No it's not brilliant. It's a too-cute ploy to try have it both ways and avoid responsibility for the hard choice that lies ahead. Doesn't matter who the premier is, the province will never take back those highways. Pretending that it's a possibility only muddies the issue.

To be clear, this will push the retail to the west. Filling it with offices/retail makes sense, since that property is very close to the tracks.

Here's the scandal we've all been waiting for. Someone is going to go down for this.

Oh boy, that's a good one. A great answer to those who say this city is going downhill (some aspects of it are, but lots of things are way better)

People keep saying that Matlow "doesn't have a lot of friends on Council." OK, I now want to know WHY he doesn't have a lot of friends. Is it because of his positions or is it his personality?

The left has to unite around a credible candidate -- and that means either Layton or Matlow. In a short campaign, you've got to be able organize and fundraise fast. Only an experienced politician can pull of that kind of effort. As well meaning as he is, Penalosa won't be able to pull it off...

To be fair, those are after-market mods. Rolex's own designs are never quite that garish.

How about the fact that every second condo that's approved in this city is 49 storeys.

Women's fashions in 1912 v 1927: what a radical change in a relatively short time.

What a defacement. And for what?

Branksome Hall is on the other side of the ravine, They're going to be screaming blue murder about the height.

Agree. Those towns should neve have been built at that corner. What were planners smoking in the 90s?

Love this T&N. In an incredibly fast-changing city, here is a corner of Toronto that has remained essentially untouched by time for 85 years.

Whoa. Has a modern office building ever got that kind of preservationist treatment before?

By my reckoning, precisely two buildings on the above map remain: the Toronto Club and the Bank of Montreal at Yonge and Front.

My God, why even bother? Why go to the trouble of tearing down the old HBC, only to replace it with something of the same height? And what about the dead-zone NE corner of Bloor-Yonge?

Gentlemen, we have liftoff.

Word is Kristin Wong Tam is about to make the jump to provincial politics. Going to run in Toronto Centre for (what else?) the NDP.

So long Alexander Wood, it was nice knowing you.

How parochial. They did hire a Canadian firm -- it's not like they went to the U.S. and Europe. Funny, I don't see this kind of criticism on the many threads praising Claude Cormier.