If the contract agreement was for 92 mills where did the 83 mill claim come from?
 
The amounts claimed in statements of claim are often far more than what will be recovered for a variety of reasons. Having to amend the statement of claim down the line if the lawyer’s client decides to claim more will, at best, slow the litigation down and cost the client money.

At worst, the opponent will oppose it, resulting in a contentious and costly hearing to decide the issue. As such, the common practice is for lawyers to claim the maximum that their client could, in theory, recover versus the realistic amount.
 

Toronto was just days away from defaulting on troubled St. Lawrence Market project, documents reveal​

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Toronto was just days away from defaulting on troubled St. Lawrence Market project, documents reveal

Documents obtained by the Star through a freedom of information show a senior manager privately acknowledging that city staff’s handling of the project could give the city a black eye.
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Excerpts (paywall):

The city of Toronto was days away from being unable to pay the bills for its costly St. Lawrence Market North redevelopment project, after an employee approved cost increases without proper authorization.

How close the municipality came to missing payments on the $128-million redevelopment two years ago — a scenario that could have led to its main contractor walking off the job and delaying the project indefinitely — is revealed in emails the Star has obtained through a freedom-of-information request.

The documents show a senior manager privately acknowledging that city staff’s handling of the project could give them a black eye. They also offer insight into the tension between Toronto and its main contractor, which has since brought an $83-million lawsuit against the municipality over the delayed project.
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According to the memo, if the city had been unable to pay on time, it risked being in default of its contract, as well as violating the Construction Act, which requires the city to pay an invoice within 28 days. There was also a risk that the contractor, a joint venture of Buttcon Ltd. and the Atlas Corporation (BAJV), would terminate the contract and walk away from the project, delaying it indefinitely.
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We have a new separate thread for Market Lane Park here.

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This building looks like a prison. Something about the drab, grey, metallic interior just screams correctional facility to me.

A fancy Danish prison, perhaps, but a prison nonetheless. We deserved better with this important public building.
 
NY99 said:
This building looks like a prison. Something about the drab, grey, metallic interior just screams correctional facility to me.

A fancy Danish prison, perhaps, but a prison nonetheless. We deserved better with this important public building.
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I feel like it wouldn’t come off that way if they consistently programmed it. Alas, we’re about to see a summer full of farmers markets downtown, none of which make sense to put across from THE market during the week.

I was just bemoaning the fact that I missed the Toronto Stationary Show this weekend, cuz Parkdale might as well be Edmonton for this east sider. It’s fantastic the west end has The Great Hall and Gladstone- but East can’t seem to support the Sunday antiques or Leslieville Flea market. I think it sucks too that we couldn’t even pull events like that because North Market is already spoken for the most important days of the week, year round.

I’d love to see TCAF host an event there, or hell, with Saturday nights open, do an indie wrestling event. Unsure how exorbitant costs would be but
 
xmyth_ said:
I feel like it wouldn’t come off that way if they consistently programmed it. Alas, we’re about to see a summer full of farmers markets downtown, none of which make sense to put across from THE market during the week.

I was just bemoaning the fact that I missed the Toronto Stationary Show this weekend, cuz Parkdale might as well be Edmonton for this east sider. It’s fantastic the west end has The Great Hall and Gladstone- but East can’t seem to support the Sunday antiques or Leslieville Flea market. I think it sucks too that we couldn’t even pull events like that because North Market is already spoken for the most important days of the week, year round.

I’d love to see TCAF host an event there, or hell, with Saturday nights open, do an indie wrestling event. Unsure how exorbitant costs would be but
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Hmmm, I'm thinking you were the stationary show… while the Stationery Show was easily accessible via either the 501 Queen or 504 King cars, which do travel from whatever you call that area east of Yonge! That said, when I glided by on a 501 one way, and later on a 504 on the return trip, wow, that was quite the umbrella-toting, around-the-block lineup!

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interchange42 said:
Hmmm, I'm thinking you were the stationary show… while the Stationery Show was easily accessible via either the 501 Queen or 504 King cars, which do travel from whatever you call that area east of Yonge! That said, when I glided by on a 501 one way, and later on a 504 on the return trip, wow, that was quite the umbrella-toting, around-the-block lineup!

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I’ve always been east end. I loathe the west end. I loathe having to trek west of Spadina for anything, ALMOST as much as every pretentious fop for the last 60yrs has said “eeew, there’s no way I’m crossing the DVP”. The only smug satisfaction I have is watching all the aging Ossington/Queen West hipsters buy houses in East York and act like they’re Columbus while gentrifying Linsmore Tavern.

Regent Park has made some community space and programmed some events, and for a few years TAAFI (animation arts) was running their annual event out of the Corus/George Brown buildings.

My community is here, and I’d like us to have our share of community events. I just don’t know if we don’t have the organizers, the spaces or the traffic to warrant it. Is Corktown/SLM an aged demo that wouldn’t do a stationary show?

I’ve often wondered why we don’t have our own Fringe or get designated as the theatre district. Mirvish likely paid for that on King & John, but we’ve got Meridian, Bluma Appel, YPT, COC, CanStage/Berkley and Young from Yonge to Cherry.

It’s kinda like the empty space in North Market. We’re just not using what we got.
 
xmyth_ said:
I’ve always been east end. I loathe the west end. I loathe having to trek west of Spadina for anything, ALMOST as much as every pretentious fop for the last 60yrs has said “eeew, there’s no way I’m crossing the DVP”. The only smug satisfaction I have is watching all the aging Ossington/Queen West hipsters buy houses in East York and act like they’re Columbus while gentrifying Linsmore Tavern.

Regent Park has made some community space and programmed some events, and for a few years TAAFI (animation arts) was running their annual event out of the Corus/George Brown buildings.

My community is here, and I’d like us to have our share of community events. I just don’t know if we don’t have the organizers, the spaces or the traffic to warrant it. Is Corktown/SLM an aged demo that wouldn’t do a stationary show?

I’ve often wondered why we don’t have our own Fringe or get designated as the theatre district. Mirvish likely paid for that on King & John, but we’ve got Meridian, Bluma Appel, YPT, COC, CanStage/Berkley and Young from Yonge to Cherry.

It’s kinda like the empty space in North Market. We’re just not using what we got.
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You talk as though the “west end” is in Winnipeg. I live in St Lawrence too and it is a great area but the strength of Toronto is that there are lots of great neighborhoods and they offer different things. You need to explore more, be brave. You will have fun. Yes, the City needs to get some activity into both North Market and St Lawrence Hall but Corporate Real Estate Services, who manage both, do not excel in cultural programming
 
DSCToronto said:
You talk as though the “west end” is in Winnipeg. I live in St Lawrence too and it is a great area but the strength of Toronto is that there are lots of great neighborhoods and they offer different things. You need to explore more, be brave. You will have fun. Yes, the City needs to get some activity into both North Market and St Lawrence Hall but Corporate Real Estate Services, who manage both, do not excel in cultural programming
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I’ve done my time riding the streetcar and being a faux Bohemian on Ossington and in Parkdale. Now I want things here…things that people kept telling me would come if we signed a devils bargain and built density. I’d love it if someone took a chunk out of the courts in North Market and put in a Service Ontario and a passport office (Now there’s daily traffic that would sustain the coffee shop)

So my question stands, is the demographic in SLM area too old to build cultural programming, or is it just the wrong audience to run these events out of North Market? Or is Saturday market killing the whole thing because other dates just suck?

Looks like cost to rent from 7am-7pm is $5,000. TCAF full table is $500, Stationary show looks like $250. So on the low end, 20 tables sold and you’re covering rent. Would the BIA try to woo an event to the site or is that left entirely to the city?
 
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