The Ontario Food Terminal, Toronto's main produce distribution centre, was the subject of two articles coming up on my Feedly RSS feed recently.

The first, Torontoist's "How the Ontario Food Terminal Works", written by Conrad Smyth with photos by Robert Ewart, takes a look at the bargaining that goes on here as buyers contend with sellers.

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First is Torontoist's Tamara Yelland, "Library Workers, Approaching Strike Deadline, Continue Contract Negotiations".

The City and Toronto Public Library workers have four days to reach a new collective agreement before the strike and lockout deadline at 12:01 a.m. on Monday, May 2-and union representatives say the workers are willing to strike ( Read more... )

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• The Boston Globe's The Big Picture shares photos from this year's Boston Marathon.
• blogTO reports on the proposal to make the lower Don valley a new park.
• D-Brief notes the impending emergence of cicadas.
• The Dragon's Gaze links to the potentially cataclysmic consequences of very large impacts on early Venus.
• The Map Room Blog considers the process of ( Read more... )

Geoffrey Vendeville's Toronto Star article outlines the terrible state of some of the most notable apartment towers in Parkdale, the neighbourhood that even now may be one of the most affordable in the downtown core. How long will any of this last?

Tenzin has a bundle of pink maintenance requests documenting all the complaints he’s made about the ( Read more... )

• blogTO notes the impending end of Parkdale's Skyline Diner.
• Centauri Dreams reports on the efforts to track the origins of the 2013 Chelyabinsk impactor.
• D-Brief notes the development of ultra-durable, high-capacity glass memory chips.
• Dangerous Minds directs readers to a walking tour of punk London.
• The Dragon's Gaze links to a paper examining the ( Read more... )

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Torontoist's Samira Mohyeddin notes how the inevitable, post-Queen Street West, gentrification of Parkdale is driving out the poor who have long made this neighbourhood their home.

Almost 100 Parkdale residents, community members and activists crammed into the Parkdale Activity and Recreation Centre last night at 1499 Queen Street West in order to ( Read more... )

• blogTO reported on a Tibetan restaurant in Parkdale and on a new Icelandic bakery.
• James Bow does not like the new pavillion of Robarts Library.
• Steve Munro considers the complexities of the eastern Gardiner Expressway's fate and shares photos of a work train on the Prince Edward Viaduct.
• Spacing Toronto shares John Lorinc's argument in favour of ( Read more... )

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