Like most of Toronto, the Parkdale neighborhood has not been so much gentrified as zombified. It is no really alive, though like a zombie it's still capable of movement even albeit grotesque and paroxysmal animation. What remain besides the baleful billboards warning us that "a change has been propose [i.e. declared] for this site" are the dollar stores, liquor stores, and art galleries all which have betrayed us since with their ever costlier wares they still failed to prevent Torontograd.