Recent content by jje1000

Seems like Harris’s campaign is stalling out, especially post-interview.

I think demolishing is too much, but I would say that perhaps there is room for facadism and a new multi-level gallery behind the Victorians running the length of Dundas. Perhaps even some of the small retail spaces can be retained in a new design, just to avoid turning Dundas into an...

Oops! Looks more like the Trudeau Liberals got a whiff of this story and tried to pre-empt it. 🙄 A special reminder that even if you voted for the Liberals, that did not give them the mandate to demolish and compromise our immigration system...

I do hope the TTC finally can get a track geometry vehicle with the next CEO.

Those brick facades are unimpressive design-wise, but their combined presence is much felt and appreciated compared to the 'what could likely have been'- a plain wall of glass, spandrel, fake brick, or precast.

So the UK is back onto a diet of austerity yet again. Can’t say much more for a country whose trajectory increasingly resembles one of a middle-income country.

26 years is now historic? The parabolic arch form is nice, I wish there was a second use for it as sculpture.

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...