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The King Street Experiment
Toronto City Council has approved a one-year pilot – beginning this fall – which will significantly change the way people get around the city. For a 2.6 km stretch between Bathurst and Jarvis, there will be no through traffic from private vehicles allowed. If you… Read More
183
I’ve seen posts recently on social media celebrating Toronto’s 183rd birthday. In the scheme of things we really have a young city, don’t we? It seems in recent years Toronto has been undergoing accelerated change, and that is something we can all see in so… Read More
Transit Woes?
Apparently our local transit system is having some financial difficulties. The Mayor was on the radio today blaming fare-skippers for the problem, suggesting public shaming as an option. I heard one commentator suggest the solution was more transit cops to catch the ne’er-do-wells avoiding their… Read More
Westwood Theatre Lands
When I was a kid, we used to go to the Westwood Theatre most of the time when we wanted to go to the movies. It was located in Etobicoke, or should I say the former Etobicoke, in the midst of that traffic monstrosity known… Read More
Huge Fire Downtown
We awoke this morning to reports on the radio of a huge fire at Yonge and Gould in Toronto’s downtown. This is the same building that was in the news last spring when a chunk of the facade fell to the sidewalk along Gould St.,… Read More
The Path
When I look at my site stats, I see that the most popular search terms landing people here over the past couple weeks have to do with the new skating path over in Sam Smith Park. I did a post about it while it was… Read More
Salt (a small rant)
Anchovy World Headquarters has thus far been immune to the nasty snowstorms around us. This morning on the radio, I heard that on Highway 402 near Sarnia there are all kinds of stranded motorists being brought to community warming centres by snowmobile and ATV, and… Read More
Bike Riding Pinkos
The folks at Spacing Toronto have reacted quickly to Don Cherry’s unfortunate comments at the Mayor’s inauguration the other day. They already have Bike Riding Pinko buttons available at their on-line store.
It’s going to be a long road…
…to the next municipal election in Toronto No need for Council vote Cherry faces off Councillor tries to rally support It was a very strange choice indeed to have Don Cherry participate in the inauguration ceremony and his clownish outfit and comments were, to be… Read More
27th Street 