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Online, I've seen people say May-June, maybe into July, but that seems to be for its native range, in the southern US. The same source also says late February to late April for deciduous magnolias, and in Toronto I don't think those would ever bloom any earlier than mid April, more typically...

I don't have experience with growing deciduous magnolias in Zone 4, but I think generally if a plant species is hardy to your zone but not the zone below it, that means a colder than average winter could kill it. So growing something hardy to zone 4-9 in zone 4 will require some care/babying...

Quite unlikely that it's a Southern Magnolia given that those are hardy to zone 6 and North Bay is zone 4. It's most like one of the deciduous varieties of magnolia such as Star Magnolia or Saucer Magnolia which are hardy up to zone 4 and quite commonly growth throughout southern and central...

Looks like it was planted after the extreme cold of February 2015 so it hasn't quite been tested for the worst Toronto had to offer - the house shows up under construction on streetview in 2016 with the tree not present. It does look quite healthy though. Do you remember if you're seen it flower...

I'd be curious to see it. Or even an address to check on streetview.

I suspected it might be something like this. Although the climate of Ontario hasn't changed that much thus far from what I've been able to determine, with Toronto specifically it seems like the urban heat island effects should be able to significantly reduce cold stress. However, if being an...

I didn't say it was a conifer, just an evergreen (non-deciduous) magnolia. I took a couple more pictures on Jan 2 but was kind of shy about walking right up to it to take pictures since it's on private property. It can basically only be Sweet Bay or Southern Magnolia at this point imo, and I'm...

Land clearing may have had an effect but it's hard to say because we have very limited records pre-land clearing, which indeed would've happened mostly in the late 1800s in the west, although perhaps up to 1900-1920 in the Great Plains. In SW Ontario I believe the last stage of land clearing was...

I don't think they were that scared. The outbreak was already starting to spread out of control before the protests. My interpretation is that the CCP just decided it was a lost cause and to bite the bullet on whatever the impact of the outbreak will be in exchange for the benefit of rebooting...

Looks like the Alberta numbers got better instead. Change in hospitalizations per million since that post was made. QC: +17 BC: +15 NL: +1 NS: 0 PE: 0 MB: -1 SK: -1 NB: -13 AB: -20 ON: -48

FYI the leaves on it are still green, which means it's not a deciduous variety, narrowing things down quite a bit.

So, I had a look at some possible stations to compare to. It seems like Toronto Downtown is the only station within 200km that has been in operation continuously from the late 1800s to present. This is not due to a lack of weather stations in those early days, Southern Ontario had over 100...

Fair enough, although west of Dorval, bungalows are still fairly likely to remain bungalows whereas east of Downtown Oakville they'll most likely be redeveloped once they go up for sale. (do you mean Fourteen Mile Creek? Or Sixteen Mile Creek? I don't think there's a Thirteen Mile Creek...)

At $1-1.5M you're probably looking at the smaller lots and less prime neighbourhoods around Kerr Village, Fourth Line, etc where bungalows might go for about $150-200/sf of land. In more desirable areas (SE Oakville and waterfront areas around Appleby College) bungalows can go for $250-$400/sf...

Probably at least part of reason why the 1910s-1950s had such bad summer heat waves was tied to agricultural land use issues. The 1936 heat wave was particularly bad, with the three hottest days in all of Toronto's recorded history happening consecutively (all three days hit 105F). This was also...

In new subdivisions? Because you're not gonna see new homes under $3m south of the QEW.

These are the heat records for Toronto broken down by season (more or less). The 2020s is based on the nearly 3 years of the decade so far, and assumes the the per year rate of records broken for 2020-2022 continues into 2029. There have been 9 daily high records broken in 2020-present, evenly...

Yeah, that's true. Maybe it would be better to describe these as single unit SFH developments in contrast to the tract housing of new subdivisions.

There were issues prior to 4 years ago, but the mismatch between population growth and new housing builds has been significantly worse in the past 4 years. I think the rise in unaffordability was actually worse in the smaller Ontario cities like Kitchener-Waterloo, Guelph, Hamilton, Niagara...

Here's the breakdown of the years that the record highs and record lows date to. Given global warming + UHI warming + UHI caused diurnal range reduction, it's not surprised that there are much fewer record lows now than it the past, although the extent to which the record lows are skewed...