STRIKE
• City union vows to stand its ground [ Toronto Star ]
• Toronto on strike: 5 things about trash [ National Post ]
• Toronto on strike: united city councillors give Miller a victory [National Post]
• Toronto on strike: A great time for rats and angry artists [ National Post ]
• Council determined not to yield as unions threaten long strike [Globe & Mail]
• Five reasons why Toronto residents are so cool about this strike [ Globe & Mail ]
• Waste sites face Environment Ministry crackdown [ Globe & Mail ]
• City walkout: Day 18 [ Toronto Star ]
• Island workers not amused by strike [ Toronto Sun ]
• Strike foes ‘miles apart’ [ Toronto Sun ]
• Youth Day forced to find new digs [ Toronto Sun ]
• City workers strike: week three and counting – Five burning questions answered [ NOW Magazine ]
• Trashing environmentalism [ Eye Weekly ]
• Reality bites at City Hall [ Toronto Sun ]
URBAN LANDSCAPE
• Restored roundhouse is city’s best new accent piece [ Toronto Star ]
• Retailers help roll out Roundhouse [ Toronto Sun ]
• Queen bookend [ NOW Magazine ]
• One last hurrah for Rotman’s [ National Post ]
• The diminished Esplanade [ Eye Weekly ]
OTHER NEWS
• Mississauga council outlaws public question period [ Toronto Star ]
• Council pay freeze won’t help Toronto [ National Post ]
• Stintz attacks Miller for ‘bags, bottles, bicycles’ [ National Post ]
• Website puts wheels in motion [ Toronto Sun ]
• TTC looks to transfer security to city police [ Metro ]
• Corner crazed [ NOW Magazine ]
• Times you ho this is all your fault [ Eye Weekly ]
2 comments
It’s nice that the Leons store turned out so well, and I suppose it is a fine symbol for urban living when even the most staid of big-box stores returns to downtown urban retailing, but the project still smacks of missed opportunity. Would have been a fantastic place for a city Bike Station, like the huge one Chicago placed in Millennium Park. (Can you imagine if they had stuck a Best Buy there instead?) Or a food use to complement Steamwhistle and create more restaurant-park synergy. And a furniture store is the kind of place you go once every few years, not several times a month like a grocery (Maple Leaf Gardens) or LCBO (North Toronto Station), so it’s a really odd choice for adaptive-reuse.
Oh well, at least the building and sitework look nice.
If you’ve just bought your first condo, you’ll probably be at Leon’s more often than you’d think until you get everything you need. It’ll still be a neat place to stop and relax for a while, after being near-derelict and inaccessible for so many years.