Has there been any reason to the measurement deviations? TTC friend said one reason was because the concrete specifications were for summer, and then the pour was delayed to winter?

Panic from even the staunchest court stenographers: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/-nightmare-special-counsels-assessment-bidens-mental-fitness-triggers-rcna137975

It sounds more from your comments that the issue with LRTs in this city are institutional/governance issues that prevent best practices from being implemented, just like how Toronto can't seem to stop drivers from driving on King or Toronto Hydro from cutting up newly poured sidewalks. The...

My opinion is that a good part of the pre-war downtown residential neighborhoods should be rezoned as mixed-use to allow people to open up businesses on the ground floors and expand from the existing typologies, as was the case until the sanitary regime took over in the post-war era. Places...

Ironically Ford is the type of individual who would propose such a concept. The moderate and radical urbanist discussions have moved away to either fixing the public realms under the Gardiner, or demolishing it in its entirety.

Between Pickering and Woodbine, my impression is that inside, there is too much square footage and not enough money to cover it all- both these casinos come out feeling like B-tier regional American casinos. That being said, I do appreciate the new theatre spaces that these developments will offer.

Interesting- not self-sufficient in terms of basics, or not self-sufficient because people expect corn and peaches in February?

Seems like there are waves of layoffs and belt-tightening in the tech industry over the last year or so. They're looking less like the employment unicorns prospective cities were pinning their hopes on, and perhaps more of reflective of the flash-in-the-pan economic conditions of the 2010s...

Tangential, but an interesting reuse of a former downtown convention centre in Oklahoma City. The uses are probably interim, but it's still cool to see how these large spaces get repurposed for film uses. https://prairiesurf.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prairie_Surf_Studios

Not the actual systematic election changes people have hoped for, perhaps symbolic of Trudeau's government: https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/trudeau-and-singh-s-teams-quietly-planning-electoral-reform-legislation-1.6744379

Not gonna happen given the power of dairy and Agropur in Quebec and therefore Ottawa.

Definitely so if we want to make the transition over to an electric economy.

The US political system is entering this election in a state of crisis IMO, and likely no one will be satisfied by the results.

Interesting!

I wonder if they could have transitioned into a BIA, given that there doesn't seem to be one in the area? Though I guess that the areas of advocacy would have been different. https://www.toronto-bia.com/find-a-bia/...

I think it's an instance where a lack of a good public realm negates any qualities of the artwork. Instead of being contemplative, it has to compete with the rest of the streetscape (i.e. power and light poles not giving it any room and cluttering up its silhouette) and ends up looking not so...

Just look at how Nathan Phillips Square has been treated (no rework of the forecourt, everything aging) and it all makes sense.

I think the Portlands is arguably a non-factor for tackling immediate housing needs, and any affordable housing inventory build-out there should be seen more as an inclusionary planning exercise over the medium-to-long term.

Sounds like a proper disaster: https://www.blogto.com/city/2023/12/dundas-ttc-stations-may-not-get-new-names/ Hopefully the poor procedure in which this was carried out will allow the city to continue pushing off and scaling down the renaming scope. Ultimately, all that was required from the...

Overall I haven't been there in ages except when I'm in a pinch, but the things I really notice about Tim's in recent years is that: - Many of them are critically understaffed (often with a few beleaguered TFW Indians/Filipinos), and service times are much worse than McDonald's. - The interior...