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Zach6668 said:
Relevant to UT, Ryerson has the only accredited undergraduate Urban Planning program in the city (caveat, I'm a graduate of it). You can't get that at U of T or York....
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Did you compete in the Town Planning event at the Olympics?

See link.

Going For the Gold: When Town Planning Was an Olympic Competition
In the first half of the 20th century, the Olympic games actually had a medal competition for town planning.

(As an amateur of course.)
 
Zach6668 said:
Relevant to UT, Ryerson has the only accredited undergraduate Urban Planning program in the city (caveat, I'm a graduate of it). You can't get that at U of T or York.

Ryerson really decided to focus on specific programs, perhaps ones they thought the bigger universities weren't specializing in. They've built a pretty solid reputation in those programs (like Planning, Journalism, Interior Design... and whatever else, not entirely sure.)
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Don't forget the Business Technology Management program, which other universities are only now getting on board with.
 
ShonTron said:
Ryerson was never a community college. It was a degree-granting Polytechnic Institute before it became a full-fledged university. Polytechnics - and there are many in North America, sometimes called "Institutes of Technology - are not, and never were, the same things as community colleges, like Sheridan, Humber, and Seneca.
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I stand corrected.
 
The boring tracker has not been updated in more than two weeks. At least one of those boring machines about be at the extraction point now, assuming they haven't stopped boring.
 
ShonTron said:
Ryerson was never a community college. It was a degree-granting Polytechnic Institute before it became a full-fledged university. Polytechnics - and there are many in North America, sometimes called "Institutes of Technology - are not, and never were, the same things as community colleges, like Sheridan, Humber, and Seneca.
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Many universities stateside that are polytechnics have started off as not especially prestigious, but have quickly made a name for themselves. For example, Virginia Tech went from a small, practically focused tech school to a leading, world-class research powerhouse in the 1970s, expanding the "Polytechnic Institute" part of its name to include "Polytechnic Institute and State University".

Then there are the cases where the real famous polytechnics, MIT and CalTech, caught up in reputation (and in some rankings some years, or by certain criteria even surpassed) old traditional Ivy League schools, like Harvard, which people long thought that mere tech schools would not have been able to compete with.

In fact, the first principal of Ryerson, Howard Kerr, was inspired by MIT's story and in the 1940s wanted for the school to become an MIT for Canada in the upcoming century.

From Wikipedia,

" His vision of what these institutions would do was broader than what others were suggesting. In 1943, he visited the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and was convinced that Canada could develop its own MIT over a period of one hundred years
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Only the Toronto retraining centre, which became the Ryerson Institute of Technology in 1948, would become a multi-program campus, Kerr’s future MIT of Canada. This vision is reflected in Ryerson's Motto and its mission statement.[14]

It's not the 2040s yet, but who knows...
 
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This will soon be a foot note in TTC History pages Once work starts to bring the TBM's to the surface, as well building the Yonge Station.

Once that is done, the site will be redevelop with the new bus terminal under it.

Not sure if there is a final agreement to have TTC Yonge Platform extended north of the current location to allow better transfer between the 2 lines. Not going to be cheap to do.
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TheTigerMaster said:
The boring tracker has not been updated in more than two weeks. At least one of those boring machines about be at the extraction point now, assuming they haven't stopped boring.
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Update: Tunnel boring for Eglinton Line is now complete, according to Cllr. Mihevic's Twitter. The boring machines are at Yonge Street.

(Twitter is down, so no link for now)
 
Palma said:
that would be great but I somehow do not see him doing it for transit (vs car travel)
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Scarborough comes to mind here. SmartTrack also.
 
Sure I mean he *could* throw money at it, but then he would demand for a large budget cut so it would have an offsetting effect.
 
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