Monday, May 20, 2019

Filming locations for the television program "Suits" - Toronto.

Meghan Markle and Jessica Mulroney in the Air Canada Centre, 40 Bay Street.
 40 Bay Street Toronto. 
The Trump Tower, 325 Bay Street. The Trump Tower is now the St. Regis Hotel.
The de Havilland Aircraft building, CFB Downsview. The ad is from my Dad's 1968 magazine "Canadian Armed Forces Review."
Meghan Markle at her office on the set of the TV show "Suits". All of the interior shots are filmed at the Downsview Park Studios, 40 Carl Hall Road, North York. CFB Downsview was a Canadian military base. The Canadian Air and Space Museum was located at the de Havilland Aircraft Building, 65 Carl Hall Road. The de Havilland Building was repurposed and is now Centennial College Downsview, an aeronautical university.
Roy Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe Street. Union Station, Roy Thomson Hall, the John Street Roundhouse, Royal York Hotel and Dominion  Public Building are now part of the "Union Station Heritage Conservation District.", protected by the Ontario provincial government. The photo is from Season 5 of the tv show "Suits".
The Don Jail, 550 Gerrard Street East. (Photo from the Torontoist.) The Ontario government wanted to demolish the Don Jail during the 1970's, but heritage groups and politicians John Sewell and David Crombie saved the landmark. Season 6, Episode 1, Mike is in prison.
Meghan Markle at the Fairmont Royal York Hotel

The Bay-Adelaide Centre, 333 Bay Street. (Photo from Toronto Star.) The tower is located on the grounds of "The Stump" or "The Bunker", a symbol of the 1990's recession.

"The Stump" or "The Bunker" lasted from 1991 until 2006.
The interior of Metro Hall, 55 John Street. From Season 5 of "Suits".

An exterior view of Metro Hall, a 27-storey building created to house Municipality of Toronto employees. The Mayor of Toronto in 2013 suggested that Metro Hall should be privatized.
From Season 5 of the TV show "Suits". The Parade Condos at CityPlace.



The Condos of Fort York" were built on the grounds of the National Historic Site of Canada. I wonder when "The Condos of the Plains of Abraham"   or "The Condos of Silo No. 5 in Montreal" will be created.


Do the people of Canada own Crown property? Is Crown property in Commonwealth countries really owned by the Monarch, or another entity?  The Governor General of Canada has to approve the Orders-in-Council that privatized:
military bases
 penitentiaries;
 veterans hospitals;
 National Capital Commission Greenbelt land;
 all Canada Mortgage and Housing properties-Habitat 67; 800 Montreal Road, Ottawa...
 Expo 67 pavilions, theme parks and land;
 Olympic venues in Montreal, Calgary and Vancouver; and athlete's villages;
 1,000 lighthouses including Peggy's Cove and the Bonaventure Lighthouse;
 Canada Post Dominion buildings;
 Health Canada laboratories in Winnipeg;
   Agriculture Canada Experimental Farms, I counted 18 Farms that were sold off;
 Armouries in Montreal, Windsor, Ontario and Ottawa (Wallis House, Lees Avenue, Oak Street armoury in Little Italy); and Denison Armoury in Downsview, Toronto.
 RCMP buildings;
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation real estate;
The American head of Fox News and Paramount, Barry Diller, wanted to buy the CBC's 600 transmission towers, thousands of transmitters and transmission sites;
 Rochdale College in Toronto;
Coast Guard Rescue Stations;
 Royal Roads Military College in Vancouver...

 The Governor General of Canada is the Queen of Great Britain's representative in Canada.
Are Canadian Maple Leaf Flags placed on federal government buildings to make us believe that we collectively own billions of dollars worth of Crown real estate? Is there a nation-wide news blackout, to keep us unaware of the potential loss of federal property to:
   New York investors;
 foreign presidents, royalty and celebrities;
 real estate corporations;
 an American amusement park company that bought La Ronde at Expo 67.
Hydro Quebec.
creators of sporting venues - hockey, baseball, Olympic stadiums.

Who is encouraging Parks Canada to sell $8 Billion dollars worth of infrastructure in our National Parks?
  I have spent 12 years compiling information about Crown assets .Because I do not want to be a tenant in my own country.
I do not want to see "No Trespassing" and "Private Property" signs at the entrances to the National Parks; federal buildings; museums and the Parliament Buildings and Parliament Hill (yes, a few years ago there was an attempt to ban the public from Parliament Hill in Ottawa "For security reasons".)

The City of Ottawa wants 17,000 acres of the Ottawa Greenbelt, which is untouchable. The City wants to create parkettes or mini-parks, less than 1 hectare. 










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