People have small dogs on flights. It will be fine.

You lie. Toronto has some wonderful boutique hotels.

Where are your posts on this forum complaining about similar tweets about human rights activists under the previous CPC government? Also, human rights not our concern. Impacts business. Got it. Also interesting to hear that concern over human rights is exploitation. Has someone told Amnesty...

*That's* "tough-guy baiting"? Oy vey.

That simply did not happen. Only the most delicate of flowers thinks Trudeau's language after the G10 was "tough guy" baiting (whatever that is).

I'm annoyed at some of the nonsensical op-ed pieces we are now seeing, pointing out the "pitfalls" of "Twitter diplomacy". What the authors really mean is that Canada, if it was to intervene at all on behalf of Badawi and other activists, should have done so more quietly and/or with more...

When the traffic studies were done for the new Costco, I believe they found that most of the traffic on Overlea is not from the neighbourhood. So that Starbucks is likely intending to serve the travelling public. Plus it's within walking distance of the high school, and apparently the kids are...

I'm not sure it's entirely generational, but you will find people in certain circles who are more sophisticated and/or open-minded in their understanding of, and approach to, the issues. I've attended a number of public meetings in one particular area, where the hostility towards the proposed...

It's not that simple. British colonialism has left a legacy of anti-gay laws throughout the world, which may not impose the death penalty, but nonetheless put the lives of LGBT people in danger with tacit state support (gay men can't look to the police or the courts for protection). There are...

This is solved by not taking older dogs with sensitive bladders, or dogs with sensitive stomachs, on trains. Voila - solution!

The complaints are almost always about "more condos", i.e. complaints about building places for people to live. The complaints are hardly ever about architecture, streetwall/relationship to the street, or view corridors. When they are about those things, those are valid and important issues to...

Yes, I can. It's a stupid complaint. Half the time, it's existing residents whining about newcomers to the neighbourhood. Their own building/house was apparently the last acceptable construction in the area. It boils down to a complaint about housing. Because if we don't build housing, that...

There is a massive fear of change in some quarters in this city. Better the devil you know. And there is also an empty-headed, knee-jerk negative reaction to condos ("not another condo - whine"), regardless of whether the residential building(s) in question is a condo or not, such that some...

What a fantastic change. Long overdue. Kudos to Metrolinx.

This is one of the first buildings mentioned in this thread, posted by @ADRM on the first page. I don't quite get the appeal of this one, but obviously I appear to be in the minority.

I can't see how this would help, because I see plenty of white drivers everyday who ignore yield signs, roll though stop signs, race through pedestrian crossings, run reds, etc. I'm sure the overwhelming majority were trained and tested here, and are very well aware of most of the rules they...

We went to Wynona for the first time last night. Room was nice, service was excellent, food was delicious. They also have a nice patio, although we happen to have sat inside. Would recommend it.

In particular, I don’t understand people who put bed sheets in the dryer. If you’ve bought nice sheets, why would you slowly destroy them in the dryer?

Blankets and quilts (Queen) did not fit into my old apartment-size washer without struggle. Again, depends on bed size, which has some relation to units size. New North American apartment units in the 1950s-70s were often quite large (comparatively). Depends on how many coats, and the...

As for the North America versus Europe question, I can only speculate, but I suspect: European washers are small, often located in kitchens, and have always more logically fit into apartments. Dryers have historically been rare. North Americans have traditionally expected their appliances to...