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My commute from work began much earlier than I expected Tuesday evening, at 7. I got down from Eglinton station to Yonge and Wellesley to shop, just in time to catch the intense blues of the twilight sky on the Yonge corridor. The 94 Wellesley bus west to Ossington came in a timely manner, that done, putting me back in a neighbourhood made strange by the day.

Southbound train #toronto #ttc #subway #line1 #eglintonstation #coronavirustoronto #latergram


Looking up at the blue #toronto #yongeandwellesley #blue #sky #evening #skyline #latergram


Waiting #toronto #yongeandwellesley #evening #yongestreet #coronavirustoronto #latergram


Forgotten St. Patrick's Day #toronto #yongeandwellesley #dollarama #holidays #stpatricksday #green #coronavirustoronto #latergram


Towers against twilight blue (1) #toronto #yongeandwellesley #evening #twilight #blue #yongestreet #coronavirustoronto #latergram


Towers against twilight blue (2) #toronto #yongeandwellesley #evening #twilight #blue #yongestreet #coronavirustoronto #latergram


Towers against twilight blue (3) #toronto #yongeandwellesley #evening #twilight #blue #yongestreet #coronavirustoronto #latergram


Towers against twilight blue (4) #toronto #yongeandwellesley #evening #twilight #blue #yongestreet #coronavirustoronto #latergram


Towers against twilight blue (5) #toronto #yongeandwellesley #evening #twilight #blue #yongestreet #coronavirustoronto #latergram


Streetscape #toronto #yongeandwellesley #evening #streetscape #twilight #blue #yongestreet #coronavirustoronto #latergram


High demand for the water of life #toronto #yongeandwellesley #lcbo #alcohol #whiskey #whisky #uisgebeatha #uiscebeatha #latergram


Empty seats, 94 Wellesley #toronto #ttc #buses #94wellesley #coronavirustoronto #latergram


Passing by Krispy Kreme #toronto #ttc #buses #94wellesley #harbordstreet #krispykreme #coronavirustoronto #latergram


Bus platform, Ossington #toronto #ttc #ossington #ossingtonstation #coronavirustoronto #latergram


Downwards? #toronto #ttc #subway #ossingtonstation #ossington #line2 #coronavirustoronto #latergram
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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.

Looking southwest, Yonge and Bloor #toronto #yongeandbloor #yongestreet #skyline #crane #latergram


New Shoppers #toronto #charlesstreet #yongestreet #red #brick #architecture #shoppersdrugmart #latergram


Church of Scientology International, abandoned #toronto #yongestreet #scientology #churchofscientology #tower #abandoned #latergram


Looking south, north of Yonge and Wellesley #toronto #yongestreet #skyline #yongeandwellesley #latergram


Looking east on Gloucester at Yonge #toronto #yongestreet #gloucesterstreet #construction #latergram


Looking south, south of Yonge and Wellesley #toronto #yongestreet #yongeandwellesley #skyline #latergram


Old firehall tower, St. Charles Tavern #toronto #yongestreet #stcharlestavern #firehall #tower #heritage #gay #lgbtq


Looking east on Wood at Yonge #toronto #yongestreet #woodstreet #latergram


506 Carlton crossing #toronto #yongeandcollege #yongeandcarlton #506carlton #ttc #streetcar #yongestreet #latergram


East through illuminated trees at McGill Street #toronto #yongestreet #mcgillstreet #lights #trees #mcgillstreetarch #latergram


South past Zanzibar #toronto #yongestreet #zanzibartavern #latergram


Yonge Street Market under lights #toronto #yongestreet #yongestreetmarket #restaurants #food #lights #latergram


Sign in transition #toronto #yongestreet #yongedundassquare #dundasstreet #sign #billboard #skyline #latergram
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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 notes the maps made by artist Peter Gorman showing the strange intersections of Toronto.

  • This imagining of a wholly pedestrianized lower Yonge Street looks attractive. blogTO has it.
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  • Jamie Bradburn tells how couples in Toronto during the Second World War expressed their love, here.

  • This condo at 701 Dovercourt Road looks amazing. blogTO reports.

  • Toronto Pearson Airport failed in its obligation to provide services for French-language travelers, the Official Languages Commissioner has ruled. CTV News reports.

  • So-called "unicorn poutine" is offered for sale at a north Toronto restaurant. Global News reports.

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  • blogTO shares photos from Yorkdale Mall during its power outage Saturday.

  • blogTO reports that Toronto hosts, by one measurement, one of the biggest housing bubbles in the world.

  • The story of how a neighbourhood project painted over the Ossington Laneway, vandalizing the graffiti there, is a sad one. blogTO has it.

  • Judging by his filmed confession, the only chance Alek Minassian has to avoid a very lengthy prison sentence is a perhaps-unlikely insanity plea. CBC reports.

  • NOW Toronto reports on the climate strike protests held Friday in Toronto.

  • The Toronto Star reports on the mass protests held on Sunday to keep homophobic Christians from marching into Church and Wellesley.

  • Steve Munro reports on the statistical sleight of hand apparently used to make the TTC Bombardier streetcars of the TTC look better.

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  • The story of Toronto nightclub Zanzibar is, indeed, a fascinating one. (Soon to go, with the rest of Yonge Street.) The Toronto Star has it.

  • Will gentrification undermine Chinatown, downtown on Spadina Avenue? Global News reports.

  • The Golden Mile of Scarborough, along Eglinton Avenue, is set to be radically transformed by development. blogTO reports.

  • Oh, why not allow for the sale of beer at some convenience stores in TTC stops? blogTO has it.

  • Alireza Nareghi looks in MacLean's at the threat posed to the ravine environments of Toronto by invasive species, and at what is being done to save them.

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