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  • blogTO reports that Toronto has been testing Eglinton Crosstown trains, here.

  • What TTC routes might be changed by the Eglinton Crosstown? A map illustrates, over at blogTO.

  • The new tower proposed for 888 Dupont, at Ossington, will even include a vertical farm. blogTO reports.

  • Venerable Agincourt Mall is going to be a new condo development. blogTO reports.

  • Is co-ownership actually the only way most people in Toronto will end up owning a home? blogTO considers.

  • Residential tenants in a Leslieville building who complained about their landlord may end up getting evicted from a building never zoned for residents. CBC reports.

  • The City of Toronto has taken over the deserted shopping arcade at Queen Street West and John. CBC reports.

  • Katrina Onstad at Toronto Life tells the story of Katharine Mulherin, the Queen Street West gallery owner who changed her neighbourhood but was broken by gentrification.

  • The bar Tequila Bookworm is closing, displaced by rising rents. NOW Toronto reports.

  • NOW Toronto interviews night mayor Michael Thompson, here.

  • Steve Munro considers the TTC's express bus services, here.

  • Terra Lumina, the nighttime cultural event at the Toronto Zoo, looks fantastic in these photos over at Toronto Life.

  • Oh, what the map of Toronto subways could have been if only we planned! blogTO shares one.

  • Steve Munro examines the TTC's plan for 2020-2024, here.

  • The TTC may not act to decrease overcrowding on some routes. blogTO reports on why.

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  • Transit Toronto celebrates the life of photographer John Bromney, here.

  • blogTO explains, with photos, the cause of the subway shutdown on Line 1 Wednesday night.

  • blogTO notes that the TTC wants to create five transit corridor for buses, including one on Dufferin Street.

  • Toronto is apparently the top tech city in Canada. blogTO reports.

  • John Lorinc at Spacing considers what affordable housing actually is, especially in the context of real-world constraints less generous than often imagined.

  • The displaced residents of Gosford have seen nothing from their apartment block's owners about housing options. Global News reports.

  • The TTC plans to have even more subway closures in 2020 than in 2019. Global News reports.

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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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  • John Lorinc at Spacing considers the complication idea of a city charter for Toronto. Is it worth it? Does it ignore other governance issues?

  • Tourism is booming in Toronto, transforming the economy of the metropolis. The Toronto Star reports.

  • NOW Toronto notes how the Toronto District School Board is introducing educational courses intended to prepare students for careers in hospitality.

  • Legal controversy surrounding the governance of Mount Pleasant Cemetery, and other like cemeteries in Toronto, is ongoing. The Toronto Star reports.

  • In Milton, the owner of an illegal rooming house where one tenant died has been found financially liable. CBC reports.

  • The Toronto Star tells the story of soldiers returning from the First World War who attacked Chinatown and its inhabitants, here.

  • NOW Toronto points to an exhibition of photos created in solidarity with Hong Kong journalists.

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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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  • 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.

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  • The Pilot, in Yorkville, celebrates its 75th anniversary as a venue. Global News reports.

  • Some immigrant businesspeople recently bought an old Toronto Hydro building in the north of the city as a shelter for immigrants. Global News reports.

  • The backlash against the proposed condo tower at Yonge and Eglinton branded by Pharrell Williams has been swift. blogTO reports.

  • Urban Toronto notes that a 13-story mixed-use building has been proposed for 888 Dupont Street, at the corner of Dupont and Ossington.

  • A TV crew in North York last week cancelled its shoot in North York, near the site of last year's ramming attack on Yonge Street. CTV News reports.

  • A poster on r/Toronto noted last week the six-year anniversary of the admission of then-mayor Rob Ford that he smoked crack.

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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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  • Sean Marshall takes issue with how TIFF monopolizes much of the downtown, including key arteries like King Street.

  • blogTO reports on the luxurious estate of 311 Mildenhall Road, recently off the market at a price of well over $C 10 million.

  • Urban Toronto shares renderings of the first phase of Galleria on the Park. Wow.

  • Dozens of artists are working out of 7 Labatt Avenue, a warehouse set to be demolished. The Toronto Star reports.

  • NOW Toronto reports on the mess involving the NDP in the riding of Parkdale-High Park, here.

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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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  • Tanya Mok at blogTO shares a vintage short film from 1970 at the Toronto Coach Terminal, "Depot."

  • The shortages of food in Toronto food banks are terrible. CBC Toronto reports.

  • Dogs will be free to swim in select City of Toronto swimming pools this weekend. CBC Toronto reports.

  • I will have to look for these TTC floor stickers installed at St. George station. blogTO reports.

  • Richard Trapunski leads a roundtable discussion at NOW Toronto about the challenges facing party promoters in a gentrifying Toronto.

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  • The BBC takes a look at Pontic Greek, a Greek dialect that survives precariously in exile from its homeland in Anatolia.

  • Klaus Meyer writes at The Conversation about how Hitler, in his rise to power, became a German citizen.

  • Low-income families in the Toronto area face serious challenges in getting affordable Internet access. CBC reports.

  • Jeremy Keefe at Global News takes a look at Steve Skafte, an explorer of abandoned roads in Nova Scotia.

  • In some communities in British Columbia, middle-class people have joined criminal gangs for social reasons. CBC reports.

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  • Jennifer Pagliaro and Emily Mathieu at the Toronto Star look at how 1400 subsidized housing units remain empty despite the housing crisis, and why.

  • Does Toronto need another 400-series highway to handle traffic? blogTO considers.

  • How can the Toronto Zoo move forward? The Toronto Star examines.

  • Dufferin Grove Park is scheduled to face an interesting redevelopment. blogTO reports.

  • Steve Munro looks at the factors behind longer travel times on the 501 Queen streetcar.

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  • This 2013 Toronto Guardian article explains how the Korean community in Toronto can trace its origins to early 20th century missionaries from Canada.

  • At Spacing, Daniel Panneton writes about the rise of fascism in Italian Toronto and the very different reactions to this ideology's rise.

  • CBC Toronto reports on the popular new app Irish App-roved, aimed at helping new immigrants from Ireland get oriented in Toronto.

  • Jacob Lorinc at the Toronto Star tells the story of Albino Carreira, a Portuguese-Canadian construction worker disabled by a construction incident in the 1990s who went on to whimsically decorate his Clinton Street home and his bug-covered van.

  • The growing racialization of poverty in Toronto is a huge ongoing concern. The Toronto Star reports.

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  • NOW Toronto notes that poor and racialized people in Toronto find it difficult to access healthy food.

  • blogTO observes that the McDonald's at King and Dufferin has installed blue lights in washrooms to try to discourage the shooting up there of heroin.

  • The TTC is set to offer cell phone service in some downtown tunnels. blogTO reports.

  • Perry King at Spacing reports on how Toronto needs to expand its facilities for the growing number of players of cricket.

  • Samantha Edwards at NOW Toronto reports that the owner of 795 College has been fined $C 135 000 for the renoviction of prior tenants.

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  • blogTO notes that grocery chain No Frills has come out with a side-scrolling video game.

  • blogTO notes that Lakeshore Apparel is making shirts and other garments representing often-overlooked Toronto neighbourhoods.

  • Famed Little Italy nightclub The Matador has been sold to condo developers. The Toronto Star reports.

  • The East Side Motel, a Scarborough motel once used by the City of Toronto to house homeless people, has been demolished. The Toronto Star U>reports.

  • Front-line housing workers are finding themselves faced with problems impossible to solve thanks to the housing crisis. The Toronto Star reports.

  • Anne Kingston at MacLean's notes that estate documents belonging to Barry and Honey Sherman will be unsealed in a couple of months, attracting interest from people interested in the billionaire couple's murder.

  • This PressProgress report on the many well-off businesspeople in Toronto who supported the Faith Goldy run for mayor of Toronto is eye-opening.

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  • CBC Toronto bids farewell, fittingly at TCAF time, to the iconic Jason Loo Toronto comic series The Pitiful Human-Lizard.

  • At blogTO, Tanya Mok reports on the resistance of tenants at 54-56 Kensington Avenue to an illegal eviction order by their landlord.

  • The Toronto Star reports on a new matchmaking event intended to connect future roommates to each other.

  • Kevin Ritchie at NOW Toronto reports on how a new pricing scheme for the AGO, including a $35 annual pass for people over 25, reflects a push to try to get more people into museums.

  • Glenn Sumi writes at NOW Toronto about the increasingly steep price of ticket prices for live theatre in Toronto.

  • Toronto Life shares photos from an exhibit, by Patrick Cummins and Ivaan Kotulsky, of Queen Street West in the 1980s and 1990s.

  • Richard Longley writes at NOW Toronto about the emptying of an old warehouse of collectibles and oddities on Wabush, part of the decline of old storied Toronto.

  • Toronto Life shares more photos from outdoor market Stackt, at Front and Bathurst.

  • Steve Munro starts to analyse traffic patterns on the 501 Queen streetcar, looking first at the Neville Loop end.

  • NOW Toronto is one of a few news sources to report on Scarborough writer Téa Mutonji and her new short story collection Shut Up, You're Pretty.

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  • This blogTO ranking of the best and the worst McDonald's restaurants in Toronto makes sense to me.

  • I look forward to what an audit of the campaign finances of alt-right poster child Faith Goldy's mayoral campaign will reveal. The Toronto Star reports.

  • This article at TVO notes that cuts in school lunches for needy children in Toronto should not necessarily be blamed on the Ford government.

  • Urban Toronto looks back at Yonge and College before yet another of the intersection's transformations.

  • This initiative by a Scarborough church to rebuild itself in such a way as to create affordable housing for its neighbourhood is certainly innovative. The Toronto Star reports.

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  • CBC Toronto notes the latest stage in the documentation, by Toronto artist Shari Kasman, of the now-disappearing Galleria Mall.

  • The Gerrard Square Mall, blogTO suggests, is actually doing quite nicely these days.

  • Airbnb listings in Toronto, taking up 1% of the rental market of Toronto, are causing significant harm to renters despite this seemingly small percentage. CBC reports.

  • John Lorinc is quite right to note at Spacing that the City of Toronto is not helping the housing crisis by selling off vacant land.

  • The Don River can now be celebrated, noting its rather improved status from its mid-20th century nadir. CBC Toronto reports.

  • The Scarborough RT line faced near-critical shortages of usable vehicles recently. The Toronto Star reports.

  • Steve Munro takes
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  • blogTO shared the remarkable news that the Scotiabank Theatre, on John south of Queen, is set to be replaced by a condo development.

  • Emily Mathieu at the Toronto Star reports on how a trust in Parkdale bought a rooming house for the benefit of tenants there.

  • The world-famous Integral House in Rosedale is on sale for more than $C 20 million. blogTO reports.

  • Norm Wilner at NOW Toronto notes how the Criterion Channel is in no position to immediately replace the broad selections of now-departed Queen Video.

  • Francine Kopun reports at the Toronto Star about the sad state of the Tiny Town, the miniature scale model in the atrium of Toronto City Hall.

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