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I don't mind stuff like this, there's many elements of truth in what is said. However, it's really silly how much condo-bashing is going on relative to how little suburban sprawl-bashing occurs in the mainstream media. As damaging as it is to have people living in 80-story buildings, it's not...

A snap election makes very little sense. He needs to answer for his actions as mayor. It's not like he is under attack for his political views. He gets high with firearms and cocaine dealers in crack houses... he needs to explain why this is no reason to resign. Why would we go 'to the...

The true face of Toronto's right-wing political establishment has come to light. They are willing to support someone who does business with drug dealers and murderers, who recommends thugs to teach football at a high school, and who has serious substance abuse problems. They are willing to...

So what if Ford takes a 'Leave of Absence'. What then? How does that play out? Would he be back again in a month talking about saving taxpayer's money and denying any wrongdoing? In my opinion people should demand his resignation OR that he comes clean about everything and gives a very...

My prediction: No charges are laid, and Ford's name is almost entirely redacted. The police get to keep their boss happy, but shield themselves from any criticism of favouritism by saying 'hey, look, we investigated and put it all before the crown, what else could we do? We even used a...

No charges against Ford would at least wake up some people (like MetroMan) who believe our police/justice system is fair and unbiased.

These apartments are not free and, upon their completion, will not be subsidised.

This thing is a brutal reminder of how relatively 'human scaled' projects can still go terribly wrong. So much wasted potential there.

What sort of sick society have we become?! We should ban them from having beds. Then they'll work extra hard to buy their own home like proper people.

I understand those concerns, but the dynamics of it are different when parking is on the left and cyclists being passed can move a lot closer to the right edge of the bike lane without worrying about a curb or parked cars.

It definitely won't be optimally convenient, but it will be far from impossible. In other countries they sometimes have bidirectional cyclepaths of a similar width: I'd be surprised if this is a major issue. The bike lanes on College and Beverly are entirely within the door zone and people...

I like Stintz, and I trust that she's got what is needed to be a good mayor... but she's not free of many typically conservative dogmas that would at most make her an average leader in my book. So far I feel that she could do a good job running the city as it exists today, but I doubt she has...

A bridge from the Portlands would destroy the communities living in the island. It would make the islands very desirable for rich people who don't mind driving everywhere: They'd just have to cross a bridge to get in their cars.

Those saying that the subway is a work of social policy are like the people who say this luxury mega-project geared to investors and transient tenants is making downtown affordable. There are reasons to support both schemes, but social responsibility is not one of them.

In reality the lanes will be a bit over 2 metres wide. The buffer will be usable for people to overtake other cyclists. If you ride in the city's existing bike lanes, you'll see that the bike lanes are always IN the door-zone. These would actually have an area completely beyond the door zone and...

With the subway setup they'll be waiting for buses more often, not less often. With what we are paying for the 3-stop subway we could have built about 14 LRT stations extending through a much wider area, most of them with heated shelters. The subway plan actually means that people will have...

There would likely be significantly more units available in the area today if high-rises were not constructed. The construction of high-rises has meant that the value of land there has skyrocketed and therefore many lots that would have otherwise been already developed are in stand-by.

I've used it numerous times over the past year. It's open more often than not, unless something has changed recently. It offers a great vantage point:

Bike lanes on Bloor simply make too much sense. The BIA is asking for them, residents are asking for them, councillors are asking for them, serious research on the matter shows it would alleviate congestion and improve the business environment... you would have to be massively uneducated to...

Neither was that the case at 8 Spruce.