Torontoist's Nikhil Sharma reports on how locals in Bloordale have been aiming to have more say in what a new community hub, planned for the southwest corner of Bloor and Dufferin, will be like.

Andrea Nann is a homeowner in Toronto’s Bloordale neighbourhood and the parent of a Grade 12 student at Bloor Collegiate Institute. There’s a lot at stake ( Read more... )

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CBC News' Amara McLaughlin tells of a local story of some concern to me.

People living near Bloordale Village have launched a petition hoping to secure a community hub in the 30,000-square metre redevelopment at Bloor and Dufferin streets ( Read more... )

This summer, as I walked west along Dupont towards my Dufferin Street bus stop, I was greeted by a brilliant front yard garden full of iridescent zinnias. Their bright colours, some verging on the neon, were a welcome site. Even in October, there are still enough of these flowers to be noteworthy to passersby.


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The Globe and Mail's Jeff Gray reports on the proposal to radically redevelop the Galleria Mall, my neighbourhood's centre at Dupont and Dufferin.

An ambitious plan to demolish Toronto’s dated west-end Galleria Shopping Centre and replace it with a sleek mix of condos, shops, office space, a new community centre and a large park is expected to get ( Read more... )

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• Antipope Charlie Stross imagines future directions of evolution.
• Anthropology.net reports on a reconstruction of the vocal tract of Iceman Otzi.
• blogTO notes the temporary return of the Dufferin jog owing to construction.
• Centauri Dreams considers asteroids.
• The Dragon's Tales reports on the expected crash of China's Tiangong-1 space station.

Sunday night I rode the new 514 Cherry streetcar created this weekend just passed, travelling west on King from its eastern terminus in the Distillery District to its western terminus in the Dufferin Loop, at the foot of Dufferin Street.

My streetcar was waiting in the Cherry Street Loop.


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