The South Bayview Bulldog

A proposed new tower at the corner of Yonge and Bloor streets has 80 floors — on paper at least — and is ready to become the City’s second highest building after the CN Tower. It will be pricey too and one price to be paid will be the view from St. Clair and Mt. Pleasant. The developer of the former Stollerys site showed off renderings at a community meeting on Wednesday with a 318-metre tower. The plan calls for 72 levels of apartments on top of an eight-level luxury shopping mall, and 10 stories underground, at a total cost of $1 billion. Developer Sam Mizrahi has called his new monument The One. (Oh my. He’s The One). The design is by Foster Partners and Toronto’s Core Architects. Some have noted that external steel skeleton. Keep in mind it would run all the way up to the clouds. It is reminiscent of the first so called exoskeletons built in Hong Kong during the 1980s.years.

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The “average” property tax increase for a home in Toronto will be some $83 but you aren’t living in an average home. Sigh. Wait for the bill to see what the total property. garbage and water increases do to your budget. Toronto Star  City release 

Erika Lamb, the 16-year-old skier from Burlington, has succumbed to injuries which occurred during a collision with a tree at Blue Mountain Ski Resort Tuesday. OPP  at Collingwood confirmed that Erika had died at Sunnybrook Hospital where she had been transferred by helicopter shortly after the accident. She had been wearing a helmet at the time of the crash. She was a member of the Milton Heights Racing Club and was attending an event the Collingwood-area ski resort for the Gooch Cup, hosted by the Toronto Ski Club. Alpine Ontario said the athlete was free skiing, not racing, at the time of the accident. There are many condolences posted to Twitter at Erika Lamb

Rosie DiManno in the Hamilton Spectator 

Shad, a congenial, award-winning hippity-hopper type of musician, will become the new host of CBC’s cultural affairs radio show Q, which will retain its name as it relaunches in mid-April. It seems odd the CBC will stick with a program name so associated with the discredited Jian Gomeshi but right or wrong, there it is. CBC says the 32-year-old is a multiple Juno-nominated artist who has drawn praise in Canada and the U.S. for his humour, passion and originality, winning in 2011 for Rap Recording of the Year. Born in Kenya to Rwandan parents, Shadrach Kabango was raised in London, Ont., going on to earn a business degree from Wilfrid Laurier University and a master’s degree in liberal studies from Simon Fraser University.

OPP say distracted driving deaths will likely surpass those of impaired driving for the seventh consecutive year. Police figures show that driver inattention has been the reason for 12 of 51 fatal collisions so far in 2015. It’s no secret most of it comes from the cell phone suite of activities ranging from reading the mail to calling your pals. The news comes as Ontario police launches their annual distracted driving campaign this weekend. “Distracted driving is a danger to all road users. Fortunately, these same road users are in a position to help put a stop to it,” said Chief Superintendent Chuck Cox, Commander of the OPP Highway Safety Division, in a media release.

This is all about technology that will probably be required at Billy Bishop (Toronto Island) after it grows to the size of Ottawa International Airport. That’s the reasonable estimate of the relatively early growth at the island if jets arrive. The island is a classic case of an airport where the runway leaves pilots with no crash room and there are dozens of them in the U.S. The so-called EMAS (Engineered Material Arresting System) consists of large blocks of material at the end of the runway which break up when a jet smashes into them. The friction will stop a loaded 767 abruptly but safely. The issue at the island is that once jets are installed, it will impossible to prevent every regional airline on the continent from demanding a piece of the runways. It will be crowded.