Posts Tagged ‘hockey’
[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Markham, Gimli, Winnipeg, Vancouver, Sydney
- York Region reports on an anti-refugee protest in Markham that, reportedly, was dominated by Chinese-Canadian protesters.
- Gimli’s 18th annual film festival has been a roaring success. Global News reports.
- What has become of downtown Winnipeg after the city’s hockey team, the beloved Jets, finished their playoff run? Global News reports.
- The voice of Seth Rogan will be the voice of Vancouver’s mass transit service, announcing stops and the like. CBC reports.
- Personal Reflections’ Jim Belshaw reports on how problems of growth surround–literally–Astrolabe Park, in Sydney.
[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links: Toronto Maple Leafs, 1904 fire, Sidewalk Labs, SmartTrack
- Edward Keenan is quite right to note that the very high prices of Toronto Maple Leafs tickets would be easier to deal with if the games were better. The Toronto Star has it.
- Toronto Guardian shares some archival photos of the great fire that destroyed large swathes of downtown in 1904, here.
- Torontoist notes the surprising and perhaps worrying failure of its reporters to gain access to the City of Toronto’s agreement with Sidewalk Labs.
- John Lorinc at Spacing notes how Sidewalk Labs hired fixer John Brodhead, apparently to handle problems with implementation and PR.
- The question asked last week by Steve Munro, asking how SmartTrack will actually be paid for, remains very relevant today.
[URBAN NOTE] Six Toronto links: Meadoway Park, terracotta home, Ontario Place, Jollibee, Maple Leafs
- CBC reports on the impending creation of the Meadoway Park, a substantial corridor stretching from the Don Valley northeast to the Rouge River.
- Samantha Edwards at NOW Toronto shares some more cool facts about the Meadoway Park, with 40% of its projected cost of $C 85 million already funded.
- I am quite interested in seeing this west-end Toronto home with terracotta tiles for myself. The Toronto Star reports.
- Toronto Guardian has shared some lovely vintage photographs of Ontario Place back at its height, here.
- This NOW Toronto guide to the offerings of Jollibee makes me interested, and perhaps a bit hungry.
- Edward Keenan writes movingly about how he and his deal with being a Toronto Maple Leafs Fan at playoff time. (As someone not born in Toronto, I think this city deserves better of its teams. Just saying.) The Toronto Star has it.