regarding the 25% discount for american buyers, i'd be curious to know what sort of "flood" you'll see from the united states. my impression down here is that small time real estate investors don't really see many bargains to be had in canada, mainly because extreme high price but also because...

man, i love this building so much, and glad that the intervention is on the deactivated/disused loading side (silly 1970s, why would a library need a loading dock anyway?). another rendering from the u of t fundraising site: http://boundless.utoronto.ca/initiatives/robarts-revitalization/

yeah, when i'm really going full tilt, i'll drink 10-15 drinks 5 days a week for months at a time. detox isn't bad unless i've been doing drugs too, then it can be nightmarish. the thing with ford is that i think the guy is naturally very shy and that he has been drunk far far more than...

don't know if there's anything new here, but it's sort of note-worthy that a new york newspaper is covering it. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/toronto-mayor-rob-ford-missing-week-trip-rehab-article-1.1781385 Toronto’s drug-addled mayor has apparently gone missing on his way to rehab...

still can't believe that the toronto media and political class isn't explicitly linking this to the fact that these people are not actually from toronto, but rather from the suburbs; that the people who vote for them are not from toronto but, again, from the suburbs, and that this entire...

the quebec mayors have even more incentive to criticize ford - he's considered to be an oafish barbarian in quebec and expressing such a view is popular. for the mayors to say so publicly is basically to speak for quebeckers, like, there's an advantage for them there. i honestly don't think...

strongly disagree with this. i've almost never left the old city limits aside from travel out of the city. everything that a person like me finds interesting about toronto doesn't include those suburbs. the whole goofy history of toronto pre-y2k is a story of these neighborhoods sort of...

i guess i mostly agree (especially about robbo) but i was more taking issue with the presbyterian sort of condemnation/moral judgment of consuming booze and pills. i totally see nothing wrong with boozing up all day on a weekend or whatever, sniffing drugs, smoking weed, it's a great time...

not to take the thread off topic, but i don't think drinking and drug use means that a person has a deathwish or whatever. at worst, it's just sort of immature or maybe like an addiction. i go through phases (every single vacation, for instance) when i'm pretty much wasted for a week or more...

exactly, these people saying "oh, does it have to be so tall? wah wah, can't he just keep those low rise factory buildings?" well, then, guess what? no space for ocad, no spectacular design elements, etc. like, seriously, people comment, they have no idea how tough the industry is. like...

not really sure why the heroin-use allegation isn't getting more play. like wtf?!? heroin??

“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’” ― Isaac Asimov

that kimmel video is pretty emblematic. how about this: LAS VEGAS (AP) — In true Vegas fashion, former mayor Oscar Goodman is blaming it on the booze. Sin City's ubiquitous cheerleader made headlines when he threatened to go home Sunday night after waiting 20 minutes for an interview with...

Towhey received a call from Rob Ford ‘sobbing’ the day he learned he was fired as Don Bosco’s football coach. David Price allegedly “badgered the Mayor to give him a job” and was paid “double… everyone else,” police told. Former mayor's staffer told police of reports that Mayor Rob Ford did a...

In the past women have come to the office and told staffers that they have smoked a joint with the mayor on the street outside of the bar. These women were told by the mayor that they could have a job,” the police alleged after interviewing Mr. Christopolous. hahah, jeez Mr. Fickel said he...

^ Former members of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford’s staff suspected he was doing a variety of drugs, including lines of cocaine and OxyContin, and drinking at city hall, in public and in his car, as well as spending time with escorts, spewing verbal abuse and assaulting female staff, according to...

yeah, plus the drunken/coked up groping of a woman at a function, monstrous obesity, the still unanswered questions about his relationships with multiple criminal types (including organized crime and a homicide), his insanely foul mouth, his serial deceptiveness bordering on pathology, and just...

worth repeating

"The behaviour is also consistent with several conversations I've had with Ford" uhhhh what?? the guy is blitzed on coke, crack, meth or bath salts (or a combination thereof). if he's sober, which he's obviously not, that means he has a severe mental illness, which is far worse for him qua...