u/xRyNo:

I’m a studying journalism student working on a magazine focused on Toronto life and would love to hear any ideas you have for articles. I had some ideas regarding the extensive graffiti history in the city probably featuring some of Bansky’s art. What would the people or r/toronto like read about?

As someone recently arrived to Toronto, here are some topics I find interesting.

  1. Why are there so many crazy people. I’ve lived in five different cities and I’ve never seen so many people rambling to themselves. Or perhaps they are not crazy, they are just regular folks who talk to themselves?

  2. Other cities where I’ve lived shut down on one inch of snow, Toronto keeps going despite huge snow-ins. What is different?

  3. Why are there so many humongous chimneys on the shoreline along beaches? It seems pretty obvious to me they’re no longer functional, why don’t they take them down?

  4. How can canadian people be so proud of their country and nationalistic while being welcoming and understanding to other cultures?

  5. What’s up the obsession with quietness? Everywhere on craigslist people look for either A. Quiet apartments or B. Quiet tenants.

  6. Who thought out the zoning of Toronto? Why are there exclusively residential streets and exclusively commercial streets?

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u/RosieLalala:

If you like, as a born-and-bred Torontonian, I can answer some of your questions, but would need to know to what cities you’re referring in your questions.

Where I’ve lived: Madrid, Spain. Puerto Vallarta, Cancún, Mexico City in Mexico.

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u/kettal:

I presume the other cities you have lived in don’t have snowy winters? We don’t have the luxury here of shutting down every time snow hits the ground. But when it snows very very heavily, we will shut down.

The lakefront chimneys are actually malting silos which were last functioning 30 or so years ago. Today they are heritage listed, meaning they cannot be demolished, so they will rot on our waterfront for ever more.

The chimney near Leslie Street spit is an old coal generating station, long since decommissioned, but also protected for historical reasons.

We don’t have the luxury here of shutting down every time snow hits the ground. But when it snows very very heavily, we will shut down.

Yes, but what is done different? Surely there is more than throwing salt everywhere.

The lakefront chimneys are actually malting silos which were last functioning 30 or so years ago. Today they are heritage listed, meaning they cannot be demolished, so they will rot on our waterfront for ever more.

Ah, interesting. They wouldn’t seem to have any particular architectural/historic value to me. But perhaps I’m offending people who hold them dearly.

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