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Pan Am Games planners take input from GWNA

Dennis Hanagan — Officials with the 2015 Pan Am/Parapan Am Games were kept busy with questions and suggestions about traffic and parking when they spoke at the Gooderham & Worts Neighbourthood Association’s Annual General Meeting in March. Taxis will be ...

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City battles Wellesley East tower at OMB

Dennis Hanagan– Toronto and East York Community Council wants to go to the Ontario Municipal Board to oppose a 28-storey condo proposed for a site in the Church-Wellesley neighbourhood where an 1800s mansion was demolished just months after it was ...

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Hands-on junior citizen lauded

Dennis Hanagan– A Regent Park teenager has received a junior citizens award for his volunteer work in the community. In March, Bulletin Publisher Paulette Touby presented Timothy Calupig of Sackville St. with his 2014 Ontario Junior Citizens of the Year ...

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Downtown Yonge: Condo plan would save landmark clock

Dennis Hanagan— A landmark clocktower on Yonge St. north of College would be saved as part of a new condo proposed for the southwest corner of Grosvenor and Yonge. The 143-year-old clocktower used to be part of Old Fire Hall ...

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Liberty Village: City wants to save early 1900s industrial building

Dennis Hanagan– An old Liberty Village industrial building—once owned by the world’s largest maker of billiard tables and now facing development—is expected to be historically designated by the city to make sure it stays intact. City staff has determined the ...

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Heritage conservation district boundaries disappoint St. Lawrence residents

Siobhan Geary– To preserve the St. Lawrence Neighbourhood’s distinctive character in a time of growth and development, the city, in partnership with a number of architectural consultants, is establishing a heritage conservation district (HCD). The proposed HCD will protect historically ...

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Take your lunchtime walk in the clouds

Dennis Hanagan – The city’s parks department hopes to have a Downtown gem ready to re-open to the public this March. It’s the newly-retrofitted conservatory at Cloud Gardens Park in the heart of the financial district, south of Queen and ...

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Nine stewards added to Riverdale Farm group

Siobhan Geary — On March 11, the City of Toronto announced the appointment of a new nine-member Riverdale Farm Stewardship Group, following the expiry of the term of the first Stewardship group’s two-year term. The Group was established as a ...

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Potential ‘victims’ query Island airport EA assessment honour

Siobhan Geary — York Quay residents remain skeptical about the proposed Island airport expansion’s environmental assessment, despite a detailed presentation on March 11 from AECOM, the company hired by Ports Toronto to perform the assessment. Ports Toronto is the government ...

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TTC relief line: ‘Most us will be dead’ when it happens

Eric Morse — A full St Lawrence Hall and a distinct air of skepticism tempered by curiosity greeted organizers of a public consultation on the potential form and route of the relief (subway) Line, formerly known as the Downtown Relief ...

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