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The Star seems to have picked up this story this morning - the crap that is known as the Yonge-Bloor subway station. http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/fixer/article/750588--the-fixer-what-s-with-the-ooze-at-yonge-station?bn=1 I think it is quite unique. I've never seen ooze like this other...

Wonderful thread so far but do you realize you are talking about a dysfunctional city in a dysfunctional system, how does that factor in. .

I stand corrected and should have done my googling before the fact rather than after. Indeed the truncated tetrahedron was one of the defining features of EXPO67 and not in the US dome. That having been said, is this the image we want to show the world in 2010? Maybe it is. .

Other than the Bucky dome, where else did we have the dreaded tetrahedon in Montreal? I really hope that young architects, or even old ones, are not reaching back to the 60s for their design inspiration. To make matters worse, the design of the Canadian pavilion at EXPO2010 is being...

Polar bears? A disappearing species. The future belong to us! The SNAILS! And humans seem to interact with us better than with bears. .

We may be saved, depending on how we define the decade's architecture - completed works or works started. A "worst piece of" case could probably be made for the Canadian pavilion at the Shanghai Expo 2010. Surely a mediocre building "inspired by" Libeskind is worse than an original...

And the definition of "pretty decent money actually" is.......? Oh, and yes, your mother wears army boots. .

Please define democracy Why is there this incredible obsession to referring to the Westminster parliamentary system as a "democracy?" The Head of State is appointed. The Head if Government is selected by the majority/largest party as party leader and then elected by the voters in one...

Separated at birth Which comes first, the chicken or the egg? .

Why is any of this a surprise? When airport screeners are minimum wage off-the-street hires with a training programme probably equal in length to that of a fast-food burger flipper and a paranoid fear (not unjustified) that they will let a government "security-tester" through, what do you expect? .

As Donald Rumsfeld famously said, democracy is messy. Any place where people have a responsibility to behave in a civil fashion is an oppressive dictatorship. Toronto is clearly one of the most democratic cities in the world. .

What are the consequences of all this???? We'll just have to get used to fewer Americans traveling abroad and fewer people traveling to America. I think the world can handle it. .

Toronto as #???? Interesting perspective. As someone who grew up in Toronto and lived there full time until 1972 I can offer a few comments albeit from a student's and teenager's perspective. Montreal was certainly the "fun" capital of Canada at the time and a weekend there was a real eye...

If having a Metro store as well as a few shawarma places and Sobey's open 24/7 makes a 24 hour city then Wasaga Beach has it too. In North America it is only New York and Las Vegas that I know of that really qualify for something a bit more meaningful. I stand to be corrected. Madrid is...

R-e-s-p-e-c-t It always amazes me how little respect there is for others in Toronto. I suspect people like TOreality think it makes the city seem tough and gritty to behave like this - big time world class city and all that. Just as the BMO crowd thinks that it makes a real football city to...

From May to September - beautiful. Rest of the year - painful. With the collapse of the Estonian housing market prices are affordable again but not the place to be long term if you can't speak Estonian - not the most demonstrative people when it comes to friendliness. Even if one speaks...

Posting for 20-30 years from now Of course, once the barriers are up then in another 20 or 30 years the TTC could look at placing a covering over them allowing for heating in the winter and air conditioning in the summer without allowing all the warm/cool air to escape through the open tunnel...

Just as one factor, the security costs. For recent recent Olympics they have been around a billion. Watching the news to day, Korea had 10,000 police out for the Obama visit. Given that we have 6 months to go or less, and Toronto has not been officially contacted yet, one question is...

If this turns out to be fact, fasten your seat belts. It's going to be a bumpy ride. I honestly don't believe the authorities in Ottawa and Toronto have the expertise and experience to handle and coordinate this sort of event without making it complete chaos in the city. Once the total...

I think this is a true statement. What is so scary is that what does that mean for the global future. .