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The Okuda San Miguel mural Equilibrium, painted on the east side of the Parkside Student Residences at Carlton and Jarvis, looks quite fine in the morning. The TTC streetcar passing east made this a scene I had to capture.
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- Toronto Life shares some stunning photos from the flooding that hit Toronto Tuesday night, here.
- The Tuesday night storm, it seems, was a one-in-100-year storm, thus explaining why infrastructure was overwhelmed so quickly. There seem to be a lot of these lately. The Toronto Star reports.
- Urban Toronto shares a stunning overhead photo of Humber Bay Shores and the adjacent condos.
- With just weeks to go, the Toronto District School Board has come up with six maps showing new school district boundaries for the Ford era. The Toronto Star reports.
- At Spacing, Sarah Ratzlaff examines the stunning giant mural at Church and Carlton by Okuda San Miguel, Equilibrium.
- May Warren reports on the consensus opinion of pre-megacity mayors of Toronto that the last deep unwanted intervention of the Ontario provincial government into Toronto affairs, amalgamation, was a mess. The Toronto Star has it.
- Alok Mukherjee at NOW Toronto looks at how recent changes, including the new Ontario government, will impact John Tory's policies on gun violence and carding.
- Raju Mudhar profiles the goal of teacher Nathan Beyerle to get Lego to adopt and sell a Toronto Architecture Kit, reproducing in Lego iconic Toronto buildings for consumers. Can he get more supporters? The Toronto Star has it.
- Emma Teitel is quite right to point out that the split between 416ers and 905ers, between people in Toronto proper and people in the suburbs, is ridiculous and needs to stop. The Toronto Star has it
- Less than two years separates these photos taken at Church and Carlton. Urban Toronto shares them.
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- blogTO reports TTC plans to further improve service on the 29 Dufferin route.
- This lawsuit lodged by the companies building the Eglinton Crosstown against Metrolinx for breach of contract is unwelcome news. The Toronto Star reports.
- The apparent trend to prescribe injured workers not medical marijuana for their pain but the potentially much more dangerous opioids sounds like a mistake to me. CBC reports.
- The giant Okuda San Miguel mural on the wall of a student resident at Jarvis and Carlton is now complete. CBC reports.
- Samantha Edwards at NOW Toronto has written a fascinating long feature on the rise of veganism in Toronto, not only as a popular and visible food style but as a force responsible for gentrification (the block of Queen between Dufferin and Brock is home to a new vegan district).
- The Toronto Star pays respect to the late June Rowlands, Toronto's first female mayor.
- Google's Sidewalk Labs project, intended to remake Quayside, is already resulting in jobs--in New York City? MacLean's reports.
- The flooding at the L Tower downtown sounds terrible. The Toronto Star reports.
- Race, unsurprisingly, remains a significant divide in Toronto schools. NOW Toronto reports.
- The TTC is increasing bus service on the Dundas and Carlton routes to compensate for Bombardier's failure to deliver. CBC reports.
After seven years of vacancy, the Maple Leaf Gardens building on Church and Carlton that had once housed the home area of the Toronto Maple Leafs became a Loblaws grocery store in 2011. Because of its size and its storied location, Loblaws 60 Carlton is arguably one of the chain's flagship stores. Because of its location on Church Street, Carlton Street in fact being one of several possible southern termini of Church and Wellesley, the store's merchandise is also regularly tricked out in the rainbow colours of Pride when this season comes about.
[PHOTO] 506 Main Street streetcar approaching on Carlton
Late in the fall of 2016, in November, I took these three photos of a streetcar assigned to the 506 Main Street route approaching me as it advanced east on Carlton Street.
Late in the fall of 2016, in November, I took these three photos of a streetcar assigned to the 506 Main Street route approaching me as it advanced east on Carlton Street.
After visiting Allan Gardens late Tuesday afternoon, I passed by the adjacent building of Grace Toronto Church, on the southeast corner of Jarvis and Carlton. The building was all aglow, warmly lit against the background of the descending night and the cold-looking towers.
The headquarters of Toronto Hydro, the city's municipal electricity company, is an imposing nine-story building built in 1931 on Carlton just east of Yonge.
[BLOG] Some Friday links
Dec. 5th, 2014 03:40 pm- blogTO contrasts fashion on College and Carlton streets.
- Centauri Dreams considers the turbulent atmosphere of the early Earth.
- The Dragon's Tales notes the tight linkage between greenhouse gases and rainfall in Africa.
- Language Hat links to an online archive of Northern Territory Aboriginal languages.
- Language Log considers the role of grammatical tenses in different languages.
- Spacing argues in favour of reclaiming neighbourhood planning.
- Torontoist shares John Tory's plan for making traffic more efficient in Toronto.
- Towleroad notes the economic issues facing elderly GLBT people.
- At Wave Without A Shore, C.J. Cherryh notes problems with amateur online genealogists.
- Window on Eurasia notes mosque construction in Russia, notes possible unrest in Chechnya and the North Caucasus, and suggests that the concept of the Russian world is used to solve the modern Russian state's ethnic issues.
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[PHOTO] Neil Young, "Varsity"
Dec. 3rd, 2014 10:48 am
I was surprised by the name I saw inscribed in the lower right corner of this painting. Was this the Neil Young whose work was being displayed in the lobby of the Holiday Inn on Carlton at Yonge? No. Some quick Googling revealed that this work, "Varsity", was the product of a different Neil Young.
The TTC streetcar shelter at Yonge and Carlton, opposite College Park, saw some vandalism late Saturday night or early Sunday morning, when someone broke a panel of glass in the shelter all over the street and sidewalk.
One of the nice things I like about festivals like WorldPride is that entire streets are closed off, allowing people unexpected vistas. I took two photos of the view south on Church towards Carlton, the first below with my regular camera and the second with my new smartphone. I lean towards preferring the first, myself; it feels more intimate, closer up.
During my December 2012 visit with my father to Loblaws 60 Carlton--the grocery store built in the former Maple Leaf Gardens--I saw this scale model of the building its current state advertising the store's cooking school.
[PHOTO] Loblaws 60 Carlton, December 2012
Dec. 30th, 2012 11:05 pmThe Maple Leaf Gardens, located at 60 Carlton Street just minutes' walk east of the College subway station and south of Church and Wellesley, is a national icon. Home for decades to the Toronto Maple Leafs, a decade after Toronto's NHL hockey team played its final game Canadian grocery chain Loblaws finally implemented its plans to convert the ground floor of the Gardens into a grocery store, Loblaws 60 Carlton. (Ryerson University uses the remainder of the space for its Mattamy Athletic Centre.)
Loblaws 60 Carlton consistently gets good reviews, receiving four stars on Yelp. There has been some concern in the neighbourhood about the impact of such a large store on the smaller stores of the neighbourhood--see Andrea Houston's Xtra! article published just before Loblaws 60 Carlton's opening in November 2011 and Tyrone Newhook's Xtra! article published one year later, both of which seem to report some impact, admittedly in economically harsh times. When I visited the store earlier this month with my father, I was again impressed not only by the store's size but by its excellent organization and displays. Nine pictures follow.
Loblaws 60 Carlton consistently gets good reviews, receiving four stars on Yelp. There has been some concern in the neighbourhood about the impact of such a large store on the smaller stores of the neighbourhood--see Andrea Houston's Xtra! article published just before Loblaws 60 Carlton's opening in November 2011 and Tyrone Newhook's Xtra! article published one year later, both of which seem to report some impact, admittedly in economically harsh times. When I visited the store earlier this month with my father, I was again impressed not only by the store's size but by its excellent organization and displays. Nine pictures follow.
