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  1. Lone Primate

    Evocative Images of Lost Toronto

    FRONT STREET GOES WILD AS RAPTORS WIN FIRST NBA CHAMPIONSHIP, 1924! Man arrested for yelling "yay!" too loud
  2. Lone Primate

    PM Justin Trudeau's Canada

    Oh, will you listen to yourself? What are you, Archie Bunker on money-stilts? So if I said "rich assholes need to stop wasting money on hookers, trips to Vegas, and sports cars they wrap around light standards when they're f***ed up on blow so they can pay their fair share for OHIP VD...
  3. Lone Primate

    PM Justin Trudeau's Canada

    So your thesis here is it's fine for Tory governments to run with fiscal scissors provided A) industrial production or B) inflation over a decade serve to mask the irresponsibility. That's terrific, Burl. Why do I get the feeling we'd be hearing the screech of Psycho violins had these same...
  4. Lone Primate

    PM Justin Trudeau's Canada

    A loaf of bread costs the same for them as it does for a family for whom that and mayonnaise are going to be supper. Tax the rich. That's where the money is. "Corrected"? Pardon me, but what area code of the Twilight Zone are you dialing THIS in from? In the not-quite-four years Trudeau's been...
  5. Lone Primate

    What is it???

    You make a pretty convincing case. And what puzzled me was why the loops were so short and so narrow. It makes sense if they were designed for low traffic and slow-moving vehicles. Yeah, as uninspiring and earthbound as the answer appears to be, I think you've nailed it.
  6. Lone Primate

    PM Justin Trudeau's Canada

    Well, I'd have to say, I'm on board with pretty much everything you say here... most Canadians would be, I think, generally speaking. My only issue is that last point of yours... "more credible fiscal policy". You need to define just what you mean by "credible" here... I understand you mean...
  7. Lone Primate

    PM Justin Trudeau's Canada

    Yeah, friends in Detroit put me onto that yesterday. I thought it was tough but fair. I didn't think his answers were great, but he seemed to be ready, willing, and able to respond to them... still a breath of fresh air relative to Harper. For what it's worth, I have my gripes against Trudeau...
  8. Lone Primate

    PM Justin Trudeau's Canada

    Access to which is a human right in Canada. What's next, Burl? Championing groups who won't hire black people?
  9. Lone Primate

    PM Justin Trudeau's Canada

    Oh, yes. Despite the lowest unemployment in many years, consistent low inflation, constitutional stability, peace, an economy actively attracting the best and brightest from around the world, we must hurry to rid ourselves of the government shepherding this because you and your friends are upset...
  10. Lone Primate

    PM Justin Trudeau's Canada

    No, I reeeeeally do not think so. The country had entirely had its fill of a PM with a cabinet full of muted, castrated marionettes, the opaque, creepy cryptocracy across a decade (his last-minute Muslim fink line, for instance), and an economy based on prison-building. Mulcair was trending out...
  11. Lone Primate

    16th Avenue Bailey bridge

    Another issue is that it's of a rather specific length, and wherever it were reassembled, it would have to be done at a point were the abutments could be placed at pretty much exactly that same width. I imagine such locations exist, but ones capable of getting the planets of length and utility...
  12. Lone Primate

    PM Justin Trudeau's Canada

    From Macdonald on down, have you ever heard of one? Welcome to politics in a multi-party democracy. Please submit this wish to the first star of the evening, or Tinkerbell if she happens by. A Western Canada that isn't a one-party state living in 1947 would be even nicer. So we're doing...
  13. Lone Primate

    Toronto Toronto | Crosstown LRT | ?m | ?s | Metrolinx | Arcadis

    Yeah, I imagine it is, but we did go and develop a more subtle technology for a reason. I have to wonder what the costs of the disruptions to commuters and adjacent businesses is.
  14. Lone Primate

    Lost Neighbourhood: Blondin Avenue

    Yeah, all these years later, there's still nothing there. In a town like this, with them trying to cram 40-story condo buildings into every empty space that used to be somebody's tool shed, I'm amazed that property of that size and value, literally cheek-to-jowl with the 401, is lying empty...
  15. Lone Primate

    Humberline bridge...?

    More to the point, fellahs... here's that light at Morning Star Drive, and at least a mention of the light for southbound 427 to eastbound 409 access... enjoy!! :)
  16. Lone Primate

    16th Avenue Bailey bridge

    I think you called it. I should follow all this up with later shots. The last time I was out there, a couple of summers back, yeah... that little bridge was just exactly where it has been since who-knows-when. It's a sharp drop-off on the east side, guarded by a fence. The whole thing is...
  17. Lone Primate

    Saved Bridge: Hogg's Hollow

    This is astonishing. I just started working at the YCC a couple of months ago. I was surprised to realize there'd been a couple of streets full of about two dozen homes standing here up until the mid-80s or so. It's nearly impossible to find out anything about the place, but I just found a few...
  18. Lone Primate

    Anybody know what this is?

    Anybody got any follow-ups for this one? :)
  19. Lone Primate

    Lost Bridges: Bronte (Twelve) and Sixteen Mile Creeks

    Boy, did I call THAT one wrong. They built a bridge across it in the style of the one that was there in the 1920s, using those abutments, and ran a huge pipeline across it. I should dig out the photos. :)
  20. Lone Primate

    What is it???

    Anybody ever come up with an answer to this in the past 11 years? :D

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