Beautiful world cup architecture incoming, 40m Canadian dollars of scaffolding.
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Beautiful world cup architecture incoming, 40m Canadian dollars of scaffolding.
Personally, I don’t care about Tory‘s marriage. But he slept with a subordinate 40 years younger than him, and then she got a job at MLSE, an org to which he and the city have deep ties. These are screaming conflicts of interest and this kind of thing gets CEOs fired. Rightly so.
Dimanno: Tory should have gotten away with sleeping with a subordinate because Toronto Star managers used to do that kind of thing all the time.
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Stanley Park is great but it's basically a forest.
1000%
Local residents like the airport? So what? They would like this better, if anyone had the guts to offer it. An easily accessed 210-acre Toronto Island Park that's almost as big as Central Park.
If Ford actually wants to do something visionary, it is this.
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YTZ is the biggest waste of land in Canada. It takes in 4% of Toronto's air traffic and obstructs what should be the country's greatest urban park. TPA has a profound conflict of interest. Of course they want it to expand, and of course they have reports claiming this is very very important.
Yet *another* terrible Doug Ford idea for Toronto's waterfront, with generous coverage via a government leak to @robertbenzie.bsky.social.
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Yes, and, in the case of Vancouver, creates a base of NIMBYs (many of them affluent) who have successfully opposed valuable intensification on public land. Nothing is free.
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Of course. It‘s city land and a group of volunteers is not going to run a $100 million project.
Thie perfectly represents the larger situation. I worry about rewriting of history. The “golden age of co-ops“ was short and not that large and funded by tax dollars.
John Tory, son of John Tory, son of John Tory, founder of the law firm Torys.
John Tory doesn‘t need to earn a living. He was already in his 60s when he became mayor. Why didn’t he stand up and be “ambitious” then? What did he have to lose? Why was the point of running?
And what is all this “city building stuff” he was too afraid to do? Maybe he tells his friends.
This is why journalists should not be friends with the people they cover. It‘s embarrassing for all concerned.
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While the coop model has virtues, we should not blindly accept that it is the best way to deliver affordable housing. It is certainly not the only way.
And certainly co-ops can deliver affordable housing, but government can also do this directly.
I recognize that there are both qualitative and financial arguments for co-op, but it is very weird to suggest that co-op is the only vehicle to deliver affordable housing.
Government can provide affordable rents itself on housing that it owns.
It does not need to give money to an amateur-led not-for-profit in order to do this.
They’re full in those areas, depending on how you draw the map, and we have chosen to put all the development in those areas
It’s weird to hear the co-op sector keep claiming that they generate affordability. That’s because government paid for the buildings! It’s not magic. nowtoronto.com/news/housing...
And that’s after they sold a bunch of buildings
TDSB has capacity of 301,000 and nearly 67,000 empty seats.
I’m sure that’s true, but with respect, if our government is going to spend $2 billion on this particular problem, I would like to see some rigourous supporting analysis
It would’ve been interesting to see where that went, but also he was always unable to make City Hall do anything (other than rebuild the expressway)
Fair enough, and a lot of other things also generate visitors. Does this particular type of activity warrant a $2-billion expansion? Will that $2-billion even generate a return? How would it compare with other sorts of investment in the city?
Yeah, he mentioned McCormick specifically. It sounds too simplistic as an explanation, but this is probably what it is.
"When you’re talking about convention centres there’s no such thing as the efficient use of public money." @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social
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The Tories should draft David Crombie to run again.
