The Globe and Mail

The lakeshore has long been the city's graveyard of dashed hopes, but a new plan to revitalize it shouldn't be dismissed. When an early sketch for the $17-billion makeover of Toronto's lakeshore was unveiled last year, the immense real estate scheme was variously denounced as an exorbitant boondoggle, a dim-bulb idea, and a juggernaut rolling forward (in the words of Globe and Mail columnist John Barber) under "a hundredweight of bureaucrats equipped with vague powers, expensive tastes and ominously open-ended work plans."