rfmcdonald | Entries tagged with churches

St. Nicholas of Bari Catholic Church, at 1277 St. Clair Avenue West in the heart of Corso Italia, is a bit of an unusual church, built to fit into the streetscape of this traditionally Italian-Canadian neighbourhood. Still, the stained glass windows stand out, even from across the street at twilight.

St. Nicholas of Bari Catholic Church (1) #toronto #stclairwest #stclairave #corsoitalia #stnicholasofbari #catholic #church #stainedglass #latergram

St. Nicholas of Bari Catholic Church (2) #toronto #stclairwest #stclairave #corsoitalia #stnicholasofbari #catholic #church #stainedglass #latergram

"Jesus Saves", take 2 #toronto #christianity #stclairave #stclairwest #earlscourt #jesus #faithimpactministry #spring #latergram

This is the second time that I have taken a photo of the "Jesus Saves" sign at Faith Impact Ministries on 1780 St. Clair Avenue West; the first take is here. The starkness, of the sign as much as the message, is eye-catching. What, I wonder, will it look like come lush warm green summer?

blogTO notes that this fall in Toronto is likely to see erratic temperature swings.

This sign on the lawn of a church on the Danforth warning off trespassers might have a defensible rationale, but it still seems off to me. The Toronto Star reports.

This rental at 51 Metcalfe Street does seem sad to me. blogTO describes it.

I rather like this No Name mural. blogTO shows it.

As argued here at the Toronto Star, the Toronto Zoo probably should also be understood as one of the key elements of Scarborough.

Kingston will be hosting an open house discussion on the legacies of its most famous resident, John A. MacDonald. Global News reports.

The Toronto Star reports on a beach and land ownership controversy in the Georgian Bay resort Town of the Blue Mountains, here.

CBC Montreal reports on the closure of the Québec City church Très-Saint-Sacrement, after just under a century of operation, here.

Cost increases for the Green Line LRT in Calgary may lead to route changes. Global News reports.

The Brick has taken over the space of Sears in the West Edmonton Mall, offering hope to shopping malls of survival. Global News reports.

Joshua Clipperton writes, here at CTV News, about how tennis like the Rogers Cup is much more popular in Montréal than in Toronto for a variety of reasons.

The CFL's Montreal Alouettes and Toronto Argonauts are set to play another exhibition game in Moncton, as Touchdown Atlantic tries to gather support for an Atlantic Canadian franchise.

Guardian Cities considers, with interviews, how Brexit might impact the town twinning that united British communities with those of wider Europe.

Guardian Cities notes how churches and other houses of worship are starting to market themselves as spaces for coworking.

I think it entirely possible that space settlements may end up evoking the company towns of Earth. Slate has it.

The city of Fredericton hopes a new strategy to attracting international migration to the New Brunswick capital will help its grow its population by 25 thousand. Global News reports.

Guardian Cities notes the controversy in Amsterdam as users of moped find themselves being pushed from using bike lanes.

Guardian Cities looks at how many in Athens think the city might do well to unbury the rivers covered under concrete and construction in the second half of the 20th century.

The Sagrada Familia, after more than 130 years of construction, has finally received a permit for construction from Barcelona city authorities. Global News reports.

Evan Gershkovich at the Moscow Times reports on how the recent ousting of the mayor of the Latvian capital of Riga for corruption is also seem through a lens of ethnic conflict.

Guardian Cities takes a look from afar at the controversy over Google in the Port Lands of Toronto.

CityLab looks at the debate over the future of Ontario Place in the Doug Ford era.

Richard Longley at NOW Toronto looks at how six churches in downtown Toronto have survived the condo boom.

The City of Toronto has blamed the Ontario government for the delayed transition to Presto. The Toronto Star reports.

Matt Gurney writes at TVO about how Toronto, having coasted by on surplus capacity, is now facing a transit crisis.

Osobe Waberi writes at The Discourse about the transit desert that dominates much of Scarborough.

A fourth subway stop has been proposed for the already expensive Scarborough subway extension. The Toronto Star reports.

This Shane Mitchell op-ed at Spacing warns about how plans for a new hospital in Windsor can threaten to promote sprawl.

Debates over bike traffic laws are ongoing in Calgary. Global News reports.

Guardian Cities looks at how the downtown of the French city of Mulhouse has been successfully regenerated.

Guardian Cities looks at how the infamous housing estate of Scampia outside of Naples, famously derelict and a nexus for crime, is finally being torn down.

Atlas Obscura notes an Armenian church in Dhaka, last remnant of a once-vast Armenian trading diaspora that extended out to Bengal.

Tuesday night, I had approached the Cathedral Church of St. James from the south, through the mixed commercial/residential maze at Front and Church. City planners did well by making sure that it would still be possible to approach the cathedral from the south.

Cathedral Church of St. James (1) #toronto #churches #oldtoronto #kingstreeteast #cathedralchurchofstjames #stjames

Cathedral Church of St. James (2) #toronto #churches #oldtoronto #kingstreeteast #cathedralchurchofstjames #stjames

Cathedral Church of St. James (3) #toronto #churches #oldtoronto #kingstreeteast #cathedralchurchofstjames #stjames

Cathedral Church of St. James (4) #toronto #churches #oldtoronto #kingstreeteast #cathedralchurchofstjames #stjames

A tiny house put on the market in Oshawa got a surprising amount of buzz before its sale. Global News reports.

The Speed River Journal's Van Waffle shares photos for a nearby crossing for the new Kitchener-Waterloo Ion light rail project, set to open very soon.

MTLBlog shares a map showing the distribution of some notable immigrant communities in Montréal.

Guardian Cities reports on how authorities in Accra are trying to deal with noise pollution produced by the city's many churches and preachers.

Roads and Kingdoms notes how elderly singles in Beijing use Changpu River Park as a place to meet new partners.

CBC Montreal reports on how, and why, an Anglican church in Montréal will be hosting a circus.

Ozy reports on how Dayton, Ohio, has managed to thrive in integrating its immigrant populations.

CityLab notes how the Tate Modern gallery in London won a lawsuit against neighbours who complained gallery-goers could see inside their homes.

Linda Lim at Bloomberg explains why Singapore is not a useful model for the post-Brexit United Kingdom.

Amro Ali, writing at Open Democracy, makes a case for the emergence of Berlin as a capital for Arab exiles.

Fall foilage by St. Peter's Church #toronto #theannex #bathurststreet #fall #autumn #trees #stpeterschurch

This MTL Blog article calling for the separation of Montréal after the CAQ electoral victory in wider Québec sounds, to me, akin to calls to separate Toronto from Ontario after the PC victory outside this metropolis.

CTV News reports on the possibility of the conversion of an old United Church in Westmount to condos. There can be, I think, no surer sign of a city's strong real estate market than such conversions, I say as a Torontonian.

Olivier Robichaud writes at Huffington Post about the transport choices facing greater Montréal under the CAQ government.

CTV reports on how Montréal mayor Valérie Plante is continuing to work towards building a Pink Line for the Metro, extending to Montréal-Nord.

Craig Desson at CBC Montréal reports on 79 year old Joseph Hovsepian, one of the last classic electronics repairpersons in the city.

A Casavant pipe organ in a church in Saint John, New Brunswick, is up for sale, with an uncertain future. Will it be played again? CBC reports.

Syrian refugees resettled in a Hamilton highrise tower have encountered bedbug-related nightmares. The Toronto Star reports.

Radio Canada suggests that the substantial Francophone minority in Winnipeg--the largest such community in western Canada--may have helped the city attract investment from France and Québec, here .

JSTOR Daily notes the disastrous experience of Atlantic City with casinos.

Egypt is planning to deal with congestion and pollution in its capital city of Cairo by building a new capital city. The Guardian reports.

The statue of the Virgin Mary standing by the corner of Parkdale's Holy Family Roman Catholic Church, at King and Close, stands hands open and illuminated in the night.

"Pray For Us" #toronto #parkdale #holyfamilychurch #statue #virginmary #night #kingstreetwest #closeave #closeavenue

CTV News U>reports on how established churches in Canada, facing falling attendance, are trying to reach out to new demographics.

The South China Morning Post reports on how Winnipeg is striving to include and represent First Nations cultures, here.

In the wake of its foreign buyout and the bad publicity after Ontario's minimum wage increase, Tim Horton's reputation among Canadians--especially as a Canadian community--seems shot. The Globe and Mail reports.

Robyn Doolittle wonders why, in an upcoming movie inspired by the Rob Ford saga, the role based on her of a journalist whose research blew the scandal open is going to be played by a male actor. (Rightfully so, I think.) The National Post has it.

Michelle Da Silva interviews a collection of men (and others) about their perceptions of masculinity in the era of #metoo, here.

St. Cecilia Church, a Roman Catholic church at Annette and Pacific perhaps most notable for its popular Vietnamese mass, is beautiful against the deep blue of twilight.

St. Cecilia from the front at twilight #toronto #stcecilia #annettestreet #churches #highparknorth #latergram

Shrine at St. Cecilia #toronto #stcecilia #annettestreet #churches #shrine #highparknorth #pacificave #pacificavenue #latergram

St. Cecilia from the back at twilight #toronto #stcecilia #annettestreet #churches #shrine #highparknorth #pacificave #pacificavenue #latergram

The universities of Toronto--U of T, Ryerson, York--turn out to provide some of the best university-based incubators of high-tech business in the world. CBC reports.

blogTO notes that a new condo development at Bloor and Dufferin, in Bloordale just where it meets Bloorcourt, is being criticized for excessive density and a lack of community facilities.

Edward Keenan notes that Patrick Brown was right in talking about real estate affordability in Toronto as a problem. Why aren't other people following him (in this, at least)? The Toronto Star has it.

Royson James reports on how a Seventh-Day Adventist church in western Toronto not only helped integrate immigrants from the Caribbean, but set a model for others. The Toronto Star has it.

Dave Leblanc writes about how Rosedale was introduced to the International Style by the 1944 Hobbs Sun House, over at The Globe and Mail.

The vigil that Toronto's Metropolitan Community Church is holding tonight for the victims of the Church and Wellesley serial killer sounds necessary, meaningful. CBC reports.

Vjosa Isai reported yesterday about a string of unsolved murders committed against gay men in the late 1970s in Toronto. I'm impressed; this is the first time I've come across mention of these victims since I read their names in digitized copies of the Body Politic. The article is at the Toronto Star.

The confidence of John Ibbitson that Church and Wellesley's LGBTQ identity will remain fixed is bracing. The Globe and Mail has it.

The refusal of Cape Breton Regional Municipality Mayor Cecil Clarke to accept being blackmailed and to instead come it is good news, an item that made international headlines, for instance at Queerty.

Is flannel tired as a lesbian signifier? I wonder. Thoughts? VICE starts a discussion.

CBC notes the perplexing case of Matt Whitman, a Halifax city councilor who has the astonishingly bad luck to keep accidentally retweeting racists and white nationalists.

Global News reports on the redevelopment of land of an Edmonton church into affordable housing for immigrants.

Global News reports on some Vancouverites who believe new city housing policies are discriminating against those with second homes in the city.

The redevelopment of Vancouver's Oakridge Mall into a modern new high-density district sounds amazing. The Globe and Mail has it.

Apparently it actually is possible to pull off a rave in Singapore. One mastermind reports on how it happened, from VICE.

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[PHOTO] Two photos of St. Nicholas of Bari Catholic Church
[PHOTO] "Jesus Saves", take 2
[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links: fall, Danforth church, 51 Metcalfe, No Name, Toronto Zoo
[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Kingston, Town of the Blue Mountains, Québec City, Calgary, Edmonton
[URBAN NOTE] Five links about cities: tennis, CFL, twin towns, coworking, space company towns
[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Fredericton, Amsterdam, Athens, Barcelona, Riga
[URBAN NOTE] Seven Toronto links: Port Lands, Ontario Place, churches, mass transit, Scarborough
[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Windsor, Calgary, Mulhouse, Naples, Dhaka
[PHOTO] Four photos from an approach to the Cathedral Church of St. James
[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Oshawa, Kitchener-Waterloo, Montréal, Accra, Beijing
[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Montréal, Dayton, London, Singapore, Berlin
[PHOTO] Fall foilage by St. Peter's Church, Bathurst Street
[URBAN NOTE] Five Montréal links: separatism, Westmount church condos, transport, Métro, Hovespian
[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Saint John, Hamilton, Winnipeg, Atlantic City, Cairo
[PHOTO] "Pray For Us", Holy Family Roman Catholic Church
[NEWS] Five Canadian culture links: Diverse churches, First Nations Winnipeg, Tim Horton's, gender
[PHOTO] Three photos of St. Cecilia's Church, Annette Street
[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links: incubators, Bloordale, real estate, migration, Rosedale
[NEWS] Five LGBTQ links: crime, Church and Wellesley, politics, Cape Breton, flannel
[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Halifax, Edmonton, Vancouver, Singapore

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Entries tagged with churches

[PHOTO] Two photos of St. Nicholas of Bari Catholic Church

[PHOTO] "Jesus Saves", take 2

[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links: fall, Danforth church, 51 Metcalfe, No Name, Toronto Zoo

[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Kingston, Town of the Blue Mountains, Québec City, Calgary, Edmonton

[URBAN NOTE] Five links about cities: tennis, CFL, twin towns, coworking, space company towns

[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Fredericton, Amsterdam, Athens, Barcelona, Riga

[URBAN NOTE] Seven Toronto links: Port Lands, Ontario Place, churches, mass transit, Scarborough

[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Windsor, Calgary, Mulhouse, Naples, Dhaka

[PHOTO] Four photos from an approach to the Cathedral Church of St. James

[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Oshawa, Kitchener-Waterloo, Montréal, Accra, Beijing

[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Montréal, Dayton, London, Singapore, Berlin

[PHOTO] Fall foilage by St. Peter's Church, Bathurst Street

[URBAN NOTE] Five Montréal links: separatism, Westmount church condos, transport, Métro, Hovespian

[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Saint John, Hamilton, Winnipeg, Atlantic City, Cairo

[PHOTO] "Pray For Us", Holy Family Roman Catholic Church

[NEWS] Five Canadian culture links: Diverse churches, First Nations Winnipeg, Tim Horton's, gender

[PHOTO] Three photos of St. Cecilia's Church, Annette Street

[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links: incubators, Bloordale, real estate, migration, Rosedale

[NEWS] Five LGBTQ links: crime, Church and Wellesley, politics, Cape Breton, flannel

[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Halifax, Edmonton, Vancouver, Singapore