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[PHOTO] Annette vs Dundas vs Dupont
Aug. 6th, 2020 12:00 pm
The outpost of Mint Dentistry on 3084 Dundas Street West in The Junction had--has still, I hope--a lovely model railroad on display in its front window.
I was passing by with Jim through the Junction on Dundas West one recent night when we came across the storefront location of Z & Z Accounting and Income Tax Services, at 3102 Dundas Street West. There, they had on display vintage machines of the sort that earlier generations of accountants would have used, including mechanical calculators and some vintage Commodore computers. (The C64 was not there, but the PET and VIC-20 were.)
- 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.
- Jamie Bradburn was decidedly unimpressed by the Neon Museum at Junction House.
- Renovictions are a real concern for many renters in Toronto, already living on the edges of their budgets. CBC reports.
- Urban Toronto notes an interesting consolidation of two development plans into one at Yonge and Eglinton, here.
- blogTO notes how the Royal Ontario Museum is now going to offer free admission every third Monday of the month.
- Natalia Manzocco writes at NOW Toronto about how the Room With A View pop-up restaurant underneath the Gardiner Expressway ended up triggering city concerns over housing.
- Tanya Mok writes at blogTO about the evolution of the Moss Park neighbourhood.
- Emily Mathieu at the Toronto Star notes that some tenants in a fire-damaged home in the Junction have returned, despite terrible living conditions, for fear of being priced out of the Toronto rental market.
- The family of McArthur victim Selim Esen has called for an inquiry into police conduct in this case. The Toronto Star reports.
- Francine Kopun and Ben Spurr at the Toronto Star note that the recent breakdown of the Scarborough RT line during last week's storm might hint at worse to come for transit users.
- Justin Haynes at NOW Toronto writes about the horrors of three nights spent in Toronto's Seaton House shelter. What of the people who, unlike him, could not escape?
- blogTO takes a look at a Dupont Street two-bedroom apartment with the astonishingly cheap monthly rent of just $902.
- CBC Toronto notes a new shelter for homeless women at Dupont and Davenport.
- Gilbert Ngabo at the Toronto Star looks at the desperate state of emergency housing for the homeless in Toronto.
- Transit Toronto looks at new TTC proposals for revised transit routes and schedules in The Junction.
- TTC parking lots, facing pressures for residential redevelopment, may become major political issues. CBC reports.
- Robyn Urback writes at CBC Toronto about the, sadly, unsurprising scandal at St. Michael's College School regarding the abuse and sexual assault of students.
- Many of the tenants displaced by the 650 Parliament Street fire will find themselves homeless very soon, if they cannot find a way to pay for their unwanted hotel stays. CBC reports.
- The CodeRedTO report on the TTC makes the point that mass transit in Toronto is vulnerable, particularly needing secure funding and more effective governance. CBC reports.
- blogTO takes a look at what is next for politician and Twitter star Norm Kelly, after he lost his seat in the Toronto elections.
- Spacing announces its upcoming launch of its first fiction anthology, Toronto 2033, in an event next week in the Junction.
I had a nice walk through The Junction Thursday, walking west on Dundas Street West towards the Humber. I spent my time enjoying the streetscape, dipping into places like independent book and music store Pandemonium and button-maker People Power Press and passing by the other businesses home on this old neighbourhood's streetscape.
Toronto independent bookstore chain Type Books opened its third location earlier this month in The Junction, at 2887 Dundas Street West, just west of Keele. Yesterday I made my first visit to this location, and was enthralled. This feels like a bright and dynamic community space already--I look forward to making this one of the hubs of my extended neighbourhood, down in the west end.
- blogTO shares some vintage photos of Dupont Street, here.
- Toronto Life profiles the fantastic new location of Type Books in the Junction, at Dundas and Keele.
- Weyni Mangesha has been appointed new director for Toronto's Soulpepper theatre. NOW Toronto reports.
- The Toronto Public Library's Book Buzz notes that David Chariandy has won the 2018 Toronto Book Award with his fantastic novel Brothers.
- blogTO notes a new book, Tomorrow Is Too Late, that takes a look at the Toronto punk scene of the 1980s.
- The final cost of the Scarborough subway remains unknown, on account of the many design changes. The Toronto Star reports.
- Steve Benjamins reports on Toronto's Jimmy's Coffee.
- The old Fairland Grocery in Kensington Market on Augusta Avenue is being made over into a funhouse. (Tickets still available at print time.) NOW Toronto reports.
- The Malta Bake Shop in the Junction is trying to resist gentrification as best as it can. The National Post reports.
- The New York Times reports on a remarkably multilingual kindergarten in Thorncliffe Park.
- I am amused by these dioramas of tiny homes put together by Toronto artist Anita Bonfini. blogTO shares them.
- This Torontoist article by Erin Davis examining the threads uniting the Bentway underneath the Gardiner with the Stackt warehouse at Front and Bathurst and King Street is exciting.
- blogTO reports on the much-needed upgrade and expansion of the Perth-Dupont library to the west of my home, from narrow storefront to something larger and condo-based.
- Victoria Gibson reports on the denials of York Region police that they overlook the sale of counterfeit goods at the Pacific Mall, over at the Toronto Star.
- Ben Spurr notes the desire of Transportation Minister Kathryn McGarry to boost GO Transit use in her Cambridge riding, even though there are low rates of use there, over at the Toronto Star.
Embedded in the sidewalk on Evelyn Avenue, in the Junction south of Dundas West, this survey marker is one of the many that went towards the making of our maps.
