An example of why these companies can't find Canadians to do these 'jobs'. Migrant workers, TFW- different variations on the same theme- corporations trying to destroy the value of labour and workers' rights by skirting around the protections offered to citizens...

A warning from Europe:

Look at streetview I think the storefronts have always been separate, but I don't doubt there have been compromises made to the support structure, the most significant being that of neglect. TBH, some properties on the fringes of Chinatown are borderline slum properties including that infamous...

The Apprenticeship Incentive Grant (AIG) is being quietly sunsetted next year. https://www.canada.ca/en/services/jobs/training/support-skilled-trades-apprentices/grants.html

Good to see it being called out for what it is, and no one should be mincing words. The real crisis is that I doubt anything real will change with Poilievre in charge, as Trudeau is already doing what the Conservatives had been slowly doing under Harper, and will likely continue to do so with a...

I wonder if this distribution centre project presages an expansion of Save-on-Foods to the GTA?

The company is gone now though? I guess SmartCentres will need to find a new tenant.

Totally agree, the whole building has a distinct lack of energy whenever I pass by it. While the atrium is impressive (size-wise), the anonymity of the public street facades leave much to be desired, and sap energy from what should be a very vibrant neighbourhood. They should clear out and...

Honestly given how extensive car usage is outside of major cities, rail will almost always lose out especially when starting from scratch- but these projects should be considered more as longer-term city-building projects rather than anything with an immediately attractive business case. Even if...

And on the other hand, big sporting events are useful in just forcing our bureaucratic states to get things done (unfortunately). Pam Am was undoubtedly a net boon for our city in terms of the infrastructure left behind.

I think the tough sell is that unless there is mass rezoning/restructuring south of the 401, those areas will likely remain low-density and will jealously defend their from their enclaves being transformed into throughfares, be it trails or roads. That being said, in tangem with rezoning the...

Yup, damage…that they’re doing through the abuse of the TFW program and working international students (aka modern indentured servitude and wage suppression). A reminder that Trudeau himself mentioned this in an 2014 op-ed critcizing the TFW system: It’s such an insidiously smart solution...

Looks like the UK is bubbling over, so much for the Starmer honeymoon.

With those big rounded windows on the existing building, I wonder if there was something more interesting there in the past, perhaps covered in stucco nowadays?

Between this, his 2017 apology for embellishing his military record, and the whole Afghanistan evacuation report (also from the Globe), I think that the calls for his resignation will get louder.

I think in a typical stadium setting, a tv perspective does present a curated, abbreviated view as viewed through a periscope, and loses out on the panorama and enveloping energy one might sense viewing a singular spectacle while being in a massive crowd. In the case of Paris, the Seine setting...

I personally thought the Seine stretched the energy too thinly & any installation/stage was ultimately dwarfed by the surroundings. Ironically in a stretched-out parade-like setting like this, I think the best seat was in front of the television as opposed to the stands. Also there was somehow...

Agreed but it's not only that, the entire area has intrinsic negative appeal, largely due to the overall botched Jackson Square urban redevelopment project that has left the surroundings an urban wasteland. No amount of lipstick on a pig (FirstOntario Place) is going to fix that IMO.

An awfully busy & heavy-handed podium, which is what this corner absolutely didn't need because of all the existing visual clutter.

Harris-Baldwin girlboss ticket?