The TBM has really picked up speed compared to last week with almost the entirety of the front shields inside now.
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Any excuse to share a very memorable description of the beloved Gerrard Square, published by the Globe & Mail in 2008, in an article about a proposed new development in Leslieville:

The mall where they used to shop may end up being Gerrard Square, several blocks north of the Leslieville project. For a number of years, I lived nearby, an area that was "in transition," as the real-estate agents say. It featured a mix of gentrifying young couples, a resident ethnic mélange of Asians, Blacks, Sikhs and Turks, as well as combustible porch-sitting hillbillies, the residue of the white working class that occupied the area for decades.

Ten years ago, Gerrard Square was anchored by Simpsons and Zellers and there were a few chains, but there were also independent stores, and an ever-changing market filled with carts selling off-brand vegetable dicers, perfumes that were a syllable away from greatness (Entity, Obsessed), jeans by, yes, Galvin Klein, discount ceramics, and stuffed animals trapped in balloons. A man occasionally sold meat out of a gym bag near the mall entrance. On the weirdness scale, only the Dufferin Mall could touch it. But it was a fair reflection of the neighbourhood.
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Now on sale in aisle one: Class warfare

For urbanites, the mall represents everything they hate about the suburbs - low-paying jobs and the people who come with them
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