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I really should have gotten an electric shaver before now.
(Yes, I am no longer offering sacrifices of my blood to the blood gods. I am now inclined to believe that these did not work. That said, if anything goes wronger still you now know who to blame.)
I got to Trinity Bellwoods Park yesterday evening after 7:30, after the peak crowd blanketing the lawn that had made social media earlier that day. I only dipped to the north side of the street to take the photos; the crowds were concentrated on the northern side of the park, but there were still crowds.
We are fucked. Toronto is going to have a second wave.
We are fucked. Toronto is going to have a second wave.
The Dovercourt Park that anchors my neighbourhood looked fine Friday evening, as I was walking south along Bartlett Avenue.
[URBAN NOTE] Ten Montréal links
Dec. 19th, 2019 01:37 pm- 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 Toronto links
Nov. 23rd, 2019 05:32 pm- The vicious homophobia exhibited by TCDSB trustee Mike Del Grande is, IMHO, another reason to defund public Catholic education in Ontario. Global News reports.
- The CCLV streetcars of the TTC are set to be pulled by the end of November. Global News reports.
- The Scarborough Bluffs are set to see some worthwhile investment. blogTO reports.
- CBC notes growth in food bank usage in Toronto and Mississauga.
- Presto users are being mischarged based on GPS mistakes. CBC reports.
- Renovictions have spiked 300% over the past four years. blogTO reports.
- The cost of rent continues to grow in Toronto. blogTO reports.
- A new project hopes to make Yonge and Eglinton less congested. The Toronto Star reports.
- New regulations about Airbnb should make the real estate market easier for renters. NOW Toronto reports.
- Owing to family request, a new street in Etobicoke will not be named after former Toronto mayor Rob Ford. Global News reports.
- The mayor of Ottawa is suggesting freezing Confederation Line fare increases in light of the system's problems. Global News reports.
- La Presse looks at the problems faced by the Marché Jean-Talon, here.
- Greater Moncton, arguably the leading metropolis of New Brunswick, wants to double its intake of immigrants. Global News reports.
- Jamie Bradburn looks at Lafayette Park in Detroit, designed by Mies van der Rohe.
- Will Vancouver be connected to Washington State by a high-speed train route? Global News reports.
Yesterday, I had a nice walk north up the Humber River, from Old Mill station up through Étienne Brûlé Park all the way upstream to Dundas Street. It was a beautiful early evening walk, in parklands turning yellow and other colours.
- CityLab looks at a new study examining the relationship between gentrification and new city parks.
- Guardian Cities looks at the hardest-working cities in the world, and wonders if that duration of work is a good idea.
- The Conversation looks at how population growth in Canada is increasingly concentrated in car-dependent suburbs.
- VICE looks at how arbitrary municipal borders in built-up areas can have nasty effects on the lives of people caught up by them.
- Rabble reports on how Canadian libraries are handling the opioid crisis.
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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] Ten Montréal links
Sep. 6th, 2019 04:38 am- La Presse notes the restoration of the old Archambault sign to its location at Sainte-Catherine and Berri. (I am reminded of the Sam the Record Man sign in Toronto.)
- HuffPostQuebec notes that some of the strings of balls from 18 nuances de gai are up for sale.
- Expelling Hong Kong activists from the Montréal pride parade should not have been done. CBC Montreal reports.
- Camillien-Houde Way, on Mount Royal, will become more difficult for cyclists with the removal of a traffic light. CTV reports.
- Les Forges de Montréal, heritage to the city's blacksmithing tradition, has been saved. Global News reports.
- Historian Desmond Morton, of McGill, has died. CBC Montreal reports.
- The City of Montréal is trying to fight against food insecurity. CBC Montreal U>reports.
- Craig Desson at CBC Montreal reports on the lasting legacy of Moshe Safdie and Habitat 67, and the replication of this prefabricated concrete model in rising Asia.
- Actions of clients are the leading causes of delays on the Metro. CBC Montreal reports.
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- Tensions between the LGBTQ communities of Hamilton and the police remain high. Global News reports.
- The federal government will be providing funding for the new Great West Park of Montréal. CTV News reports.
- CityLab looks at the hometown of Toni Morrison, the Ohio community of Lorain, here.
- Guardian Cities looks at the question of how, or whether, a Buenos Aires slum should become an official neighbourhood, here.
- Guardian Cities reports on a small neighbourhood, Cosmo Park, built on top of a shopping mall in Jakarta, here.
