The Toronto casino now has a website

A website that sucks......your MGM make a great website for MGM Toronto..... this is garbage

all bribes all have been paid out to city councillors. it's a done deal. these people have more money than donald trump. a 5 mil referendum on a previous casino bid that didn't pass is peanuts to these people.

"World class"? Really? That stale meaningless phrase is a big red flag for a really lame idea. Astroturf better.

Thanks for being so constructive. Your contribution to the conversation is immeasurable

Who says a world class city needs a casino? Atlantic City has lots of casinos, and how much good did they do?

Oh man... I hate this city. I was born in downtown Toronto 21 years ago and I can't wait to get out. I am so excited to not have to spend all of my paycheque on rent in a disgusting basement apartment and $120 for a transit pass, elbow my way past rude, pretentious people just to get on a stuffed subway car. I'm going somewhere where the people are genuine, the air is fresh and I don't have to cross twelve lanes of traffic to get to a lake.

Funny how you mention pretentious. From reading your post, you seem like a pretentious, entitled person.
I say, BUH BYE!
The city needs less of people like you. Go move to the suburbs where you clearly belong!

Hopefully councillors like Vaughan will be out voted and we will get a casino! I can not wait!

What a gutter idea. How can anyone get behind a business model that operates on deceit and cheats people.

We should have a casino here.... there are tons of "weekend" casinos run here and there and the city doesn't see a dollar of it.

Get used to it peeps. They're coming whether you all like it or not.

Oh second thought, dump this monstrosity on the 'burbs. Let Markham or Etobicoke deal with this mess, ugh!

What i do not understand is people like Geoff above me, state "How can anyone get behind a business model that operates on deceit and cheats people"
There is a simple answer.
Don't go to the casino. Nobody is forcing you to step foot in the thing.
My decision to go to a casino is mine and only mine. Who are you to impose your views on others?
Clearly there are many who are for the casino and many who are not.
If you do not want a casino, then don't visit it once it is built. However, i really hope that you do not live in a condo downtown because then you would just be ignorant to think that a casino is going to bring traffic congestion, as if the condo you live in does not add to the congestion.
Condo's are a bigger problem to congestion then a casino.

Read the foot notes, fight against gv a problen

Ohh and also try and not use acronym's that only make sense to you. i.e. "gv".

If you're responding to someone please click the reply arrow button so that we know whom you're addressing or your comment make no sense.

AND lastly give a quick read, or spell check before you hit "add comment" its easy to correct mistakes like the word problen - your statement means nothing.

Your rationale that problem gamblers will drive anywhere shows that you seem to operate under an assumption that the number of problem gamblers is static and will always remain the same. Your logic fails to realize that building a new casino will create new problem gamblers, perhaps to some locals who have yet to ever step inside a casino. People become problem gamblers because of the opportunities placed around them, not because random people wake up with an obsessive urge to endlessly pull the lever on a slot machine. Don't try to be the hero that finds a quick way to summarize this issue (as with condo developments), it's unfortunately more complicated than you perceive it to be.

"newsflash etobicoke is toronto".

Yeah...SURE it is. Why everyone goes there all the time. Some of my best friends go there, I'm sure.

Seriously though, casinos are lame. They only invite vermin and losers who can't have fun in a normal fashion. Hence the "burbs" crack, which I still stand by. Let THEM deal with the dead hookers, crack pipe bushes and inevitable DUI deaths. (speaking of Etobicoke on Saturday night...)

I'm happy to see this comment stream disprove the all-to-easy soundbite that the 'left' is universally anti-casino, or development, or fun. I'd put myself on the left of the political spectrum, and I'm excited for the tourism boost, top-shelf architecture, and energy that a destination like this COULD bring to our city. There are pros and cons to ANY development, but hopefully with the right team & process in place, and as long as the Ontario and Toronto governments fight for a decent deal, we could see something really positive added to our growing city.

"A million tourists" Yeah, they'll all be skipping Monte Carlo, Macau, Singapore and Vegas to hang out at Exhibition Entertainment Wasteland (EEW) in the middle of January!

I agree with you totally. It's an unspoken thing that's hard to quantify in a city full of people only interested in Toronto for the purposes of making money. Like me, you are a dying breed- an actual, bonafide born and raised Torontonian. And like almost all of them, you're getting the hell out before you turn 30. Let the transplants and immigrants have the city. It sucks now, but with their only frame of reference being Dhaka or Woodstock, they don't know it. Let them think it's amazing as it actually swirls the bowl. Me and you, we'll be happy elsewhere and we'll be trying to recreate what made Toronto interesting before capitalism destroyed its soul.

perfect, you can join orangejuice and get the fuuuuuuuuck outta the city too. Whats taking you so long if you hate Toronto so much?

Unfortunately, some of us don't have insta-mobility and have obligations that need to be resolved before completing a major move, asshats. Not everyone has a blank check from daddy to help them move around the world.

Easy boy! No need for name-calling. And I wouldn't still be here if I didn't have my own obligations too. As for a "cheque from daddy", I am a father, I write the cheques and pay the taxes and the bills.

Ah, thanks Rob. I hear you. LOL

The consultations are merely window dressing to put a nice face on the bribes that have already been paid. I hate the idea, but this is happening. I'm sure the mysterious "folks" and "taxpayers" that Rob Ford is always talking to have been asking him for " A Casino! A Casino! A Casino!"

I really hope they put this casino at Buttonville Municipal Airport in Markham, as this article suggest. I think it will compliment the area, wherever that is.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/toronto/developers-propose-radical-makeover-for-toronto-casino-site/article8907998/

"Unfortunately, some of us don't have insta-mobility and have obligations that need to be resolved before completing a major move, asshats."


Oh Rob...did you knock up another pretty young thang, dawg???

A casino anywhere on the waterfront, including the EX grounds, would be a total waste of waterfront property, after all casinos don;t have windows so people can be reminded of the time passing so why waste a scenic location with them? If we must have a casino put it at Woodbine, there's easy highway access and it would keep horse racing alive in this region. We should be keeping the waterfront lands for uses that benefit the waterfront or benefit from being somewhere scenic like the waterfront. Once you;re inside a casino you never see outside of it so it could just as effectively be built underground. I like the idea if expanding convention space downtown, even along the waterfront since people at conventions do get outside and attend near by attractions which are plentiful downtown. Any casino downtown or along the waterfront will cost nearby cultural and entertainment businesses lost business since people in casinos don;t leave for entertainment for other venues, they stay inside the casino. Woodbine can handle the parking and the cars and there's very little in the way of cultural or entertainment venues in the area that would be harmed by its presence there. If we keep building such permanent structures at the EX where will the EX go?

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