Yeah...I'd rather not jump to conclusions about how the columns are going to fit in with the overall design before we see an actual design. I'm surprised there hasn't been something released yet. It makes me worry that they're going to try to do this on the cheap.

That's good to hear about the expected completion dates. The floor work is probably why so much of the concourse is blocked off right now. Maybe I have unrealistic expectations, but to me the drywall/plasterboard work is going painfully slow. I walk through there just about every morning at...

Yeah. My concern isn't really about how congested things are in there. I understand that's out of their control. My issues were around the employee confusion. He insisted that the platform was for the Ottawa train and that I'd have to go downstairs and back up onto another platform for train...

The VIA concourse is even more of a mess right now. Half the back entrance from Maple Leaf square is blocked off, as is much more of the main VIA concourse. They've blocked off so many of the stairs up to track level that they're having problems getting everyone on/off trains. I arrived about...

I'm a late 70's tail end gen-Xer, but not too young to remember what my parent went though back in the 80s. My father, despite his degree and pilot's licence was laid off and delivering pizza to help ends meet while raising two young children. My mother went back to work full time but wasn't...

In my mind it isn't even about the investors. As long as they're renting out the properties while they own them, they're participating in the real-estate market the way it was intended to work. IMO if we're going to tax anything here, put a sky high rate on anyone who leaves their properties...

I think what we may need here is a change of perspective. If you can't afford to pay full time employees a living wage then you don't have a viable business model. Doing otherwise is asking the government to subsidize your business through tax funded social assistance.

That would be a mistake on his part. A lot of people held their nose and voted for a center-right candidate to block Ford. If he moves further to the right he's going to lose that support. That may be great news for a left or center-left candidate though, with the right-wing vote split...

I think you're missing the point. Yes, we're in a bubble, and yes the current interest rates will rise, and yes, this may eventually lead to a rapid decrease or even a crash in home prices. The argument that I was responding to seemed to be indicating that the current changes we're seeing in...

Yeah...this sounds like what happened in Vancouver after their new taxes were brought in. A period of uncertainty while things settled where prices stabilized or dropped a bit until starting to climb back up. The fundamentals haven't changed. Interest rates are at historic lows, Toronto's...

The older I get and the more of this crap that I see, the more I think we need something approaching a true proportional representation system. I think the Conservatives are the worst for it, but any party attempting to act as a "big tent" are inevitably tossing together disparate groups of...

He isn't the only one. This whole thread is one big circular argument on both sides of the issue. It really would be nice if we had one thread for project updates and one for discussion. There's too much repetition to sift through to keep up to speed with what's actually happening on the project.

Is lack of equal representation something that can be taken before the courts?

Except that it's fairly clear from the whole health care debacle and the discussions around tax reform that he's at odds with a considerable portion of the Republican party. Polls are also saying that if mid-terms were held today that the democrats would be regaining control. Trump may be...

Do those other jurisdictions also split out the cost of the electricity from the cost of the transmission like they do here though? The hydro rates are only part of the story.

In some of these cases it's going to hurt existing LCBO business. The Longo's at 15 york, one of the locations listed above, has an LCBO almost right at the top of the escalators descending into the grocery store. I was under the impression that these licences were going to go first to areas...

A little bit of sanity on the weekend work issue from The Star: https://www.thestar.com/opinion/commentary/2017/05/10/get-used-to-the-loud-hot-mess-of-life-in-toronto-mallick.html

I wouldn't be too sure of that. It sounds like Comey's sacking has angered some Republican congressmen/senators as well. Demand for a special prosecutor might have enough support to go through. If that happens and Trump is found in any way complicit in getting Russia to influence the...

Right....and now he gets to choose whose going to continue that investigation. No conflict of interest there... Regardless of what the reason they're giving for the firing is, I gather Comey/the FBI has found a smoking gun in the Trump-Russia connection.

I live right next to the Gardiner in this area. While I was out of town this past weekend, I have been periodically working from home while they're doing the work during the day. The noise isn't that bad. Sure, if I'm outside or have my windows wide open it's very loud, but inside my unit...