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Toronto as the next Dubai

By Joshua Errett

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Toronto is the next Dubai like Maurizio Bevilacqua is the next Prime Minister. But this little artist’s rendition of the imagined amalgamation of the Toronto and Dubai skylines was cute enough to post.
If any Canadian city is to enjoy Dubai-like prosperity though, with the glass hotels and such everywhere, it’d probably be Calgary. And that isn’t too much of a stretch: by 2025, statistics say Canada will be a leading oil-producing country and even more needed as a crutch for the oil-hungry United States.
So, if this oddly mashed-up skyline (where’s the Rogers Centre?) wishes to be less odd, it might cut-and-paste the Calgary Tower over the C.N. But no, it’d still be awfully odd. We’ve included an information table after the jump to make this post at least a little bit informative.


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  • http://www.jillmurray.com Jill

    Dubai doesn’t really run on oil. (That’s more Abu Dhabi’s thing.) It runs on a heavy push towards tourism and bargain shopping designed to compensate for its relatively small and shrinking oil reserve, compared to the surrounding region.
    That said, Calgary still makes more sense because the other thing that makes Dubai go is NO TAXES. There’s also this little rule they have where only about 5% of the population actually meets the criteria to own land, among many other unCanadian details, I’m sure.
    I dunno. Canada vs. UAE seems like a weird/futile comparison to me. Where would Canadians go to build weird buildings and earn tax free dollars if Dubai was already here?

  • http://www.boyreporter.ca Boy Reporter

    Dubai has a huge population of migrant workers with limited rights. check
    Toronto also has a huge population of migrant workers with limited rights……
    We’ve got that much in common. That and crappy skiing. Dubai has that crazy indoor ski hill, which is just surreal.

  • http://www.jillmurray.com Jill

    Not really. Our way of handling things barely compares. A lot of Dubai’s migrant workers work in Dubai on their way to coming here, the US, Europe, etc… Then there’s the upper echelon of migrant workers in Dubai who come from here, the US, Europe to earn well beyond their career potential within Canada, etc…
    Have you been there? If not, I think you need to go there to really see how different it is. It’s a circus.

  • http://www.jillmurray.com Jill

    I can’t imagine skiing indoors. “Snowboarding” on sand is good for a few laughs though.
    Do you think we could arrange for a big silly indoor sandboarding facility to be built in Toronto?
    This is starting to sound like a premise for The Simpsons.

  • Jeff Goldblum

    What’s the Rogers Centre?
    ps. Goldblum is happy to see you posting again

  • rek

    “Little” artist?
    “Cute” skyline?
    What’s with the condescension, Torontoist?