this...

Now that's weird, as the Harris Tories bent over backward on behalf of the McMichaels' proscriptive views on art. I guess that's conservative aesthetes vs philistine aesthetes for you...

Tyndale (or Redeemer U in Ancaster) at least has some "seriousness" about it. Granting status to McVety would be like granting status to something with Moonie associations. Bill Davis set up Ontario's community college network; DoFo's mentality would be more to farm those efforts out to...

Thanks for the reminder that even if the "right wing" won, the "stop X" dynamic in '96 was the inverse of '23.

Never say "nothing". McGuinty was elected Lib leader as the most conservative candidate on the leadership ballot IIRC.

Actually, I think of the Jama thing as reflecting more of a collision btw/"old" and "new" impulses--that is, a party aiming for Blair/Starmer "middle respectability" being riven by the Corbynistas in its midst, IOW those who represent the "wrong" kind of "less establishment and more activist"...

Actually, I thought it was the reverse--voters opting for a "safe progressive" choice over a party demoralized by the Sarah Jama schism. And note how *Lib* support was reduced to 4th place single digits. Whether one likes it or not, a good many of the Greens' successes and near-successes have...