The Old City Hall and The Simpson Tower in Toronto

The Old_City_Hall opened in 1899 at a height of 103.64 m (340.0 ft).  Even in the 21st century, many parts of Downtown Vancouver aren't allowed to have buildings taller than Toronto's Old City Hall.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8e/Torontos_Old_City_Hall_2009.jpg If you are visiting from Toronto or Montreal, Sydney or Melbourne, you might be shocked as to seeing how small and backwards Vancouver is. Various imposed restrictions have cause a multigenerational watering down of what should actually be a properly functioning big city and greater metropolitan region.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/95/Front_of_Old_City_Hall_in_July_2024.jpg Being from backwater Vancouver, its always amazing to see what cities like Toronto, Montreal, Sydney,  Melbourne, Seattle, SF & LA are permitted to do. They and most other cities just don't have anything like the Vancouver Mind Virus (VMV) to thwart them.

The Post is a stumpy building+complex in Vancouver. Despite the high land costs, strict Vancouver wouldn't permit it to be taller than Toronto's Old City Hall. The Stump, rather The Post, should have been taller than the LA City Hall, the Philadelphia_City_Hall and the Manhattan_Municipal_Building. It should have really been closer in size to that of the Seattle_Municipal_Tower or even the Tokyo_Metropolitan_Government_Building. 

Library Square in Vancouver just like The Post, wasn't allowed to have 25 floors, when they both should have been well over 50 stories.

https://www.skyscrapercenter.com/building/library-square/25126 84.1 m / 276 ft

https://www.da-architects.ca/projects/library-square Strict Vancouver just doesnt allow buildings in that part of the downtown to be taller than The Old City Hall in Toronto.

https://viewpointvancouver.ca/2018/10/05/library-square-best-new-public-space-in-vancouver 

https://montecristomagazine.com/design/secret-garden-top-vancouvers-library-stayed-hidden-20-years#gsc.tab=0 

Unfortunatly, Library Square and The Post are so scaled back or watered down, they would hardly be impressive in most proper big cities around the world. Library Square and The Post should have both been in the 50-60 story range, but don't even have a 25th floor. This was a lost opportunity for Downtown Vancouver to have a proper size big city and government complex.

The Simpson_Tower opened in 1968. It has 33 floors and is 144 m (472 ft) high. It would be equivalent to being the tallest building in BC until 1973. Even in 2025, most office towers in Vancouver aren't allowed to be taller than this 1968 Toronto stump.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7c/Simpson_Tower_2022.jpg 

The Simpson-Tower is only 18 feet taller than the LA+City+Hall.

The Simpson Tower has become just like another Vancouver size stump in Toronto.

It's really astounding that not only did The+Post+in+Vancouver have to be shorter than the Toronto Simpson Tower and the LA+City+Hall, it had to be shorter than the Old City Hall in Toronto. Now that's very small, but it fits in with the small-minded Vancouver mentality. Indeed, Vancouverization is about a backward, rainy city that has a multigenerational restrictive agenda to water everything down. Even the mountains north of Vancouver are shorter than the mountains north of L.A. WTH?   

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=The+Post+building+complex

Manulife Centre in Toronto

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manulife_Centre , https://manulifecentre.com

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Manulife+Centre

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/07/Manulife_Centre.jpg 51 floors in 1974, but this should have been the first 65 story residential tower in Toronto.

https://www.skyscrapercenter.com/toronto/44-charles-street-west/2979 166 m / 545 ft

Fortunately, 44 Charles wasn't just 44 stories. Indeed, it was the first 51 story mixed-use residential & office complex in Canada, but it should have been taller. Chicago has had the 100 story John Hancock Center since 1969. If Toronto couldn't have its own 100 story building in the mid 1970s, similar in scale to the John_Hancock_Center, there should have been two buildings with more than 50 floos. 

https://www.cushmanwakefield.com/en/canada/properties/for-lease/office/on/toronto/55-bloor-street-west/s119707755-l This should have been the first 55 story office tower outside of downtown Toronto.

https://www.loopnet.ca/Listing/55-Bloor-St-W-Toronto-ON/17793768

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b2/Manulife_Centre_2022.jpg Its like there was an obligatory Vancouver stump that had to be part of the development. It's a stump, because it's windows don't even rise over 20 floors. This stump building should have been 55 stories at 55 Bloor.

https://urbantoronto.ca/database/projects/manulife-centre-podium-and-streetscape-renewal.19539

This is a nice, wide Toronto building, but it got Vancouverized or miniaturized, right from the start.

https://www.cbre.ca/properties/retail/details/CA-Plus-268572/manulife-centre-55-bloor-street-w-toronto-ontario-m4w-1a5 It would have been quite impressive if it opened as a 55 story tower.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/industry-news/property-report/article-torontos-manulife-centre-adds-a-more-friendly-facade/

https://sgconstructors.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/55-Bloor-Manulife-Redevelopment-Profile.pdf

https://urbantoronto.ca/news/2018/09/glazing-enclosing-manulife-centre-addition-bay-and-bloor.33926

https://www.bgis.com/assets/documents/BMO-Case-Study-RetroCommissioning-BMTT-55-Bloor.2023.09.11_r6FINAL.pdf

Australia was able to go above 99 floors before Canada. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia_108 Actually has 100 floors.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STH_BNK_by_Beulah 102 floors.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_Canada#Under_construction

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinnacle_One_Yonge 105?

TTC Subway...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto_subway

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/dd/Toronto_Subway_2026.png

http://dailyhive.com/toronto/line-1-partial-closure-november-24-25 ,

http://dailyhive.com/toronto/ttc-delay-overcrowding-video ,

http://dailyhive.com/toronto/ttc-code-red-report-lack-funding ,

http://dailyhive.com/toronto/ttc-in-movies-tv-youtube-2017 ,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombardier_Innovia_Metro#Toronto

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b7/Toronto_2011_wiki.jpg

http://dailyhive.com/toronto/environment-canada-weather-advisory-toronto-november-15-2018

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_North_American_rapid_transit_systems_by_ridership

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medium-capacity_rail_system#List_of_systems

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Toronto

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=GTA

Toronto's iconic CN Tower-is-celebrating-big-anniversary

https://tayloronhistory.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/2011915-cn-tower-construction-s1465_fl0240_it00911-mid-1970s_thumb1.jpg?w=627&h=402

https://tayloronhistory.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/sept-10-1973-f1526_fl0047_it00031-2.jpg-
https://tayloronhistory.com/2015/05/25/history-of-torontos-cn-tower/

https://www.theweathernetwork.com/news/articles/torontos-iconic-cn-tower-is-celebrating-big-anniversary/69413/

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/anniversary-cn-tower-toronto-architecture-1.3645323

http://www.cntower.ca/en-ca/about-us/history/topping-of-tower.html

With its microwave receptors at 338 m (1,109 ft.) and at the 553.33m (1,815 ft., 5 inches) antenna, the CN Tower swiftly solved the communications problems with room to spare and as a result, people living in the Toronto area now enjoy some of the clearest reception in North America.
http://www.cntower.ca/en-ca/about-us/history/astounding.html
2011 – The first of its kind in North America, EdgeWalk is the world’s highest full circle hands-free walk on a 5 ft (1.5 m) wide ledge encircling the top of the CN Tower’s main pod, 356m, (1168 ft, 116 stories) above the ground.

It takes only 58 seconds to get from the base of the tower to the LookOut level, which stands 1,136 feet in the sky.
Visit the middle observation deck (1,122 feet high) 
http://www.travelzoo.com/ca/blog/5-tips-for-visiting-torontos-cn-tower

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CN_Tower#Structure

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CN_Tower#Height_comparisons

http://www.talkcondo.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/oxford-casino-skyline.jpg-
http://www.talkcondo.com/blog/10-architectural-landmark-condos-coming-toronto 

http://blog.newinhomes.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/oxfordplace1-642x336.jpg-
http://blog.newinhomes.com/news/whats-oxford

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=201934

https://www.google.ca/search?q=Oxford+Place+(Metro+Convention+Centre)


https://www.google.ca/search?q=cn+tower+toronto+in+1975&sa=X&biw=1276&bih=671&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&ved=0ahUKEwjznobH18HNAhUT8WMKHUWtCpcQsAQIKQ

https://www.google.ca/search?q=cn+tower+toronto+in+1976&biw=1276&bih=671&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjc_p7d2MHNAhWHKWMKHVyhAvcQsAQIKQ

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Toronto

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=GTA

Toronto’s road construction season

 https://globalnews.ca/news/10464912/toronto-construction-season-traffic-solutions/

Driving on parts of the Gardiner that's temporarily reduced to 2 lanes each way for repairs, can give people in the GTA a sense of what it's like driving in stunted Vancouver.

https://toronto.citynews.ca/2024/03/19/gardiner-construction-phase-two-dufferin-strachan/

The mostly six lane Gardiner should have been designed to have had at least a 4th lane each way so that it could have been used as a bus & HOV lane.

https://bayview-news.com/2024/03/bayview-leaside-commuters-face-impact-of-2024-road-work.html/

Nothing like the Gardiner_Expressway or the Don_Valley_Parkway was ever allowed in Vancouver. That's because a clearing of houses would have been required. Thus, it's been tough enough just to have something like a 6 lane Lake_Shore_Boulevard (LSB) in Vancouver.

Kingsway_at_the_Vancouver-Burnaby boundary, is funneled into a 4 lane bottleneck just east of Boundary+Road. 

Hastings_Street_in_downtown_Vancouver is funneled into a 5 lane cokepoint & gets even narrower.

The Knight_Street-Clark Drive corridor isn't always 6 lanes wide. There are a few 4 lane chokepoints. An urban 6 lane corridor is essential, because a 3rd lane each way can become a bus & HOV lane. However, the congestive Vancouver approach is to funnel everything into a 4 lane bottleneck. Fortunately, most cities have allowed enough extra space for bus & HOV lanes on a roadbed that's more than 2 lanes each way.

Is Toronto construction just as safe & easy as last year?

https://www.toronto.ca/news/city-of-toronto-kicks-off-busy-billion-dollar-construction-season/

Of course all the various construction projects can't be done in one year, as it can take several years or even decades.

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/toronto-get-ready-for-more-traffic-delays-as-the-city-kicks-off-its-billion-dollar/article_e5069002-9b38-52d0-aba3-c09b03e720b7.html

Whenever possible express bus & HOV lanes can enable more people to move around. However, if the highway is only a 2-4 lane waggon road, its almost impossible to have proper express bus & HOV lanes on those sections. 

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Toronto

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=GTA

GO Transit, When Outdated Trains Serve a Modern City

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_ThQ6K-cHE 

https://www.gotransit.com/en/find-a-station/un/routes-departures 

https://www.toronto.ca/services-payments/venues-facilities-bookings/booking-city-facilities/union-station/union-station-revitalization-milestones

https://www.viarail.ca/en/explore-our-destinations/stations/ontario/toronto 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Station_(Toronto) , https://torontounion.ca

https://www.toronto.ca/explore-enjoy/visitor-toronto/path-torontos-downtown-pedestrian-walkway  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_station_(TTC) , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txjv6k9e6gA

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Station_(Toronto)#Site_location 

Unlike Toronto, the Chicago_Union_Station is far away from the lakeshore.  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Union_Station#Connections

https://chicagounionstation.com

Brisbane-Sydney-Melbourne-Toronto

The Greater Toronto Area has been the only place in Canada where some Australian size residential towers have been permitted. So far, Montreal & Vancouver won't allow any residential towers to even reach 65 stories.

If Montreal were to ever allow something like a La_Defense, Parramatta or a Canary_Wharf on the London_Docklands, then some Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne and Toronto size towers would potentially be allowed.

Extremely restrictive Vancouver can't stop Burnaby, Coquitlam & especially Surrey from eventually having some Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne and Toronto size towers.

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/3200-east-broadway-vancouver-rupert-station-mst-aquilini Since these buildings would be within the small city linmits of Vancover, they won't be allowed to be on the scale of what Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne and Toronto permit.

No residential or office tower within the city limits of little Vancouver is allowed to be as tall as the Telus_Sky tower at 222.3 m (729 ft) in Calgary and Seattle's Rainier_Square_Tower at 850-foot (260 m). 

The Living_Shangri-La tower, at 200.86 metres (659 ft) and the Paradox_Hotel_Vancouver at 188-metre (617 ft) are the tallest within Vancouver.

Unfortunatly, Montreal can't quite be included into the category with, Brisbane-Sydney-Melbourne-Toronto (BSMT). That's because their tallest buildings still have to be shorter that what Paris & Melbourne allow. However, the Greater Montreal transportation infrastructure is at a level of what you would expect for a big city to have. Fortunately, Québec has never been thwarted by anything like a BC Mind Virus (BCMV).

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Brisbane%2C+Sydney%2C+Melbourne+and+Toronto

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=GTA 

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Brisbane+Airport+Railway+Line

Finch LRT shut down all day due to “weather conditions.”

 https://toronto.citynews.ca/video/2026/01/15/finch-lrt-shut-down-all-day-due-to-weather-conditions It should have been a proper subway line, protected from the crappy snow & ice. In contrast, Edmonton & Calgary are mostly surface lines and can usually run through the terrible winter conditions. 

https://www.cp24.com/local/toronto/2026/01/15/toronto-snowstorm-shuts-down-finch-west-lrt-some-bus-stops-also-out-of-service/

https://www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/article/toronto-snowstorm-shuts-down-finch-west-lrt-some-bus-stops-also-out-of-service/

https://toronto.citynews.ca/2026/01/15/line-6-finch-west-lrt-delays-snowstorm-ttc-updates/ 

https://www.ttc.ca/riding-the-ttc/Line-6-Finch-West  

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=LRT

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Toronto+snowstorm

The One in Toronto is soon to become Canada's tallest building

 https://www.blogto.com/real-estate-toronto/2025/03/one-toronto-canada-tallest-building

In order to provide a sense of scale, a couple of short bindings in the area are referenced. These small buildings would be among the tallest in stumpy Vancouver.

Two_Bloor_West is like a classic Vancouver stump building, but in Toronto.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Bloor_West#History  In 1972, it was already taller than any building in BC at, 148.74 m (488.0 ft) with 34 stories. Even in 2025, its equivalent to being the 2nd tallest office tower in Vancouver & BC.

2_Bloor_East opened in 1974 at 135 m (443 ft) with 35 stories. It would still be among the 10 tallest office towers in Vancouver. However, in Toronto its just another stump of a building.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2_Bloor_East#History

Even The+Simpson+Tower from 1968, would still be among the tallest office towers in Vancouver. Yet, it's just another stump in Toronto.

Vancouver just isn't allowed to have buildings as tall as those in Seattle & Calgary, Toronto & Montreal or LA & SF. However, stumpy Vancouver is allowed to build what would be impressive by Victoria-Prince+George-Kamloops standards. Its all part of the backwards Vancouver and think small BC mentality. 

If you can't build a wall around BC, the next best thing is to constantly remind everyone with imposed small-scale symbolism. Unfortunatly now, BC is several decades behind with its infrastructure. 

Toronto weather

 https://www.accuweather.com/en/ca/toronto/m5h/august-weather/55488

So, Toronto still might have some 30 C days in August.

https://www.accuweather.com/en/ca/toronto/m5h/july-weather/55488?year=2025 According to AW, Toronto only had 6 days that were at least 30 C. Some places around the world would be happy to have 6 days under 30 C, but without the humidity.

https://www.accuweather.com/en/ca/toronto/m5h/june-weather/55488?year=2025 Wow, Toronto actually had a couple of days in the mid 30s in June.

Is the Stack, a tower or a stump?

 https://storeys.com/james-cheng-the-stack-vancouver

In Seattle, Toronto, Calgary & even Montreal, this would almost be just another average stump building. Those cities & so many more around the planet, have long since allowed office towers to have more than 40 floors. However, in the BC part of Canada, there is no office tower that has reached 40 stories, just a few residential towers are taller. Yet, sometimes the land value in Vancouver is more than in Toronto.

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouver-view-cone-restrictions-policies

Of course Seattle, Toronto, Calgary & Montreal have been allowed to be proper big cities, simple because they aren't under any Vancouver type restrictions or limitations.

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouvers-shrinking-skyline

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/larwill-park-office-towers-vancouver-concept

Nevermind Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, LA, SF, Seattle, Toronto, Calgary & Montreal, Vancouver isn't even allowed to build as tall as the tallest buildings in Vaughan, Mississauga, Edmonton & Belleview, WA. 

https://storeys.com/cities/mississauga

https://storeys.com/cities/toronto/

https://storeys.com/cities/calgary/

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Brisbane-Sydney-Melbourne-Toronto-SF

1450-west-georgia-street-vancouver-wesgroup

http://dailyhive.com/vancouver/1450-west-georgia-street-vancouver-wesgroup


http://dailyhive.com/toronto/line-1-partial-closure-november-24-25 ,

http://dailyhive.com/toronto/ttc-delay-overcrowding-video ,

http://dailyhive.com/toronto/ttc-code-red-report-lack-funding ,

http://dailyhive.com/toronto/ttc-in-movies-tv-youtube-2017 ,


http://dailyhive.com/toronto/environment-canada-weather-advisory-toronto-november-15-2018

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Georgia+Street

Toronto

http://www.feelguide.com/2012/10/11/toronto-gets-epic-timelapse-video-and-three-new-stunning-skyscrapers-from-starchitect-frank-gehry/

http://cdn.thegridto.com/wp-content/uploads/519d2c19b824e-20130515-tallestplannedbuildings-big-UPDATED.jpg,
http://www.thegridto.com/city/places/how-much-taller-could-toronto-get-infographic

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?p=115149952

http://www.talkcondo.com/blog/7-most-exciting-proposals-in-toronto

http://torontoskyscraper.blogspot.ca/2013/08/toronto-future-skyline-now.html

http://www.talkcondo.com/blog/menkes-90-harbour-70-storeys

http://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?cityID=12

http://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?countryID=1

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Toronto

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=GTA

Extreme cold stretches across Toronto...

 https://toronto.citynews.ca/2025/01/19/extreme-cold-stretches-across-toronto-and-ontario-until-wednesday/

https://www.budgetyourtrip.com/compare/chicago-vs-toronto-4887398-6167865

https://weatherspark.com/compare/y/19863~14091/Comparison-of-the-Average-Weather-in-Toronto-and-Chicago

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Toronto

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=GTA

Why Greater Toronto Has Several Skylines

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eI9WJa9Q8dA 

Of course many large urban areas around the world have more than 1 or 2 skylines or tower clusters. 

For the longest time, no building in Vancouver or BC, was allowed to be as tall as the 1930s CIBC tower, which is now a stump.

https://www.blogto.com/city/2017/05/toronto-lost-observation-deck-commerce-court-north/

https://www.torontojourney416.com/canadian-bank-of-commerce-building/ 

https://www.25king.ca/the-history 

It wasn't until the early 1970s when stumpy, Vancouver allowed a building to be taller than the L.A. City Hall, or the Smith Tower in Seattle. 

The 1930s CIBC tower, the L.A. City Hall and the Smith Tower, would still be prominent towers in Vancouver, but stumps in their own cities. 

Despite Vancouver being divided by an inlet and a river, the city wasn't able to build a huge wall along Boundary Road. Thus, the KEEP THEM OUT agenda was a little thwarted. The various White city councils tried to do the next best thing. That was to symbolically impose various restrictions as a reluctance to think, plan and build on a BIG city scale. The time especially from 1960 to 2000 had predominantly White City Hall and its councils continually impose several overlapping restrictions. 

Since Vancouver can't control immigration or the movements of non-white people, keeping things small and backwards, means that less people will move there than to Toronto, Montreal, Calgary and Edmonton. However, with a mild winter climate, more and more people want to move to backwards BC, especially small-minded Vancouver and provincial Victoria. 

In spite of immigration and Multiculturalism, Vancouver was to perpetually promote its small scale agenda. 

While the first Skytrain line can finally run 5 car trains, the stations weren't designed to become long enough to eventually accomodate 9 car trains like the big city Montreal Metro has. 

The 2nd and 3rd Skytrain lines are still only running 2 car joke trains. Running 8-10 car trains is what a proper big city would do, but not backwards Vancouver. 

Narrow bridges provides strong symbolism of the cities narrow-mindedness. When bridges are too narrow, its difficult to have a proper express or rapid bus system. The reluctance to build parallel bus and HOV bridges helps to maintain the congestive planning approach that is vancouver and the Greater Region. 

Vancouver's refusal to build parallel bike bridges has meant that 2 lanes were removed from the Burrard Bridge, 1 lane from the Cambie Bridge and 2 lanes from the Granville Bridge. 

Keeping buildings symbolically short when compared to what scenic Sydney, Auckland, SF and Seattle allow, also helps to maintain Vancouver's reluctance to enter the big and tall urban scale. In fact, the scenic setting that Vancouver is in has been used as the main excuse to continually scale the city down. Yet, several scenic cities around the world are either able to have wider bridges, wider roads, longer trains or taller buildings. 

The world is mostly composed of non-white people. Canada has less than 1% of the world's population and stubborn Vancouver symbolically remains as a small provincial backwater on the Pacific Rim. 

https://centralparktower.com.au Unlike Perth, Vancouver forbids 50 story office towers and Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne size residential towers. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/108_St_Georges_Terrace In fact, no office building in Vancouver has been permitted to have a 40th floor. However, since Burnaby and Surrey aren't under the restrictive controls of Vancouver, they will eventually allow office towers over 40 stories. 

Despite Australia having less people than Canada, Perth is allowed to have taller buildings, wider bridges and longer trains than Vancouver. Taller buildings, wider bridges and longer trains are even less likely in Halifax than whats in Brisbane or Queensland.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q1_(building) To see buildings on a similar scale of what Brisbane allows, one has to get to Greater Toronto. Brisbane is allowed to have some buildings that would even be impressive in Melbourne and Sydney. 

While Montreal is allowed to have taller buildings than Vancouver, Montreal isn't allowed to have Sydney size towers. Especially not on the scale of what Melbourne and Toronto permit. 

Feds announce high-speed train between Toronto and Quebec City

 https://dailyhive.com/toronto/alto-train-toronto-quebec-city

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-announces-high-speed-rail-quebec-toronto-1.7462538

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/trudeau-announces-high-speed-rail-network-in-toronto-quebec-city-corridor/

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/train-delayed-a-timeline-of-high-speed-rail-projects-in-canada/

One Delisle condo-tower

 https://www.blogto.com/real-estate-toronto/2024/12/1-delisle-ave-toronto/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Clair_station

https://www.ttc.ca/subway-stations/st-clair-station

https://www.blogto.com/real-estate-toronto/2024/12/135-st-clair-avenue-west-toronto/

https://toronto.urbanize.city/post/49-storey-tower-proposed-avenue-road-and-st-clair

https://urbantoronto.ca/news/2024/03/resubmission-bumps-st-clair-station-proposal-50-storeys.55425

BMO Tower in Chicago and Toronto...

A Toronto bank tower exists in Chicago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMO_Tower_(Chicago) 51-story, 727 feet (222 m)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Union_Station

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Chicago+Union+Station/@41.877568,-87.6397406,525m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m15!1m8!3m7!1s0x880e2c3cd0f4cbed:0xafe0a6ad09c0c000!2sChicago,+IL,+USA!3b1!8m2!3d41.8781136!4d-87.6297982!16zL20vMDFfZDQ!3m5!1s0x880e2c8dbbb32f5d:0x5f985dc0044b1109!8m2!3d41.8786897!4d-87.640311!16s%2Fg%2F1tj7wzcm!5m1!1e2?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDMxNy4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Canadian_Place (BMO Tower Toronto) 298 m (978 ft) 72 stories 

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/First_Canadian_Place_August_2017_01.jpg/320px-First_Canadian_Place_August_2017_01.jpg 72 stories in Toronto, while its Vancouver counterpart, or stump is only 32 floors.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Canadian_Place#History_and_architecture

"Exchange_Tower is a 36 storey 146 m (479 ft) tower in the First Canadian Place complex."

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c0/130_King_Street_West_2022.jpeg Whether its in Toronto, Chicago or Calgary, there is usually a Vancouver size stump that's part of the official complex, or close by.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bentall_Centre_(Vancouver)#Three_Bentall_Centre "Completed in 1974, it stands at 122 m or 32 storeys tall. Bank of Montreal is the main tenant of this building."

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/Bentall_Centre_2018.jpg/960px-Bentall_Centre_2018.jpg

Chicago vs. Toronto

 https://versus.com/en/chicago-vs-toronto

https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?country1=Canada&city1=Toronto&country2=United+States&city2=Chicago%2C+IL

https://www.reddit.com/r/chicago/comments/ry7m6r/im_always_bewildered_by_the_similarity_between/

http://www.chicagosistercities.com/sister-cities/toronto-canada/

https://www.reddit.com/r/skyscrapers/comments/1f2jxtz/what_great_lake_cluster_is_more_dense_toronto_or Unlike Asia, the USA & Australia, Canada has no building with at least 100 floors, so far. 

https://www.reddit.com/r/skyscrapers/comments/1bqx5iw/future_toronto_vs_current_chicago/#lightbox

Chi https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2Ftoronto-vs-chicago-which-skyline-is-better-v0-xi8pxcn1dlqc1.jpg%3Fwidth%3D2400%26format%3Dpjpg%26auto%3Dwebp%26s%3Dccad64d575ca5f3085ad10dc8178f9c98a8c73fc

https://chicago.suntimes.com/crossroads/2020/6/12/21278779/toronto-skyscrapers-global-cities-chicago-city-crossroads-ed-zotti

https://dilemma-x.net/2013/03/07/torontos-population-overtakes-chicago

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Toronto

Prominent Toronto office tower will be completely demolished

 https://dailyhive.com/toronto/prominent-toronto-office-tower-completely-demolished There is a time when a stumpy Vancouver size building must be replaced with a Toronto size tower.

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=GTA