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(Crossposted with Spacing Votes<\/a> — a tour of Cariboo Avenue)<\/em>
\nIn a recent thread<\/a> here on Spacing Votes, Danny Nardelli (the motorist responsible for the “Don’t Vote for Giambrone<\/a>” Jeep Grand Cherokee you may have seen driving around as well as a “Don’t Vote for Adam Giambrone poster campaign) invited everybody to go for a drive and check out Cariboo Avenue for themselves (you can also check out the official response from Giamrbone’s campaign<\/a> in an open letter to Spacing Votes). Yesterday was a beautiful day of driving, cold mist, so instead of driving (sorry Danny) I walked up to Cariboo, from Dupont and Dufferin, where the bus let me off.<\/p>\n

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Cariboo is near the end of Dupont, just before it goes under the tracks and becomes either Annette or Dundas, depending on which way you swing. There are no visible signs of gentrification here — except for a Cat Hotel — so it resembles the old semi-industrial\/residential Dupont that Alfred Holden once wrote about<\/a> so well in Taddle Creek magazine (as did Bert Archer in Eye<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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Turning north onto Osler Street, this extremely sad and giant fish greets those heading to Cariboo. Osler itself is a mix of auto shops and houses. Cariboo is a block north on Osler.
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At Cariboo, the first of the concrete barricades in question are visible. Those train tracks beyond become the line that runs just north of Dupont, eventually heading into Rosedale. To the west they intersect with the rail line that comes up from Parkdale. Cariboo, a dead-end, is wedged in between. It is an ugly street. If Raymond Chandler was a Torontonian and wrote about this city, he’d dump a few bodies here. It’s exactly the north west corner of Ward 18<\/a>, just a few steps away from the free and easy territories of Wards 14 and 17.
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In some places the barricades are 3 deep. There are indeed “No Stopping” signs posted on each side, but this plateless minivan, and some other cars without plates, were parked along it anyway.
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At the end of the street are are series of chainlink fences with the rail lands beyond. No sign yet of any progress on the walking and biking pathways that are to be built, just these junk yard dogs behind this gate on the left side. Their horrible-angry Cujo snouts snarled at me from underneath the gate. They paced quicker and seemed more horrible the longer I lingered at the end. If you go, bring a slab or two of meat to throw over the gate and distract them.
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This is the length of Cariboo. Coat was wet and fingers were frozen, so it was time to leave Ward 18 alone and head back East, where the dogs and concrete are less fierce. Sixty-three minutes later, on the corner of Alexander and Yonge, Cariboo felt like it was in another city, making Toronto seem even bigger because of the various worlds that exist within its borders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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