Where to begin with this fluff piece..

Canada is as architecturally indistinct as possible...Visit Australia - a somewhat comparable country. Modern houses are commonplace, even for the most middle of the middle class. Read design magazines, they either feature very few Canadian projects (if they do, they are likely something like BIGs' new project in Calgary - BIG being Danish), or in fact are called out - like Monocle pointing out it is one of Toronto's biggest drawbacks..

Faux Chateau in Australia? Yes, they exist, but they are not celebrated as the cornerstone of design as in Canada's cookie-cutter suburbs... 

And as for any new high-rises in Toronto, or Vancouver...

Perhaps the author could start by looking at the city he practices in, where many great structures from the early part of the 20th century were torn down, with either nothing, or dreck replacing them,......