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As we all know, the CN Tower has officially been surpassed as the world's tallest free-standing structure—a title it held for thirty years. Silly as it may be, that title gave us a lot of pride. Of course, we still don't really understand what's inside the tower, and obviously we're too cheap to actually pay to go up to 360 and make use of the (we hear) incredible view, but it just made us feel good. And it was a useful piece of trivia for impressing Americans. So we're feeling a little down.
In completely unrelated news, the loonie is soaring; to be exact, it's hit a thirty... year... high.
Wait a second. We're not exactly superstitious, but it sort of feels like the universe is trying to tell us something. It's like that Seinfeld episode where Jerry always breaks even. You know, he loses one gig and then books another, Elaine throws his twenty bucks out the window and he finds a twenty in his jacket... Of course, the status of the loonie is no replacement for our beloved free-standing structure record, but we lost one 30-year record and gained another, and we'll take what we can get.
As George would say, we're back in business, baby!
Photo by ChrisFizik from the Torontoist Flickr Pool.
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amazing somehow Toronto is even Steven. Pardo gets it right again
I seem to remember reading somewhere that due to the excellent design of the main pillar of the CN Tower, engineers figured it'd be a fairly simple feat to raise its height (as I recall, this came as a result of the Russians talking about raising the Ostankino tower).
Not sure if it'd be enough to regain the title, nor (more importantly) whether there'd be any reason to bother (we still have lots of reasons to be proud of our city, and the CN Tower is still one of them).
Fact is, tallest or not, it's still our tower, it's still an icon (does anyone talk about the fact that the Eiffel tower is not the tallest anymore?), and it looks no less beautiful to my eyes (albeit a bit patchy in spots).
The loonie being as high as it is is BAD for Canada, dumbass. Canada's export business? DYING. Sure, it's nice to point and laugh at the US, but we see little benefit as a result.
GAH!
High dollar also allows Cdn companies to purchase imports cheaper (such as machinery) so that they can improve productivity and provides us lower prices, which keeps inflation down, which keeps interest rates down. Not bad, in my estimation.