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Originally Posted by Paul Ontario
Another round of winter weather is waiting to hit Toronto as a write this post. Grey and cold while the word on the west coast is flowers. We need a mega skydome to hide under or better transit that works during cold alerts.
We feel sick to see images of people walking under flowering trees in the Vancouver winter while snow banks in the GTA hog parking spots. This winter has been easier and not as brutally cold as last year's so far. I hear more about frozen water mains this year. Maybe the later snowcover is to blame.
I had a question about Toronto vs Vancouver & Victoria. - Why is there more mental illness visible in the streets of Vancouver & Victoria? Toronto is big so why the smaller numbers. My guess was the availability of dope. One lady in Kingston, Ontario told me that these people freeze in Ontario. And this winter was just like last winter as in frozen homeless people. She has a point.
A resident of the GTA told me that he loved Vancouver but Toronto has lots of work for his family. Toronto's raison d'être is work. Good place for that. Palm tress and pot ignored by the police in your yard, well that's for Vancouver.
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In January I was in Toronto in a downtown Tim Horton's. A mentally ill man began ranting and harassing a stranger ordering a coffee. The guy being yelled at (a strapping 6 footer) wisely got his order and waited in the vestibule, and then the crazy suddenly raced out and started wailing on him. Never seen that happen in Vancouver.
And then three days later a nutter went on a random stabbing spree outside Air Canada Centre. So I'd say Toronto has just as many crazies but they're just out of sight because its so fraeking cold.
If anything arrests the return to urban living across Canada it will be the nutters on the street and the disorder they create.