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• 905 lagging in bike safety, advocates say [ Toronto Star ]
• Fewer kids died after Ont. adopted bike helmet law [ CBC.ca ]
• Number of Ont. kids dying in bike accidents halved after helmet law enacted [ Toronto Sun ]
• Last week to check Toronto stolen bike cache [ CBC.ca ]
• Social costs of cars, planes, trains $40B a year: Transport Canada [ CBC.ca ]
• Ontario’s outdated sewers send waste into waterways [ Globe and Mail ]
• Rash of retirements leaves city scrambling [ Toronto Star ]
• Council rolls out fall agenda for a song and a bin [ National Post ]
• Spadina Wave will allow pedestrians to get closer to water near Queens Quay [ Toronto Star ]
• Loblaw’s revamp of Maple Leaf Gardens on hold [ Toronto Star ]
• Queen St. fire victims struggling to rebuild [ Toronto Star ]

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  2. Maple Leaf Gardens should be the location for the Hockey Hall of Fame and moved out of the office building it’s in. Loblaws are probably only delaying for lack of cash but to turn MLG into a supermarket would be an act of crassness only surpassable by Maple Leaf Sport and Entertainment themselves.

  3. Maple Leaf Gardens should be torn down. It’s an ugly, ill-proportioned behemoth of a building and a shrine to child abuse.

  4. If every building was torn down for the bad things that happened within it, as PB suggests to do with MLG, then we’d have no buildings left. The arena is a cultural institution that deserves better than a supermarket.

  5. there can be tragedies within a building, but a greater tragedy can be the demolition and wasting of all the natural resources and energy embodied in building materials.
    I don’t think the planet can afford to let us rebuild everything that is awry in one way or another. It’s not always an easy question to answer of course, but it’s another powerful argument for preservation.
    And the Gardens has quite a few hundred tons of bricks

  6. pb – all the more reason to preserve it as a hockey institution – document what happened and confront it.

  7. I was riding my bike along Carlton late last night coming home and watching people walk along the front of the Gardens, under the big overhanging sign, was quick nice. This buildings deserves some magical reuse — this is the city to do it, and if it was really good, it would be copied by cities everywhere. (Coming up with that reuse is, of course, the tricky part).