[URBAN NOTE] Seven Toronto links

Dec. 22nd, 2019 05:48 am
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  • Some of the apartments hit by the Gosford apartment fire have been repaired and opened to their tenants again. Global News reports.

  • Steve Munro maps the 70 O'Connor bus route in action as a case study, here.

  • Condo developers have created the new neighbourhood of "West St. Clair West" out of, among other established neighbourhoods, Carleton Village. blogTO reports.

  • The plans for the controversial new Pharrell Williams condo development at Yonge and Eglinton look interesting. blogTO shares.

  • Should Toronto have free public mass transit? NOW Toronto makes the case.

  • Brian Doucet at Spacing Toronto takes a look at the Toronto CLRV streetcars in their North American context, here.

  • The repeated flooding of the Toronto Islands, as NOW Toronto points out, surely demonstrates the reality of climate change for Toronto.

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[URBAN NOTE] Ten Montréal links

Dec. 19th, 2019 01:37 pm
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  • MTL Blog shares this map of the Greater Montréal mass transit network, with a uniform design for all its networks, here.

  • Exo commuters in Montréal are decidedly unhappy with the Exo chairperson for the unhelpful tips they gave. CTV News reports.

  • Montréal has bought 140 acres of land in the West Island for its planned great park there. CTV News reports.

  • Notre Dame East is set to be revamped as an urban boulevard. CTV News reports.

  • Controversy over the Royalmount shopping complex grows. CBC reports.

  • Montréal is reckoned by a Google team to be a major centre for game development. CTV News reports.

  • A new fund seeks to increase the diversity of artists whose works are displayed in the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. CTV News reports.

  • Montréal mayor Valérie Plante promises to help out record stores fined for being opened past 5 on a weekend. CTV News reports.

  • Royal LePage suggests that home values in Montréal will grow sharply in 2020, more than in any other major Canadian city. CTV News reports.

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[URBAN NOTE] Ten Montréal links

Dec. 4th, 2019 12:26 pm
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  • The Map Room Blog links to some old maps of Montréal.

  • Major English-language newspapers in Montréal, including the Montreal Gazette, are no longer being distributed to Québec City clients. CBC reports.

  • Radio-Canada employees' union is concerned over cost overruns in the construction of a new headquarters for the French-language chain. CTV NEws reports.

  • La Presse notes how the to-be-demolished Champlain Bridge is a home for, among others, falcons.

  • The Bibliothèque Saint-Sulpice, after the latest delay, will have been closed for nearly two decades. La Presse reports.

  • The Montreal Children's Library is celebrating its 90th anniversary with a fundraiser. CBC reports.

  • CBC Montreal looks at how, even without a stadium, legendary mayor Jean Drapeau brought major league baseball to his city.

  • The anti-gentrification University of the Streets group has some interesting ideas. CBC reports.

  • The city government of Montréal is looking into the issue of the high retail vacancy rates in parts of the city. CBC reports.

  • At CBC Montreal, Ontario-born Jessica Brown writes about her struggles with employment in her adopted city.

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[URBAN NOTE] Seven city links: Guelph, Innisfil, Montréal, Asbestos, Québec City, Alberta, Richmond

Nov. 28th, 2019 05:17 pm
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  • Guelph will be holding an open house to see what development will replace the Dolime Quarry. Global News reports.

  • The town of Innisfil has extended its Uber subsidy program for people in need of transit. Global News reports
  • Archeologists in Montréal have found a mass grave of Irish famine victims. CTV reports.

  • The Québec town of Asbestos is changing its name so as to avoid the link, in English, with the toxic mineral. CTV reports.

  • A subway, alas, would be too big for Québec City. Streetcars would work better. Le Devoir reports.

  • Can a hyperloop be built to plug Edmonton together with Calgary? Global News considers.

  • Richmond, British Columbia, has unveiled a cultural harmony strategy to help its diverse population get along. The National Post reports.

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[URBAN NOTE] Six Toronto links

Nov. 28th, 2019 02:57 pm
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  • 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.)

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[URBAN NOTE] Seven Toronto links

Nov. 27th, 2019 02:17 pm
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  • A beautiful Toronto would be nice, but this goal will take planning. The Toronto Star reports.

  • Sean Marshall writes about the sad ironies of suburban neighbourhoods in Toronto unsafe for pedestrians.

  • Jamie Bradburn takes a look at Davenport Road in the past, here.

  • Transit Toronto notes the arrival tomorrow in the GTA of the Holiday Trains of the CPR, part of a fundraising campaign for foodbanks.

  • Spacing shares an essay considering the idea of a map of Toronto according to runnability.

  • Sidekick West, a new comic shop in the Junction Triangle, has unfortunately closed down. blogTO reports.

  • Toronto Life breaks down the references in the massive 10-story mural painted by BirdO at Yonge and St. Clair.

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[URBAN NOTE] Seven city links: Pierrefonds, Edmundston, Saskatoon, Louisville, Belfast, Jerusalem ..

Nov. 26th, 2019 07:42 pm
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  • Ending free coffee for municipal employees in the Québec community of Pierrefonds created massive controversy. CBC reports.

  • The mayor of the Francophone city of Edmundston in New Brunswick has encouraged immigrant Québec students hurt by immigration changes to come to his community. CTV News reports.

  • The price of crystal meth in Saskatoon is apparently as low as $3 a bag. Global News reports.

  • Guardian Cities notes how Louisville, low on trees, is trying to regreen the city as a way to deal with rising temperatures.

  • Open Democracy considers if the DUP is about to lose its strongholds in Belfast.

  • Guardian Cities looks at the Jerusalem neighbourhood of Kafr Aqab, a place where Palestinians can access their metropolis (and their partners).

  • CityLab shares photos of the wonderful new public library of Helsinki.

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[URBAN NOTE] Seven city links: Ottawa, Longueuil, Montréal, Winnipeg, Saint John, Halifax, Lethbridg

Nov. 25th, 2019 08:23 pm
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  • The Ottawa Citizen suggests a recent audit of OC Transpo should have offered warnings of the Confederation Line problems to come.

  • A project office has been set up for the extension of the Yellow Line in Longueuil and elsewhere on the south shore. CTV News reports.

  • La Presse looks at the concerns of some artists in Rosemont-La-Petite-Patrie that they might be forced out by gentrification.

  • That the Bay Building in downtown Winnipeg has been evaluated as being of little value offers an opening to Heritage Winnipeg. Global News reports.

  • The New Brunswick government is forcing suburbs of Saint John to pay for city facilities that they also used. Global News reports.

  • Short-term rentals are having a negative effect on real estate markets in Halifax. Global News reports.

  • Downtown Lethbridge faces struggles to attract business. Global News reports.

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[URBAN NOTE] Nine Toronto links

Nov. 25th, 2019 05:56 pm
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  • Metrolinx using paid influencers to promote the Ontario Line is certainly a choice. The Toronto Star reports.

  • Union Station retiring an old mechanical system 90 years old used to control TTC vehicles is a landmark event. The Metrolinx blog reports.

  • Jamie Bradburn looks at the birth of the Gardiner Expressway, here.

  • Alok Mukherjee at Spacing questions why police in Toronto have stopped enforcing traffic regulations.

  • Protesters charged with blocking the Bloor Viaduct during the Extinction Rebellion have had the charges dropped. Global News reports.

  • Sean Marshall shared his account of his address to the Toronto Police Services board, here.

  • Jamie Bradburn looks at the history behind the mid-20th century expansion of Church Street.

  • NOW Toronto notes that workers at the Broadview Hotel have become unionized.

  • Samantha Lui writes at NOW Toronto against the false negative stereotypes applied by so many--even briefly by Google--to Scarborough.

  • CBC notes that a lawsuit surrounding benefits fraud by TTC employees has been settled, expensively.

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[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links

Nov. 6th, 2019 05:31 pm
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  • 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.

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[URBAN NOTE] Seven Toronto links

Nov. 2nd, 2019 06:32 pm
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  • Jamie Bradburn shares photos from his neighbourhood's East Lynn Pumpkin Parade, here.

  • Sidewalk Labs is going to release details of all the data it wants to collect. The Toronto Star reports.

  • NOW Toronto reports on the controversy in the NDP riding association for Parkdale-High Park over the nomination, here.

  • There is a napping studio in Toronto, offering people the chance to nap for 25 minutes at $10 per nap. The National Post reports.

  • CBC reports on a film about Little Jamaica, a neighbourhood along Eglinton Avenue West that might be transformed out of existence, here
  • Daily Xtra looks at the legacy of the Meghan Murphy visit to Toronto.

  • Spacing notes that the Toronto Reference Library has a large collection of Communist newspapers available for visitors.

  • The idea of Metrolinx paying for the repair of damaged Eglinton Avenue does make a lot of intuitive sense. CBC reports.

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[URBAN NOTE] Nine Montréal links

Oct. 30th, 2019 07:00 pm
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  • The 9th floor restaurant at the Montréal Eaton's looks like an architectural delight. CBC reports.

  • This bike repair shop in Greenfield Park looks cool. CBC repors.

  • I quite like the idea behind this rooftop garden in Saint-Henri. CBC reports.

  • Is building a baseball stadium for Montréal after the Expos went going to be as much of an issue, and in the same ways, as building a hockey stadium after the Nordiques was for Québec City? CTV News reports.

  • Renovictions are almost always a bad thing. CTV News reports.

  • A cooperative of artisans has banded together to operate a storefront location in Saint-Henri that none could afford individually. CTV News reports.

  • Amherst Street has been renamed Atateken, as part of reconciliation with indigenous peoples. CBC reports.

  • The plight of homeless indigenous people around Cabot Square is desperate. CBC reports.

  • La Presse notes a sharp fall in attendance at the Grande Bibliothèque over the past decade, a consequence of cutbacks.

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[URBAN NOTE] Ten Toronto links

Oct. 26th, 2019 06:13 pm
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  • blogTO looks at the Toronto of the 1950s, when Highway 2--Lake Shore and Kingston Road--was the way into the city.

  • Jamie Bradburn takes a look at a 1950 tourist guide to Ontario, specifically focusing on its descriptions of Toronto.

  • Jamie Bradburn looks at how, in the post-war era, dining at the Coxwell Kresge in-house restaurant was a thing.

  • blogTO notes how many in Leslieville are unhappy with the idea of the Ontario Line being built above-ground.

  • Samantha Edwards at NOW Toronto notes that there is going to be a Pride rally outside of Palmerston library where Meghan Murphy will be speaking.

  • Spacing looks at the connections between Nuit Blanche and the Toronto Biennial, for Toronto as an artistic city.

  • NOW Toronto shares some photos of Honest Ed's in its dying days.

  • Toronto Life tells the story of Peperonata Lane, a west-end laneway that took its name from a popular neighbourhood pepper-roasting event.

  • blogTO notes a new movie being filmed in Regent Park, here.

  • blogTO shares photos of the new Garrison Crossing pedestrian bridge, here.

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[URBAN NOTE] Eight Toronto links

Oct. 24th, 2019 01:44 pm
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[URBAN NOTE] Five Montréal links: Ariel Kouakou, Depanneur, STM, Pointe Claire, U of M

Sep. 21st, 2019 05:53 pm
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  • CBC Montreal notes how there is now a mural in memory of missing child Ariel Kouakou in a east-end Rosemont alley.

  • CultMTL takes a look at an odd convenience store hidden in the basement of an apartment block near McGill University, here.

  • CBC Montreal notes how mass transit is the top priority for mayor Valérie Plante, here.

  • An archeological dig near Pointe Claire is revealing ruins dating back to the time of New France. Global News reports.


  • CBC Montreal looks at the new campus of the Université de Montréal, and controversy over its transformation of neighbourhoods.

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[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Montréal, New Orleans, Berlin, Hasankeyf, Hong Kong

Sep. 20th, 2019 03:11 pm
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  • Why not build a public beach in the Montréal neighbourhood of Lachine? Global News considers.

  • The Vietnamese cuisine of New Orleans does look good. VICE reports.

  • CityLab describes an effort to build a smart city in Berlin, in Siemensstadt. I wish Berliners better outcomes than what Toronto seems to be getting in the Port Lands.

  • Guardian Cities reports on what seems to me to be a terrible plan to flood the ancient settlement of Hasankeyf in Turkey for dams.

  • Saša Petricic at CBC looks at how the political consensus in Hong Kong has broken down, perhaps irretrievably.

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

Sep. 20th, 2019 12:26 pm
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  • 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.

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[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links: Toronto Queer Theatre Festival, Junction, Shevchenko, 1926, suicide

Sep. 16th, 2019 12:50 pm
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  • 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.

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[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links: EtobiCo, Sully's, Don Mills Road, biking, landlord vs. tenant

Sep. 15th, 2019 10:59 am
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  • 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.

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[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links: Valley Land Trail, e-scooters, rental housing, Brooke Lynn Hytes

Sep. 11th, 2019 04:52 pm
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  • The new Valley Land Trail in Scarborough looks amazing. blogTO explains.

  • John Lorinc writes at Spacing about the challenges posed by the legalization of e-scooters in Toronto.

  • Why are there not more apartment buildings being built in Toronto, given the pressing demand for rental housing? The Toronto Star reports.

  • David Sajecki at Spacing writes about how the construction of a low-rise apartment building at 1103 Dufferin Street, one that blends seamlessly into Wallace Emerson, points the way forward for the city.

  • At Toronto Life, Emily Landau profiles Toronto-born drag queen Brooke Lynn Hytes.

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