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  • Waterfront Waves

    There are a few items of interest in the Star today about the Waterfront. Mayor Miller is in Paris this week to begin the city’s bid, which, if...

  • Pedestrian Picnics

    Ordinarily, you’d think one of the last places to have a picnic would be a gas station. Not so for the organizers of Streets are for Picnics! On...

  • What do YOU do on the beach?

    On Saturday, June 8, the Toronto Waterfront Revitilization Corporation wants to know what citizens want to do at Lake Ontario Park, the new park planned...

  • Bits and bites about the winning waterfront design

    On Friday, we reported that the West 8 design team had won the competition to redesign our Waterfront. Here’s what some of the mainstream media had...

  • . . . And the winner is:

    Well, even though the official announcement isn’t for another two hours the Star is reporting that West 8 has won the Waterfront design competition...

  • Winning design announcement on the way…

    There are a couple of articles in The Star today about the Waterfront . . . you can almost taste the excitement building up to the announcement of the...

  • Sleeping beauty . . . and a new flag?

    The Star‘s Christopher Hume writes that the addition of a Sobey’s supermarket to the Queen’s Quay terminal is helping wake up the...

  • Meanwhile, in other Waterfront issues…

    As if there wasn’t enough to think about on the Waterfront these days, an unofficial Expo 2015 website has been launched, branding Toronto’s...