kmaryan

I don't really see it as the Gardiner separating the city from the lake, it's the massive amount of crappy property along side it. The Gardiner/lakeshore is something like 50m wide, but from Union sta...

Torontoist editors: if you want to cover street art in a responsible way, cover exactly that: street art. There's no shortage of murals put up by property owners around the city, and a bunch of other ...

T.Rek, normal maintenance on a brick wall is minimal. Some suggest using a sealant every 5-10 years, but most residential buildings downtown don't even get that. However, the cost of cleaning up someo...

Are there really that many shootings in public places? In recent memory, there have been a handful in the entertainment district and a couple high profile ones on Yonge. And while these are all very v...

Good point T. Rek on the comparison to US cities. To rephrase those numbers in terms of murder rate: Philadelphia 27 per 100,000 people Chicago 15 Washington DC 50.82 New York 9.32 These varied a gr...