Downtown Life for Families

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So rfmcdpei pointed out this article in the Toronto Star tonight.

Summed up: Toronto's deputy mayor Doug Holyday got into a bit of a scrap with Councillor Adam Vaughan about the suitability of downtown cores as a place to raise families.

Here's what I told Randy:

One of the things I've noticed about Ottawa is that there are still parts of the downtown where people are raising their kids. It may not be a choice I'd make if I were a parent, but there's been arrangements made to make such things reasonably close to safe enough. I like the fact that our city's been making those efforts, however imperfect they may be in fact or perception.

And that's my imperfectly polite response to Holyday's opinion.

And that response stands.