Royal Ontario Museum: William Thorsell

Keen Student Dept: William Thorsell has some thoughts about that. The editor of this paper for more than a decade, then the director of the Royal Ontario Museum for almost as long he steps down Aug. 31 , he is also a keen student of cities and how they work. Like many in Toronto, he finds the quality of the campaign discouraging. “It’s very rare that someone has said, ‘Well, let’s think about Toronto and where it is and what things we have to get right.’”, according to Globe And Mail. Prosperity: Toronto, he says, has come out of the recession in remarkably good shape. The banks we love to hate, headquartered in Toronto, are being applauded around the world for their prudence. The housing market has remained robust. The question is how to leverage our unexpected advantages. How, for instance, can we help Bay Street turn itself into an international financial hub and what has gone wrong? He divides those things into three categories: As reported in the news.
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