The Great Canadian Skyline Thread! - Page 155

Delirium · #**3081** Posted **Dec 3, 2014, 1:33 PM**

Photo by Leon CherrySnow https://www.flickr.com/photos/leon-cherrysnow/15749240658/sizes/h/

Photo by Jandennyberg https://www.flickr.com/photos/jadennyberg/15936106585/sizes/h/

MolsonExport · #**3082** Posted **Dec 3, 2014, 1:56 PM**

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Originally Posted by caltrane74

Toronto is a very conservative and puritanical city.

This place is not known for taking risk or being innovative. Its just a safe place to put your money, kinda like a North American verison of Switzerland or Liechtenstein.

What did Peter Ustinov once say? Toronto is New York run by the Swiss?

isaidso · #**3083** Posted **Dec 3, 2014, 2:00 PM**

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Originally Posted by caltrane74

This place is not known for taking risk or being innovative. Its just a safe place to put your money, kinda like a North American verison of Switzerland or Liechtenstein.

If we don't learn to be innovative and become risk takers our economy is in big big trouble. The protectionist walls that existed here for a century are now gone. Waiting for the US/Europe/Japan to innovate and then just copying it here isn't going to work any more.

It's not just our economy that will suffer if we don't change. Btw, you just named 2 of the most boring countries in Europe.

TorontoDrew · #**3084** Posted **Dec 3, 2014, 3:10 PM**

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Originally Posted by caltrane74

Toronto is a very conservative and puritanical city.
This place is not known for taking risk or being innovative.

Replace Toronto with any Canadian city name and your comment holds true. I feel like that is all changing now though, finally.

The_Architect · #**3085** Posted **Dec 3, 2014, 4:20 PM**

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Originally Posted by caltrane74

Toronto is a very conservative and puritanical city.

This place is not known for taking risk or being innovative. Its just a safe place to put your money, kinda like a North American verison of Switzerland or Liechtenstein.

They sure did 40 years ago:

Villaggio · #**3086** Posted **Dec 3, 2014, 5:02 PM**

How did Torontonians feel about the CN Tower when it was built? Did it get instant hate like the Eiffel Tower?

caltrane74 · #**3087** Posted **Dec 3, 2014, 5:29 PM**

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Originally Posted by The_Architect

They sure did 40 years ago:

Ok, 1 time Toronto a risk, and did something different.

It doesn't happen all the time here.

Surrealplaces · #**3088** Posted **Dec 3, 2014, 5:37 PM**

Beautiful!

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Originally Posted by Delirium

Photo by Leon CherrySnow https://www.flickr.com/photos/leon-cherrysnow/15749240658/sizes/h/

SkahHigh · #**3089** Posted **Dec 3, 2014, 9:43 PM**

Montreal Skyline by Fred_514, on Flickr

Delirium · #**3090** Posted **Dec 4, 2014, 3:17 AM**

Photo by Aubrey Sun https://www.flickr.com/photos/aubandjen/15940804235/sizes/l

Photo by TOTORORO.RORO ://www.flickr.com/photos/totororo-roro/15938957211/sizes/l

Photo eliseo.laurino byhttps://www.flickr.com/photos/128697515@N02/15755965737/sizes/k/

GreaterMontréal · #**3091** Posted **Dec 4, 2014, 3:27 AM**

The 1st pic of the last post is really nice, looks a lot like San Fransisco.

MolsonExport · #**3092** Posted **Dec 4, 2014, 3:58 AM**

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Look at that glorious grid stretching past the CBD.

Darkoshvilli · #**3093** Posted **Dec 4, 2014, 4:01 AM**

Nice Van pics!

Darkoshvilli · #**3094** Posted **Dec 5, 2014, 3:54 AM**

Pic is a little old

http://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/smog-warning-issued-for-montreal

giallo · #**3095** Posted **Dec 5, 2014, 4:01 AM**

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Originally Posted by MolsonExport

Look at that glorious grid stretching past the CBD.

I absolutely love seeing city grids like this from the air. Vancouver and Burnaby's grid looks really cool rising and falling over the hills.

Ashok · #**3096** Posted **Dec 5, 2014, 4:28 AM**

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Originally Posted by Darkoshvilli

Pic is a little old

http://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/smog-warning-issued-for-montreal

nope, nope. nope, nope! Not ready for this.

Rico Rommheim · #**3097** Posted **Dec 5, 2014, 4:47 AM**

Welcome to the Montreal Oblast.

Martin Mtl · #**3098** Posted **Dec 5, 2014, 11:45 PM**

Credit: @fred514

Credit: @livemontreal

Innsertnamehere · #**3099** Posted **Dec 6, 2014, 12:37 AM**

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Originally Posted by Villaggio

How did Torontonians feel about the CN Tower when it was built? Did it get instant hate like the Eiffel Tower?

There was a general excitedness around it, from my understanding. Weird, because it was a publically funded project being built by afreight rail crown corporation in the middle of a rail yard with no real business case behind it.

softee · #**3100** Posted **Dec 6, 2014, 2:02 AM**

It's pretty weird to hear someone describe Toronto as being "a very puritanical and conservative city" considering it's one of the most socially liberal major cities on the planet.