Look At City Council's Record On Honoring Committments

The Island Bridge and Union Station are just two major projects that come to mind where the projects were approved by one council and then torpeoed by another council. Personally I would be a little hesitant about getting involved with the city on anything major...let's not forget that breaking our word with people costs those people money and they tend to sue, usually successfully. How much has the cancellation of the island bridge cost us/will cost us.

Rival top guns love that Docklands mix
February 15, 2007
Christopher Hume

Everywhere but in Toronto, this city's waterfront has become the object of international attention.

Far-flung architects and landscape architects are trying to figure out the best ways to transform a derelict, severely damaged area into a place Torontonians can live, play and be proud of.

Here at home, the cynicism continues. The Toronto Waterfront Revitalization Corp. brings the best practitioners in the planet to suggest solutions and we complain that they're from away. Local people are hired and they're not good enough to do the job.

If there were any doubt that Toronto is its own worst enemy, look no further than the shoreline of Lake Ontario.

Fortunately the tireless and well-calloused souls at the TWRC are able to carry on regardless – and that's exactly what they're doing.

Last week, they organized a day-long briefing for the four teams that made the short list to redesign the Lower Don Lands. The important 40-hectare site includes the mouth of the Don River as well as the entrance to the Port Lands. It connects the communities being planned for the West Don Lands, the east Bayfront and the Docklands, which will eventually be home for up to 100,000 residents.

Though it is too soon for these teams to have come up with concrete proposals, they're obviously excited about the possibilities, even if Torontonians aren't.

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