Posts Tagged ‘doug ford’
[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links: buses, 592 Sherbourne, Parkdale, planning, Doug Ford
- Transit Toronto reports on the first electric bus in the TTC, now running the 35 Jane route.
- Toronto Life takes a look at the history of 592 Sherbourne Street, now the restaurant Maison Selby.
- NOW Toronto interviews people in Parkdale protesting against the cuts of Doug Ford.
- John Lorinc at Spacing looks at the many problems with the Doug Ford alteration of city and provincial planning.
- blogTO observes that this year’s iteration of Ford Fest is going, inevitably, to be very political.
[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links: John Tory, planetarium, condos, Liberty Village, Edward VIII
- Toronto has been unified around John Tory, May Warren argues at the Toronto Star, largely because of Doug Ford.
- Urban Toronto notes an exciting University of Toronto proposal for a new planetarium downtown. I would definitely go for that!
- Urban Toronto notes</u. that excavation has begun for Panda Condominiums, at the former site of the World’s Biggest Book Store.
- blgoTO notes a Liberty Village intersection with massive new projects on every corner.
- Jamie Bradburn looks at the scant traces of King Edward VIII in Toronto, at Yonge and Eglinton and at Exhibition Place.
[NEWS] Nine links about marijuana legalization in Canada (#marijuana, #cannabis, #legalization)
- Peter Armstrong at CBC reports on the patchwork of laws and different kinds of retail outlets governing marijuana across Canada starting tomorrow.
- The different structures in stores and prices for marijuana in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia may drive substantial, even politically contentious, cross-border shopping. Global News reports.
- Stu Neatby at the Charlottetown Guardian takes a look, complete with photos, at the Charlottetown retail outlet of P.E.I. Cannabis.
- Fraser Snowdon at Global News takes a look at Smiths Falls, where cannabis is set to replace chocolate as the main driver of the eastern Ontario town’s economy.
- Illegal dispensaries in Ontario that do not close by the end of today, Tuesday the 17th, may never be able to operate legally. (Or will they?) The National Post reports.
- Martin Regg Cohn at the Toronto Star writes about the practical legal void relating to regulation of cannabis sales in Ontario under Doug Ford.
- Michelle Da Silva at NOW Toronto writes about all of the events scheduled to take place in Toronto tomorrow in celebration of the legalization of marijuana.
- Roberta K. Timothy at The Conversation writes about how problematic it is that legalization of marijuana is not accompanied by an amnesty for past convictions, and how the anti-black and anti-indigenous racism that drove criminalization needs to be acknowledged.
- Tyler Cowen at Marginal Revolution notes the impending legalization of marijuana in Canada, starting a fairly interesting discussion in the comments.