The Sarah plan:

Poo Park?

I agree that the centre median on University is mostly attractive but serves little purpose, and furthermore, I find the clusters of monuments crowded into it to be sort of sad - if we erected these statues and memorials to commemorate something, how unfortunate that they have ended up all...

Though I kid around, I agree with PukeGreen's comments about how various people see Toronto. I think to some extent, our image of the city is distorted by being privy to every petty grievance that there is, whereas what we get from other cities is usually quite a small amount of information. I...

I could be wrong about this, but I don't believe that any project built in Toronto recently (apart from co-ops or other assisted housing) is truly "rentals". I believe what developers do, even in cases like the now-renamed Eleven on St. Joseph, is register all the units in a "rental" building as...

Roy - that's a very good response. I like it. My best retort ever, I think, which I believe I've posted here before, was in response to someone at a party in Vancouver who said, "but we have the beautiful mountains to look at". I said, "Ontario had mountains long before you did, and we got over...

Yes, it is a bit dull, but probably not harmful. Your comment sent me scurrying to locate buildings on the theme of the three sided box, which I think is very 2000's, and I wonder if this won't be one of the last of it's type. Perhaps it is to our own era what a funky porte-cochere was to 1966...

Re: Vancouver. I lived there for a while (88-89) and at the time wasn't even from Toronto, but planned to move here. I was very unkind when I got that kind of reaction, because (for all its virtues, which I acknowledge) I didn't care much for the city and its insular smugness. I had a lot of...

Health Care is a difficult issue for just about everyone, and I agree with maestro that comparisons with the US are faulty. Certainly, I think the reason that the US spends so much money on healthcare with poor outcomes is that the profit motive / insurance does tend to keep people away from...

News Article: BIA paramilitaries in skirmish; Yonge Street troops advance on Bloor Toronto Star, November 12, 2010 Yonge Street has become a battleground between the militias established by two Business Improvement Areas this summer after negotiations to define borders between the two areas...

You'd rather pay? Hopefully, you don't need much in the way of medical attention. I find it sad yet believable to hear these stories about our ERs. I have to say, my few experiences with ERs in Toronto (two in 20 years, both at St. Mike's), were fine. Once I showed up with my partner who was...

When I went by this site on the weekend, it made me cringe. But I hope that when it is complete it might look like something - certainly, the rest of the building is classy so I can't imagine we are seeing anything like the finished product.

I hadn't even noticed that Dugmor was banned. And I went to the trouble of putting him on my ignore list. Well, I'll keep it that way, just in case I should happen to come across on one of his old posts by accident. I have to say, though I agree with your comment that the SkyDome park as...

It is amazing to me that even after dt_toronto_geek's outstanding work on going out and actually visiting our parks, systematically and repeatedly, that you still get this (sorry, no other word) morons who bleat on about how everything is so dirty. dt, your great work was very much appreciated...

junctionist, I think I could agree with that. If the TT Airport goes some day (which seems increasingly unlikely - from headlines today it seems more likely that we will end up with a big waterfront parking garage instead!) I don't think would be in a position to convert it to parkland easily -...

they are currently an annual weekend get-away for most Torontonians - I dispute this. I think for new Canadians they are used heavily and frequently, as a substitute for a trip out of town. The ferries are always chock a block on nice days. PS - did you meant you "defiantly think" so, or...

I think this survey would have been more interesting if it had included a wider variety of cities. Why Zagreb but no Berlin or Birmingham? I can only imagine what it would say about transit in North America if they used the same criteria .... not a pretty outcome, I am certain.

Harbour City was largely on infill and where the TT Airport is; though the islands were to be altered they were mostly left envisaged as parkland. Kind of an interesting idea, though. Can you imagine if this had been built? Most of the people posting here would be talking about the "crappy...

I have to say, I kind of like the gondola idea. Though, it would likely not address the problem of the cost of getting a family over to the island.

All this talk about the park being "under-utilized" is a bit weird. Have you ever actually been there on a nice day in summer? The park serves, as many parks do in the city, as a substitute cottage / country experience for our large community of people who carn't afford a cottage in Muskoka or...