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Fantastic photos, any captured of Don Mills/the DVP-404 corridor around the 401 area? There's a bit of activity around Fairview Mall.

It likely isn't just one or the other, its all of the factors you mentioned and more. Including foreign buyers with lots of cash. Anecdotal or not, I've seen plenty foreign cash buy homes way over asking price. The stress test recently implemented should have limited domestic buyers abilities to...

On the topic, this headline posted just as we began discussing this: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/real-estate/toronto/ontario-reconsidering-a-foreign-buyers-tax-to-cool-housing-market/article34256991/ By any measure, 30% increase in prices in just one year is beyond what the market can...

I've been complaining about Oosterhoff, who is completely unqualified to lead his riding, but the Liberals also can be willing to send less than ready candidates to Ottawa. This isn't quite as bad as a home schooled social extremist, but... Shouldn't she have at least another decade of...

The city doesn't have to penalize car drivers and steal money from them to try and coerce people to ride public transport. That's a false choice. We are all adults and can make our own decisions on that as individual residents. That's literally the last time I'm addressing this topic, because I...

No, just a statement in response to the original question/topic.

Cost can be debated, there's not much more for me to add to the discussion other than all transport options need reasonable pricing. I can accept in an urban environment there are higher costs to automobile ownership vs suburbs due to the nature of density. I'm not sure why $200 is needed...

Rental agencies and landlords owe it upon themselves to not dig too deep into people's lives. They are renting, they aren't in the business of personal judgments. It isn't a concern of a rental agency how you pay your bills, it is just important that you do. And if you don't, there's always the...

Would it be the hot, sultry sex in Queens Park after midnight?

No one should be required to pay $500 to park a car in front of their home where they live. That's highway robbery, literally. There's no feasible reason for anyone to pay that for parking an automobile in residential, non-downtown settings.

The sense of entitlement is other people who believe they have a right to my bank account to take absurd amounts of money from me for parking a vehicle in front of my home on a residential street that is lined with single family homes away from business and other uses, not in a downtown setting...

In today's world conservatives need to root out extremism and define it before they become defined with the extremism. They need to take control of the party and bring it back to accountable, reasonable people who believe in public service. Brown sounds like he's doing that in Ontario. Hudak and...

Paying slightly over $200 a year just for the "right" to park my own car in front of my own home in a non-immediate-downtown area with single family homes? That's kind of crazy. Property listings suggest annual property taxes for many aren't more than $800-1000. I'm essentially paying a property...

I don't expect a wide variety of opinion on a very urban oriented forum where most people are anti-car. But in general, yes $200+ is a bit extreme for parking fees.

Toronto is anything but a drivers' paradise. Lights aren't in sync to allow for flow, light signaling is painfully short timed on most streets, which purposely limits ability for cars to flow, creating more pollution unnecessarily. If Toronto were a driver's paradise, you'd see more attention...

No, a congestion charge is a ridiculous proposal and doesn't resolve any issues. It effectively creates an 'urban apartheid' in where people outside a specific urban culture aren't even encouraged to be in the city what-so-ever. What does need to happen is Toronto needs to forge great concepts...

Most people don't agree with the anti-car extremism, just the people who want everyone to bike to work and consider cars evil. That's hardly most people in general. Like most others, I'd say we need a balanced approach: better accessibility for cars, bike lanes in areas that make sense, and...

The thing about Brown is that he's not campaigning like a Harris Con. Likewise, in the last election Hudak sounded utterly childish and insane, running around saying he'd gut the public force and fire a hundred thousand public servants. On the contrary, Brown is running around Ontario telling...

There are direct correlations that are occurring with Vancouver. Wealthy foreign buyers are absolutely using Toronto as a dumping ground for investments, and for locals we have insanely cheap money as interest rates are still abnormally low following the Great Recession. Its a perfect storm, I...

I'd say the chances the Liberals will win in 2018 are very low. Just taking policy aside for a moment, the party has been in power for many years and any government that has been in power for years is fighting against the "winds of change" that voters consistently feel. Voters are looking for...