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Definitely get on LinkedIn. For one thing, recruiter algos comb it for their searches. For another, you’ll probably find you know a lot of people there already and you can develop a network for further connections and advice. A lot of jobs are posted there as well.

The City of Toronto...come up with a more attractive solution... Nope.

Would it be possible to criticize the maple leaf and indigenous symbol additions on the grounds that they’re visual clutter, or would that be forbidden speech? Because one of the objectives of the NPS rebuild was de-junking what started out as a wonderful and spare example of mid-century...

Is a COA hearing on this really necessary? It seems like a waste of time and money for the owners and the City. I should add I have no interest in this application. It reminds me of how I had to go to Committee to extend a one-car garage at the back of a 167 foot lot by two feet...

I suppose the hate is that it creates a cluttered, ugly and shabby public realm. I can’t speak for TKO, but I’ve spent a lot of time in Zone 1 in London and I don’t recall seeing overhead wires there. I get that a lot of the world’s cities have overhead wires in some locations, but what...

The North Rosedale Residents’ Association is bitching about how difficult the Glen Road reconstruction makes turning onto Whitney from Glen northbound, which is (a) not true, and (b) typically clueless of them. They want the just-finished intersection to be re-rebuilt.

My God, they’ve ruined the neighbourhood!

Would also be nice if it were tolled, like just about every stretch of expressway in Sydney.

Peep Show is on AMZN Prime. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peep_Show_(British_TV_series)

I cancelled because I became sick of the constant left-wing crusading and editorializing from the news pages. I thought I’d miss ROB but really, you get more informed Canadian business and economics coverage from Bloomberg, and occasionally from the FT and WSJ, all online. The one downside of...

The last time I checked, the North Rosedale Residents’ Association board was elected by fewer than fifty people. IDK if other RA’s are as unrepresentative.

Don’t tell Australia, which has had 4 deaths per million population versus Canada’s 227. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

The fact that Rees was sentenced to an four years and seven months in addition to time served doesn’t mean he’ll actually spend all of the four more years and seven months in jail.

Does anyone have a sense of the cost of the delay caused by NIMBY RA’s and the City that abets them? Financing the land acquisition, hiring lawyers and consultants, and redesigning the project can’t have been cheap. I’m curious because this charade is par for the course in Toronto, and most of...

The conclusion that deep tunnels would reduce ridership by 15% certainly isn’t consistent with my extensive experience of London’s Central and Piccadilly lines, which are really deep in Zone 1, or of some of Sydney’s CBD train stations. For that matter, the one week I took the Moscow Metro it...

To NOA’s second point above. It’s remarkable that so many people in Toronto support building staggeringly expensive high-capacity tunnelled heavy rail transit in low-density locations, while opposing building the same type of infrastructure in neighbourhoods that are already dense and nowhere...

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jun/03/stalingrad-by-vasily-grossman-review If you’re looking for a something to while away the years we’re going to be in lockdown and you’re interested in Soviet/Russian history, you might want to read Stalingrad and Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman...

I hope Metrolinx learns from Sydney’s less than optimal experience with its new LRT. Wait, I hear you object, a Toronto government agency learn from somewhere else? OK, point taken. And sure, one of the reasons Sydneysiders aren’t exactly thrilled is TNSW’s threat to do away with some of the...

As of this morning, Worldometers reported 75 Australian Covid deaths, versus 1,974 in Canada. That works out to 3 deaths per million population for Australia, compared to 52 deaths per million in Canada. The two countries had radically different approaches in the early days of the pandemic...

The multiple lattices at the crown of the pole look like a military radar installation.