Vancouver in February - read'em and weep! (eastern Canada...)

[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.