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Saturday evening, as evening shaded into night, I rode the 63 Ossington bus south from Ossington Station to King Street. The bus took me past Bloor, past the Ossington strip between College and Dundas (roughly), and down to the new condo neighbourhood of Liberty Village.

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blogTO's Derek Flack writes about an area that I think encompasses my neighbourhood.

In the same moment when Toronto condo developers are determined to make new neighbourhoods in this city, our old villages rise up in the absence of big development and make their mark on the urban landscape. Such is the case with Davenport Village ( Read more... )

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This photo, one of three I took standing north of the Dovercourt Road rail crossing, between Dupont and Geary, was selected to a illustrated a recent Torontoist article.


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Last May, I noted that 934 Ossington Avenue had been sold. That address, a residential home in my neighbourhood, saw the brutal murder in 2011 of its prior resident, Allan Lanteigne, allegedly by a hit man hired by his estranged husband. Daily Xtra's HG Watson notes that said person has been discharged of charges.

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Over the past few days, blogTO writer Erinn Beth Langille has been writing a series of brief guides to different trendy west-end Toronto neighbourhoods that aren't Queen Street West: first Roncesvalles Village, then Dundas West and Ossington, then Parkdale. It makes for diverting reading: these neighbourhoods, too, are trending up.

Walking home tonight, I noticed that there were plenty of dueling campaign signs for Adam Vaughan and Joe Cressy tonight on the western periphery of Trinity-Spadina , on Ossington Avenue at Bloor, to be precise.


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