Toronto has a history of planning to do something with its waterfront (Port Lands / Quayside etc), and then never enacting those plans due to short-term politics vs actual vision. This is just more of the same.
This article is reading far too much into Google. I suppose it is the trend to get eyeballs by hating on tech giants.
(For those not in the know - Rob Ford was a former mayor of Toronto, whom was not known for being a particularly smart or nice person; Rob Ford died a few years ago. Doug Ford is his brother, and is the current Premier of Ontario. Doug is definitively less of an embarrassment, but only "less".)
This article is reading far too much into Google. I suppose it is the trend to get eyeballs by hating on tech giants.
Enjoy this article about a monorail - from 2011. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/toronto-mayor-unveils...