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Police states have consequences. Nowhere is this more clear than in Toronto, even the Toronto Star realizes how bad leadership has been in this city as the Creepy Ones expand their destruction.
These general lists developed by publications or International organizations are a scam, fluff P.R to try and convince others that of which the local citizens know isn't true.
www.thestar.com
Toronto appeared on another best-of list and it made the civic boosters proud as it always does when this happens.
The latest was the venerable Time Magazine and its list of the “The World’s Greatest Places of 2022” with “50 extraordinary destinations to explore,” Toronto was up there with Miami, Copenhagen, Bogota and Bali. The short description of Toronto includes mentions of our arts and culture and, of all things, an inflatable waterpark at Ontario Place.
Toronto is not boring. There is always something to do, whether you’re a resident or a tourist, and the Time list is explicitly directed at tourists with the “places to explore” angle. It’s good to be on this list as it might increase tourism at a time when our industry needs the boost.
It’s odd, though, that in a recent interview published in the Toronto Sun about his third mayoral run, Mayor John Tory answered his critics who say the city is in decline under his leadership by pointing to the Time list, saying, “It can’t be quite as bad as those people were saying if we are on every one of these.”
All of these lists should be taken with a grain of salt as their methodologies, if they can even be called that, are loose. In an extremely short section on their own methodology, Time wrote that they, “solicited nominations of places from our international network of correspondents and contributors, with an eye toward those offering new and exciting experiences.” So it’s kind of random, then.
Toronto is an exciting place to be with lots of stuff to do, but what about day-to-day life for people who live here? A friend reminded me recently that when Tory ran for mayor in 2014, his promise and motto was to make Toronto more “livable, affordable and functional.”
As the mayor coasts into a third term, one he originally said he wasn’t going to pursue, this 2014 motto is as good a metric as any to judge Tory’s eight-year mayoralty by. In another city with a more robust democracy, this might actually be a tough one for him as voters ask: Why is he running again?
These general lists developed by publications or International organizations are a scam, fluff P.R to try and convince others that of which the local citizens know isn't true.
Shawn Micallef: Time magazine calls John Tory’s Toronto one of the ‘world’s greatest places.’ Tell that to the people who live here
Toronto is more “livable, affordable and functional” only if you have property and wealth.
www.thestar.com
Toronto appeared on another best-of list and it made the civic boosters proud as it always does when this happens.
The latest was the venerable Time Magazine and its list of the “The World’s Greatest Places of 2022” with “50 extraordinary destinations to explore,” Toronto was up there with Miami, Copenhagen, Bogota and Bali. The short description of Toronto includes mentions of our arts and culture and, of all things, an inflatable waterpark at Ontario Place.
Toronto is not boring. There is always something to do, whether you’re a resident or a tourist, and the Time list is explicitly directed at tourists with the “places to explore” angle. It’s good to be on this list as it might increase tourism at a time when our industry needs the boost.
It’s odd, though, that in a recent interview published in the Toronto Sun about his third mayoral run, Mayor John Tory answered his critics who say the city is in decline under his leadership by pointing to the Time list, saying, “It can’t be quite as bad as those people were saying if we are on every one of these.”
All of these lists should be taken with a grain of salt as their methodologies, if they can even be called that, are loose. In an extremely short section on their own methodology, Time wrote that they, “solicited nominations of places from our international network of correspondents and contributors, with an eye toward those offering new and exciting experiences.” So it’s kind of random, then.
Toronto is an exciting place to be with lots of stuff to do, but what about day-to-day life for people who live here? A friend reminded me recently that when Tory ran for mayor in 2014, his promise and motto was to make Toronto more “livable, affordable and functional.”
As the mayor coasts into a third term, one he originally said he wasn’t going to pursue, this 2014 motto is as good a metric as any to judge Tory’s eight-year mayoralty by. In another city with a more robust democracy, this might actually be a tough one for him as voters ask: Why is he running again?
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