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Last month, Ukraine took more territory back than Russia gained. They also killed more Russians than were replenished. 6 months of this and the Russians holding positions will be sitting ducks to Ukranian drones. Meanwhile...

Muscovy, that's Russia and likely to remain so, though profoundly changed if the Russian Federation were to collapse, just as the collapse of the USSR left Russia and former Soviet republics changed forever.

The increasingly likely outcome will be a repeat of the Afghanistan quagmire where the Soviet loss cascaded into the end of the USSR. A further ratchet along this path would be the disintegration of the Russian Federation. Kaliningrad and St. Petersburg would align with Europe, Siberia with...

48 pack of BOLLARD STEEL ® XXL on order.

Technically it is: ...at least the North-East corner. Chinatown has been expanding E-W along Dundas more than southbound but I can see that happening if a new station bearing the name begins to act like a sort of self-fulfilling prophecy with Chinatown-like businesses being attracted to it...

I just noticed, these schmucks installed the sign backwards. 😂 Notice the arrow shaped side should be pointing to the left towards the escalator and up to go to the Park and Union Station while going straight is access to the Platforms and the Bus Terminal.

I thought so too but then wondered why they're installing this longer term fencing, bolted into the ground. Painting could have been handled with moveable fencing, it only takes a few hours to dry. In fact, these have been painted at least once before and there was no long term fencing...

The squeaky wheel gets the grease. We should coordinate to send repeated emails over a few months — not all at once so it doesn't appear coordinated. She'll get sick of hearing about these poles and expedite their removal. If the Union Station pole isn't gone by the end of April, I'll ask Jack...

Possibly good news: it appears to me that they're going to remove 3 of those concrete blocks to replace them with bollards. The blocks are too close to the corner and cause backups of people crossing the street. The Bay Street side has a series of bollards while the Front St. side only has 2...

I had a chance to re-read the sign. It says Platforms 4-21: Meanwhile, the entire front plaza is being power washed today, looks like they're wrapping it up!

I will check at lunchtime. I'm also curious to see what they're doing in that fenced in area at Union. Seems like too much to just be painting the blocks, maybe they're removing them for more bollards which would make more sense at the corner. The level of shit workmanship they're doing in...

Maybe it was a 4. Honestly the windows were filthy. What platforms should it be? You can either go straight into the teamway or turn left into a hallway that I think goes behind the lobby but could also lead up to a platform. Hard to tell without going inside.

Last I asked about Osgoode, the space is supposed to be handed back to the Law Society in 2028 to restore the garden. If the tunnel goes through Osgoode in 2027, that sounds relatively feasible to build the station up to the ground within a year with activity outfitting the station for 2 more...

The plaza seems largely finished tonight: A small section by the stairs to the doors remains fenced off. Inside, signage is being hung from the ceiling. Through the dirty windows, I can read: FARES PLATFORMS 1, 2 UNION STATION BUS TERMINAL ESCALATOR TO THE PARK UNION STATION Out...

The colonnade is certainly happening. You can already see it in how the ground floor is formed on either end. That solves that stretch of the narrow sidewalk. I hope city planners mandate a similar approach west of this to Bay Street for future development applications. You do see it in the...

They were putting up fences around some of the blocks, supposedly to repaint them. But what's upsetting is that they're drilling into the brand new paving to secure the fencing. There will be holes left all along plaza where they're repainting the blocks. Honestly, nobody cares about doing...

I would love it for any other country or series of countries to come in and replace that funding or multiply it. Pope Leo may end up being what breaks the evangelical mirage of who Trump really is. He's not a politician, he doesn't have to face an electorate and will almost certainly outlast and...

Jesus Christ, I don't believe you're going out of your way to not understand what I'm saying, you're legitimately misunderstanding. In short points: A topic got picked up by the media, got the city talking, giving the Mayor leverage to assemble resources to solve the problem that hadn't been...

Then why build an LRT, a subway could run on an elevated track. The point of Light Rail is that it can run on a median between regular roads, light enough that it can interact with occasional traffic. Not that I disagree that this should be elevated, but the Eglinton line should've been a full...

The evidence is hard to come by because the Mayor has rarely if ever leveraged that enormous power which is entirely the point of my argument. But there have been instances where she fell into that power completely by accident and it has proven itself. That time someone recorded herself...