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IT'S HUGE!!! It's So Huge!!!! Doesn't it just blow one's mind. And there are another 700 plus feet to go (admittedly most will be antenna). The world is a wonderful place. But back to the topic at hand - BAC.

It's Huge!!! It's So Huge!!!! Sure it's huge - it's as huge as a hundred other buildings under construction in various cities around the world, very few of which have a webcam and a thread breathlessly describing every additional floor, bit of steel, mullion, etc. One expects progress in a...

I thought we had the answer - cut taxes and privatize. Is this not working? a

Can We Learn From Others?? That the underside of the Gardiner could look like a tropical garden is clearly not the case. While the comments being made are valid, I would take exception with the idea that the climbing plants are covering up the supports for narrow roadways, i.e. unlike the...

Maybe A Few Plants Would Help If you can't hide it then make it a feature. A few plants might help. a

Let's Get Loud, Let's Get Loud ..... Interesting, if disappointing, news. While I have not had an interest in Formula Indy racing, Toronto cannot afford to lose important events. I am surprised at the numbers of "peace and quiet" posters; let's have no events in Toronto that cause noise and...

How Embarrassing!!!!! "How long before some Big Apple contingent comes north asking questions about how to create its own Yonge-Dundas Square? Maybe it already has." How truly pathetic this entire piece is. I would die of embarrassment if anybody outside of Toronto ever read it. .

One Big Advantage Toronto Has Over NY City In New York, the opening of franchise stores put an end to a vibrant independent retail sector. New York lost its"edge"; in retail terms, NYC is now like any other place in the USA - boring. In Toronto, malls, designer boutiques and franchise...

Not wanting to rain on anyone's parade but just so I understand. The sustainable way to move the wealth of people and ideas out of Southern Ontario is a HSR connecting Windsor and Quebec City, with a spur to Ottawa? Interesting, I look forward to the study report. Until then, in...

Can I Have Some Of What They Are Smoking This proposal for a study of rail corridor from Windsor to Quebec City, via or with a spur to Ottawa, comes up every 5 to 10 years, on average. The current study will join a long list of others on a shelf somewhere in Queen's Park/Quebec City/Ottawa...

It would be good to re-order the comments on this thread in order of the financial contributions to the Four Season's construction fund made by the various writers, i.e. money where mouths are. Yes, it is an opera house built on the cheap but, guess what folks, this is Toronto. It would be...

Since we all seem to enjoy reading/liking/hating what others have to say about us, here is a contribution from Common Dreams, a progressive, liberal blog from just south of us. I am not sure I recognize all of what the author saw in Toronto - rose coloured glasses required - but it would...

Dear Mr. Turd, I tend to agree with much of what you have to say although you may have to adjust your style of presentation a bit if you want to have any friends. As someone who has spent a lot of the last 20 years in Asia - can someone say bubble? - there seems to be a strong cultural...

With lower case "(g)lobe", the quote is existential and brilliant. Worthy of Camus or Johnson. However, I am trying to find the numbers but I do recall seeing data at one time that showed Canada having the lowest proportion of taxes collected by municipal governments of any OECD country...

Interesting views. There is no other living being in the known universe that has ever suggested that Bangkok is overly clean! and suburban!! and comparable to Houston!!! - and indeed any of these individually would be an insult but together they are an Armageddon level curse on any place...

TLS Wannabe?? Consider this a short break but, hopefully Mister Administrator, not too OT - yes, I know this is a site devoted to TORONTO. However, some additional perspective beyond the usual suspects - Times Sq, Picadilly Circus, Shibuya, might be interesting. Below are some very...

Toronto And Us Gay Travel I have heard Torontonians refer to the popularity of the city in the US gay community a number of times. While it is clearly an important destination for this group, is there any data to support that it is top and increasing? I lived in the West Village of NYC...

A few other very nice features here, all of which had me as a buyer at the preview weekend. First, it is one of the few condos I saw in the geographic area and price range that oriented the largest units towards the south-west. Toronto summers are still too short to invest in a 1300 square...

END THE EXCUSES - Part 2 .... Can you imagine a campaign - COME TO TORONTO: YOUR DOLLAR IS STILL A DOLLAR!!!! For a discount of (now) 6 percent, visitors would leave feeling all warm and fuzzy rather than feeling ripped off for an amount of money so small that most will recover it by...

END THE EXCUSES - Part 1 The US has been, and always will be, our number one source of foreign visitors. With 300 million people in the world's wealthiest country living so close that on a clear day you can see it, tourism promoters anywhere else would give their first born to have our...