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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.
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.
[URBAN NOTE] Six Toronto links
Nov. 13th, 2019 01:51 pm- 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.
[URBAN NOTE] Six Toronto links
Nov. 12th, 2019 05:35 pm- 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. <
- 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.
[URBAN NOTE] Seven Toronto links
Oct. 1st, 2019 06:15 pm- 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.
- 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.
