Oh Toronto, you’re awesome. Can’t wait until your 148 skyscrapers currently under construction or the hundreds of others that have been proposed are finished.
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#toronto #video #canada #urban #cities #city #ontario #skyscrapers #skyline #cityscapeThis July 3rd will mark a historic moment in Canada as Justin Trudeau becomes the first Canadian Prime Minister to march in a Pride Parade.
Trudeau has taken part in several pride parades in the past but this will be his first since taking office as the PM.
What is even more special is that the city of 2.7 million people will have the leaders of every level of its representative governments taking part in the parade. John Tory (Mayor of Toronto), Kathleen Wynne (Premier of Ontario and herself a lesbian), and Justin Trudeau (Prime Minister of Canada) will all be present.
Toronto’s Pride Parade attracts over 1 million people each year, making it one of the largest Pride festivals in the world and the largest one in North America.
Learn more about Toronto Pride at Pride Toronto.
Just when you thought Toronto’s condo and mega construction boom couldn’t get any hotter a quick look at some of the proposed building projects puts ya straight.
Since the construction of 1 King West (176m) 2005 Toronto has seen a resurgance in the construction of skyscrapers (for the purpose of saving time and space I have only included buildings over 150m).
Recently we have seen the completion of:
Currently there are a number of other building under construction:
Even more buildings have been proposed:
BlogTO has given a great look at the new Massey Tower that is set to be built across from the Eaton Centre in one of the old iconic bank buildings.
Toronto Police anti-bullying and LGBTQ positive video. Proud to be a part of this wonderful city.
I wouldn’t have expected this from the Advocate but it happened. The headline reads Photos: Canada’s Largest Pride. The article/photos are of Toronto Pride 2013. Toronto Pride is actually North America’s largest pride and the 3rd largest Pride festival in the world.
In 2012 the estimated attendance was 1.22 million people. While they are still awaiting official numbers from the organizers and police, as someone who was in the parade and on the street and had been last year, this year was certainly larger. Yet the Advocate listed attendance as “hundreds of thousands” down playing the numbers. I’m not sure why they did this or refused to acknowledge Toronto as the largest pride in North America, my only guess is that because it is in Canada the Advocate doesn’t want its American readers to think they are some how being out done.
It’s not as if we’re not used to being glossed over here in Canada. We get everything from people thinking it is actually below freezing here for much of the year (in reality the average temperature in Toronto only drops below freezing for two months of the year - January & February), people will ask how long it will take to go from Niagara Falls to Vancouver for a picnic (they are shocked when you tell them 3 days by car, 5 hours by plane). Then you have the looks of amazement when people get to Toronto and see all of the skyscrapers and high-rises, 2nd in number only to NYC (most think Toronto has a couple hundred thousand people, not the over 6 million people the GTA holds).
Maybe next year when Toronto hosts World Pride (also not mentioned on the Advocate) it will get the attention that North America’s Largest Pride deserves.
Check out more about Toronto Pride and World Pride 2014 here
Check out some great shots here
The legal opinion was sought out by councillor Joe Mihevc (Ward 21, St. Paul’s).
