Toronto skyscrapers keep getting taller and more are coming Stay in the loop Sign up for our free email newsletter. Unsubscribe anytime or contact us for details. More than 100 years ago, a Toronto news writer warned of the danger of too many skyscrapers crowding the city skyline. That writer couldn't have known just how much Toronto would change. In an article in the Toronto Star Weekly on April 9, 1910, an unnamed journalist wrote a lengthy story outlining the reasons Toronto shouldn't "go sky-scraper crazy." "Undoubtedly Toronto and the other large cities of Canada will in the near future have many tall buildings. The advantages of these structures are many, as has been pointed out. They represent the modern idea. We must have them," an unnamed journalist wrote in an article titled