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Topic: The "Northern Tiger"?
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clockwork
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Babbler # 690
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posted 08 October 2002 10:53 PM
The term "tiger" is a bit of a stretch. But you only need to look who used that term to put in perspective. It's Beaker's job to say everything's great.But I'm a bit worried if he was trying to evoke the image of the Asian economies… that went on a tear registering 10% growth rates for a number of years. 3%, ooh! We're all gonna be rich in thirty of fourty years! quote:
It only takes one look at this city's fast-changing skyline to see that Canada is defying the slowdown throttling much of the world economy.
That's funny, because if you actually read the media here, Toronto is in decay. Sure, the condo's are nice and I guess I can't point to the shanty town anymore, so, well, maybe everything is good.Union station is being divvied up behind closed doors, the 401 crawls most of the time, and, er, wasn't there supposed to be something with the Gardner? Maple Leaf gardens sits empty, SkyDome is considered a white elephant, and opinion is divided on that glass roof they want over the ROM or AGO, or whatever. Finding housing is still a wonderful challenge to take on. The food banks are worried about, like, food, I think. Education is in crisis, or at least was until the province took over the school board, the TTC I still think is fighting for funding. Yeah, feels great to live around here. I can feel the energy. I wonder if CLIFFORD KRAUSS is the NYTimes guy in Toronto. I think I want to be a foreign coorespondant. Read a few papers now and them and rewrite the articles for the editors back home. Sounds cushy to me.
From: Pokaroo! | Registered: May 2001
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