Seems a good choice to me. Sociology profs created the blueprint, why shouldn’t they get the credit?
31 Replies to “University Heights”
maybe they could rename the area, “The Liberal Party”
works for me…
I can see it now (if I ever read it?) in the Toronto Star,
“3 more killings in The Liberal Party”
or,
“Youths run rampant in The Liberal Party”
what more do they want? they already have the hockey team they deserve.
What, was the old name too macho? The neighbourhood’s already named after a girl and a bird.
Oh, yeah: A rose by any other name…yada, yada, yada
Is there something in the Toronto water that turns supposedly sensible citizens into raving lunatic moonbats?
Go ahead: Call Jane and Finch “University Heights”: It’s sure to turn the ‘hood into a genteel, dad in every home, mom in every kitchen kind of place.
I was going to add “no drugs kind of place,” but aren’t there a lot of university students and profs who do a bunch of drugs?
I think they should call it Washington Heights. Because it looks the same, and the people act the same, and the coppers look the other way just the same.
I guess it would be too much too much to ask for the cops and the justice ministry to actually jail people when they do rapes, robberies and murders.
“A rose by any other name is still a rose”.
An area or region is only as good as it’s inhabitants make it. Attitudes and resultant behaviors can make or break any community, company or home. Everyone has a choice as to the attitude they will embrace every day.
So taking Jane and Finch to the heights of university won’t change a damned thing with the same attitudes and behaviors.
Jane n Finch or “Murder U”, its all the same! I will call it Murder U.
There used to be a unlovely area of NYC called Hell’s Kitchen, since they are no longer using that name, maybe we could take it over in Toronto?
Hell’s Bathroom maybe, Fred.
Sweet. The typical vacuous lefty fix, just change the name and pretend it’s a university campus rather than a slum. No one will notice. Why not award the ghetto residents honorary degrees as part of the plan too?
What part of “rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic” do liberals always fail to get?
Failed individuals like failed states tend to form neighborhoods/alliances along those lines. They will always be among us to varying degrees.
How about Kingston?
What about Kingston?
Yes, we have the prisons. Which, in reality, is just the dumping ground for the scumbags from the J-F corridor.
We do not have wannabe rappers going around popping each other!
We have a university campus settled in the old part of Kingston, consisting of lovely old homes, and a short walk to downtown.
How about Kingston?
Geeeeeeez!
Unless, of course, you were referring to the other Kingston, as in Jamaica.
Then, have at it!
And I’m sure that the Sociology profs and Toronto Star emplyers/employees will be moving into the renamed neighbourhood to help in the revitalization of University Heights. They will, won’t they?
Little Jamaica??? Little Italy anmd Chinatown are already taken, eh.
Is this surprising in the Age of Euphemisms?
I can’t wait for someone on the Vancouver Socialist City Council to suggest a rename of the Downtown Eastside, perhaps “Picktonville” or “Hookertown”, or maybe “The Hyp(odermic) Ex(change)”.
Or maybe just deny it’s geographic location, and name it West Vancouver.
Sometimes Socialists exceed my expectations.
How about Miller’s Lookout or McGuintyVille…..
How about Miller’s Cave or Dalton’s Dumpster? Let’s have a contest.
University Heights is a perfect name. They could also make it a “gun free zone” … so all inhabitants and visitors are nice and safe.
For sale.
Charming character home in the desirable University Heights. Environmental-friendly location where daily living necessities are within walking distance. Public transit systems are just steps away taking you to Universities, schools, basketball courts and shopping.
Diversity Heights?
boot hill?
A manure pile still smells,
Only applies if the neighbourhood is bounded by University Street and Heights Avenue.
Why not just call it “Utopia”
Any other name is just a half-measure.
Come to Trudeaupia* the neighbourhood born of good intentions, where work has been superseded by a collectivist culture, personal responsibility is an alien concept, where the rule of law is applied lightly, where taxspenders can dream their dreams. Nightly gunfire displays and flashing lights. The living is easy here and the neighbourhood recently achieved the distinction of having the highest concentration of handguns, gone are the days of poverty when our residents only carried baseball bats.
The neighbourhood is modelled along the same planning and social science ideas of Gaza City, but we see no reason that it could not become the new Mogadishnu.
*Turdeaupia, Turdopia, or variants thereof
University Heights is a good start but why stop there? Re branding can be used for more than just improving unsavory real estate designations.
Out with the prostitutes and in with sex trade workers.
Sex – cool
Trade – a cornerstone of the economy
Workers – the NDP’s favourite identity group
Banish bums and vagrants and replace with homeless people
Homeless – imagine Oliver Twist and other innocent young waifs and orphans
People – good
No more dangerous shooting galleries – open clean needle exchanges
Cleanliness – next to godliness
Exchange – the 3rd R in the 3 Rs
Needle – 2 out of 3 is not bad
If worse comes to worst no need to resort to genocide get with Ethnic Cleansing
Ethnic – the building blocks of multiculturalism
Cleansing – again, cleanliness is next to godliness
All a good social engineer really needs is a little time and a good thesaurus and they’ll soon have the song birds back in the trees and a rainbow in the sky.
Bring Guiliani in. He’d know how to turn the tide in “University Heights” (dinosaur, I kinda like Diversity Heights.)
Arrest the petty, small-time thugs, they lead you to the big guys, arrest the big guys, and make the charges stick.
It’s a matter of getting tough with the thugs and gangs, something the lib moonbats seem constitutionally incapable of doing. Their take on the problem? “They’re depraved on accounta they’re deprived, poor darlings. We need to be nicer, kinder, more multicultural, and diverse. That’ll change things.”
They haven’t so far. What don’t they understand about abject failure and an absolute waste of human lives? We know where the road to good intentions leads: Hell’s Bathroom (‘good one, Phantom).
Instead of renaming the neighbourhood they should rename it’s denizens.
“Buttercup, meet Sunshine…”
Jane+Finch Barbie
This recently paroled Barbie comes with a 9mm handgun, a Ray Lewis knife,a Chevy with dark tinted windows, and a Meth Lab Kit. This model is only available after dark and must be paid for in cash (preferably small, untraceable bills) … unless you are a cop, then we don’t know what you are talking about. http://dancingsamurai.ca/2007/03/04/gta-barbies-parody/
you might get a politician or two (retired) in trawna to admit that the urban planning, zoning and building permits were (in hindsight) a bad idea – high-rise population/density “solutions” might have helped keep pace with a housing/immigration problem that started decades ago – but the lessons are now literally written on the walls.
now, the neighbourhood is a gordian knot. i don’t pretend to have any practical answers but at the very least – one could expect that in the future, municipal planners would not replicate these goofy warehousing projects elsewhere referred to as “banlieues”. and maybe the government could screen candidates instead of leaving the gate keys in the hands of “immigration” lawyers.
is it possible that an immigration policy in a country like canada could be improved? i’m optimistic about improvements in immigration policy and urban planning, but not so much for the residents of jane/finch corridor now rebranded as “new and improved” – many of those residents are in an entirely unenviable situation not of their own making. they came here for a better life – their problem is that it will probably take longer than they thought it would.
the “correct” who live in relative safety far from this “troubled area” will sweep the old name away, but the residents who survive it or get out will always remember it as jane-finch despite the best intentions of city hall. the miscreants and criminals will eventually cripple or kill each other off. and so it goes. maybe jane/finch is better on a daily basis than where they’ve emigrated from – who knows? i can’t imagine canadians are moving in large numbers to those countries.
for the record – i would never consider moving to zimbabwe – i’m sure i would miss the snow etc.
Sorry Kinglad, of course it was Jamaica I was thinking about.
The most violent place in the western world, a BBC program said that I saw several yrs ago.
Of course, I’m sure that Hugo C will give them a run for their munney and title when he finally gets his dozers up to speed.
maybe they could rename the area, “The Liberal Party”
works for me…
I can see it now (if I ever read it?) in the Toronto Star,
“3 more killings in The Liberal Party”
or,
“Youths run rampant in The Liberal Party”
what more do they want? they already have the hockey team they deserve.
What, was the old name too macho? The neighbourhood’s already named after a girl and a bird.
Oh, yeah: A rose by any other name…yada, yada, yada
Is there something in the Toronto water that turns supposedly sensible citizens into raving lunatic moonbats?
Go ahead: Call Jane and Finch “University Heights”: It’s sure to turn the ‘hood into a genteel, dad in every home, mom in every kitchen kind of place.
I was going to add “no drugs kind of place,” but aren’t there a lot of university students and profs who do a bunch of drugs?
I think they should call it Washington Heights. Because it looks the same, and the people act the same, and the coppers look the other way just the same.
I guess it would be too much too much to ask for the cops and the justice ministry to actually jail people when they do rapes, robberies and murders.
“A rose by any other name is still a rose”.
An area or region is only as good as it’s inhabitants make it. Attitudes and resultant behaviors can make or break any community, company or home. Everyone has a choice as to the attitude they will embrace every day.
So taking Jane and Finch to the heights of university won’t change a damned thing with the same attitudes and behaviors.
Jane n Finch or “Murder U”, its all the same! I will call it Murder U.
There used to be a unlovely area of NYC called Hell’s Kitchen, since they are no longer using that name, maybe we could take it over in Toronto?
Hell’s Bathroom maybe, Fred.
Sweet. The typical vacuous lefty fix, just change the name and pretend it’s a university campus rather than a slum. No one will notice. Why not award the ghetto residents honorary degrees as part of the plan too?
What part of “rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic” do liberals always fail to get?
Failed individuals like failed states tend to form neighborhoods/alliances along those lines. They will always be among us to varying degrees.
How about Kingston?
What about Kingston?
Yes, we have the prisons. Which, in reality, is just the dumping ground for the scumbags from the J-F corridor.
We do not have wannabe rappers going around popping each other!
We have a university campus settled in the old part of Kingston, consisting of lovely old homes, and a short walk to downtown.
How about Kingston?
Geeeeeeez!
Unless, of course, you were referring to the other Kingston, as in Jamaica.
Then, have at it!
And I’m sure that the Sociology profs and Toronto Star emplyers/employees will be moving into the renamed neighbourhood to help in the revitalization of University Heights. They will, won’t they?
Little Jamaica??? Little Italy anmd Chinatown are already taken, eh.
Is this surprising in the Age of Euphemisms?
I can’t wait for someone on the Vancouver Socialist City Council to suggest a rename of the Downtown Eastside, perhaps “Picktonville” or “Hookertown”, or maybe “The Hyp(odermic) Ex(change)”.
Or maybe just deny it’s geographic location, and name it West Vancouver.
Sometimes Socialists exceed my expectations.
How about Miller’s Lookout or McGuintyVille…..
How about Miller’s Cave or Dalton’s Dumpster? Let’s have a contest.
University Heights is a perfect name. They could also make it a “gun free zone” … so all inhabitants and visitors are nice and safe.
For sale.
Charming character home in the desirable University Heights. Environmental-friendly location where daily living necessities are within walking distance. Public transit systems are just steps away taking you to Universities, schools, basketball courts and shopping.
Diversity Heights?
boot hill?
A manure pile still smells,
Only applies if the neighbourhood is bounded by University Street and Heights Avenue.
Close to ‘University Heights’:
9:10 a.m
…There’s a search underway for two sword-wielding men who tried to rob a bank in the city’s northwest end this morning…..
http://www.torontosun.com/News/TorontoAndGTA/2008/04/07/5218201.html
Why not just call it “Utopia”
Any other name is just a half-measure.
Come to Trudeaupia* the neighbourhood born of good intentions, where work has been superseded by a collectivist culture, personal responsibility is an alien concept, where the rule of law is applied lightly, where taxspenders can dream their dreams. Nightly gunfire displays and flashing lights. The living is easy here and the neighbourhood recently achieved the distinction of having the highest concentration of handguns, gone are the days of poverty when our residents only carried baseball bats.
The neighbourhood is modelled along the same planning and social science ideas of Gaza City, but we see no reason that it could not become the new Mogadishnu.
*Turdeaupia, Turdopia, or variants thereof
University Heights is a good start but why stop there? Re branding can be used for more than just improving unsavory real estate designations.
Out with the prostitutes and in with sex trade workers.
Sex – cool
Trade – a cornerstone of the economy
Workers – the NDP’s favourite identity group
Banish bums and vagrants and replace with homeless people
Homeless – imagine Oliver Twist and other innocent young waifs and orphans
People – good
No more dangerous shooting galleries – open clean needle exchanges
Cleanliness – next to godliness
Exchange – the 3rd R in the 3 Rs
Needle – 2 out of 3 is not bad
If worse comes to worst no need to resort to genocide get with Ethnic Cleansing
Ethnic – the building blocks of multiculturalism
Cleansing – again, cleanliness is next to godliness
All a good social engineer really needs is a little time and a good thesaurus and they’ll soon have the song birds back in the trees and a rainbow in the sky.
Bring Guiliani in. He’d know how to turn the tide in “University Heights” (dinosaur, I kinda like Diversity Heights.)
Arrest the petty, small-time thugs, they lead you to the big guys, arrest the big guys, and make the charges stick.
It’s a matter of getting tough with the thugs and gangs, something the lib moonbats seem constitutionally incapable of doing. Their take on the problem? “They’re depraved on accounta they’re deprived, poor darlings. We need to be nicer, kinder, more multicultural, and diverse. That’ll change things.”
They haven’t so far. What don’t they understand about abject failure and an absolute waste of human lives? We know where the road to good intentions leads: Hell’s Bathroom (‘good one, Phantom).
Instead of renaming the neighbourhood they should rename it’s denizens.
“Buttercup, meet Sunshine…”
Jane+Finch Barbie
This recently paroled Barbie comes with a 9mm handgun, a Ray Lewis knife,a Chevy with dark tinted windows, and a Meth Lab Kit. This model is only available after dark and must be paid for in cash (preferably small, untraceable bills) … unless you are a cop, then we don’t know what you are talking about.
http://dancingsamurai.ca/2007/03/04/gta-barbies-parody/
you might get a politician or two (retired) in trawna to admit that the urban planning, zoning and building permits were (in hindsight) a bad idea – high-rise population/density “solutions” might have helped keep pace with a housing/immigration problem that started decades ago – but the lessons are now literally written on the walls.
now, the neighbourhood is a gordian knot. i don’t pretend to have any practical answers but at the very least – one could expect that in the future, municipal planners would not replicate these goofy warehousing projects elsewhere referred to as “banlieues”. and maybe the government could screen candidates instead of leaving the gate keys in the hands of “immigration” lawyers.
is it possible that an immigration policy in a country like canada could be improved? i’m optimistic about improvements in immigration policy and urban planning, but not so much for the residents of jane/finch corridor now rebranded as “new and improved” – many of those residents are in an entirely unenviable situation not of their own making. they came here for a better life – their problem is that it will probably take longer than they thought it would.
the “correct” who live in relative safety far from this “troubled area” will sweep the old name away, but the residents who survive it or get out will always remember it as jane-finch despite the best intentions of city hall. the miscreants and criminals will eventually cripple or kill each other off. and so it goes. maybe jane/finch is better on a daily basis than where they’ve emigrated from – who knows? i can’t imagine canadians are moving in large numbers to those countries.
for the record – i would never consider moving to zimbabwe – i’m sure i would miss the snow etc.
Sorry Kinglad, of course it was Jamaica I was thinking about.
The most violent place in the western world, a BBC program said that I saw several yrs ago.
Of course, I’m sure that Hugo C will give them a run for their munney and title when he finally gets his dozers up to speed.