[Johnny Au]

The former city of York has always been screwed, amalgamation or not.

School textbooks (especially in subjects subject to change due to external factors such as new developments, new discoveries, and new trends) in the former city of York used today are very much the same (same edition even!) as when the teachers themselves used them when they were students.

 

[CodeMonkey]

The former city of York has always been screwed, amalgamation or not.

School textbooks (especially in subjects subject to change due to external factors such as new developments, new discoveries, and new trends) in the former city of York used today are very much the same (same edition even!) as when the teachers themselves used them when they were students.

Education management and oversight where uploaded to the province around the same time as amalgamation. Even if the school boards amalgamated or not, they're basically a shell of what they where suppose to do. Now they just follow and implement directives from the Ministry of Education. If the Ministry orders them to jump off a cliff, they jump off a cliff.

 

[W. K. Lis]

... If the Ministry orders them to jump off a cliff, they jump off a cliff.

 

[Long Island Mike]

K of K:

Good thought about Toronto's outer boroughs
being a combination of both city and suburb.

In New York City the eastern half of Queens,
the southernmost parts of Brooklyn and much
of Staten Island fit that category of being both
a combination of city and suburb.

I have noticed that there is a form of a adversarial relationship between the
residents of the old City of Toronto to
the residents of the outer boroughs.

This is similar to the relationship that Manhattan, much of Brooklyn, western
Queens and most of the Bronx has with
the outlying areas of the NYC Boroughs.

Then there are those who are entirely
Manhattan-centric and think that are
nothing outside that is worthwhile.
There is probably Central Toronto
residents that feel the same about
those who live outside the core.

To me they are all City residents just the same
voting for a common Mayor and council with
concerns like anyone has for the common
goal to make the City as good as it can be.

LI Mike

 

[SunriseChampion]

Damn right. Everything north of Bloor is suburbs and everything north of Steeles is Muskoka.