{"id":46134,"date":"2018-12-13T04:00:34","date_gmt":"2018-12-13T09:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=46134"},"modified":"2018-12-12T20:52:48","modified_gmt":"2018-12-13T01:52:48","slug":"torontos-own-most-precious-citizens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2018\/12\/13\/torontos-own-most-precious-citizens\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto’s own “Most Precious Citizens”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chris Selley<\/a> on a tempest-in-a-teapot that is convulsing Toronto’s Cabbagetown residents:<\/p>\n

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Houses in a typical Cabbagetown street in Toronto.
Photo by Alain Rouiller via Wikimedia Commons.<\/p><\/div>\n

Every city has its Most Precious Citizens \u2014 that hyper-privileged group of over-comfortable supposed progressives who are too hopelessly tone-deaf to realize the rest of the city can\u2019t stand them. MPCs can serve a valuable unifying purpose: Residents from all walks of life, who might otherwise struggle to share common experience, can bond in mutual appreciation of their ridiculousness.<\/p>\n

Torontonians are truly blessed to have the Quintessential Cabbagetowners to play this role. These folks make the Ward\u2019s Islanders look blue-collar. Riverdale might as well be a 1950s Welsh coal mining village. And the Quintessential Cabbagetowners\u2019 most recent performance has been a classic: A businessman wants to open a daycare in a lovely corner house with storefront space. The MPCs have been freaking out in ways that have their reality-based neighbours hiding their heads between their knees.<\/p>\n

Some claim a daycare is simply incompatible with Cabbagetown\u2019s gorgeous 19th-century Victorian row houses. As a \u201cde facto commercial operation,\u201d one resident complained, it would represent \u201ca slippery slope for this iconic neighbourhood\u201d and \u201can outrage.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is standard-issue capitalism run amok,\u201d a local resident told the magazine Toronto Life. He\u2019s a mining executive, which is absolutely perfect.<\/p>\n

The most precious quailed at the thought of hearing children at play. \u201cThe idea of tolerating (it) is frankly ludicrous, and completely incongruent with this, or any other, residential corner in this city,\u201d one couple wrote to the city.<\/p>\n

More reasonable folks claim daycare in Cabbagetown is a fine idea, just \u201cnot on this particular street,\u201d because it is \u201ctoo narrow,\u201d with \u201ctoo many cars on it.\u201d That describes all streets in Cabbagetown, though.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Toronto’s downtown neighbourhoods<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chris Selley on a tempest-in-a-teapot that is convulsing Toronto’s Cabbagetown residents: Every city has its Most Precious Citizens \u2014 that hyper-privileged group of over-comfortable supposed progressives who are too hopelessly tone-deaf to realize the rest of the city can\u2019t stand them. MPCs can serve a valuable unifying purpose: Residents from all walks of life, who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[831,6],"tags":[374,720,207],"class_list":["post-46134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-cancon","tag-children","tag-protest","tag-toronto"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-c06","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46137,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46134\/revisions\/46137"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}