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I took a walk Friday evening down Yonge Street Friday evening, starting at a quarter to 7 at the Toronto Reference Library just above Bloor and finishing a couple dozen minutes later at Yonge-Dundas Square. The city was tense, but still alive.
[PHOTO] The C64 Mini, $C 59.99
Aug. 30th, 2019 01:31 pmThe nostalgia I felt on seeing this device yesterday felt physical to me.
Yesterday at Yonge-Dundas Square, just across from its flagship store in the Atrium on Bay, MUJI Canada was sponsoring an event, encouraging passers-by to create an ema bearing their wishes for the future. Why not, I thought?
- r/toronto notes, via blogTO, that the old HMV at Yonge and Dundas is set to become a cannabis dispensary.
- The University of Toronto is being criticized by students for its handling of recent suicides and its mental health policies generally. CBC reports.
- blogTO notes that the Ralph Thornton Community Centre in Riverside will be throwing a Game of Thrones-themed festival in May.
- New changes to the regulation of secondary suites may make things easier in the Toronto rental market. CBC reports.
- Urban Toronto reports on two ambitious plans to densify Scarborough Centre.
- John Michael McGrath writes at TVO about how the perennial delays behind the Scarborough subway extension are product of the indecision of everyone involved.
- Urban Toronto looks inside the E Condos tower nearing completion at Yonge and Eglinton. The building is remarkable, and the views are superb!
- Mayor John Tory would like to accelerate construction of the Downtown Relief Line by two years, at an estimated extra cost of $C 162 million. CBC Toronto reports.
- Narcity notes that protests for and against the AirPod are scheduled for Yonge-Dundas Square at noon on the 30th of March.
- This NOW Toronto review of a hip-hop concert held at Sully's Boxing Gym this weekend past, mere dozens of metres from my home, is illuminating. Sounds like it was fun!
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- Urban Toronto has profiled another new tower rising in another new neighbourhood, Garrison Point in the Ordnance Triangle not far from Liberty Village.
- Loryssa Quattrociocchi writes at NOW Toronto about how a property at Dundas East and Victoria, at Yonge-Dundas Square, has languished in official neglect for years.
- Don Sampson, living in the old family home on the Toronto Islands last held by his brother, has been spared eviction for the time being. The Toronto Star reports.
- David Rider at the Toronto Star notes that the selection of Ford ally James Ginou to the head of the Ontario Place board of directors, and the critical language that he has used about the development, is alarming to many.
- John Lorinc at Spacing questions what Toronto city council will do to ease the housing crisis.
After I watched and enjoyed Aquaman last night at the Cineplex theatre at Yonge and Dundas, I walked around and eventually down Yonge Street.
Walking the couple of minutes from the Toronto Coach Terminal on Bay Street over to Dundas Station at Yonge, skin rubbed raw off a couple of toes and longing for my own bed, I was cheered by the glowing lights and busy activity of Yonge-Dundas Square. Home again.
- Some criticism of Yonge-Dundas Square may be merited, but I think it might be a bit too harsh. What we need is more seating on the square itself. Metronews carries it.
- Humber Bay Shores is a lovely booming neighbourhood, but it really does need much better public transit options. For starters. The Toronto Star examines the neighbourhood.
- Steve Munro has some more questions about Metrolinx planning in the GTA.
- The Smarttrack solution proposed by Mayor John Tory may not be popular among some people in Scarborough. The Toronto Star reports.
- The upcoming massive book sale at the Toronto Reference Library is one I will be paying attention to. blogTO reports.
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I am quite fond of the u>Black Canary Espresso Bar hidden away above street level on Yonge just north of Dundas, in the front of the Silver Snail's second-floor location. The coffee shop has a nice comics-flavoured decorating theme going, the views of the streets--especially of Edward Street extended to the west--are great, and the specialty coffees are superb. (On this occasion, I had a Black Widow, coffee with raspberry syrup.)
- Steve Munro reports on the latest report about upcoming Metrolinx stations.
- Understandably, the Church and Wellesley serial killer investigation is making the efforts of Toronto police to march in Pride problematic. (As it should.) The Globe and Mail reports.
- blogTO notes that the old Freeman Formalwear building on 556 Yonge, just below Wellesley, has been demolished following a fire.
- The Bank of Montreal is going to transform a huge chunk of the old Sears store in the Eaton Centre, southwest of Yonge and Dundas, into an urban campus employing thousands. The Toronto Star reports.
- The Bentway, underneath the Gardiner, is set to become a public art space. The Globe and Mail reports.
