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The newly-opened Trillium Park and William G. David Trail, part of the ongoing redevelopment of Ontario Place, is superb. Though the landscaping is still raw, just three months after the parks opening, the bones are good ones. Walking along the trail on a beautiful warm evening, seeing the park full of people enjoying the grass or the concert or the views of the lake and the Toronto Islands, I knew this park is a success.

While I get why the TTC would promote its top ranking on its vehicles, the optics of significant cost for this promotion are terrible.

Bay and Bloor, Avenue Road and Bloor, Bay and King--these are the top intersections for condo resellers.

I get why Bombardier workers would want to support their employer versus Bombardier with a brief strike, and be justified in doing so. Just--well, optics.

Can the Centreville carousel be kept in Toronto? I suppose it would be nice if they could get the funding.

NOW Toronto notes how Gibraltar Point marks the Toronto Islands' point most vulnerable to erosion.

It seems, as Fatima Syed notes, that the Centreville carousel will not be bought by its intended buyer.

VICE reports on a young Toronto architect who suggests condos could be more affordable if they were more modular.

A highly disproportionate number of Toronto's innovative post-war architects were Estonian refugees. Stunning works. The Globe and Mail reports.

Building two thousand affordable housing units in Toronto is a nice step forward. Will there be more steps? The Toronto Star reports.

This charming bit of improvised art down at Humber Bay Park reminds me that I really need to head down there. From the Toronto Star.

Montréal has stopped representing genocidal General Amherst on its flag, replacing it with a native pine tree. The National Post reports.

Emily Macrae at Torontoist suggests co-housing, drawn from a Québec model, is something Toronto might want to look into.

Richard Longley at NOW Toronto explores the Toronto Islands. Do they have a future? What will they need?

blogTO notes that the Toronto Reference Library will be holding a huge sale again next week.

Inside Toronto profiles Sephora Hussein, new collection head of the Merril Collection.

Michael Lyons writes about the importance of the newly-reopened Hanlan's beach on the Toronto Islands.

Jake Tobin Garrett argues at Torontoist for the importance of the proposed Rail Deck Park.

Emily Macrae argues at Torontoist there is much Toronto can learn from the green--literally--laneways of Montréal.

Torontoist takes on Galen Weston and the $15 minimum wage and poverty in Toronto (and Loblaw's contribution to said).

At the Toronto Star, Shawn Micallef describes how high property values in Toronto discourage open-air parking lots.

Noor Javed looks, in Toronto Star, at the question of who authorized the cathedral elevated cow statue in Cathedraltown, in Markham.

The Star's Fatima Syed shares some old memories of Torontonians of the Centreville carousel, soon to be sold off.

At The Globe and Mail, Dakshana Bascaramurty takes a look at Jamaican patois, Toronto black English, and the many complex ways in which this language is received.

James Dubro highlights at Torontoist the disappearing queer men of Toronto. Is a serial killer at work?

At the Toronto Star, Paul Hunter reports on how the Toronto Islands have been reopened starting today.

John Lorinc's investigation of high-rise safety in Toronto is alarming, and ends here and here.

Scott Wheeler looks at the controversial mounted cow sculpture of Cathedraltown, in Markham.

Victoria Gibson reports on the $150 million a year spent by the federal government at Pickering on property never used to build an airport.

In The Globe and Mail, Marcus Gee looks at how the new high-rise CityPlace district, on the waterfront, is becoming a neighbourhood.

Steve Munro celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Spadina streetcar, here and here.

Justin Ling at Vice reports on the new disappearances of queer men in Toronto that have left the community on edge.

At the Toronto Star, Ben Spurr notes that the bike route at Bathurst and Adelaide, overcrowded, is going to be improved.

Aeryn Pfaff describes at Torontoist the historic and continuing important of Hanlan's beach for the queer community of Toronto.

Tenzin Nawang Tekan describes the importance of the mono for Tibetans and Tibetan-Canadians, starting in Parkdale.

Liisa Ladouceur's NOW Toronto review of the Rage and Rapture tour's stop in Toronto get it entire. Brilliant concert.

Emma Teitel in the Toronto Star is quite right to note that residents of the Beach complaining about unsightly commerce are so missing the point.

Global News reports that mosquitos which test positive for West Nile virus have been found on the flooded Toronto Islands.

The Toronto Islands will reopen Monday, on the first of the month, the City of Toronto announced.

Canada Post promises that its drivers will stop blocking bike lanes with their vehicles.

Metro Toronto describes how ESL learners in west-end Toronto are learning English via their concerns with affordable housing.

blogTO shares Aidan Ferreira's stunning photos of the Toronto Islands flooded out. The damage, especially to the beaches, looks severe.

CTV News shares remarkable drone footage of the Toronto Islands.

The Toronto Sun reports on the plight of the water taxi operators, unable to earn their living this summer with trips to the Islands.

The Toronto Star's Fatima Syed notes that, to stay afloat, the Centreville Amusement Park will be selling its beautiful antique carousel.

Katharine Laidlaw's interviews in Toronto Life with Toronto Islanders tell the story of a very hard year.

Spacing notes how mapping can reveal the extent of flooding on the Toronto Islands.

blogTO reports on Boblo Island, home to an amusement park abandoned more than two decades.

At NOW Toronto, Richard Longley describes the wonderful scenic new Trillium Park, built on the former Ontario Place grounds.

Global News notes how Mississauga is planning to buy old homes in Cooksville to convert into a new central park.

Torontoist remembers Pam McConnell, former deputy mayor and a person committed for a long time to the health of Toronto.

The Toronto Star's Jesse Winters notes the controversial planned addition of two condo towers, somewhat modified, to the Distillery District.

The Toronto Star reports on the rescue of two photo-taiking tourists stranded midway the Scarborough Bluffs. I'm not saying I've climbed these very same inclines, just that I empathize with their position.

The Star's Emma McIntosh confirms what we suspected: The flooding of the Toronto Islands is such that large portions will remain closed off all summer.

The Globe and Mail's Stephen Wickens notes that there is not a large commerical real estate boom along the new Eglinton Avenue LRT.

blogTO observes that a former ferry from Halifax is coming to Lake Ontario, to connect mainland Toronto to Centre Island.

Shawn Micallef notes in the Toronto Star how Toronto fell for the World's Largest Rubber Duck.

Alex Bozikovic notes in The Globe and Mail how Toronto(and other cities) can prepare for climate change by trying to adapt to flooding, not prevent it altogether.

CBC notes that the more sunshine Greenland gets, the faster its ice cap melts.

Torontoist's Emily Macrae notes the importance that parks will have for a Toronto with an aging population.

The Toronto Star's Ben Spurr reports that Siemens is challenging Metrolinx's award of the contract for new streetcars to Alstom.

Global News shares arguments from business owners that the floodwaters around the Toronto Islands has fallen enough to reopen them.

CBC News' Justin Li reports that Ward's Island, easternmost of the Toronto Islands, actually is open for business.

Steve Munro shares some vintage photos of TTC streetcars from Canada's centennial in 1967.

Spacing Toronto's Chris Bateman describes how the Toronto Islands became a test-bed for architectural modernism.

Global News notes the proposal for a hovercraft service across Lake Ontario, connecting Toronto with Niagara.

The Toronto Star's Emily Mathieu notes that a Kensington Market apartment complex made into a ghost hotel has been temporarily shut down by Airbnb.

NOW Toronto's Paul Salvatori has a touching photo essay on the Palace Arms, a soon-to-be-gone rooming house at King and Strachan.

blogTO notes the ridiculous costs associated with Presto installation on TTC vehicles. Why are we using it?

The Toronto Star's Ben Spurr notes that the Ontario government is subsidizing the Union-Pearson Express to the tune of $C 11 per passenger. (This is an improvement.)

Steve Munro reports on the causes of and dynamics of noise generation on the 514 Cherry streetcar route.

CP24 notes that the City of Toronto has lost $C 5 million so far thanks to the flooding on the Toronto Islands, mostly from lost ferry revenue.

Alex Bozikovic notes in The Globe and Mail that the Toronto waterfront is going to receive more than a billion dollars in funding for flood protection.

Andrea Houston at Torontoist argues that anger is a perfectly appropriate response to the suffering and death of the homeless of Toronto.

Caroline Alphonso reports in The Globe and Mail about how Toronto Islands students have been displaced to school on the mainland, in Regent Park.
Robert Benzie and Victoria Gibson describe in the Toronto Star a new waterfront park in a revitalized part of Ontario Place.
Torontoist's Keiran Delamont notes how Metrolinx's sharing of data with the police fits into the broader concept of the modern surveillance state.
Steve Munro tracks the evolution, or perhaps more properly devolution, of streetcar service from 1980 to 2016.

Toronto's HTO Park looks welcoming from a distance, and indeed it must be comfortable to be perched under the park's umbrellas on the sand. Get too close to the water, though, and you will find that Lake Ontario's flood has reached this beach, too. The seagulls seemed happy, granted.

The Globe and Mail describes how the flooding of Lake Ontario is starting to impact buildings built near the waterfront on the mainland, like some of Toronto's new condos.

All of Toronto's beaches will be, CBC reports, at least partly closed on account of the flooding.

Lucas Powers' photo essay at CBC tracks the impact of flooding on the Toronto Islands.

Steve Munro continues his study of buses on Queen Street, noting that the frequency of buses needs to be increased to keep pace with streetcars.

Edward Keenan argues in the Toronto Star that Michael Ford's call for a study for Queen Street transit will reveal that streetcars are the better way.

The Atlantic's Ed Yong notes the discovery of dated Homo sapiens fossils 300k years old in Morocco. (!)

The Atlantic reports on Twitter-driven science that has highlighted the remarkable visual acuity of the spider.

The Economist notes that multilingual societies can encounter more difficulties prospering than unilingual ones.

Torontoist notes a Thunder Bay park devoted to the idea of First Nations reconciliation.

The Inter Press Service reports on how gardens grown under solar tents in Bolivia can improve nutrition in poor highland villages.

The Toronto Star's Christopher Hume trolls Rob Ford's supporters over the new, well-designed, Etobicoke Civic Centre.Metro Toronto calculates just how many avocado toasts would go into a mortgage in the GTA.

MacLean's hosts a collection of twenty photos from gritty Niagara Falls, New York.

The National Post shows remarkable, heartbreaking photos from the flooded Toronto Islands.

Edward Keenan argues that the Toronto Islands' flooding should help prompt a local discussion on climate change.

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[PHOTO] Thirteen photos of Trillium Park and the William G. Davis Trail (#trilliumpark)
[URBAN NOTE] Four Toronto links: TTC promotion, condo intersections, Bombardier, Centreville
[URBAN NOTE] Four Toronto notes: Gibraltar Point, Centreville carousel, condo designss, Estonians
[URBAN NOTE] Five links: Toronto affordable housing, public art, Montréal flag, co-housing, Islands
[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links: the Toronto Public Library, Hanlan's, parks, and Montréal laneways
[URBANNOTE] Five Toronto links, from the $15 wage to parking lots, cow statues, and Jamaican patois
[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links, from strange disappearances to the Toronto Islands to odd suburbs
[URBAN NOTE] Six Toronto links, from rising CityPlace, to queer issues, to Tibetan food in Parkdale
[URBAN NOTE] Six Toronto links, from Rage and Rapture to lakeshore property to ESL and property
[ISL] Five articles from the Toronto Islands in this time of flood
[URBAN NOTE] Four notes on parks, from Toronto to Mississauga to Boblo Island
[URBAN NOTE] Five links about Toronto, from Pam McConnell to Eglinton Avenue to selfies gone bad
[NEWS] Four notes about water, from ferries to rubber ducks to climate change to melting Greenland
[URBAN NOTE] Four links about infrastructure and parks in Toronto, including the Toronto Islands
[URBAN NOTE] Five links about Toronto, from old TTC cars to Island architecture to the Palace Arms
[URBAN NOTE] Six Toronto links, from mass transit issues to flood risks to the plight of homeless
[URBAN NOTE] Four Toronto links, from Toronto Island students to Ontario Place park to the TTC
[PHOTO] Six photos of HTO Park at a time of flood
[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links, from Lake Ontario flooding to Queen Street transit
[NEWS] Ten links, from human evolution through cultural diversity to the Toronto Islands

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Entries tagged with toronto islands

[PHOTO] Thirteen photos of Trillium Park and the William G. Davis Trail (#trilliumpark)

[URBAN NOTE] Four Toronto links: TTC promotion, condo intersections, Bombardier, Centreville

[URBAN NOTE] Four Toronto notes: Gibraltar Point, Centreville carousel, condo designss, Estonians

[URBAN NOTE] Five links: Toronto affordable housing, public art, Montréal flag, co-housing, Islands

[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links: the Toronto Public Library, Hanlan's, parks, and Montréal laneways

[URBANNOTE] Five Toronto links, from the $15 wage to parking lots, cow statues, and Jamaican patois

[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links, from strange disappearances to the Toronto Islands to odd suburbs

[URBAN NOTE] Six Toronto links, from rising CityPlace, to queer issues, to Tibetan food in Parkdale

[URBAN NOTE] Six Toronto links, from Rage and Rapture to lakeshore property to ESL and property

[ISL] Five articles from the Toronto Islands in this time of flood

[URBAN NOTE] Four notes on parks, from Toronto to Mississauga to Boblo Island

[URBAN NOTE] Five links about Toronto, from Pam McConnell to Eglinton Avenue to selfies gone bad

[NEWS] Four notes about water, from ferries to rubber ducks to climate change to melting Greenland

[URBAN NOTE] Four links about infrastructure and parks in Toronto, including the Toronto Islands

[URBAN NOTE] Five links about Toronto, from old TTC cars to Island architecture to the Palace Arms

[URBAN NOTE] Six Toronto links, from mass transit issues to flood risks to the plight of homeless

[URBAN NOTE] Four Toronto links, from Toronto Island students to Ontario Place park to the TTC

[PHOTO] Six photos of HTO Park at a time of flood

[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links, from Lake Ontario flooding to Queen Street transit

[NEWS] Ten links, from human evolution through cultural diversity to the Toronto Islands