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The Globe and Mail's Mark Medley describes how Toronto comic store The Beguiling is managing its move from the soon-to-be-defunct Mirvish Village to a new College Street location.

For nearly two decades, visitors to the Beguiling, the charmingly overstocked comic-book emporium in the heart of Toronto’s Mirvish Village, would often be greeted by ( Read more... )

blogTO's Amy Grief describes how the institution of the community land trust, organized by neighbourhood organizations to buy up available land in different places with the goal of ensuring it will be used for affordable housing and the like, is starting to appear in Toronto.

[O]rganizations in both Parkdale and Kensington Market are trying to use ( Read more... )

Torontoist's David Hains looks at the impending move of The Beguiling from Mirvish Village to College Street near Kensington Market.

Longtime Mirvish Village institution The Beguiling will close its Markham Street digs on January 28 ( Read more... )

NOW Toronto's Natalia Manzocco describes some very appetizing Ojibwa tacos sound like they could be quite good. (Of course they'd be in Kensington Market.)

POW WOW CAFE (213 Augusta, at Baldwin, facebook.com/CafePowWow). Brunch or lunch $17 per person, with tax, tip and a cedar soda. Open Thursday through Sunday. Access: No step at door, small ( Read more... )

blogTO's Amy Grief describes how Kensington Market's Jewish past remains today.

When Danny Zimmerman, who used to run Zimmerman's Discounts with his father, walks down Augusta, in the heart of Kensington Market, it's as if he's amongst friends. He waves hello to passersby as we make our way down the street from 4 Life Natural Foods (in the old ( Read more... )

Julien Gignac's exploration in The Globe and Mail about Kensington Market and this new study is just lovely. Gignac's photographs of the neighbourhood and its residents are a nice touch.

On a sunny recent weekday afternoon, a woman walked with her pet pigeon through Bellevue Square. To her left, a man played chinlone - a traditional Myanmar game ( Read more... )

The Toronto Star's Jim Coyle describes what seems to be the successful first stage of Alexandra Park's revitalization.

On a golden early-autumn day, under flawless blue skies, local residents took to the streets Saturday to celebrate fresh starts and brighter futures in the downtown neighbourhood of Alexandra Park ( Read more... )

The Toronto Star's Oliver Sachgau reports, with plenty of photos, about the new road murals which will soon be covering the streets of Kensington Market.

You wouldn’t think the colourful paint that was being slathered on Baldwin St. would be controversial in any way ( Read more... )

• blogTO notes that the Canadian government has prevented Conrad Black from selling his Forest Hill mansion on account of taxes.
• Dangerous Minds shares a beautiful 1981 live performance by The Church.
• Language Log notes the inclusion of Singaporean and Hong Kong English words into the OED.
• The Map Room Blog notes the four Italian nuns who helped the ( Read more... )