Toronto’s Urbanism Headlines: Friday

TTC looking to cut bus and streetcar stops, mulls time-based transfers

At the next Toronto Transit Commission meeting on January 28, staff will present a report [PDF] that may affect the locations of bus and streetcar stops...

Yorkville Avenue fire at former home of Toronto writer Mazo de la Roche

Yesterday’s fire at 86 and 84 Yorkville Avenue was a day long event; when I walked by 11 hours after it started Toronto Fire was still pumping water...

Toronto’s Urbanism Headlines: Thursday

ROB FORD Ford calls latest videos and drinking a ‘minor setback’ [Globe & Mail] Toronto is more than just Rob Ford: Wynne [Toronto Sun...

Toronto’s Urbanism Headlines: Wednesday

ROB FORD Rob Ford faces news calls to step aside as new video could damage re-election bid [National Post] Councillors not surprised Mayor Rob Ford still...

Lee’s Palace before it was Lee’s Palace — the roots of Toronto’s famous music venue

This is what Lee’s Palace looked like when it first opened, nearly 100 years ago. It was the spring of 1919 — the first few months after the end of...

Jennifer Keesmaat talk about walking to school

Walk Toronto is hosting a talk by Chief Planner Jennifer Keesmat about walking to school on Feb. 12, to be followed by its 2014 general meeting. Keesmaat...

Turnout Toronto 2014

On the evening of January 14th, the Annex branch of the Center for Social Innovation hosted Turnout Toronto 2014, a civic engagement fair bringing...

LORINC: Metrolinx and Accenture deny Presto-DC allegations

Metrolinx officials last week strongly denied that Accenture had leveraged its $700 million-plus Presto contract to win a $184 million/six-year deal for a...

Landfill on the Toronto Islands

I took this photo of Gibraltar Point Beach on a long walk around Toronto Islands during the city’s most recent cold snap. Because parts of the...

Toronto’s Urbanism Headlines: Friday

POLITICS  Race to replace Mayor ‘Hurricane’ Hazel begins without key rival  [Globe & Mail] Kathleen Wynne no idiot to snub the posturing Rob Ford...

Toronto’s Urbanism Headlines: Thursday

POLITICS Mayor Rob Ford on Premier Kathleen Wynne’s rejection: She’s ‘confused’ [Toronto Sun] Wynne refuses to meet with Ford to...