A. RiveraJul 15, 2025

> Anti-Zohran Mamdani ‘move to Ohio’ billboard in Times Square ripped by NYers: ‘Why would we even go there?’ https://nypost.com/2025/07/14/us-news/anti-zohran-mamdani-move-to-ohio-billboard-in-times-square-ripped-by-nyers-why-would-we-even-go-there/

FTA sums it up: "What’s in Ohio? Why would you even go there?” said Mary Kennedy, 18, who was visiting New York from Houston, Texas.

“I don’t have any thoughts on Ohio. We kind of just pass through there. It’s just not a place you go.”

#NYC #BuckeyeState #MistakeByTheLake #fail #GOP #PartyOfStupid

Anti-Zohran Mamdani 'move to Ohio' billboard in Times Square ripped by NYers: 'Why would we even go there?'

Proud New Yorkers ripped an anti-Zohran Mamdani billboard Monday for urging them to move to Ohio — finding the prospect as unappetizing as a bowl of Cincinnati chili.

New York Post
Ron DyckJul 8, 2025

"A colossal five-storey parking garage proposed for Ontario Place will stand out as Toronto’s new mistake by the lake for years to come."

#MistakeByTheLake? That's brilliant!

Olivia Chow can avoid blame for Ford’s Ontario Place parking
https://www.thestar.com/politics/provincial/olivia-chow-doesnt-need-to-share-the-blame-for-doug-fords-ontario-place-parking-mistake/article_5abf3ddf-b15c-4ec0-abe2-1ac8725c093c.html

https://archive.ph/q3lw1

Olivia Chow doesn’t need to share the blame for Doug Ford’s Ontario Place parking mistake

There’s still time to correct this glaring error in judgment — political and architectural — before they both own it. 

Toronto Star
Show threadGGJul 10, 2024

Important to remember that demolishing the iconic Science Centre & replacing it with a Science-Centre-lite on #Toronto's waterfront park is part of the premier's shady 95 year deal with Therme mega-spa.
Details of #DougFord's contract with Therme should be revealed to #Ontario. Several #Therme sites around the world now sit vacant, boarded up, land cleared, with no progress towards construction. Manchester, below, is at least four years delayed.

#PonziScheme #WhiteElephant #MistakeByTheLake

Angus MacPhersonSep 15, 2023

Apropos of nothing, I think Doug Ford, Don Schmitt, Kinga Surma et al should listen to @TimHarford’s podcast on the folly of being hasty when planning a mega project on an iconic waterfront.

#topoli #onpoli #mistakebythelake #therme #ontarioplaceforall #ontarioplace

https://timharford.com/2023/09/cautionary-tales-the-tragedy-of-sydney-opera-house/

Cautionary Tales – The Tragedy of Sydney Opera House

1957. Jørn Utzon receives a phone call: he’s just won an international competition to design a brand new opera house for the Australian city of Sydney. Utzon is unknown in the field, so this …

Tim Harford
Show threadGGAug 29, 2023

People have been calling out the TIFF / Therme partnership for a while. Some background here:

"It's funny how when a local non profit (TIFF) takes dollars from a company (Therme) who are turning a local public park and gathering space (Ontario Place) into a business (private, ticketed spa) it feels like culture-washing and makes you hate them both more"

— Samantha Chater (@sam_chater) January 4, 2023

#TIFF #DodgedBullet #DougFord #MistakeByTheLake #toronto
https://www.blogto.com/city/2023/01/toronto-calling-out-tiff-group-privatizing-ontario-place/

People in Toronto are calling out TIFF for partnering with the group privatizing Ontario Place

The impending revitalization of Ontario Place has become an extremely hot button issue in Toronto, where residents are infuriated that the 155-acre...

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