Filed under: bad news | Tags: Atlantic Canada, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, toronto, Toronto Star, TTC, urban sprawl, WalMart
I came across this article from the Toronto Star this morning.
Toronto does not need another WalMart. Last year, I spent a few days in Nova Scotia. It’s a beautiful place, which only added to the horror when I was taken to a new development of box stores in Dartmouth. Box after box after box, and all I could do was look around and wonder how a pedestrian could ever penetrate the compound (let alone actually shop there, wandering through massive parking lots with bags in hand). Dartmouth doesn’t need this, but on some level it’s understandable: the East Coast is all about car culture.
Toronto, however, is another story. We have pedestrians and the TTC! Well, for now, anyway. We also have a significant, if fragile, film industry. We need that. We need the culture, the jobs. We don’t need box stores and more minimum wage jobs.
Filed under: good news/bad news | Tags: 1992, bad news, good news, melting point, Michael Lee-Chin Crystal, ROM, Royal Ontario Museum, snow, Spring, Toronto Star
It’s all about lowered standards.
Walking outside this morning was a real treat. Rather, it would have been a real treat had I not been running fifteen minutes late, but that’s not for here. The point is that the temperature was hovering around zero degrees when I left home, which we often forget is the melting point for water. Melting snow! Spring! I didn’t have to wrap my body mummy-style before stepping outside and it was glorious.
The good news is that, contrary to earlier reports, it looks like the snow’s going to leave gracefully, thanks to our “gentle thaw“.
The bad news is that, in some instances, the thaw won’t be so gentle. Case in point: the Michael Lee-Chin Crystal. It looks like the abandoned set from a 1992 game show came to life and is trying to eat the Royal Ontario Museum. And now it’s trying to kill us.
