HEADLINE:"Dermatologists warn of doctor shortage as skin cancer rates rise"
BURIED DEEP IN THE ARTICLE:"We're not saying don't have fun out in the sun," she said. "Go kayaking, play tennis but protect yourself."
- CBC http://tinyurl.com/5qrcjh

HEADLINE:"Deadly skin cancer rates rise among young women"
IN THE STORY:"a trend that might be related to an increase in the use of tanning parlors" - Vancouver Sun http://tinyurl.com/5k5ktr

"The occurrence of skin cancer has been increasing in Canada at a fairly constant rate over the past 30 years." HEALTH CANADA http://tinyurl.com/6p6opk

While rates are in fact increasing, it is not near to the hysterical level reported by the MSM.

Whiskey. Tango. Foxtrot.

Crummy schools, crumbling infrastructure, closing or curtailing of public facilities, an utterly incoherent and business-hostile planning process (converting industrial lands to condominiums is fine, but where will the businesses go? Outside Toronto, that's where), a Mayor who eats up vast amounts of City Council time and energy going after law-abiding gun owners, and the reaction of council members is ...

Oh look! Not enough shade! We need a Shade Audit, and a Standing Shade Committee, and a Shade Policy and Design Mandate, and a Shade Equity Ombudsman to ensure that skin cancer rates are equally distributed regardless of race or ethnic group...

How about reminding people to use sunscreen? How hard would that be?

If my business wasn't so tied to the financial sector, I'd leave this stupid town (and some day, I will). Any chance the insurance companies would relocate HQ to Alberta? Or would Albertans even want us? Probably not -- why would, say, Calgary want a bunch of pushy bourgeous socialist migrants with enough money to contaminate their politics? **SIGH**

These would not be the same statists who rail against high rise development because it blocks people's right to sunlight. No, I'm sure not.

...mushrooms.

Something about mushrooms.

This is a study regarding mushrooms growing in Toronto right?

This would be really funny if it wasn't such a dumb-ass, typically leftie idea which serves absolutely no purpose whatsoever. Like, what's the problem??????

Toronto's parks are a disaster: weedy and garbage-strewn, with drunks sleeping it off on benches, so why would the bureaucrats give a good gol darn how much shade its citizens can sit under?

Natch, cleaning up Toronto's parks isn't on the agenda, just more salaries for TO's bureaucratic parasites to carry out some useless shade surveys: no doubt, they'll hire their own kids and grandkids to do the job.

Oy vey. More of my money going down the Moron Miller Sinkhole.

"...based on the number of children that typically play in an area..."

"...children using its parks..."

First we have to regulate transfats and junk food in schools because of the obesity epidemic -- because the current generation would rather play video games or watch TV than play outside. Then we have to regulate shade in the parks they don't use. Makes perfect sense.

"Three found dead in vehicle in west end " (sprayed with bullets) Maybe they should not worry about the sun and build bullet shades

When one builds a bureaucracy, ya gotta feed it.

Those thousands of hungry mouths lined up at the public trough HAVE to be doing something, or at least be seen to be doing something.

If you build it, they will expand it.

City council has, of course, looked at all of the studies that show daytime shade reduces the rate of skin cancer across all demographics, right? ...right?

City council has, of course, looked at all of the epidemiological studies in Toronto that show that Toronto's skin cancer rates are sunlight-clustered in Toronto, right? ...right?

City council has, of course, looked at all of the studies that show the critical balance needed between Toronto solar insolation profiles and the desired ratio between over-exposure to sunlight leading to skin cancer and the minimum daily requirement to maximize vitamin D production in multiracial demographics, right? ...right?

City council has, of course, looked at all of the studies that show the critical balance needed between Toronto solar insolation profiles and the desired ratio between over-exposure to sunlight leading to skin cancer and the minimum daily pineal gland requirement to maximize circadian physiological balance in multiracial demographics, right? ...right?

City council has apparently decided that managing children is no longer a parental function and that sun exposure should be regulated by the kid's parents. Oh, wait, yeah, illegal firearm use in Toronto, city council has decided that parents don't have an obligation to police their offspring in Toronto.

Then why is the city wasting money? All David Miller has to do is the same thing he does whenever failed parental responsibility raises its head in Toronto:

a) Blame the US.,
b) Blame citizens that don't have kids,
c) Blame the citizens that don't have kids in other provinces.
d) Make statements like "nobody needs to not have kids in our cities. I hate non-kid parents. The federal government needs to ban all non-kid parents in Canada."

Some of these people are heavily invested in tin foil hats. These will ultimatley be the cure all for shade, sun and cancer.

Forget freedom of choice: I guess the next phase of this hairbrained plot is to decide how many kids can be tethered to each tree. I notice in many parks and schoolyards that the kids--silly them!--often decide to play in the sun, e.g., on the basketball court or baseball diamond, etc., rather than under a tree. We can't have that now, can we?

Miller and his crew are brain-dead fascists!

Three more people shot in Toronto this weekend. That means Mayor Miller of Left will pop out before the cameras to call for a ban on handguns then pop back into his hole until next shooting.
That city has run the gamut from Toronto The Good to Toronto The Good Gawd What's Happened?

They can certainly look to the Liberals for a lot of blame. They're responsible for bringing in misfit immigrants and proliferating ghettos.

How about an IQ audit of Toronto City Council?

LOL loukout!

Isn't it the same city where you can't plant a tree younger than nine to ten years old, otherwise it just dies, because of the pollution?

Should ban kids under ten from the parks as well then, I mean really it's for their well being as well, no?

/yes, yes of course.

ops, sorry LOOKOUT, hit send before preview...my bad.

I remember seeing a graph one time of the rate of skin cancer directly compared to the sales of sun screen and they rose in exactly the same way over the last 30 years. It's not hard to imagine the so called "sun screen" is actually causing skin cancer. All the sun screen does is mask the symptoms of being in the sun too long (sun burn) so you can stay out in it much longer than you should be. It's not actually screening anything as all that sun is still hitting your skin and being absorbed, it just doesn't burn. (kind of like taking pain killers to mask a serious problem) Just my opinion on why cancer rates are going up so fast. By the way, what ever happened to the ozone layer thing they pushed so hard for so many years? Never hear a word about it anymore.

Wow, ldd, I never thought of that! Yes, ban all kids from parks and, le voila, problem solved!

Mind you, after wasting yet more of the taxpayers' hard-earned $$ and finding the shade quotient isn't working (duh), that's probably the next step in their program.

What asshats.

These "shade audits", while laudable, won't solve the problem soon enough to save many innocent sunshine victims.

It's time for a complete ban on sunshine. (This will help with "global warming" as well.)

Why won't the Prime Minister act?

There have been several major studies in the last few years that have shown that the lack of vitamin D, which is produced from sunlight, in northern latitudes is a significant contributor to numerous illnesses.

It is not unhealthy to get sun exposure. It is a necessity, and Canadians, on average, do not get enough sun exposure, including kids.

These councillors are doing more harm than good.

This is great news. It means that the city of Toronto is so well-managed - garbage collected, pot holes repaired, buses clean and efficient, etc. - the councilors have the time to turn to other matters. Yeah, right.

Stupid beyond belief...
Even by Toronto standards
And they set the stupidity bar pretty high!!!

Yesterday I was listening to the radio and some guy was babbling on how it was bad to hang and dry your clothes outside. It's the pollen don't you know.

Now I don't know about you but if I had it together
hanging my clothes and bed stuff out to dry outside would be the only way to go as a matter of fact we do some stuff.

Whoever these people are they are going to disinfect themselves into the grave. Their immunes sytems won't be able to fight off an imagenary cold never mind something big tough and real.

Governments with far, far too much money and a belief that their holy calling is to save the commoners from themselves. Democracy does not guarantee freedom, it has to be combined with limited government.

The Toronto city council is

1. a waste of skin
2. a cancer on this country

That is the main skin and cancer problem in Toronto.

Consider that the most at risk from the suns rays are the fair skinned kids. Since are almost none of them left in the GTA, I don't see the point.

If they want to do something nice for the current swath of kids in Toronto, they could start with camel rides in the parks. Just to make all the new immigrant families in Toronto feel more at home.

They have shade, it's called "smog".

Sunscreen, apparently, is bad for you. Skin is porous. So, the chemicals which ensure you don't burn are absorbed into your system as toxins.

Now, maybe the asshats at City Council could look into THAT. (Though I imagine more than a few of them have stocks in pharmaceuticals-- justification for the "just use a condom" sound bites in our schools courtesy of public health nurses.)

VOTE.THEM.ALL.OUT.

Why doesn't Millar just ban UV?

Uh huh lookout, soon TO kids will be tethered to leftist designed ergonomically approved x-box/trike or bike contraptions, complete with fake trees, flowers and plants all INSIDE a nice modern facility! Yep the little kiddies will be bathed in leftist approved lighting mediums of dim florescent lights to protect them from the real world, er I mean the evilness of the rest of us damed sun loving capitalists.

And all the little kids will be organized and categorized by skin colour, just to prove how progressive "we" all are.

We must be having an epidemic of children dying of skin cancer in Canada...Better hope cbc doesn't see this, we'll be in for another five years of "pandemic" the sky is falling crapola.

Anyways, IMHO, obesity is gonna kill more of these 'kids' than skin cancer will.

And where does this cancer-causing sunshine come from?

Most of the day, it comes from the south!

That's right, George Bush wants to kill Toronto's babies, whether its with handguns or sunshine.

Well I happen to agree with this study and the city of Toronto. This study was long overdue and it should be obvious to all that the city fathers and the citizens of Toronto have been out in the sun to long. It is also quite oblivious to me that cataracts caused by excessive sunlight is responsible for the hazy vision of their surroundings. It must be like the desert for these people, mirages everywhere, hallucinating, reality dehydration, take this seriously as those elected and the city staff are poofessionals.

"where you can't plant a tree younger than nine to ten years old, otherwise it just dies, because of the pollution?"

I'd think you were kidding, but having lived out west for a fair number of years, i'm well aware of the loony mythology that surrounds the hated Trawna.
I suppose it's only fair; i still laugh about seeing a tumbleweed in downtown Regina.

I used to be proud - and I mean truly PROUD - to be from Toronto. I thought we had avoided the problems of American cities - the ghettos, the crime, the transport, etc.

Now.I am just ashamed.

Hey, this otto be a piece of cake after the way Miller solved TOs gun problems!

And if he doesn't solve it, then he can blame BushHitlerHarper and ride to power in the next election on shade fearmongering rhetoric.

Open 24/7 daycares on subway platforms. Two birds, one stone.

"Why doesn't Millar just ban UV?" because then only criminals will have UV. /sarc

Perhaps a UV registry, revenue neutral of course.

Toronto born and bred, happily escaped to the land of the sane people 24 months ago. I am ashamed and embarrassed of my hometown. I knew there was no hope when his blondess was a shoo in for the last election. Couldn't get outta there fast enough.

Message to Torontoians: there IS life outside.. try it!

Councillor Gloria Lindsay Luby, who represents suburban Etobicoke, said there are many children who live in high-rises in her ward and have no other places to play other than in parks. She said that makes safeguarding their future health a public health issue.

Hey, Gloria, the kids have to cross streets with traffic to get to the park, are you going to study and fix that too? And, don't leave out a poison ivy and sidewalk cracks count either.

See what happens when you elect the most inane of Parent Teacher Assoc. types to public office. Someone made the observation somewhere that stuck with me that when you feminize a culture you leave it open to be eaten by the next nasty macho male warrior culture. Look no farther than the Euroweenies' decline and the real chance that the Islamists will conquer them in due time.

The US Congress is riddled with these moronic busybody types. Dumb broads like this bring are the rest of us females down.

And yet the irony is that there are regulations that limit the amount of shade a building is allowed to cast, used to limit building height, generate setback provisions etc.

Just plant some more trees in more parks...generically that is a good idea. A little late to be conducting the audit. Should really be a summer job for some geography or urabn planning students...get em cheap to gather data. Using city bureacrats...EXPENSIVE....and why they are bragging about it, I bet every other city in the continent has data about tree shade in all its planning documents.....

OR we could just ban Toronto......problem solved!

"While there is no cost attached to the preliminary shade audits of the pilot project, a city report states funds could be required down the road if canopies and structures must be built: "Future financial implications may result"

Brace yourselves, Torontonians, this is going to cost you big time. That last sentence,"future financial....etc.", is the only one that counts.

Why do they need shade with all the thick smog?

I was there on friday, and it was terrible!

They even have "smog alerts" on the buses.

...hope they take into account lunar eclipses.

Wouldn't be complete study, we also need to know how many times there will be a lunar eclipse in Toronto.

(I'm really biting my tongue here...)

..Dang! Someone beat me to it.

http://au.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070825230530AAFAmbD

The partial eclipse officially starts at 4:51 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time, and after a few minutes you'll notice a bite beginning to be taken out of the top of the moon.

Over the next hour, more of the lunar disc disappears until by 5:52 a.m. Eastern the earth's shadow completely covers it, the beginning of totality.

By now, the sky will have brightened considerably and you'll be able to see the ghostly eclipsed moon only with greater and greater difficulty. Over the next few minutes you'll lose it in the brightening dawn sky.

After that, it's anti-climax.

Is there no end to stupid. With ground breaking research telling those in cold climates to get "more" sun ... the idiots in Tarana are looking for shade. It's been reported for a good 3 years now that we in the cold climates need more sun, not less:

http://www.harvardvanguard.org/info/news/mind/GStone_mb_0704.asp

ldd, how about Bubble Kids: hermetically sealed bubbles around each one to protect them from everything?

But I think I like MaryM's idea better: ban Toronto. Maybe Mayor Miller will go for it!

Kate, Ezra's had a death threat made against him- use Binks' links here:
-Red Alert--

Be alert, neighbor.

"It's naive to think that if we put all this infrastructure in our parks they won't be impacted by the rays of the sun," said a right-of-centre critic, Councillor Karen Stintz."

So refreshing to know that "common sense" is defined in a Toronto paper as "right-of-centre".

Bubble kids and Shade audits... hmm. Does have a similar tone to it. LOL

Somewhere in there someone must be laughing their butts off at this, I mean besides us.

What about those naked paraders? They do it every year in the sunniest month of the year here.

Can they be banned for setting a bad example for the kiddies? So much skin exposed to the oppressive occupying sun?

No? Sh*t. Was hopping...

And what about all those weekend party-ers! Sex with strangers is risky and dangerous, can also result in children who will then be at risk of skin cancer. Might as well as ban strangers too.

Well Lookout as you stated MaryM has it, just ban TO. Personally I'd throw in QC la la land as well. ;)

http://ezralevant.com/2008/07/guy-earle-comedy-benefit-updat.html

This is true.
the topic was Gay and Lesbian issue,
apparently some one, May one of the lesbian
Threat the Ezra Levant site

At 10:30 PM said in the comment

As a casual visitor to Tranna ( forced, not by choice ) I cannot believe what that place has devolved into. Many who live downtown never see the light of day because they live in condos that are directly connected to a rabbit-like warren that takes them to the subway. There they disembark and ride the elevator to their workplace. Shopping for groceries etc. can also be done underground. What a way to live!!
As an exemplification of the Tranna's citizens attitude, I recently had to meet with a mid-level official from a Federal Government Agency on an issue of a criminal nature. She refused to leave the city for this meeting ( out of Tranna was the main venue for this issue ) as she stated she would not feel safe going outside of the city.
Jesus in a Jazz band!!

toemax

"""""Wouldn't be complete study, we also need to know how many times there will be a lunar eclipse in Toronto."""""

it'd be better if they did a LOONEY eclipse study

Malcolm many natives of Turona have never been outside the city limits, then again they think they are the center of the Universe.

Now I'm a suspicious person, perhaps this shade retarded stuff is just a guise to get our little girls to wear Burkas and viola shade problem solved? There are parts of Turona that are totally and completely Islamic Enclaves, scary stuff.

Toronto is NOT Canada.

It's just a collection of multiculti ghettoes where 52% of the population did not even live in Canada 13 years ago.

It's the perfect legacy of Trudeau's open door immigration policy -- and they mostly vote Liberal.

When it's hot and sticky here in the City that Many Love To Hate, the smog covering is more than enough shade.

Since so many like to diss Toronto, do you at least loathe the Leafs and support the only teams that matters, the Montreal Canadiens???

This is silly. Clearly a revenue neutral sunlight tax or a cap and trade system is required here. Provinces that have a sunlight excess can purchase shade credits from large centers that have extra shade. This won't actually reduce the amount of sunlight provinces like Saskatchewan horde, but it is revenue neutral so it's okay. Okay!

I guess Mr..Burns was on to something, socialists like Lisa Simpson must let the private sector take its natural course, and it will solve problems like excess sunlight because the market will demand it.

GYM: "it'd be better if they did a LOONEY eclipse study"

...bingo! Did you also get my mushroom study double entendre? You know, kept in the dark, fed lots of, uh, stuff.

Sorta like GIGO.

On the very rare occasions I ponder Toronto. The Single biggest image I have of is a monster slowly like lava, eating up Southern Ontario entire. On great urine drenched concrete habitat for indigents. The suburbs where once cities, now just gated communities if there lucky. If not its Bum land for them as well.

As well pictures of poor immigrants dance in my head like old flicks of NY tenant buildings & sweat shops. Call it multicultural than like magic you have "Toronto the Pure". Pure BS of course.

Anybody out there remember Rae Days? The whole frickin' PROVINCE used to be run by these Dipper imbeciles. Now at least we've got them walled up in Hogtown.

When skin cancers are discussed in the MSM, the vast majority are the totally harmless basal cell carcinomas and a smaller fraction are squamous cell carcinomas which can spread to the rest of the body so they need to be taken seriously. What never seems to get any press is that the chances of one developing melanoma is inversely proportional to sun exposure and most melanomas occur on non-sun exposed areas of skin. Most patients I see are concerned about melanomas.

Vitamin D is the key factor here and, unless you happen to live in a sunny part of the country not yet influenced by the sunscreen lobby (like the southern interior where I now practice) you have a 90% chance of being Vitamin D deficient. In Vancouver I was amazed at the number of patients who I found to have undetectable Vitamin D levels and I've given up measuring them in anyone at my new practice location if they looked tanned as they were about 3-4X higher than Vancouver levels.

Vitamin D deficiency has been associated with a host of cancers and increased pain sensitivity (which is likely why I have a fraction of the requests for narcotic painkillers now than I did in Vancouver). The only reason for someone to use sunscreen is if they are unable to tan or if they are worried about photoaging of the skin. In that case they should take a minimum of 2000 IU of Vitamin D3 daily.

People with dark skin need a lot more sun exposure than people with white skin and this is the reason that black men have double the rate of prostate cancer in Canada compared to Africa.

What struck me as very absurd is that when I'd ask people in Vancouver if they regularly used sunscreen, the answer was inevitably yes (even if it was overcast and threatening to rain outside). In my southerin interior sunny practice of the moment I've found a total of 3 people (out of >1000) who admit to using sunscreen. Interestingly, I used to see a lot more skin cancers in Vancouver.

From the results of the vote on sunshelters of the TO city council one can infer that about 93% of TO city councillors are morons. Is this representative of the overall population?

Why can't they just wear a mask like I do?? Seriously, I spent some time in Australia. They have a "UV Rating" on shades. That was 5 years ago!! And TORONTO thought they had the patent on smoked glass!! Ha Ha !!

Is there no end to stupid.

No, but massive tax cuts might limit it.

Toronto becomes more hilarious as time passes.
Good place to boycott.

I have a proposal for Toronto City Council that would immediately double the amount of shade that every female Tranna resident generates.

It sounds as though the council of the center of the known universe is on to something.
You may have read a story about Orpheus in the underworld.
One description of the Elysian Fields was that there was peace and harmony and the deceased wandered about the fields without worry hither and yon.
In one story, Orpheus pronounced that the permanent shade as it were, was, though depressing to him and that one day in the upper world was worth a thousand in the underworld, it did not matter to the residents.
Seems some apparatchiks and bureaucrats have endless source of ‘sheet’ to throw around willy-nilly in hope that politicians catch some, which politicians will invariably do, to be seen as advanced, even if advanced in their collective ‘sheet’.
The next step should be to have playgrounds in something like empty home depot store or maybe underground by the local subway stops, that should be a lifetime job for a few thousand in the bellybutton of the universe.
It would employ potentially the whole city since the children would grow up to be depressed by the shade and darkness and of course would need social programs to make them happy even if for a fleeting moment at a time. They, the children of course would need various and sundry other services that obviously Alberta could afford to supply.

Oh crap. If Calgary alderman Druh Farrell sees this, she is immediately going to demand a shade audit here. This looniness is exactly her cup of tea and to her anything that's good for Toronto is good for Calgary (thanks to youse guys, we are going to lose our Weed n Feed too).

Loki, thanks for your comments about Vitamin D. Canadians can't possibly get all they need from sunshine and the amount in milk is negligible. I have put my whole family on Vitamin D - only 1000 iu's per day but now I am going to have every one increase to 2000. Growing up, I was taught that in anything but minuscule amounts, Vitamin D was toxic. But not as toxic as city councils (and I don't think it matters where you live).

"Toronto is NOT Canada."

Sadly, this has become true. Thirty years ago I used to enjoy visiting Toronto. Now, on the rare occasion I find myself there, I don't even recognize it. This Miller guy must be a real freak!

Seachange, if you live somewhere sunny and your family is out for >30 minutes/day sans sunscreen, you don't need Vitamin D in the summer. Definately something to take from October to April though. When buying vitamin D, make sure it is D3. Most vitamin suppliers have stopped selling vitamin D2 (which can be toxic if you take too much and is also the form of vitamin D in milk). If a Vitamin D bottle is not labelled as D3 don't buy it. I personally take 2000 IU of D3 daily but the amount is very individual and I've seen patients whose vitamin D blood levels haven't budged after a few months of 2000 IU of D3 daily. There's a minority medical opinion that people might need 10,000 IU daily, but I'd suggest getting frequent monitoring of blood 25 hydroxy vitamin D levels for anyone who decides to go to that dose. The cod liver oil that a previous generation used to get contained a generous dose of Vitamin D3.

Thanks, Loki! That is really helpful advice and I hope all readers here will also take heed. I checked and the stuff I have is D3 - a combination of dumb luck and a responsible pharmacy - and I am grateful to you for advising me about it. We'll stick to the winter months with it.

I was definitely a victim of cod liver oil but, ingenious as my mother was in hiding it, I learned several even more ingenious ways to avoid it!

Thanks again.

Maybe McGuinty and Dion can come up with a UV tax.

If the council simply mandated bicycle helmets covered in tin foil for pedestrians, several problems could be solved at the same time:

1. An increase in shade.
2. A reduction in global warming by reflecting those evil sun rays.
3. Reduction in head injuries caused to pedestrians by cars.
4. The alian thought rays will also be stopped along with the evil Sun Rays.

With the addition of a propellor and generator on the hat, a significant renewable source of electricity will be created.

Rob C, yes I heard about that outbreak of gun-club vendettas.

Thanks for the info Loki. Much appreciated.

Regards,
Pat

A UV tax? Shhh! Don't give 'em any ideas. Late to the thread here, but a SHADE audit?? I think we've stumbled onto the real reason the Leafs haven't made the finals in 40 years. If you wear the jersey, you're admitting that you represent this booby hatchery.

Sir Noel Coward was wrong: not just "Mad Dogs and Englishmen" go out in the mid-day sun."

Nope, Toronto bureaucrats do it too. And, judging from their madness, they've definitely spent too much time in it.

It won't be long until it will be mandatory for all children, both male and female living in Toronto to wear burkas. If it saves just one childs life. (sigh)

Just returned from a wedding this past weekend in Kansas City and boy was it hot there with a strong sun beating down. The american heartland was a wonderful place to visit with a clean, graffiti free downtown with wonderful restaurants, parks and pubs. Our hosts were from a large farming family whose matriarch just passed away at 104, still sharp as a tack. Lots of kids of all ages at the wedding of over 300 people, which was refreshing to see.

All the older daughters reaching into their 80's had beautiful pale skins as they all avoided the sun during the hotest part of the summer by dressing for it. Everyone looked healthy and were some of the nicest people you would ever want to meet. Family came first and it showed. Some of the guys looked like farmers with wrinkled necks as they worked hard on their huge farms.

Drove around a bit and was impressed. Out here America looks prosperous and strong. Nobody I spoke to liked Obama as they were strong Republicans and hated socialists.

Great contrast with leftist Toronto, would have loved to see these farmers and hard working business people's expression on our councillors trying to regulate shade, unreal.

Yeah, Toronto sucks! We’re awesome!

Nevermind that the notion of a shade audit was pioneered and is widely used in Australia and NZ, who know a thing or two about skin cancer, as a small but valuable part of much broader cancer strategies. Forget that it's been refined and used by such a-hole losers as the Canadian Cancer Society, the American Cancer Society, the CDC, the National School Board Association, etc. Ignore that virtually all urban parks in N. America were/are created through deliberate landscape design, including conscious planning of shade canopies (NYC’s Central Park, the most frequently used city park on the continent, being but one prominent example).

Who cares?! Free opportunity to bash “socialist” Toronto? Time to get our hate on!

"Just returned from a wedding this past weekend in Kansas City"

Go Chief Go

ESP alert....

Brett Favre is traded to Kansas City; or, Brett Farve returns to GB and Aaron Rogers is traded to KC for Brody Croyle.

"Nevermind that the notion of a shade audit was pioneered and is widely used in Australia and NZ"

If Australia and NZ jumped off a bridge...

Hmmm, now I am confused, why would a Country that has 6 - 8 months Winter want to regulate Sunshine ?
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People,people. C'mon!! All that they are doing is making sure there is enough shade for the "Religion of Peace" followers when they demand burkhas of all the females in TO. You know. Sorta like the frogs did for the Nazis in Pareee!!!

Regulating the amount of sun striking anything is absurd, except a negative.

A source of a certain vitamin.

Has benficial properties to alter bowel disease.

I just do not get it.