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I don't really understand the interest in Mulroney - if she didn't have her dad's name, would anyone care? As near as I can tell she's just another lawyer with lots of family connections. At least Trudeau was an MP for a while before becoming leader let alone PM. And I don't much like him...

To play devil's advocate, he doesn't need to manage the complexities of Hydro One or much of anything else to be PC leader let alone premier. That's for the professional civil service and deputy ministers to deal with. I do think experience does matter even for elected politicians but our...

Doug is welcome to become a one-term backbench MPP like his father.

The single biggest problem with attracting people to King West east of Spadina is the lack of retail. Plenty of restaurants of varying levels of tourist-trapiness but few if any stores to attract afternoon foot traffic. The contrast with Queen is dramatic, and will be especially so once MEC moves.

Some nice pot lights though. But not much headroom. Does Doug not have his own basement? Or does he lives with his mom like Kathy?

Would that he had run for another term...

This! I almost wrote a letter. On a random note, the Loblaws stores are called Dominion in Newfoundland for some reason.

Well, going underground was never much of an option for the elevated Richmond parts of the line - the whole city is built on a sandbar in the Fraser delta. Also, I'm not sure why being "aboveground" is at all an issue - it's fully grade-separated. I was stunned the first time I was in one of...

Oh yes. What's a few billion for a "one-seat ride" from a mall to Kennedy at the cost of numerous other projects to serve more people in more areas of Scarborough and throughout the city.

Most of the restaurants near the theatres are tourist trap places that have always been mediocre. But that's just another reason to walk a few blocks north to Queen. I am still mystified by the people at Forno Cultura. How many drive-up customers do hipster Italian bakeries actually get?

I think any challenges so far reflect pre-existing limitations on TTC rolling stock (i.e. $$$ and Bombardier's production problems) and a lack of prior attention to sidewalks, etc. But it's a start. Hopefully this will be but the first battle in the longer War on the Car. I can't imagine how...

I don't recall the last time a finance minister owned shares in a pension company while making pension policy. So much for his conflict of interest "screen".

I think that was true for Mulcair, not at all for any of McLaughlin, McDonough, or certainly Layton. Singh's campaign and organization remind me of Layton's, which ought to bode well for him.

Technically - technically - there are three subway lines and that RT thing. I agree, but it would need Ontario to go along with that and... that won't happen. Queen's Park won't even let the city levy road tolls.

Oddly enough, there are signs all around Stockholm proclaiming itself the "capital of Scandinavia". Fairly sure it's a self described title...

What BS. I don't know what kind of "Left media octopus" exists, but the Fords were unmitigated disasters in office, along with being pathological liars and, well, it's all documented here. They were oftimes fully enabled by the likes of CP24 and the Sun. It is not "far left" to create memes. Are...

That seems a rather gross exaggeration of my fairly sarcasm-riddled comment. You mean along Wilson or Sheppard? Prior to the last 5 years (generously)? Basically nothing. Faywood and Wilson has had the same low-rise apartments for 30 or 40 (maybe 50 or 60??) years. The area one block north or...

"Acceptably served by buses", is it? Just like the rest of the city? Your argument amounts to "Let them eat cake/take the bus". Unless I suppose they live right at STC, in which case they can enjoy a one-seat ride to/from downtown... or Bloor anyway, and provided they don't happen to catch a...

Fair enough, though passenger service was ended ~20 years before the railway actually closed. It did service the mine in Buchans, but that closed in the 80s. I admit I still don't quite get how flying to St John's (?) brought to mind the comparison.