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butterflies in pollinator garden
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Local gardens helping save the bees and the butterflies

May 11, 2023May 17, 2023 Dennis Hanagan 0 Comment Beaches Presbyterian Church, bees, butterflies, climate change, gardening, pollinator gardens, Spruce Court Co-op

Toronto has recruited 44 community groups across the city to build habitats for Toronto’s declining bee and butterfly populations. Habitat

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Parkdale pollinator garden
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BIAs falling short in creating pollinator gardens

January 10, 2022January 10, 2022 Dennis Hanagan bees, butterflies, Gord Perks, pollinator gardens

COVID restrictions have left small businesses wondering if they’ll survive, let alone helping insects survive with pollinator gardens.

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Butterfly Canoe at Leaside Library
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Butterfly Canoe aims to help save bees and butterflies

March 18, 2020March 22, 2020 Rodger Burnside bees, butterflies, Butterfly Canoe, David Suzuki, Leaside Garden Society, Leaside Library, McRae Drive

That canoe emerging from the snow by the Leaside Library is the Butterfly Canoe, created as part of the David Suzuki Foundation’s Butterflyway project.

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Daily: Save the Bees, Please on rooftop garden

July 26, 2018December 20, 2018 Streeter staff bees, Northern Secondary School, Yonge Eglinton Centre, Yonge Street

Save the Bees, Please will be on display at the Yonge Eglinton Centre rooftop garden at 2300 Yonge St., daily from 10 a.m. to 9 a.m. until Sept. 15.

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Summer fun

August 8, 2012December 3, 2018 Francis Crescia bees, Edwards Gardens, farmers' market, Shops at Don Mills, St. John’s Bakery, summer, Town Folk

Bayview-Mills Town Crier People Pics

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Seminar on bees a honey of a course

July 13, 2011 Town Crier staff Beekeeping, bees, Ecology, environment, Toronto Beekeeper's Co-operative, Toronto Botanical Garden, Urban Beekeeping Ser

Participants learn about our threatened friends

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That was then.

Empringham Hotel 1903
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From stately hotel to strip club—the Empringham story

November 19, 2020February 6, 2023 Eric McMillan

The Empringham, Danforth or Play Pen — they’re all the same hotel, standing at Danforth and Dawes from the late 1800s into the 1980s.

Queen and Waverley 1903
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Can you believe this century home still stands at Queen and Waverley?

February 27, 2020March 4, 2020 Eric McMillan
Beltline bridge over Yonge Street ion 1915
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When horses passed UNDER the Beltline bridge

December 1, 2019February 6, 2020 Eric McMillan
Yonge-Eglinton southeast
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Now that the Yonge-Eglinton mess has been cleared up (almost)

October 24, 2019October 25, 2019 Eric McMillan

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