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Sounds more reasonable. 39C in the morning would sound terrible. Though there are obviously places on the globe with summer daytime highs averaging in the high 30s and the 40s C, usually they cool off somewhat by night so I think not very many inhabited places in the world have frequent...

How accurate have population projections been in predicting city growth? I know future predictions can be hard when you get even more than a few decades into the future, because of unforeseen circumstances (for example, the Rust belt US cities that were powerhouses before de-industrialization...

There's this article in the Star. https://www.thestar.com/news/starweather/2016/08/toronto-s-morning-temperature-was-hotter-than-mumbai-s.html However these sentences confuse me: "With a daytime high of 36 C and temperatures actually feeling like 43 C with the humidex, Toronto will feel like...

Are places like the more working class/middle class parts of North York, Scarborough and Etobicoke still growing or maintaining their population through people who might have moved to the boroughs a generation or two ago staying and raising families, or from continuing to be immigration gateways...

So, apparently since people are discussing gentrification of Eglinton West, there's even speculation that the Crosstown might spread gentrification even as far east as into Scarborough... How likely is that to happen? http://urbantoronto.ca/forum/threads/crosstown-lrt-metrolinx.11782/page-733

A more contemporary portrayal of "Scarberia" in culture. https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/stage/2016/04/23/scarberia-a-tale-of-alternate-realities.html

So, Scarborough's negative reputation increased mainly in the 90s? Though the Youtube video quality isn't great, this music video (from 1991) famously has ordinary streetscapes of suburban Scarborough as its backdrop. According to Wikipedia's article on Scarborough the nickname Scarberia...

I'm really surprised as to how even New Yorkers consume significantly more gasoline than us per person (not in absolute terms of course as they're a bigger city), when their share of non-car transport is much higher. Tourists? Commuters from outside the city going home to and from New Jersey...