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- At NOW Toronto, Rebecca Campbell pays tribute to her friend, and collaborator, the activist Justin Haynes.
- Transit Toronto notes the four generations of TTC streetcars on display in the Beaches Easter Parade tomorrow.
- NOW Toronto criticizes the politics of bike lanes in Toronto.
- NOW Toronto noted how badly Scarborough will be served by the Doug Ford subway plans.
- Happily, Toronto is one of the top cities for students in the world. blogTO reports.
- 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.
[PHOTO] Bloor Street 24/7 Fitness
Apr. 18th, 2019 08:16 amBloor Street Fitness and Boxing (2295 Dundas Street West) was brightly, almost gaudily, lit up as I passed by it Tuesday night at about 9:30, lights on and gloves up.
- Urban Toronto shares a detailed plan for the Galleria Mall redevelopment.
- Jennifer Pagliaro at the Toronto Star shows how the Ontario government keeps undermining decisions made in Toronto, here.
- Actually building the Ontario Line, beneath Fort York and the Don River, will be a very tricky affair. The Toronto Star reports.
- This Toronto Star article describing how four young adults in their early 20s have to cram into a single apartment in order to live in Toronto is a terrible indictment of our housing policies.
- Rick Salutin at Rabble celebrates the achievements of Toronto's Theatre Passe Muraille.
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- La Presse interviews one owner of a calèche, an iconic horse-and-carriage from Montréal, who claims that an impending ban will be devastating.
- blogTO notes the possibility, in the early 2020s, of a new passenger rail route connecting Toronto to Detroit.
- CityLab takes a look at The Shed, the performing arts centre in the controversial Manhattan development of Hudson Yards.
- Bloomberg makes the argument for India to create a purpose-built financial centre for Mumbai.
- Stu Neatby at The Guardian looks at the shortage of rental housing in the growing Charlottetown PE suburb of Stratford.
- Helen Armstrong at NOW Toronto writes against the crude repression, well short of constructive regulation, facing sex workers in Toronto.
- Donovan Vincent at the Toronto Star notes the Toronto controversy around the idea of having houses with two front doors, including one for a basement unit. Why must that unit's residents be hidden?
- blogTO notes the utter absence of the Eglinton East LRT in the new Toronto transit plan.
- Steve Munro considers the poor state of planning, and funding, for Line 1 of the subway.
- Toronto Life goes back more than a century to take a look at the many discarded plans for subways. Is it comfort, at least, that the lack of good planning is a trait apparently inherent to Torontonians?
- The Toronto Star looks at how buildings destined for demolition for condos are, in the interim, enjoying some innovative alternative uses.
- CBC Toronto takes a look at the efforts of photographer Jon Simo, owner of Neon Demon Studios, to preserve and promote neon signs. (I went to the pop-up museum this weekend; photos to come.)
- Toronto Life shares old photos of the Drake Hotel predating its transformation into a west-end hub.
- blogTO lists the best, and the worst, Pizza Pizza locations in Toronto.
- blogTO shares photos of Let's Survive Together, the Yayoi Kusama Infinity Mirror room bought by the AGO for its permanent collection.
- At Spacing, John Lorinc notes that mayor John Tory is allowing waterfront transit plans to get delayed.
- blogTO notes that there is apparently controversy over the correct spelling of Christie Pits.
- CBC Toronto profiles the humble apartment at Bathurst and St. Clair that was home to Ernest Hemingway.
- These photos of stackt, at Bathurst and Front, look amazing. Retail Insider has them.
- blogTO notes that three new Jollibee locations are scheduled to open in 2020, including one downtown at Yonge and Gould.
- Making the King Street pilot project permanent is at least a small victory for Toronto. CBC reports.
- Urban Toronto shares the remarkable plans for the transformation of the Galleria Mall.
- Urban Toronto notes the remarkable new plan proposed by Ontario for Toronto subways, including a line running from Ontario Place on the water up through to the Ontario Science Centre on Eglinton.
- blogTO shares some of the criticism the new Ontario plans for the subway have gotten.
- Steve Munro reacts to the new Ontario plan for Toronto subways, here.
- blogTO notes the new proposed names for stations on the Finch LRT line.
- The Discourse notes a community meeting in Scarborough where locals express concern for the fate of the Eglinton East LRT.
- The conversion of the TTC entirely from tokens towards Presto has been delayed, blogTO notes.
- The modernization of signals on existing subway lines has been delayed and is becoming much more expensive, the Toronto Star notes.
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The sky at Yonge and Eglinton last night was gorgeous, blue fading to pink on the southern and western horizons through the towers.
