You can just spell it out, which would take 1/2 second more out of your day, rather than force readers to do a Google search to know what you're talking about. The onus is on you, the poster, to make yourself understood, not the reader, to dig around to figure out what you mean.
I think the...
But not all participants in a forum on developments in Ontario/Toronto are regulars. I'm sure a large chunk are occasional lurkers. I'd say the vast majority of folks don't know what HCD stands for. It's common courtesy to avoid acronyms. Using them confers a kind of "insider" status, which is...
Another acronym on Urban Toronto, my pet peeve. George Brown College, or just George Brown, isn't hard to type out and it makes life easier for readers on this site. Cheers.
I met the true Maria Von Trapp at Trapp Family Lodge when I was a kid. She used to take pix with visitors. I expected Julie Andrews. The real woman was an elderly hausfrau in some kind of dirndl. I was traumatized. Lol