Edward Keenan's recent column in the Toronto Star, drawing from the recent and most unexpected demolition of a historic building in Yonge and Eglinton, wonders why Toronto's protocols for protecting old buildings are weaker than those used to protect old trees.

If you want to remove a tree from your property in Toronto, you need to submit an ( Read more... )

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blogTO's Derek Flack reported yesterday on how the Eglinton Station bus terminal is going to be torn down. That he used a photo I took of said terminal from above is a bonus, I think.


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• blogTO shares photos of the new Yonge-Eglinton Centre.
• Beyond the Beyond's Bruce Sterling makes the comparison of the Middle East now to central Europe in the Thirty Years War.
• The Dragon's Gaze notes the discovery of a hot Jupiter orbiting a T Tauri star just two million years old.
• Joe. My. God. reports on the conviction of a man who had been accused ( Read more... )

There used to be a public square on the northwest corner of Yonge and Eglinton. A relatively unattractive concrete-paneled place though it was, it was still one of the few public spaces in the heart of that neighbourhood. Or, rather, it was one of the few spaces with public access: It belonged to RioCan, proprietor of the Yonge-Eglinton Centre, and ( Read more... )

CBC reports on a sad crime committed at Eglinton station. I only hope the person responsible will be apprehended soon.

A Toronto Transit Commission bus driver was slashed with an "edged weapon" at Eglinton station after leaving a washroom early Saturday ( Read more... )