Ah, yes it is. I'm not sure she's any better, tho.

He needed to get after-the-fact permits, but first needed to vary the by-law. The City routinely allows this (an owner to try to get the necessary approvals after construction has started) - but if one fails, the construction comes down. He lost at the CofA, but won at the OMB...

Do you mean the time the owner built the large addition along Fenwick without planning permission/permits? That ended up being a hearing at the OMB.

*eye roll*

Yeah, I have no sympathy. Zero sympathy, and a good deal of contempt. Might have been a fruit market, but it's a commercial thoroughfare and it doesn't take a genius to understand that it is/could be zoned for different uses. These residents are, at best, willfully blind. The letters of...

Tidbits: 1. Big Paws, purveyor of raw dog food, is coming along on the SE corner of Carlaw and Riverdale. Looks like it will be opening soon. This appears to be their second location - their current store is at Davenport and Symington in the west end. 2. Kid Chocolate on Gerrard, east of...

The 2010s version of the Dickensian childhood.

Then you know! (Apologies for the tongue and cheek question) Vastly underutilized commercial sites, dominated by fields of parking. Towers in the Park-type high-rises, with enormous wasted tracts of land. House farm after house farm, often with no allowance for compatible midrise along the...

Have you been to Scarborough?

While there was degree of NIMBYism involved in the lead-up to theGreenbelt (people often forget that it was Harris and the Tories that brought in the original Oak Ridges Moraine Conservation Plan, not because of environmentalists, but because right-leaning 905ers didn't want more house farms...

There are three or four buildings tucked away in there, and I believe one of them is owned by TCHC. The others are privately owned.

I don't think the left side is too much. It's highly visible, and presumably catches one's attention over a distance. Which would be the point.

This. If I had to, I would sacrifice aesthetics for air conditioning. So tired of how crossing the bridge is like walking through the world's worst greenhouse.

The Psychedelic Furs' Heaven video is quintessentially 80s to me - iconic imagery that implanted on a young me way back then. Probably because snippets of the video featured prominently in MuchMusic ads in those early years.

I read that somewhere. Many of them are now PC candidates in the 905.

Wynona is soft opening this week. According to Suzanne Barr’s Instagram feed, Kid Chocolate next door will open sometime this summer. Meanwhile, there seems to be some activity in the vacant spot on the SW corner of Logan and Gerrard. This is the spot where the landlord chased away the...

Suspension with pay is the law. The Legislature recently updated the Police Services Act for the first time in 25 years to allow, among other things, officers to be suspended without pay under certain circumstances when charged with crimes. But the new law includes quite a considerable number...

As someone who often walks to the Financial District to work from the Danforth, and therefore sees a lot of downtown traffic close-up from the perspective of the most vulnerable road user, I can assure you bikes are by no stretch of the imagination not the only ones not stopping as required by...

Not sure unfamiliarity with the law, or unwillingness to follow the law, is "popular opinion', otherwise popular opinion seemingly dictates that it's okay to ride bikes on sidewalks, for cars to turn right on red without first coming to a complete stop, for cars to roll through stop signs, etc...

You seem to have completely missed the point of the original post. And then your false analogy makes things worse.