[PHOTO] Yonge and Eglinton crowding in

[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.

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• 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.

[PHOTO] First snowfall, Yonge and Eglinton

[PHOTO] Blue twilight, Yonge and Eglinton

[PHOTO] Two photos of Yonge and Eglinton as a four-way pedestrian crossing again

[URBAN NOTE] Seven Toronto links

• 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.