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Extra Extra: EdgeWalking into a Guinness Record, and Canada Apparently Hates Toronto
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Screengrab of a video from our preview of EdgeWalk in July.
- Hundred-year-old marathoners may have a hard time making it into the Guinness World Record Book, but not nicely documented corporate adventures. The CN Tower’s EdgeWalk was just accorded the record for—unsurprisingly—being the highest external walk on a building anywhere on Earth.
- If that record makes you feel good about Toronto, be advised: the rest of the country isn’t sharing in your warm ‘n’ fuzzy joy. Leger Marketing recently conducted a survey in which they asked Canadians, among other things, how positively or negatively they felt about eight major cities across the country. Toronto, in keeping with the longstanding trope about the city other Canadians love to hate, came in with the highest negative ranking: 19% of those surveyed have a negative perception of us. (Victoria, with only a 4% negative rating, is the least hated amongst us.)
- One of the biggest challenges facing Toronto is the angst-riddled question of where, when, how, and with what money can we build new transit infrastructure. At least a few people think there’s a startlingly easy solution—or at least a much easier one than any we’ve been considering thus far—sitting right under our noses. Why not use existing railway corridors, and refit them for subways or light rail vehicles?
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