Recent content by vicente

Is it just me or have they only added one floor in the past five weeks?

Reminds me of how the "Boston Pizza" chain has never had anything to do with Boston. Boston Pizza is Canadian, BTW

Thanks to NAFTA, any such agreements with Canada also have to involve Mexico. It's put Mexico on the same footing as Canada. So easier border crossings between Canada and the U.S. are not going to happen, because of the huge illegal immigration problem with Mexicans.

Even without talking about skyscrapers, I feel like we'll never get the mid-rise feel you see in parts of NYC and in Europe because of zoning laws and NIMBYism. We're restricted to building on main streets and avenues, with everything in between being detached single family housing. Anything...

I think he means filler as in "it fills a gap in the streetwall really well"

To say that the Head of State is not British but Canadian is just being in denial of the facts. Whose laws define the succession? The UK just changed their succession law. Does that mean we have to go along with it? How often is the royal family in Canada compared to in Buckingham Palace? Why...

Any news on building a freeway between KW and Guelph, or a freeway in western Brampton?

Why should Hindus be offended? They can go take out an ad of their own if they want to. This guy doesn't speak for Hindus anyway.

I've lived in both downtown Toronto and downtown L.A. (well, Pico-Union) and yeah there are some dense suburbs in L.A., but the public transit is horrible. There are some relatively high density nodes but most people don't live in the same area that they work so it just leads to traffic...

Columbus and Toronto are like night and day. Columbus has virtually no public transit, its downtown is deserted, its university is located too far away from downtown to walk there, it is highly racially segregated between black and white, and is not on a large body of water (unless you count the...

Although I disagree with most of his political and social views, he seemed like one of the few politicians in Canada that was sincere and actually believed in what he was saying to the Canadian public. Thus this is a great loss to Canada and its democracy. RIP Jack Layton.

Islam is not another religion like Christianity and Judaism. It has not gone through a reform process, so there is no liberal stream of non-fundamentalist thought. The Christian and Jewish holy books may have abominable things said in them, but you can always find churches and synagogues where...

I agree with the LA comparison. Toronto's arterials outside of the downtown area are mostly like LA's, composed of low-rise retail. And also that the neighborhoods are made up of detached single-family houses. What's different is that LA's public transit sucks, they barely have a heavy rail...

Awesome idea, I pay over twice as much for auto insurance as I do for gas, which is ridiculous.

Amalgamating a whole county/region with rural areas was a bad idea. How are rural areas in Ottawa and Hamilton getting a voice in local politics? They don't have the demographic muscle to affect anything anymore. If possible, these areas should be politically reseparated from the city, as well...