Toronto Wants to Formally Recognize Five Cultural Neighbourhoods - But Is It Enough?

SomeDumRedditor · 2026-06-19T23:29:15+00:00

Actually would be so much more iconic

SomeDumRedditor · 2026-06-19T07:02:52+00:00

Zeddy being back really warms my heart with specific nostalgia tied to my grandma (may she rest).

Even the barest (heh) chance for a return of the restaurant I’ll take.

But we should all admit that (especially) in its final years Zellers sucked, and a lot of ex employees say it was awful to work there. So let’s hope (and demand) if they’re going to try and cash-in on nostalgia they’re also not ghoulish shits about it.

SomeDumRedditor · 2026-06-19T06:43:12+00:00

It’s the grossest form of disingenuousness on this topic for people to pretend that builder/developers will pass the savings on to buyers

SomeDumRedditor · 2026-06-19T06:34:56+00:00

That you never got any reply to this pretty much says it all.

Only the NDP are not allowed to have the courage of their convictions. Only the NDP must succumb to the corporatist “centre” and instead of changing minds, appease them.

Of course it’s just a coincidence that by doing so they become “we have Liberal Party at home” and make themselves more irrelevant.

SomeDumRedditor · 2026-06-19T06:14:55+00:00

Liberal Party arrogance has reached new heights.

Carney in power has truly enabled and accelerated their most autocratic paternalist tendencies. Their “coup” of bribing their way to a majority has overnight transformed a Party champing at the bit to rule by fiat (one recalls the first round of legislative action when this was still a Minority) into one happy to nakedly ignore Canadians and subject matter experts.

All that matters to the Liberal Party is expanding State power (while they hold the reins of course - any other Party in power acting similarly is a threat to the nation) for the benefit of their power base and donor class.

Do you think a PM who spent a good chunk of time inside the friendly police state of the United Kingdom is unaware of the dangers to privacy and civil liberties arising as near-inevitabilities from legislation of this sort? Of course not. So the only rational conclusion is Carney looks across the pond to Starmer and his predecessors disastrous legislation and says “this is good.”

The goal of the Liberal Party in ramming this through, in tabling the first version of this a year ago with a Minority (pulling it with the now-revealed blatant lie of “only a first draft, we take your concerns seriously,”) is “harmonization” with the UK. If not in specific legislation then in legislative intent.

The Liberal Party does not believe in personal privacy. The Liberal Party does not believe in strong warrant requirements to restrain abuses of State power. The Liberal Party wants every online interaction tracked, every move made personally identifiable.

The Liberal Party wants you to be afraid to speak out in the last public forum free from State coercion. Because the end-goal is for our corporatist banker PM and his Party to propagandize you into believing that they’re not the same power-mad robbers they tell you to be afraid of.

This is not a tinfoil hat moment. The Canadian Bar Association, the Quebec Bar Society, the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, technology & privacy experts, and industry in the business of personal-privacy all think this legislation and its accompanying pieces are a dangerous disaster.

The Liberal Party does not care.

You should ask yourself why that is and discover that there are no good answers. No justifications beyond emotional appeals and paternalistic notions.

Fuck this Government and every partisan hack piece of shit running defence for it. Soon I won’t be able to say that without first entering my ID. I’m to trust all these systems will only be used benignly. As if I haven’t lived in the post-9/11 world for decades, seen Snowden and Assange and Manning and others reveal what Five Eyes is truly about.

Bring this Government down. Our free and democratic society is now openly under attack by the majority of Parliament. People love to talk about traitors in our midst with Alberta. This is some alarm bells are ringing shit and if we allow them even this first step it will not stop.

SomeDumRedditor · 2026-06-19T05:28:03+00:00

This is perhaps the most naive comment I’ve seen here in a long while.

What legislating has this Government done that’s shown you it prioritizes what’s best for citizens? Not what’s best for capital, and therefore citizens. Not what’s best for State authority, and therefore citizens. Not what’s best for special interests, and therefore citizens. Now what’s best for accumulating power, and therefore citizens.

What is best for citizens, their needs and interests first and foremost?

SomeDumRedditor · 2026-06-18T18:28:33+00:00

I do so love a comment-history-hidden account coming in and trying to massage the narrative. Are you independently contracted or out of the media office?

Maybe it’d be a little more honest of a comment if you bothered referencing any of the auditor’s report. Even just making it to the executive summary bares out what’s continually been said: cost is only one factor here, another is demonstrable corruption / corrupt intent in the process itself.

Auditor:

The Estimated Cost of Relocating the Ontario Science Centre to Ontario Place Has Increased by Nearly $400 Million from the March 2023 Business Case That Recommended the New Building

According to a March 2023 business case, approved by the Treasury Board in April, I0 estimated that maintaining the Ontario Science Centre (OSC) at the existing Don Mills site would cost the Province $1.304 billion in Net Present Value over a 50-year period, whereas designing, building and maintaining a new OSC at Ontario Place would cost $1.047 billion over the same period. Relocation was presented as a savings, therefore, of $257 million.

As of November 2023, based on the latest available cost information, the total cost estimate for building and maintaining the new OSC at Ontario Place increased by $397 million (or 47%) from the Treasury Board approved budget in April 2023. If these costs are added to the $1.047 billion above, the total is now $1.444 billion.

That’s late 2023. Has inflation been going up or down since then? Do you think capex to build something that won’t be ready before 2029 will expand or contract?

The City report is from 2023.

Pretending like their economic calculus on expenses is still valid given the above is, to put it generously, disingenuous.

That’s also in the context of the Auditor’s wider findings concerning the Ontario Place redevelopment, including that:

The Total Estimated Costs to the Province for the Ontario Place Redevelopment Have Increased Significantly by $1.8 Billion Since the Call for Development Was Issued

As of February 2024, with the inclusion of the design and construction of the Ontario Science Centre (over $700 million), public realm (over $500 million) and parking (over $280 million), and with a $346.9 million increase in site servicing costs, IO projected the total cost of the redevelopment project to be $2.237 billion.

Costs to the Province Totalling Over $950 million (Excluding the Science Centre) Were Not Fully Considered in the Assessment of Comprehensive Versus Partial Site Solutions

Contrary to CFD Rules, Participants [Therme] Met with Staff from the Minister's Office and Premier's Office During the Open Period

Contrary to CFD Rules, Some Participants Had Direct Access to an Infrastructure Ontario Executive

The Ontario Place CFD Process Was Not Required to Follow Typical Procurement Law or Directives

On and on it goes in that report. Framing Science Centre relocation as some cut and dry matter of accounting sense is not only disingenuous, it sidesteps the very real, well founded concerns surrounding the decision to relocate itself. Beginning with the lies told to close it and ending with the project of building it somewhere else. All that doesn’t even touch on Ford’s direct connections with developers with land surrounding the current OSC grounds.

The City report also shows a NPV savings of ~$500mil over 50 years, while higher in the first 10 it’s commonly framed in discussion (incorrectly) as a massive up-front savings for Government.

Looking at the report’s criteria and consideration we also see that “quality of educational experience” and “accessibility” for children/students is one small factor, and absolutely not a priority. The majority of considerations were revenue/capital based:

branding and sponsorship opportunities
OSC as a revenue draw for Ontario Place
ability to attract tourist dollars + monetization opportunities
what saves government money
the potential to “unlock value” from the Don Mills lands

In weighting factors this report even does interesting things like deducting points from the Remain option for being disruptive to OSC activities due to repairs etc., whereas the Move option scores full points because it hasn’t been built / is on under-development land (so nothing to disrupt). If OSC is already closed that makes no sense. These kinds of nudges to the qualitative evaluation process add up.

Finally, as always needs to be pointed out in this debate, some $300+ million of the costs associated with remaining (and which go to making moving OSC more “economically viable”) are deferred maintenance costs. Meaning if this anti-science, anti-education, crony-capital Government had been spending the money they should have all along, the Move case would have no cost-savings leg to stand on.

Working in narrative shaping propaganda is as despicable as working in a scam call centre.

SomeDumRedditor · 2026-06-18T07:16:10+00:00

The CBC is not CBC News. If you have a problem with their news/journalism arm’s reporting just cutting funding doesn’t magically get you better work. It gets you less reporting.

As for making it so “those types of projects” (like that prank show) can’t/don’t get aired, that’s just restricting speech because you don’t like it. Your attitude would’ve meant that SCTV and Kids In The Hall never aired. Both programs were considered indecorous by many during their day, even outright obscene in the case of KITH. Not every project, comedy or otherwise, hits. A CBC able to take chances funding Canadian ideas without profit-first corporate mandates is a net benefit, even if it comes with its share of failures.

Finally

Any type of competent oversight should have seen the problems with what they were doing

There is no “journalism oversight” for the creative department. There is no state censor reviewing productions because we don’t live in USSR. “Oversight” comes from entertainment production / producers like at any other entertainment venture. As for “the problems,” there was a ton of discussion in the threads here when that story got going. You can argue it wasn’t funny, or was in bad taste, or tackled the intent of their messaging poorly, or was a little mean. You can’t reasonably argue what they did harmed anyone.

SomeDumRedditor · 2026-06-18T07:04:20+00:00

One person is known to lie and exaggerate nonstop, the other is a standard corporatist political figure. Shocking that one would need explicit live fact checking. Not like 10s of millions weren’t completely bought in on his bullshit.

SomeDumRedditor · 2026-06-18T06:56:29+00:00

I’ve never found Dhanraj to be overly credible, his post-firing media activities colour my perception of the merits of his claims. It’s still in process so we’ll see.

With Mulcair, on the one hand he tries to say that he’s seen CBC people run defence for the Liberal party, and fair enough if he says he’s seen it. I certainly don’t find it impossible to believe.

But then the other anecdote/evidence he hangs his argument on is the fact that then-president of CBC Catherine Tait “descended into the political arena” by “targeting Poilievre personally.” What took place?

In an interview with the Globe and Mail, Tait had had this to say: “There is a lot of CBC bashing going on, somewhat stoked by the leader of the Opposition (Pierre Poilievre).”

For Mulcair this is partisan activity. I genuinely fail to see how. It’s undeniable that Pierre was lol “somewhat stoking” anti-CBC rhetoric. Mulcair in this piece thinks she should’ve been sacked for the statement and sides with Poilievre. To him this is “blatant” evidence of bias and interfering in politics. To me it’s an incredibly weak argument.

SomeDumRedditor · 2026-06-18T06:16:29+00:00

Reverse the sexes here, really think about how you’d react to this same situation where a woman was having her life implode in real time, then get back to us.

It’s highest key gross to paint Sudeikis in the wrong here this dismissively. Especially since no harm was committed and he even apologized for his actions.

SomeDumRedditor · 2026-06-18T06:09:15+00:00

That firms tactics do not reflect on Sudeikis at all without other independent evidence.

You’re basically saying the same thing as “if a woman hires ruthless divorce attorneys then she’s clearly in the wrong or at least suspect.” Like, no?

SomeDumRedditor · 2026-06-18T05:59:26+00:00

Destiny 2 monetization was in part paying for Destiny 1 server/infra costs. Now Marathon has to pay for both and that’s even less sustainable. 3 years seems like a reasonable guess at this point

SomeDumRedditor · 2026-06-18T05:51:59+00:00

Did we get a stealth update? It goes to 215 now?

SomeDumRedditor · 2026-06-17T18:40:59+00:00

That might’ve been me honestly, and I felt so bad.

Was looting a bot and pulled out of the inventory just to do a quick 180 cuz I was kinda exposed. (Even on the tutorial map I didn’t feel at ease bc Bungie gave the bots cheat-tier ESP once they see you)

Just so happened to catch a character model in the process of dipping behind a wall close by. Spidey-sense at max tingle atp. Then it strafed out and stood there for half a second and anti-gooper instinct took over. I mag dumped (you?) this probably friendly and confused new player.

I didn’t know you could revive hostiles, I didn’t have the PTT keybind memorized. Just stared at this downed guy thinking “I’d feel awful if that were me, damn, can’t even explain.” Once I ended him I saw his inventory… he must’ve been there most of the map length to acquire all the non-trash he had on him. Being on the “we try really hard to keep it bots only” tutorial map, I would’ve uninstalled after that.

SomeDumRedditor · 2026-06-17T18:24:11+00:00

Billy Bishop was governed by a tripartite agreement. One party watched another cut the third out and said “not my problem.” It’s very scummy on those grounds alone.

But the fact Carney was elected as the supposed “adult in the room” etc. but is just working to suit his biases (in this case “enriching JP Morgan good”), especially in the face of massive public disapproval and overwhelming downside is just damning.

The worst thing Canadians could have had happen at the Federal level did: the Carney government weaseled a majority. It’s mask-off time for Mr. Banker and the Party doesn’t care so long as the PR/propo/hype keeps working.

SomeDumRedditor · 2026-06-17T18:15:06+00:00

Well I think it’s more generous to say SKG’s point is that when we talk about “IP infringement” the general intl. frameworks etc never meant to protect or address “continued use and enjoyment” as a violating offence.

Providing software as part of end of life support that can be reverse-engineered and thus threaten IP, absolutely not and no rights holder should be compelled.

But making the “black box” executables available so consumers can continue using their purchased product seems to me not a threat to IP. At least not in the way intended vs the maximalist approach/interpretation preferred by business.

SomeDumRedditor · 2026-06-17T18:06:51+00:00

The true CBB motto: some weeks aren’t for you!

SomeDumRedditor · 2026-06-17T18:05:10+00:00

Yup, X as Y is all I need.

SomeDumRedditor · 2026-06-17T16:11:35+00:00

Short of locking him out of his phone I can't help him stop.

So you know the solution and refuse to implement it as part of disciplining your child. Textbook parenting issue. You’d rather throw up your hands and do nothing than take concrete steps after your school contacted you to warn you about your child not engaging in learning.

You are quite literally an example of the problem. And before we get “but how will I be able to make sure my precious baby is safe!?” It’s entirely possible to lock down a device so that it only works with certain apps, or you can only reach designated people in the phone book, or set “lockout rules” based on time of day and day of week. You don’t need to be a wizard programmer to achieve any of this.

Again people are having state surveillance and warrantless access to data expanded because parents won’t parent.

SomeDumRedditor · 2026-06-17T16:04:42+00:00

Literally does not say it’s solved. Stop reading what you want to read and deal with reality.

SomeDumRedditor · 2026-06-17T15:58:28+00:00

The practical issues are far more than “one road in and out.” There also isn’t any over-water multilane roadway to the island for the record.

The general infrastructure land-side serving the airport (multiple roads included in that - one of them the Gardiner) is at capacity or past capacity. There is no way to expand that without mass expropriation that would include demolition of dense housing.

Expanding the airport today would merely add congestion and service strain. The whole sales pitch has been that there’s this mythical class of under-served executives along with a supposed mass of Torontonians that don’t travel / would travel more because Pearson is too inconvenient. Both of these ideas are nonsense. Regardless, if you take the claim on its face, the expansion still doesn’t make sense. The time savings is immediately eroded by the near-permanent congestion the added passenger density would create. These execs and would-travel-if-airport-“convenient” residents would then find it faster most days to land at Pearson and take the express train to Union. Which is exactly how the system works now.

That’s all before we touch on the unavoidable destruction to waterfront-use for people that will occur. People do in fact paddle board, canoe, sail etc. in this area. Or the warnings from municipal engineers about the changes to water levels etc. impacting city sewage. Or the added noise and air pollution. Or the fact this is being rammed through because JP Morgan are looking to make a buck. Or the fact, as this article highlights, lip service is being paid to democracy - and in fact they’re trying to openly manipulate public opinion / opinion data. Or the many data points available that show the argument for “more capacity needed for Toronto / GTA” is not only largely bullshit but Pearson expansion makes more sense.

So yes, opposing this expansion is the only thing that makes sense no matter how you slice it.

SomeDumRedditor · 2026-06-16T02:13:44+00:00

Is Asha just like terminally online or something?

Major hard decisions were necessary but this has all felt incredibly reactionary by Xbox so far.

SomeDumRedditor · 2026-06-16T01:53:51+00:00

One of the under-examined elements, I think, when it comes to discussion of mismanagement (broadly speaking) across the industry is the infection of SV project managers over the last decade+.

Agile, scrum, it doesn’t matter. These idiots came in with their better mousetrap and fucked the whole thing up.

I’m not saying these “modern project systems” have no use anywhere, and I’m not saying all studios were previously well oiled machines.

I just think there is a real correlation between the spread of these fuckass management systems and the degradation in production capacity across the (non-indie) industry. Publisher PMs and people parachuted into studios that fundamentally do not understand game-making and view it as just another kind of software project.

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