Baraka_Guru

6-Alarm Fire at Queen & Bathurst

This is something worth noting. This week, 15 buildings in a historic part of Toronto were either damaged or destroyed by a huge fire. (At one point, there were 50 emergency vehicles involved.) Some of these buildings were as old as Canada (mostly dating to the mid-1800s).

Those who know the Queen West area, what are your responses to this? I think it's a terrible thing to lose such things as historic buildings and 90-year-old bicycle shops, but the other concern is what will replace these things. Will this be a continuation of the gentrification of Queen West?

Is gentrification a good thing or a bad thing for the neighbourhood?

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Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
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