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Today’s Billy Bishop post: this argument from Holyday is risible. The negative impacts of airports concentrate with proximity. The population near Billy Bishop is far greater and is planned to grow dramatically. YYZ’s periphery is industrial parks. YTZ: v dense neighborhoods and Toronto’s #1 park.

Background: the province is effectively forcing Toronto to allow density near transit. Saxe is opposed to this happening in the Annex, the best-connected neighbourhood in the city. She is supporting heritage measures that will interfere with development, and now this.

This is a bizarre bit of fearmongering. I was in this park with my kids last night. It was chaotic, but not a hint of conflict among the hundreds of people there. What it needs is a restaurant, coherent design, and a dedicated manager. nationalpost.com/opinion/yoni...

Yoni Goldstein: The decline of Toronto's Christie Pits Park is unacceptableThis gem of the city should be a safe place for families to take their kids, not a hotbed for urban disordernationalpost.com

Why exactly is this airport valuable? How exactly does it contribute to the local economy while carrying 4% of passengers? No one can ever say. It’s vibes upon vibes. The airport itself can’t even cook up a plausible economic impact statement. www.thestar.com/business/tor...

Toronto business community 'disappointed' Billy Bishop jet expansion isn't moving forwardBusiness groups call Ottawa decision to halt expansion for jets a missed opportunity that could leave the downtown airport on 'borrowed time.'www.thestar.com

Irritating to see the Toronto island airport battle framed as NIMBYism. This was a project with zero business case that would have destroyed economic value and soft power – and stopped homebuilding! It was a terrible project that deserved to die. When people say no, sometimes they are correct.

“This is another step in the billion-dollar remaking of Toronto’s old port lands. And it is also a lesson in how governments can actually make good places.” My column: www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/art-and...

A bigger Biidaasige Park is another waterfront triumph for TorontoThe project, two decades in the making, is a revolutionary use of space. It’s also endangeredwww.theglobeandmail.com

We won. The criminally stupid proposal to attack Toronto’s harbour is dead. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Federal government declines to allow jets at Billy Bishop airport ‘at this stage’Ottawa’s rejection delivers a major blow to Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s agendawww.theglobeandmail.com

Biidaasige Park West, Toronto, opening day. MVVA and waterfront toronto win again.

An interesting proposal, but the Robson Square projects would be v difficult and complex. Also… The architectural expression of these (theoretical) projects is beyond banal. Diamond Schmitt’s urbanism is so weak.

“Big cities have a unique power to literally bring people together. Where else, in a country dominated by social media and solo car commutes, do we actually get to look one another in the eye?” www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/edit...

Globe editorial: Violence can’t be allowed to destroy the best of citiesBrazen shooting shakes the confidence that brings residents out in public, allowing cities to thrivewww.theglobeandmail.com

Thinking about the fact that Toronto has two 70MM IMAX projectors - at Ontario Science Centre and at Ontario Place, the world's first IMAX theatre - that have been closed by Doug Ford for nonsensical reasons.

The World Cup activation of public space in Toronto really was magic. But John Doyle thinks Montreal has missed something… Montreal has vibrant public life all summer, every summer, and none of it has to do with sports. www.thestar.com/sports/socce...

John Doyle: FIFA runs the World Cup but in Toronto it belonged to the streets. And it was magicAs Toronto found out, the World Cup does not belong to FIFA or corporate sponsors. It belongs to the people.www.thestar.com

Lots to say, but the idea that Toronto “has no money” to repair an existing pool, even as it’s about to spend ~$150-million on an athletic complex two miles away, is wild. The idea that the city holds title to the site, didn’t know it, and now can do nothing about it.. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Ownership questions between city and TDSB around Toronto building prevent revitalization | CBC NewsAn ambitious plan to re-develop a prime piece of public real estate into an elaborate community hub, complete with a pool, gym, concert hall and movie theatre, is in limbo, partially because of confus...www.cbc.ca