It’s like a university library.” Green roof, outdoor reading room right beneath the nesting place of a red-tailed hawk, in the centre of the would-be city centre. We meet in a semi-industrial-commercial complex on the edge of the Scarborough city centre, De Baeremaeker’s ward, and the man who promotes a reduction in greenhouse gasses is tooling around in an orange Kia SUV. “They get as much benefits as possible for their own people.”For a guy who spent his youth fighting for lost environmental causes — and winning — this battle for the Scarborough subway is almost too easy. He steps into what is clearly a treasured gift to his hometown — the restrained, urbane city centre library that could easily be at home in Liberty Village or Yonge-Bloor. Yet North York has 15 subway stations, Scarborough has 3, he debated Tuesday, igniting a now-familiar attack.

Source: thestar July 03, 2016 21:00 UTC