Gil Meslin
@g_meslin
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Father, planner, lifelong Torontonian - I love this city, and hope our children will also have a chance to do so. Here to share my ideas, and learn from yours.
Joined January 2012
Which would do greater good for present & future generations:.Restricting these typologies in low-rise residential areas, or allowing them?
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RT @stevemouzon: Street design in the French Quarter breaks every rule of transportation engineering. This curb radius is about 6', and the….
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Shoutout to the EcDev genius of @JohnTory, putting Toronto on the hook for $380M to land six soccer matches, a one-time event, while also creating exclusivity conflicts that may have contributed to the city losing a major annual event that had run for almost 40 years.
Toronto Indy to move from Exhibition Place to Markham — and the 2026 World Cup might be to blame
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For any other playground nostalgists who may be interested, there exists an old Friends of Dufferin Grove Park web page with links to pictures of every piece of equipment in every City park playground, circa 1999. The shared results of an FOI request.
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RT @whatdoesntkillu: My grandpa submitted the name SkyDome - I'll never call it anything else.
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Also, it’s a view that conveniently cuts out the 5-storey, 3500-space parking garage that would be looming just to the left.
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Thousands of years from now, after civilization has collapsed and rebuilt itself, Daniel’s work will live on as a mythological story of a man cursed to eternally catalogue lies in a world of brazen, indefatigable liars.
It’s not true DC was at an “all-time” high in crime, or even close to ‘90s peaks, when Trump came back to office. It’s not true DC now has “no crime,” though it’s down during the takeover. It’s not true DC had gone “many years,” or even this year, without a murder-free stretch.
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RT @anabpereiraa: In 2018, the company behind the Ontario Place spa was in the red. What led to the sudden change in Therme’s net worth has….
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Therme Group says its finances are solid and, with the unwavering backing of a shareholder, it has never been in danger of failing the stress test.
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RT @bowker_john: Therme was broke but needed a net worth of $100M to get the Ontario Place deal. Financial records reveal Therme used an ac….
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RT @EmmaMci: The second, from @anabpereiraa, @BKennedyStar and me: a look inside the Ford government back in 2019 as it reviewed Therme's O….
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Officials questioned whether the spa could be a "white elephant," a term referencing something expensive to keep that offers little relative value.
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RT @EmmaMci: ICYMI, the Star published two Ontario Place investigations over the weekend . The first, from @anabpereiraa and me: The Ford g….
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The warning is included in previously unreported audits. Therme says it doesn't reflect the strong financial footing of the global business.
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No process is perfect, but the dumpster fire of escalating partisan gerrymandering taking place south of the border is a reason to appreciate our independent electoral boundaries commissions, and the way they go about their work every 10 years.
NEWS: THE WHITE HOUSE has invited Indiana GOP state lawmakers to the White House Aug. 26. The W.H. is trying to get Indiana Republicans to redraw their congressional maps. They have been somewhat resistant thus far. More in @PunchbowlNews AM.
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RT @PlannerSean: Toronto area friends. I’m helping a friend rehome a pair of very sweet 10 year old pups. Sadly, their owner passed away. D….
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RT @Kasparov63: Trump acts like he's not concerned about the midterms because he's not. Troops in the streets of US cities isn't security,….
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