Local News - This Ol' Landmark

I love my hometown - truly - but the City of Toronto has two consistent blind spots:
-Its desire for "World Class" status, vindicated and rubber-stamped by some grand event like the Olympics.
-Its total ignorance of its own heritage.

Yesterday, city council voted unanimously (to tear down the Bridgepoint Health building - nee Riverdale Hospital.

If you've ever driven downtown on the Don Valley Parkway you've seen this cool-ass landmark building (PIC). The Star's Christopher Hume wrote two pleas for its salvation last week but to no avail.

DVP riders will also soon see the end of the Bata building which is going to be replaced by an Ismali cultural centre. I could make a list of other historic buildings that have been destroyed in the last half-century but I hardly know where to start.

If you want to look for examples of PRESERVING heritage you have to look to the private sector - like the Distillery District. Even the preservation of the Canada Postal building into the ACC is worthy of merit.
Luckily, we can soon look forward to beautitful new condominium buildings that will be so beautiful as to be worthy of copious weeping.