Why won't it snow in Toronto?

I'm with you on wanting some snow. This weather is depressing and frightening. The only good thing I can see about this is that maybe people will finally see that there are in fact some profound changes happening to our planet. Even my Dad(who generally doesn't pay much attention to the world at large) said the other day, "I knew there was this global warming thing going on but I thought it was suppose to happen over a long time, not this quick."
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I only grew up an hour outside of Toronto, but when I was a kid we could expect there to be at least 30cm of snow on the ground for most of the winter and usually had much more than that.
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Bring on the snow! And lots of it. Nothing excites me more than the first winter snowstorm and waking up to see the city buried in snow.

I think it's funny people think a late start to the ski season is evidence of global warming. When I was a kid everyone believed there would be another ice age, and now it's global warming. The sky is always falling.
(In the meantime I do believe we should all still do our best to help the environment).

It always surprises me how much Torontonians seem to hate the seasonal white stuff. In general at least. Maybe I'm just strange. Maybe growing up in a household, or rather a community, that would fling itself gleefully out of doors once the snow started to fall has tainted my opinion. Either way, it's quite sad (both the lack of snow and the negative opinions).

So what if I have to shovel my driveway? So what if I have to ride my bike through 6 inches of slush? So what if I have to wear a sweater in my own apartment? It's no surprise. I mean, it's not as if winter is some new-fangled nuisance that slunk into the city with the latest group of MPs.

As for savings, they're surprisingly not as great as many would assume. Annual budgets are still spent on road salt and sand, the only difference being that the spoils are allowed to build up in storage rather than disappear on our roads. Many seasonal workers still have to be paid. The only significant savings comes from the fact that the city doesn't have to gas up its fleet of snow-thwarting gadgets and doodads.

I suppose that the average Torontonian see more of an advantage. I'm definitely saving money on my heating bill this year...so far.

I wouldn't mind a bit of the snow. It is nice to really have 4 full seasons here and it frankly just doesn't seem like Winter without it.

Calling January 1999 "a few inches of snow" is probably one of the more ridiculous things I've ever read. It was the snowiest January on record in Toronto and those records go back some 166 years. I'm not sure why a country bumpkin such as yourself would try to trivialize something that, relative to our climate, was a significant event.