Yonge

They cost maybe 28 Canadian dollars from the Forever 21 in Toronto at Yonge and Dundas, where all the coolest girls stole their statement necklaces.

Jack de Yonge, who was the first editorial page editor I worked for at the start of my cartooning career, used to joke about the heavy task of commissioning all that land, but he left journalism to run for the office, himself, in a losing campaign to oust an entrenched incumbent who was a tool of the timber industry.

Running as an environmentalist did not work out for de Yonge, but it worked for Franz, who has done a very credible job managing the state’s forests.

Alan Yonge, 38, who works in digital strategy and listened to the speech in the conference hall, said he welcomed the HS2 announcement, but doubted it would change the polls.

With the closing of a huge Hudson’s Bay department store in March, the intersection of Yonge and Bloor streets has felt bleak.