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We’ve turned working- and middle-class neighbourhoods into enclaves for the rich, and we’ve done so in defence of their “character.”
But the real character of those communities -the one created by Torontonians- is being cast aside for a completely superficial one.
"I'm one of over 20 grandchildren [...] Not one of us could live on that street today".
@_LukeBradley
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Bruh I’m done with AirBnbs. Hotels are pretty much the same price, way more comfortable/less awkward, and don’t mess up a city’s housing market.
Plus they have pools and breakfast.
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Canada has seven NHL teams and two of them are literally just different ways of saying “Canadians.”
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@hexagraeme
Cleaning fee - $195.99
Please ensure you do the dishes, clean the sheets, mow the lawn, wash my car, and install a new HVAC before you leave.
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(BTW the thing that messes up our housing market the most is the fact we don’t build enough but if you told me we could add like 2500 rental units to the supply I wouldn’t say no.)
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They tore down a decrepit, shitty discount store and replaced it with 900 rental units, one third of which are affordable housing, including mixed-use retail with small locations, all by a subway station in an already deeply gentrified neighbourhood.
Over the last 20 years this city has just become one giant mass of malignant, rectangular-shaped tumours
Look what they tore down to build this featureless garbage, man.
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BREAKING: Man who lives in $2.4 million home he bought for $95,000 in 1984 complains that $650,000 condos are “luxury” and “don’t help affordability.”
Also has a lot to say about parking.
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The real veteran move remains private rooms in hostels. Best of every world, but maybe I’m just in my 20s.
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K well I can add an AirBnb horror story to this:
My girl and I rented an AirBnb for one night in this small town - for a wedding.
We showed up and the lady was like “your room’s just downstairs through my son’s room.”
THROUGH his room.
He was just on the bed chilling out.
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They really don’t call the food court at the Eaton Centre the Eatin’ Centre and I hate that.
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Also THREE of them just have a big ol’ C on their jersey? Like how does that happen?
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Oh no! 100 families might live where three families once lived! :(
Street art silhouettes of people who used to live in houses slated for demolition for yet another condo project at St. Clair and Bathurst.
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“We will surgically remove these childrens’ thumbs before we let Toronto’s joyless, vampiric gentry be reminded of the fact they chose to live near human beings.”
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@Joshmac32
Uhhh man what hotels are you staying at?
The only reason I tweeted this is because I just dropped under $200 a night for a king room in San Francisco in the middle of tourist season with a banger of a view.
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inb4 “Montreal was named that when ‘Canadiens’ was specifically a term used to describe Francophones! Tokébakicitte, hanglish!”
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Ottawa passed a Vacancy Tax by arguing there were 22,000 vacant units.
When staff studied how many were actually eligible (ie. actually vacant), they found 1600.
Anyone who communicated that there were 22,000 empty units knew -or should have known- that wasn’t true.
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It’s weird what does and doesn’t blow up on bird app.
I have no SoundCloud, but if you’re from Toronto and you care about building more dense, sustainable, multi-family housing, follow
@MoreNeighbours
!
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Mostly junior hockey games that people take very, very seriously.
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I am glad this tweet blew up. Please help me pressure Gary Bettman to ensure Utah’s new team is called the Salt Lake Super Soakers.
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Just learned that people in other places get to vote. WTF this is such bullshit.
This, in a nutshell, is why I believe Confederation is done, and why Alberta needs to separate.
This is the riding of Toronto Centre (Marci Ian). It is one of the most densely populated ridings in Canada. This riding has 119,901 people packed into 5.84 square kilometers.
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PSA: Toronto was uglier back in the day. You’re pining for a city that never existed. It was an ugly, boring, WASPy backwater with bad food and now it’s better.
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Every time an old white person crosses their arms in the newspaper your rent goes up $20 a month.
Development proposal for stacked townhouses on Main Street in Stouffville draws heavy criticism from residents.
#Stouffville
#development
#housing
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Toronto loves being mid.
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To afford the asking price of a 650sf one-bedroom condo in Barrie, ON (112 km from my workplace in Toronto) would require a $102,500 down payment.
You have no idea what you’re talking about, Rick. No clue.
@jacquesleger17
@MikePMoffatt
Been saying this for a long time.
The housing “crisis” discussion is polluted with taking for granted that the “average home” price is what first-time homebuyers are looking at for “starter homes”. That is not how most people start out, or should plan to start out.
Start
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- World class public library network
- Leaps and bounds ahead of like 99% of NA cities in transit and walkability
- Uncommonly safe
- World class food
- Deeply diverse
- Generally high-trust
- Lots of real nice back patios
- The islands are awesome
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Those fancy lights were specifically there to mask the fact that the building was absolutely falling apart. It was never worth saving and the only bad thing is that the big rectangles aren’t way bigger.
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Ford set up a Housing Affordability Task Force.
They gave him a report with 55 policy recommendations. They were clear that it did not require building on the Greenbelt.
He has failed to implement 90% of those recommendations.
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Maybe people are tired of hearing that their homes -often the only homes they can afford- are actually just soulless monstrosities devoid of any sense of community or family life?
Maybe that kind of sucks. IDK.
Street art silhouettes of people who used to live in houses slated for demolition for yet another condo project at St. Clair and Bathurst.
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Olivia Chow suggesting we not increase property taxes because too many people are ONLY rich because of the value of their house is...disappointing, to say the least.
If you own an asset worth millions and millions of dollars, you're a millionaire.
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Find me a more Torontonian move than responding to excess demand for a service by making that service worse.
Starting late April: Every other UP Express train; one every 30 minutes, will be running express to and from Pearson Airport. UP Express trains will continue stopping at Bloor and Weston stations every 30 minutes. This is to allow airport travellers to use the service.
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I will die on this hill:
Not leaning into the "Raptors" name by putting a big ass dino on the jersey makes Toronto look insecure as a franchise. We chose the name. It was stupid, but it's what we chose. Put the goddam dino back, dunking or whatever. Also bring back the purple.
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Maybe we should widen the bike lanes to give emergency vehicle access to a lane that can be easily cleared of bicycles, instead of being blocked by like half a dozen drivers.
Thanks to the Yonge St bike lanes, this ambulance wasted 30 valuable seconds at a single intersection. There was no where for the cars to pull off to. There are dozens of intersections coming up. If it’s your family member waiting for a defibrillator, I can’t imagine….
#topoli
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You would not believe what
@RM_Transit
said to elicit this response lol
Really disappointed and frankly disturbed that
@RM_Transit
is openly advertising his hopes for the white-supremacist, transphobic, climate change denying, anti-socialist
@CPC_HQ
to win the federal election.
I was on the fence about you before but this settles it. Never again.
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The man, while speculating that 80% of the units would sit empty because of foreign speculation anyway, is convinced that these supposedly non-existent residents would also DEVASTATE local traffic.
His family of three owns four cars.
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To solve the housing shortage we need to build twice as many homes annually as we do now.
Sounds discouraging, right? Try this:
To solve the housing crisis, we need to build as many homes per capita as we did 50 years ago.
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POV you’re about to listen to the community:
We’ve listened to the community. We’ve significantly reduced the density of Lansdowne, removed one tower, reduced height, improved the public space, and more. We now have a much better plan.
Nous avons écouté la communauté. Nous avons considérablement réduit la densité de
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The thing that radicalized me most against NIMBYism is how routinely people will oppose objectively, unambiguously wonderful things like daycares or doctors’ offices in their community.
It’s still incomprehensible to me and it happens *all the time.*
Anyway, sign this shit.
People are opposing a new doctor's office from coming into in my neighbourhood because they think it won't have enough parking spots.
And people ask me why I hate it here.
If you live in Etobicoke, please consider signing up to support the clinic.
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The
@cityoftoronto
is paying $70,000+/month to NOT build housing that the federal government has already bought and paid for.
All because the Province refused to override some archaic zoning on the site.
Sorry, but Trudeau has a point.
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🧵For the record? This is kind of a lie.
- 70% of the 337 homes being built on this land are affordable housing
- The majority of the homes are Indigenous housing
- All of the units are purpose-built rental
- All of the units are being built/managed by non-profits
Justin Trudeau says one thing but does the other.
I visited Edmonton Griesbach, where Justin Trudeau promised to build more affordable homes.
Instead, he's building luxury condos you can’t afford.
With his plan — developers get rich, you get gouged.
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I am once again reminding you that Alberta and Saskatchewan would be *solidly* Democratic states and it’s not even close.
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Hey
@cityoftoronto
I've actually been running this pilot for you for about eight years. Happy to report on the results if you want to save some time and money.
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I've defended many PC policies on housing, when they were right. I've been critical of their (many) failures.
This is, without a doubt, the most outrageous thing they have done or said on this file. This is completely and utterly disqualifying.
Ford is in over his head.
#ONpoli
Doug Ford says that he “hopes the Feds will put and end to” the municipal funding deals???
Ford’s government just called affordable housing projects something from “communist Russia” and said they have no interest in building any of it!
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Does Twitter have an “okay guys let’s just simmer down so Luke can get into fruitless arguments with NIMBYs and get like 10 likes per tweet” feature?
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What did you think “build up, not out” looks like? Vibes? Papers? Essays? Losers.
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This is an argument I’ve heard from Boomers before, who either don’t realize that their “starter home” is now worth millions of dollars, or that THEY ARE LOBBYING AGAINST THE CONSTRUCTION OF LITERAL STARTER HOMES.
"[Millennials] have become an influential group simply by virtue of numbers, 'not so much on the basis of need.'"
"They felt that millennials do not want to look for a starter home and work their way up."
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I won’t apologize for making my memes on IG or for wanting both subsidized and market-rate housing
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In Toronto, a reduction in the posted speed limit from 40km/hr to 30km/hr on select residential streets resulted in a 27% decrease in pedestrian collisions, and 67% decrease in pedestrian fatalities/serious injuries.
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Man attributes his success to “savvy investment” in an asset that he has lobbied the government to restrict the supply of.
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A rooming house allowed me to start my life in Toronto when I was flat broke.
I needed dirt cheap, shorter-term rental housing, and I got it.
Anyone suggesting we should have fewer housing options based on what *they* personally prefer should be ignored.
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Development Charges are a regressive tax.
They inflate the asset value of the owning class by shifting infrastructure costs to renters and new homebuyers.
All to artificially restrict property taxes for the owning class.
It is dumb and bad.
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I am deadass that the Facebook post of this is covered with people talking about how much better it was back in the day lol
Present day Liberty Village in 2002. credit: Toronto Star
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Plastered all over the City’s communications on this VUT, to this day, is this 22000 figure - something they know is untrue.
I’m all for a Vacant Unit Tax - it doesn’t do much harm. But it’s being used as an alternative to housing construction and that is a fantasy.
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Are people…under the impression that landlords aren’t currently asking for credit scores?
I'm sure this will only help people build credit and won't at all result in landlords refusing to rent housing to people with bad credit scores ensuring higher rents and less accountablity from landlords
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Do the people of Montreal know that they could literally just occupy these new condo towers that are mostly empty and demand that the province expropriate them?
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If the landlord didn’t remit the tax the tenant paid through his rent, he stole from the tenant.
The tenant’s on the hook for getting robbed?
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The man has previously complained that a small development of red-brick stacked townhomes with setbacks and bay-and-gables would threaten the heritage of his neighbourhood.
His next door neighbour’s home is a large glass cube, which respects the heritage of his neighbourhood.
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To capitulate to NIMBY hand-wringing over heights in a central, transit-adjacent location, they:
- Vastly increased the cost to taxpayers
- Vastly reduced the amount of affordable housing
- Vastly reduced the available greenspace
All to build fewer homes.
We’ve listened to the community. We’ve significantly reduced the density of Lansdowne, removed one tower, reduced height, improved the public space, and more. We now have a much better plan.
Nous avons écouté la communauté. Nous avons considérablement réduit la densité de
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Seniors are the age demographic least likely to need special discounts for public services and facilities like museums, recreation centres, and public transit.
It makes no sense to direct subsidies that way.
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This was a good development. I will go to my grave defending this development.
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Listen I’m PUMPED for a Law & Order set in Toronto but if it’s based on true events won’t they need at least a *couple* high-profile cases where the TPS actually…you know…caught someone?
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The democratic process is when an elected Council approves something, but a small group of rich NIMBYs hire a law firm to delay it for nine additional months with an OLT appeal they know will lose.
Regarding the motions moved for 175 Cummer Ave. proposed supportive housing location:
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@ryanc_2025
@myrrlyn
Accounting isn’t just my job. It’s my way of life. Please vote to amend the US constitution to protect my right to accounting.
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When the bikeshare network was half-assed and we didn't have enough to make it convenient, Toronto's bikeshare system nearly died.
When we made it public and invested enough to actually create a useable network, ridership flourished.
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I’m telling you right now: this guy doesn’t know what investment firms think.
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In Toronto, one of the most significant forces behind exclusionary zoning were social conservatives concerned that additional housing options would offer women too much social and economic autonomy.
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It is not illegal to walk with earphones in.
Pedestrian safety is a two-way street. What pedestrians and drivers can do to make our roadways safer
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Rachel Notley putting her cottage on AirBnb is fine.
Honestly I'm glad when cottages are on AirBnb. It makes cottage country more accessible to those who can't access it through family and has no impact on the housing market whatsoever.
Good use of the platform.
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Liberals, NDP - if you do not start talking like this, it’s going to end up hurting you.
If Ottawa Councillors won’t approve this, what will they approve?
If I was Minister of Housing, municipalities that block action on the housing crisis will see their federal funding reduced.
This is what Pierre is talking about when he says we need to remove the gatekeepers.
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@Eve6
Hey man thanks for making that song Closing Time- it was the best part of Keanu Reeves’ football movie The Replacements
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For Christ’s sake is there a single thing where we can just decide a clearly fine thing is fine without a goddam consultation?
#CityofTO
@CityPlanTO
staff are reviewing zoning regs for outdoor patios located on priv prop. Residents and businesses are asked to join the convo by taking a brief survey: … or by attending a virtual public consultation. Details:
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@DavidHamer_1951
@pothen
These are homes for thousands of people, including friends of mine. What’s the problem with them?
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I am once again reminding you that Alberta would be more reliably Democratic than California and it’s not even close.
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"That are mostly empty"
There are no downtown Toronto condos that are mostly empty. Anybody who actually lives here knows that.
Some are mostly *renters,* which is where this lie comes from.
Do the people of Toronto know that they could literally just occupy these new condo towers that are mostly empty and demand that the province expropriate them? This is a possible thing that can be, and has been done.
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Politics aside, these are all in the Pantheon of Fantastic Official Portraits, right?
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@NoSleepNeeded1
@makemysoulhappy
Bruh I don’t think you realize how bad it is out there for most women. Should be seeing this and thinking “dam, your average woman has to be wary of a handshake in broad daylight.”
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@CNET
Alberta has real proposals for real high-speed rail links between Calgary and Edmonton but we're still here talking about this red herring...
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I need to understand this better. It’s been like a decade of “throw shit on the wall and see what sticks” and nothing seems to have stuck.
Is this not super costly? How have they not gone back to the fundamentals that *everyone* wants from this business?
Tim Hortons launches pizza nationally to 'stretch the brand' to afternoon, night
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@enwreathe
@MeleahRoy
@JensenKarp
It’s also fucked up of
@JensenKarp
, who knows this is going to be seen by tens of thousands of people, not to redact her name out of courtesy.
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Some on the left have their backs up because she used the phrase “cutting red tape,” but she’s talking about exclusionary zoning here, guys.
She’s talking about efforts to dilute the investment value and bargaining position of landlords.
Olivia Chow talking about
#MissingMiddle
on
@CP24
today:
“I want to unleash the power of the homeowner. Say to them go build it because we need housing in this city”
“Build up to 4 storeys. If you want to have 4 units, you can rent out 3 of them.”
Ford-Chow Housing Alliance?✅
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Libraries are cathedrals of human potential and I think they should be the most beautiful buildings in any city.
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After finding that the overwhelming majority of Torontonians support multiplex legalization, City Council decided we needed ANOTHER year or so of consultation.
The results? The overwhelming majority of Torontonians support multiplex legalization.
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@BikeLaneDiary
Keep Toronto liveable - but not for the 167 additional families who’ll live in this development.
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POV you're the Canadian media about to publish literally any article about housing
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I’ll say it again: most unambiguous dub from the City in decades.
Forget cherry blossoms, the surest sign of spring is that
@BikeShareTO
just released hordes of e-bikes into the network. I love this system so much.
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Scott, habibi... I want the Liberals to tie strings to this sort of transit funding as much as the next guy, but this is a bit off.
If you're going to be mad at Trudeau for not *making* Ford do something, you should probably be more mad at Ford for...you know...not doing it.
The Eglinton Crosstown West Extension is a rapid transit project in the GTA, the epicenter of Canada's housing crisis.
But Canadians won't get a single unit of housing on top of or around these new stations.
Trudeau failed you again.
🧵
#cdnpoli
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With the Queen streetcar diversion, suggesting that King West return to a time when it was faster to *walk* than use the streetcar is just plain stupid.
@marksaunders_TO
is comically out-of-touch and wholly unfit to be Mayor.
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A reminder that Olivia Chow’s plan for government-built housing is only 30% affordable units, even with:
- ‘Free’ land already owned the city
- Waived taxes and fees
- Special, low-interest loans from federal government
- A public builder with no profit incentive
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I think you'd find that the tens of thousands of people living within ten minutes' walk of Exhibition Station were very, very much cool with a subway.
One thing is clear. Literally no-one asked for this. No-one was calling for a Subway to Ontario Place. No one was calling for a giant spa at Ontario Place or demanding that the Ontario Science Centre be demolished.
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“You can’t critique our plan because you don’t know the details, which are a secret.”
We will not be taking advice from a political activist group that has zero experience on how to build infrastructure and presents an “audit” that is based on, by their own admission, assumptions.
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It's weird how common the people against CafeTO (ie. drivers) make their argument "who wants to eat right beside the road?"
Like, *clearly* a lot of people. Or else there'd be no business case for it.
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@BerryFarmUnion
@Idkitsizzy
@agbtm
@beesquared0912
The compromise is playing during the day and maybe not cranking your flute amp up to 11. Beyond that, buddy can put in earplugs and kick rocks.
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