Posts Tagged ‘yonge street’
[URBAN NOTE] Six Toronto links
- 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
- 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.
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