[URBAN NOTE] Seven Toronto links: grocery games, real estate, housing, Shermans, Goldy
- 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.
Written by Randy McDonald
May 14, 2019 at 4:00 pm
Posted in Assorted, Economics, History, Politics, Popular Culture, Social Sciences, Toronto, Urban Note
Tagged with clash of ideologies, college street, computer games, computers, crime, faith goldy, fashion, games, homelessness, little italy, neighbourhoods, nightclubbing, politics, real estate, scarborough, shermans, shopping, three torontos, toronto, Urban Note