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  1. dt_toronto_geek

    Rob Ford's Toronto

    Photos go back to at least Aug 2015, including wedding photos. I think it's legit. She "liked" pages such as "Michael Landon Forever" and "METH IS DEATH", makes dumb comments such as suggesting that Trudeau is transgendered and "perfect Justin should run for President US" & appears to like...
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    Rob Ford's Toronto

    Renta's FB page is a little schizophrenic. Multiple postings of the same stories/.gif's, plus we can see she sure doesn't like Trudeau, Wynn or Tory and she's a climate change denier. She doesn't like Muslims either. Also interesting, Renata posted "Love you honey and will miss you" on March...
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    Rob Ford's Toronto

    I believe that he did love the city and his job, he was charismatic and he was a natural political bull. Doug has none of that, hence the end of "Ford Nation" is upon us. That said he didn't want to see a progressive Toronto because that's not the a part of the city that he understood. Ya...
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    Rob Ford's Toronto

    My father languished in palliative care for nearly 2 months. That said, the statement issued sounds like Rob's time here is limited.
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    Toronto JAC Condos | 108.5m | 34s | Graywood | Turner Fleischer

    I knew this was coming. I walk by it often on the way to a friends place on lower Jarvis and always think to myself, this place is going to conveniently go up one day. I'm not suggesting it was purposely set, I'm just saying I thought that this would happen.
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    Oddfellows Hall 450 Yonge @ Carlton (?, 5s addition, ERA)

    The Elgin Wintergarden theatres have three original bird-cage elevators from around 1912 that were refurbished in the late 80's when the building was restored and lobby areas added. They are larger than this one, manually operated and with double gates. An operator is required for the three...
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    Toronto 475 Yonge Street | 255.76m | 78s | KingSett Capital | BDP Quadrangle

    If memory serves it was $53M for the purchase of the Primrose Hotel (Carlton/Jarvis), and that was converted & renovated from hotel/part student rentals to full student rental dorm rooms. After HoJo's these buildings went on sale as a condo project in the mid'ish 90's. In a walk through, we...
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    Toronto Toronto City Hall and Nathan Phillips Square | ?m | ?s | City of Toronto | Perkins&Will

    I was creeping through the Toronto Star Archives a few days ago. I was going through either 1970 or 1971, and there was a big story of The Archer's unveiling, complete with Henry Moore at it's side. Although commissioned by Revell, it wasn't installed when City Hall opened in 1965, and so not...
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    Toronto Aura at College Park | 271.87m | 78s | Canderel | Graziani + Corazza

    It's been a week now since the lights have been on past 10:30pm. I'm more of the mind that it had to do with FLAP once the light tests/inspections were complete late in the summer.
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    Rob Ford's Toronto

    And then today he said he might go to the United States for further treatment.
  11. dt_toronto_geek

    Rob Ford's Toronto

    Holy crap.... just saw Mikey Ford on CP24, re: Rob. He looks like he's lost a substantial amount of weight (good for him), and he's had a complete gay makeover. He's well dressed, has had his hair dyed & fashionably styled and he's sporting a 5 O'Clock shadow. Until he opens his mouth, he...
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    Rob Ford's Toronto

    The cancer Rob had doesn't have great outcomes, as discussed here ad nauseam earlier this year, sadly this comes as no real surprise.
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    Good gay-friendly doctors in Toronto

    My GP shut down his Family Practice in July to focus on Psychotherapy only. I remember a clinic opening last year on Church St. s. of Wellesley where the Xtra! offices used to be so I went by, went up to the Family Practice unit and they were taking new patients. That was August. If you live...
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    Toronto 1Thousand Bay | 104.85m | 32s | Cresford | a—A

    I'm liking this too. I don't use Bay Street so much in the past few years but on a trip down last week I found it surprisingly busy and somewhat interesting to walk down (Wellesley to Dundas). I've never been a fan of the street, but it's evolving and beginning to come into it's own.
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    Toronto Casa | 147.52m | 46s | Cresford | a—A

    Turquoise to my eyes.
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    Toronto Five St Joseph | 160.93m | 48s | Five St. Joseph | Hariri Pontarini

    It does evoke some powerful memories - all the way back to when Colby's was Katrinas - along with Chaps (long gone) and Boots. More on topic, this has become one of my top 5 favorate projects of the decade so far. The retention of the Rawlinson Cartage facade, St. Luke lane reanimated, the...
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    Toronto One Bloor East | 257.24m | 76s | Great Gulf | Hariri Pontarini

    I had to get a new modem from Rogers in the old Uptown theatre lobby. While I was waiting for them to open at 10 I looked up and saw some balcony glass going in. It's not a great shot, I used zoom on my iPhone 5, but to my eyes it looks just the same as the glass below in the podium, a foggy...
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    TIFF 2015

    I do Midnight Madness every year, picked 7 films this time. I usually try to do 8 or 9 films but I'm getting older, you see. I can't pick my favorate films, but it would be between "Green Room" and "Devil's Candy" - "Hardcore" won The Grolsch People's Choice Midnight Madness Award @ TIFF2015...
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    Toronto Wellesley on the Park | 194.15m | 60s | Lanterra | KPMB

    Completely agree, this finally projects completes the block after nearly 20 years - and will provide some much needed green space.
  20. dt_toronto_geek

    Toronto Aura at College Park | 271.87m | 78s | Canderel | Graziani + Corazza

    Definitely too bright, as I also noted pages back. I walk onto my balcony and they actually cause a mild, brief amount of strain on the eyes for a minute or so. The lights are also being turned off at 10:30pm because it's bird migratory season, from mid August until the end of October. We'll...

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