Tyzun posted some initial comments further down, but this is his more polished version from Facebook.

I appologize to you and everyone over 40. This article is filled with inherent agesim.

I am over 40, I believe that our customer bases’ average age would be over 40. This is offenisve and decisive in many ways. The reporter framed my quotes around an older work crowd, over 40’s, I did not refer to anyone by this generalization, that was the reporter.

My comments were about how manulife has been our biggest employer in downtown and has directed policy In downtown via agencies like the BIA who cheered for chain development in downtown, parking. The ‘they’ I was speaking to were the BIA, not manulife employees.

I see more availble office space as a positive for small startups and businesses, The downtown revitalization has been fueled by these types of employers, and this could be positive to the fabric of downtown. Not the ‘sky is falling down’ that I felt the reporter was digging at.

The online article that is linked was only published for a short time, and the editor changed the inflammatory nature in the title and article itself.