I don't watch Fox News -- I don't have cable, and it's American news. That having been said, slaves were fed enough to stay alive and able to work. They were not 'well fed' by any stretch of the imagination. From your link: "But historian Liam Hogan later took to Twitter, seeking to debunk...

And the context here is that Bill O'Reilly is an idiot? C'mon.

So. So much horrible. How to parse. Para 1: Yes, pissed me off. Your lack of empathy is/was enraging. Para 2: My front hall has a full copy of the Encyclopedia Brittanica 1956. It is tremendous fun and we love it... but we still fact check it. Because, y'know, the world has changed. Para 3...

I was surprised there wasn't already a BLMTo thread here -- the Rob Ford's Toronto thread is getting cluttered with posts and the 'is Toronto racist?' thread gets no love, probably due to the fact it's not specific to BLM's issues and organization. So, have it! For the record, I'm a supporter...

Sure. But LV4L's point -- that the whingeing & nattering about spandrel, or same boring glass, or looks like another building, or omigod new roadcut! -- gets really tiresome, n'est-ce pas? Whether grey spandrel covered or not, this is going to be a great contribution to the ongoing...

Signed up for the e-mail on this one, so I'll post updates periodically once they start to hit my inbox.

Including deer on both the Don Trail and Leslie Spit, including a young family that were living for a while at Beechwood Wetlands. Riverdale Farm's lower ponds have a ton of turtles, frogs, and marsh birds (including the odd crane/heron), so maybe some transplants could be moved to the new digs?

Hahahahaha... OK, now you're just having fun. I get it now -- this has just been the world's deepest & longest black satire operation. Bravo!

A slightly more temperate post: with the exception of the east Gardiner from Jarvis to the Don, there is neither money nor reason to bury the Gardiner nor tear it down. That's because the world there has changed: The condos and commercial buildings that make up SoCo and now stretch to the...

Euphoria, you're delusional. Where in Paris do they have underground expressways? If you're talking about the A86, that's equivalent to the 407, not Gardiner. On the other hand, they're closing the roads along the Seine in the summer in order to put in a beach! So, Paris is not a good example...

My daughter is interning for one of the labs, Northern Biologics, in this cluster, and it's rocking and rolling. She's loving the experience, MaRS is apparently a great place to work as a lab rat.

The bike red at the condo south of QQ farthest west, just before music garden, is inane. It's long, there's no traffic in or out of the condo parking garage. I'm more than happy to have bicyclists ride slowly through that one. My issue with bikes are the guys (and it's 99% guys) in full bike...

The Waterfront Toronto reference was interesting. I would never have considered that kind of plan for STC because I regard it as a regional mall. Is it possible to think of it as an industrial neighbourhood as per the Harbour that needs to change? Maybe. Will people that live in the...

When you state as an example of something during an argument about why Scarborough is being picked on and disrespected, people think you are using that as, oh, I don't know, an argument about why Scarborough is being disrespected. It's like the 'everyone else has outdoor rinks except for...

We walk by this site fairly often. One of the many over-subway parking lots is directly west, which would make me think you'd need to be very careful about rumbling sounds from underground. They're packing a lot of suites into this place, especially if most are 2 or 3bdrm. I think I would have...

C'mon, you're being beyond ridiculous. I went for a long bike ride through 'west Scarborough' (Clairlea) a couple of days ago, and there's zero chance any of the good burghers of there, or Guildwood, or West Hill, or the neighbourhoods near the Zoo have any need or want for the 'respect' of a...

You should take this proposal to Ford's Portlands NFL / Olympics fantasists or Markham's NHL fantasists. An Olympic stadium and the athlete's village would be a win/win of entertainment and affordable housing, PLUS a one-stop subway! Might be difficult to fit all that into your $500M cost...

I don't know -- $1000/passenger? $10,000? $100,000? Given that we've built a fast, efficient, direct link from the airport to downtown, I think we should pay whatever necessary to have said link bring people into Toronto. The pissant bleating about this line is insane. This is a full-out...

Wow. That's a bizarre thought. What else in the city would you like to shut down?