The Toronto Star's Sammy Hudes describes how the status of 15 Glen Morris Street, a home 140 years old, is currently being contested by the tenants who live there and are seeking heritage designation for the house and the owners whose repairs--if they can be called them--seem more a prelude to demolition for the apartment tower they say they want ( Read more... )

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Passing along Harbord Street with a visiting friend on Monday, I snapped this photo of 85 Harbord Street.


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The Toronto Star's Katie Daubs has a nice feature about an oral history project in Toronto's Harbord Village neighbourhood.

They are details you no longer see: the large fish that flopped out of the delivery truck onto Harbord St. in the 1960s. The ducks that went to their deaths biting at butchers in a Baldwin St. poultry shop. The way you could ( Read more... )

• blogTO notes that the site of the former Linux Caffè on Harbord at Grace is set to become a retro-style malt shop.
• Centauri Dreams reacts to the discovery of an exoplanet in the uadruple 30 Arietis system.
• The Dragon's Gaze links to a paper suggesting that the protoplanetary disk of T Chamaeleontis can be best explained by stationary structures.
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The University of Toronto Graduate House is a striking location on the western edge of the University of Toronto campus.


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The Grid's Jamie Bradburn writes about the tumultuous history of Henry Morgentaler's pioneering abortion clinic at 85 Harbord Street.

When the Toronto Women’s Bookstore needed space to expand from its Kensington Market home in 1975, it settled upon the ground floor of a three-storey semi-detached former residence on Harbord Street. As one of the ( Read more... )

I had a soft spot for the Linux Caffè, located at 326 Harbord Street on the intersection of Harbord and Grace across from Bickford Park. I photographed the active store from the Harbord Street side in 2008; later, in the winter of 2012, I snapped a photo of a good luck maneki neko cat statue. Soon after, though, the restaurant closed downThis is ( Read more... )

Henry Morgentaler, a Canadian doctor who gained international recognition (and ignominy) for his fight for safe and legal abortion in Canada, died today.

Morgentaler emerged in 1969 as one of Canada's most controversial figures when he broke the law at the time, and opened the country's first abortion clinic in Montreal ( Read more... )