Kimberly Spice– The separation between condo and business development towers, if a new bylaw passes at council, will have a significant impact on how close future building will be in the Downtown core. “We want to be able to continue ...
Read More »Clarence Square park gets heritage nod: will be ‘conserved’
Dennis Hanagan– The Toronto Preservation Board wants city council to put a Downtown park on Toronto’s Heritage Register. Clarence Square, a park on Spadina’s east side north of Front St., is one of the city’s oldest parks, laid out as ...
Read More »CRBA questions safety after Annie’s incident: Pan Am Path repurposed
Siobhan Geary– A recent shooting at Annnie’s Bar and Grill sparked a heated debate at the Corktown Residents and Buisness Association’s (CRBA) meeting on April 5 as residents discussed how they stand to be affected by the state of the ...
Read More »Muir speaks on women, kids of historic Riverdale
This afternoon at 6:30 Elizabeth G. Muir, PhD answers the question: Where were the women and children in historic Riverdale? She says, “Women were active outside the home in the late 1800s and 1900s in Riverdale, not “shrinking violets,” even beyond ...
Read More »Downtown Seen May 2016: Battle of the Brains
Dennis Hanagan – On April 7 George Brown College students hosted a fundraiser called Battle of the Brains for the Daily Bread Food Bank. It was at the college’s waterfront campus. Teams matched their trivia knowledge on topics of sports, ...
Read More »Here’s why bricks have fallen from TCHC buildings…
Stig Harvor — Why are bricks falling off the walls of public housing apartment buildings? Why are chunks of concrete falling off the elevated Gardiner Expressway? The answer is simple: All physical structures by mankind deteriorate over time (except some ...
Read More »May 5 meeting on 11 Wellesley park design
Meeting set for May 5, 2016, at Toronto City Hall in Committee Room 2 at 1:50 PM After a history of provincial ownership on this property that has been vacant for over 20 years, the city will be acquiring parkland ...
Read More »Gadget Zone: Brother ScanNCut2 and G7th Performance 2 capo
James Careless — Warm weather has finally returned to Canada! What better time to spend your time playing with some cool consumer tech outside – or in? Here are a few ideas from the Gadget Zone to pass the time. Sewers ...
Read More »Construction activity update: weekend rail replacement near Cherry Street
Metrolinx, an agency of the Province of Ontario, is working to transform the way the region moves by building a seamless, convenient and integrated transit network across the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA). Over the next ten years, Metrolinx ...
Read More »100 Bernese Mountain dogs expected at Cherry Beach april 24 for annual world wide walk
Hogtown becomes Dogtown on Sunday as 100+ Bernese Mountain Dogs are expected to be in attendance for the Toronto portion of the 3rd annual World Wide Berner Walk. In 2012, Christa Duff started the walk in Toronto as a get together ...
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