| This is a selection of recent popular
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| | post, “17,000 housing units were
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| blog articles from TorontoIAM where you
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| | built in the [downtown Toronto] area
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| will find the best blogs from Toronto,
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| | between 2001 and 2006” with many
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| Ontario as well as video uploads, social
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| | more building permits currently in the
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| networking, rumors, and blog authoring.
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| | process of being approved.
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| Fashion Week Finishes in Style
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| | The post reports that a study conducted
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| BlogTO has posted overall thoughts on
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| | by city planners meant to better
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| this year’s L’Oreal Fashion
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| | understand Toronto’s growth spurt
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| Week Spring 08, which took place inside
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| | of late, reflects a striking shift in
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| a large central tent in Nathan Phillips
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| | demographics within the downtown core.
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| Square. According to the post, the
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| | Using housing built since 2001 as the
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| event came to a close last Friday, having
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| | benchmark for its findings, the study
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| achieved “an unprecedented air of
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| | revealed that “only 4 per cent of
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| liveliness and enthusiasm”.
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| | households in the newer units have
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| In attendance was Fashion
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| | children, compared with 12 per cent in
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| Television’s Jeanne Beker who was
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| | the older housing”. It also
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| reported to be hard at work showcasing
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| | showed that the majority of newer units
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| what Toronto has to offer by nabbing
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| | currently house adults 25-39, most of
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| designers and notable fashion experts
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| | whom are employed full-time and most of
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| and leading them “through the crowd
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| | whom enjoy incomes greater than
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| to the front of the tent to interview
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| | $60,000.00. “In the older
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| them after most of the shows.” The
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| | housing”, continues the post,
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| post said that “the way she made
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| | “51% of households were revealed
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| VIPs visible and visceral was a striking
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| | to have incomes under $60,000.”
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| statement.”
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| | Commenting on a dwindling child
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| Setting itself apart from New
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| | population, the post quotes Leonhardt as
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| York’s fashion week, Toronto
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| | saying, "What is an issue, I think,
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| offered catered dinners in the media
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| | is housing that's suitable for people
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| room, which the post reports “had
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| | when they decide to have children: Is it
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| that wonderful effect of creating
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| | being built?" It’s something
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| camaraderie among those who [ate]
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| | they’re looking into, she says,
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| together. Veterans and newbies alike
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| | “whether or not we need to look at
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| dished and dined and dashed back to the
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| | interventions in the market to see that
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| runway and felt better for it”.
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| | kind of housing built.
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| Maple Leafs Twice Victorious
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| | GTTA Drives Regional Transportation Plan
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| A posting on Howard Berger’s
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| | Steve Munro’s Web Site reports
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| popular blog reports back-to-back road
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| | that the Greater Toronto Transportation
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| triumphs for the Maple Leafs this week
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| | Authority (GTTA) board met in Toronto
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| over the Pittsburg Penguins and New York
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| | recently to present first round plans and
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| Rangers respectively. Apparently,
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| | timelines for the creation of a Regional
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| “the club seems incapable of
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| | Transportation Plan (RTP). The board
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| playing a relaxed, efficient brand of
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| | intends to have a completed plan for the
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| hockey on home ice, [however] away from
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| | project in place by fall, 2008.
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| the "pressures" of the Air
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| | According to the post, this is a
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| Canada Centre, it's a completely
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| | relatively aggressive schedule where
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| different story.”
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| | “much work needs to be done
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| With both the Penguins and the Rangers
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| | producing position papers and analyses
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| seemingly caught in a pre-season slump,
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| | to convert the shopping list of schemes
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| the post says that the Leafs
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| | like MoveOntario 2020 into a
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| “sensed that they were playing a
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| | prioritized, coherent plan.”
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| couple of struggling, top-end teams, and
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| | The post lists a number of discussion
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| somehow found the killer instinct that is
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| | which arose during meeting, such as
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| so often absent in their
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| | concerns about the impact of the project
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| repertoire.” The post also
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| | on surrounding neighbourhoods, the myriad
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| congratulates the Leafs for riding out
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| | of studies that lay ahead, (both at the
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| two Rangers power plays, both resulting
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| | regional and federal level), funding
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| from highly questionable calls made by
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| | considerations and considerations around
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| referees Wes McCauley and Eric Furlatt.
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| | the prioritization of projects. For
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| Of promising significance, notes the
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| | every concern tabled, the post notes that
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| post, was a switch-up in the
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| | the board seems to have a workable,
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| Leafs’ usual scoring patterns
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| | however preliminary, solution in place.
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| during both games. With Matts Sundin
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| | The post predicts that the really tough
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| making just one assist in total,
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| | debates will present themselves in 2008,
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| “the fancy work [was left] to
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| | “as the project list grows with
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| people like Jiri Tlusty, John Pohl, Pavel
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| | items missed by MoveOntario 2020 notably
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| Kubina and Alex Steen.” Perhaps
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| | much of the day-to-day capital cost of
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| the ability to put the puck in the net is
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| | infrastructure and fleet renewal.”
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| not just a one man job after for this
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| | In the end, it notes, it all comes down
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| club. Could the tide finally turning
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| | to money. “If the available funds
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| for Toronto’s beleaguered Maple
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| | won’t pay for what is really
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| Leafs?
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| | needed, the GTTA could descend into the
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| Toronto’s Sudden Growth Spurt
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| | sort of us-versus-them debates that
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| A post on the Torontoist reports that
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| | paralyzed transit planning at the old
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| downtown Toronto is one of the fastest
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| | Metro Toronto council.”
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| growing communities in the area, with
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| | About TorontoIAM
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| “the population of the downtown
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| | TorontoIAM is part of a groundbreaking
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| core [having] grown by 65 per cent in the
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| | network of city-focused blog aggregation,
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| past 30 years, and nearly 10 per cent in
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| | user generated media and social
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| the past five.”
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| | networking websites currently rolling out
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| According to the post, Barbara
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| | across North America. Each IAM website
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| Leonhardt, director of policy and
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| | filters and organizes blog content as
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| research in the city’s planning
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| | well as offering video upload
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| department says that "We're seeing
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| | capabilities, social networking, blog
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| growth in other areas as well – all
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| | authoring, favourites lists and rumours.
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| of the areas where we want it to happen:
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| | The IAM Network is a division of SoMedia
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| the North York centre, the Scarborough
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| | Networks Inc which also operates
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| centre, the Etobicoke centre and along
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| | Inveslogic.com, Greenedia.
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| the avenues." Even so, says the
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