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Best balance of low humidity and relatively low fire risk would probably be SE Alberta like Medicine Hat or Brooks. Brooks gets 2.5x less precipitation than Toronto and 3x less than most of southern Ontario, but because it's Prairie all around, wild fires are easier to control than in BC where...

Only coastal BC, and mostly just in the winter. Many interior BC areas like the Okanagan where Kelowna is located are semi-arid climates that get less than half as much annual precipitation as southern Ontario. Annual precipitation Owen Sound: 1114mm Parry Sound: 1091mm London: 1012mm...

I wouldn't count on it taking 1.5 years either. If the Liberals continue to decline in the polls the way they have in the past 9 months, while the NDP remains relatively steady in the polls, we will soon be at a tipping point where the NDP has a chance at winning more seats than the Liberals...

Don't live in the GTA anymore, but I went for a bike ride through Brampton about 5-10 years ago and Mt Pleasant was positively poppin. There must've been easily 100 people congregated at the main square. There wasn't even any particular event, just enjoying a warm summer afternoon, kids cooling...

San Francisco is very dense too though, especially in the downtown adjacent neighbourhoods. Using SEDAC, looks like about 240,000 for Toronto vs 190,000 for SF in a comparably sized area. I'd rather use census tract data though if you have a particular area you want to nail down for Toronto. And...

That's using rather different boundaries. Toronto has those kinds of numbers in a roughly 5-6 square mile area (Yorkville to the lake, Don River to Spadina/Bathurst). A comparably extensive area of Downtown/Central San Francisco will have far more than 40,000 people. I'd say upwards of 150,000...

Online, I've seen people say May-June, maybe into July, but that seems to be for its native range, in the southern US. The same source also says late February to late April for deciduous magnolias, and in Toronto I don't think those would ever bloom any earlier than mid April, more typically...

I don't have experience with growing deciduous magnolias in Zone 4, but I think generally if a plant species is hardy to your zone but not the zone below it, that means a colder than average winter could kill it. So growing something hardy to zone 4-9 in zone 4 will require some care/babying...

Quite unlikely that it's a Southern Magnolia given that those are hardy to zone 6 and North Bay is zone 4. It's most like one of the deciduous varieties of magnolia such as Star Magnolia or Saucer Magnolia which are hardy up to zone 4 and quite commonly growth throughout southern and central...

Looks like it was planted after the extreme cold of February 2015 so it hasn't quite been tested for the worst Toronto had to offer - the house shows up under construction on streetview in 2016 with the tree not present. It does look quite healthy though. Do you remember if you're seen it flower...

I'd be curious to see it. Or even an address to check on streetview.

I suspected it might be something like this. Although the climate of Ontario hasn't changed that much thus far from what I've been able to determine, with Toronto specifically it seems like the urban heat island effects should be able to significantly reduce cold stress. However, if being an...

I didn't say it was a conifer, just an evergreen (non-deciduous) magnolia. I took a couple more pictures on Jan 2 but was kind of shy about walking right up to it to take pictures since it's on private property. It can basically only be Sweet Bay or Southern Magnolia at this point imo, and I'm...

Land clearing may have had an effect but it's hard to say because we have very limited records pre-land clearing, which indeed would've happened mostly in the late 1800s in the west, although perhaps up to 1900-1920 in the Great Plains. In SW Ontario I believe the last stage of land clearing was...

I don't think they were that scared. The outbreak was already starting to spread out of control before the protests. My interpretation is that the CCP just decided it was a lost cause and to bite the bullet on whatever the impact of the outbreak will be in exchange for the benefit of rebooting...

Looks like the Alberta numbers got better instead. Change in hospitalizations per million since that post was made. QC: +17 BC: +15 NL: +1 NS: 0 PE: 0 MB: -1 SK: -1 NB: -13 AB: -20 ON: -48

FYI the leaves on it are still green, which means it's not a deciduous variety, narrowing things down quite a bit.

So, I had a look at some possible stations to compare to. It seems like Toronto Downtown is the only station within 200km that has been in operation continuously from the late 1800s to present. This is not due to a lack of weather stations in those early days, Southern Ontario had over 100...

Fair enough, although west of Dorval, bungalows are still fairly likely to remain bungalows whereas east of Downtown Oakville they'll most likely be redeveloped once they go up for sale. (do you mean Fourteen Mile Creek? Or Sixteen Mile Creek? I don't think there's a Thirteen Mile Creek...)

At $1-1.5M you're probably looking at the smaller lots and less prime neighbourhoods around Kerr Village, Fourth Line, etc where bungalows might go for about $150-200/sf of land. In more desirable areas (SE Oakville and waterfront areas around Appleby College) bungalows can go for $250-$400/sf...