To worry is to be. To be is to worry.
A developer is appealing to the Ontario Municipal Board for permission to build a 40+-storey mixed use building in the lot immediately behind the much smaller condo building that I live in. (If you’re not from Ontario and don’t know what the Ontario Municipal Board is, don’t worry. It’s not relevant to this story. Suffice [...]
Toronto’s chief medical officer recently recommended that the city reduce speed limits on Toronto’s streets. I haven’t read the report containing that proposal, but my understanding is that it suggested that lower speed limits would reduce the number and severity of car-versus-pedestrian accidents. And, in turn, that would reduce the number of deaths from such [...]
The City of Toronto recently reached a contract agreement with two union locals that had been on strike for a little more than a month. There were a number of issues on the table during the strike, but the one that gained the most salience with the media and, therefore, with the public, was the [...]
As I write these words, Toronto is into the third week of city workers’ strike. Toronto welcomes a number of tourists to the city during the summer months. If you’re thinking of coming here, rest assured that very few of our tourist attractions are affected by the strike. The CN Tower is still standing. The [...]
I’ve know since I was a child that many people from other parts of Canada don’t exactly love Toronto, the city of my birth and where I’ve lived my whole life. Avoiding that knowledge would have been impossible as those sentiments are legendary in Canada. In truth, to say they “don’t exactly love Toronto” is [...]
Here’s a little known fact about my hometown, Toronto, Canada: If you took all of the residents of Toronto, had them lie down flat on the ground in a straight line aligned east to west, with each person’s feet just brushing the top of the head of the next person to the east, you’d have [...]
Life frequently places valuable opportunities in our paths. Unfortunately, many of us are insufficiently attuned to our environment to spot them. Others recognize the prospects, but they are so committed to the rut they have trod for themselves that they are afraid to take so much as a step off their set course even when [...]
Halton, a municipality near Toronto, my hometown, is considering incinerating trash and generating electricity in the process. Halton is still in the investigation and public consultation phase, but, if it goes ahead, the incinerator will, it’s reported, likely be able to handle 70% of the garbage from the Greater Toronto Area, which includes Toronto and [...]