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This mural by Canadian artist Isabella Vella, built around a quote from Canadian politician Rosemary Brown, decorates the front of the Sistering women's shelter in Bloorcourt.
[URBAN NOTE] Six Toronto links
Nov. 28th, 2019 02:57 pm- Google has apologized for the negative shade its image search cast on Scarborough with a Twitter thread. Global News reports.
- The National Post looks at the story of the architecturally remarkable Integral House, on sale for $C 21.5 million.
- South Indian Dosa Mahal, a beloved Bloordale restaurant apparently displaced by landlords, has found a new home. blogTO reports.
- The infamous Parkdale McDonald, at King and Dufferin, has officially been closed down, relocated. blogTO reports.
- The Ontario Cannabis Store is experimenting with a same-day delivery program. NOW Toronto reports.
- Lia Grainger writes at NOW Toronto about how poor city planning has resulted in multiple dangerous intersections. (I know of two in my broader neighbourhood.)
[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links
Nov. 6th, 2019 05:31 pm- A new project hopes to revitalize the Golden Mile of Scarborough, along Eglinton Avenue. The Toronto Star reports.
- blogTO looks at how IKEA is going to be opening a new smaller store in downtown Toronto in the next two years, here.
- blogTO looks at a plan to make 80 Bloor Street West, in Yorkville, into a golden skyscraper 79 stories tall.
- Sadly, Chick-Fil-A at Yonge and Bloor still has long lines. blogTO reports.
- Radheyan Simonpillai reviews the new Kevin Donovan book The Billionaire Murders, looking at the unsolved killings of the Shermans in 2017.
[URBAN NOTE] Seven Toronto links
Oct. 29th, 2019 05:28 pm- I do hope Toronto does something with the abandoned foot court on Queen West and John. blogTO reports.
- blogTO looks at the new Villiers Island set to occupy the mouth of the Don River in the Port Lands.
- An Ossington laneway is going to be repainted after a botched improvement project destroyed its public art. The Toronto Star reports.
- Steve Munro fisks a defense by the Toronto Board of Trade of the proposed Ontario Line, here.
- Andrew Cash, sadly not elected in my riding of Davenport, writes in the Toronto Star about the importance of Toronto having active local MPs.
- National Observer looks at how the City of Toronto is encouraging residents grow gardens for pollinators.
- Samantha Edwards writes at NOW Toronto about how the long-closed Paradise on Bloor theatre is set to reopen in December.
- Drew Rowsome reviews the offerings at the Toronto Queer Theatre Festival, here.
- blogTO notes the displeasure of the Junction at the removal of a wooden train platform, become a community hub, for condo construction.
- Bloor West Village, blogTO notes, hosts a museum--newly reopened in a new location--devoted to the poetry of Taras Shevchenko.
- Jamie Bradburn looks at vintage Toronto ads, these from the parties contending 1926 federal election.
- In this long-form CBC feature, Ioanna Roumeliotis writes about the new things the TTC is doing to try to prevent suicides on the subway tracks.
- blogTO notesa corner of Etobicoke, bounded by Bloor and Kipling and the Queensway and Islington, is now being banded as the neighbourhood of EtobiCo.
- Sully's Boxing Gym, once a neighbour of mine on Dupont, is now on Dundas Street West. blogTO reports.
- Sean Marshall takes a look at the problems of Don Mills Road for people not in cars, here.
- The Toronto Star explains a new study exploring why more people in the city do not bike to work, here.
- The sort of landlord-tenant conflict and mistrust described here cannot contribute to a productive city. The Toronto Star reports.
