Tag Archives: Garden District

GDRA posts Garden District ward boundaries

New Ward Boundaries for the GDRA The City of Toronto’s 2018 municipal election will be conducted using a new 47 ward boundary model for Toronto, a change from the current 44 ward model. This new 47 ward model will take ...

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88 Queen East: Where will the dogs go when nature calls?

  The plans for 88 Queen St. E. (otherwise known as the 88 North condo project by St. Thomas Developments) have changed significantly since they were first put forward about two years ago. The Garden District site (which is framed ...

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Garden District restaurant will have retractable roof: 401 Yonge

The bustling Yonge-Dundas neighborhood, a hub of tourism and entertainment in the heart of Downtown Toronto will soon be home to a vibrant and inviting new Boston Pizza restaurant at the corner of Yonge St. and Gerrard St., thanks to ...

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Moss Park board interviews new members

Eight candidates are being interviewed to fill four vacancies on the Moss Park Arena board. Two positions on the board are currently vacant due to the resignations of Dan Atkinson and Amr Kebbi in October 2016. The other two positions ...

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Seen: Open Streets TO

On August 21st, Yonge St. between Bloor and Queen was closed to traffic for almost eight hours as pedestrians walked freely along the road for Open Streets TO. Select routes across the city were open to pedestrians to bike, walk, ...

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Moss Park redevelopment meeting Sept. 14, 6:30pm

The Moss Park community consultation this past July laid bare some very unexpected and potentially unwelcome surprises. Unbeknownst to the community, who were expecting the new community centre to be built on the current John Innes site, it was a ...

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Garden District neighbours, students & cops involved

Henry Y. Hong— 51 Division takes part in the Toronto Police Service Youth in Policing Initiative (YIPI) and this year the Division was assigned the 4 students named above for the summer program. The students are paid and work within ...

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Downtown Seen April 2016: NBS’ Annual Fundraiser

Dennis Hanagan– On March 4 Canada’s National Ballet School (NBS) held its annual fundraiser at The Carlu on Yonge at College. The 57-year-old school on Jarvis St. attracts  students from across Canada and around the world. Located in the Garden ...

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John Sewell’s book and how he and friends saved Toronto (Video)

John Sewell provides an insider’s account of 12 years when Toronto was transformed by activist citizens and high-rise developments. By the mid-1990s Toronto was well on the way to being Canada’s laraget and most powerful city, but all this “progress” ...

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