Tag Archives: Corktown

Kevin Cooper – Each year, as part of the curriculum, students of the School of Urban and Regional Planning at Ryerson participate in projects that team up groups of students with actual clients to take on real world planning tasks. ...

The Corktown Residents’ and Business Association (CRBA) put together an innovative program for their first monthly meeting of 2013 on Jan. 8. The gathering (at the Dominion on Queen) was the offspring of the CRBA’s Arts and Culture Committee headed ...

The Riverdale Community Midwives practice has been at their current location at Queen and River streets in Corktown for the past 12 years but they been helping women in the neighborhood for more than 20. There is a waiting list ...

Eric Morse – Compared to the relatively massive areas surrounding it (West Don Lands, Regent Park, St. Lawrence, Corktown is a microcosm. Its business and residents association bylaws used to define it as “that area in the City of Toronto ...

Eric Morse – The Corktown Residents’ and Business Association (CRBA) put together an innovative program for their first monthly meeting of 2013 on Jan. 8. The gathering (at the Dominion on Queen) was the offspring of the CRBA’s Arts and ...

By Joshua Bailie – At the Corktown Residents and Business Association’s May public meeting, some Corktowners found themselves in fascinating seats: pews. Yes, church pews. In the dusty back room of the Dominion on Queen beer parlour, there are chairs, ...

By Dennis Hanagan – His brewery burned down and he went bankrupt. But that didn’t keep Englishman Enoch Turner from bouncing back and establishing a school for Toronto’s poor children in Corktown 162 years ago. That one-room school on Trinity ...

By Anthony Marcusa – If there was ever any Pan Am envy rising from the residents of Corktown, a project by an enthusiastic group of Ryerson students will likely quell it. While the West Don Lands are abuzz with development ...

By Anthony Marcusa – The residents of Corktown will not let an opportunity pass without seeing it to the fullest potential. This was the message of the latest public meeting of the Corktown Residents’ and Business Association (CRBA) in regard ...

Councillor describes permit costs as ‘impossible situation’ By Dennis Hanagan – Another community festival has bitten the dust because its organizers can’t afford to pay the city fees to hold it in a park. As it has done for years, ...