No, Kathleen, no, leave Ford alone. He's a useful distraction. You haven't had to answer any questions in weeks. Don't let Minnan-Wong turn this into your issue.

I don't entirely disagree with your sentiment--at least as it regards "Ford Nation". However, it's a bit of a stretch to say Ford ever represented the "majority" of voters. He won 47% of 53.2% of the electorate. He barely got 25% of voters. He won because there were no credible candidates on the...

Notwithstanding his track record, he's a "formidable" candidate based solely on the things you outlined, his money and more importantly his connections.

Apparently, I'm not the only person to entertain the thought. It's a sad reflection of the Mayor that people would think he's capable of hiring a gunman to distract media from the council debate.

There's a world of reasons to believe 1 Bloor will look better than Aura on the basis of the developers alone. Compare and contrast previous projects completed by Canderel Stoneridge and Great Gulf. There's no comparison: Residences of College Park and Aura v. The Morgan, 18 Yorkville, Charlie...

I question the notion that people who live downtown are more likely "social". At the risk of I don't know, reading my own attitudes, beliefs and personality into the larger society, I'm not particularly "social" myself but I love living downtown because of the anonymity it affords. In that sense...

Interchange42: Law, in virtually any area of it, is a blunt instrument. However, the fact that Mirvish has been "working with" the city indicates to me their is room to get this project approved in some form resembling how it's currently conceived. I don't know enough about the approval...

I find the notion that the scale of these buildings are bad for the hood because there isn't requisite infrastructure questionable to say the least. Regardless of whether these buildings are rejected, how many more buildings will go up in the district? If the problem is infrastructure I'm sure...

That's why they're regenerating the area by building park space.

...and there is the nub of the problem. It is much easier - from a POLITICAL point of view - to either a) mix social housing in with market rate housing at the point of construction or b) drop market rate housing into the ghetto rather than c) trying to spread social housing across the city by...

Last comment: I realize the argument was initially strictly limited to murder. I'm not arguing Toronto is one of the safest cities or THE safest city in the world if murder is the only thing you believe reflects an individual's safety within a society. I'm just arguing that people's perceptions...

Huh... A seemingly innocuous comment, if misinformed, sure turned the subject of this thread around. Any consideration of personal safety related to violence should take into account not only what other people might do to you but also what you might do to yourself. To this point, some of the...