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North Toronto Daily Updates

March 7, 2022March 7, 2022 Streeter staff affordable housing, assault, automated speed enforcement, Avenue Road, bakery, Barry Sherman, bike lanes, bus, café, candy, cannabis, car crash, car thefts, carbon monoxide, child care, child pornography, COVID-19, development, dog poop, Don Valley Golf Course, fire, fire truck, Fraserwood Avenue, gun control, gunshots, hate crime, homicide, Honey Sherman, knife, Lawrence Avenue East, libraries, Little Jamaica, Loblaws, map, McSorley's Saloon and Grill, Metro, motorcyclist, Mt. Pleasant Road, North Toronto Collegiate, North Toronto Hockey Association, North Toronto Memorial Community Centre, overdoses, parking permits, patios, Playa Cabana Bar Esquina, pollinator gardens, power outage, rents, Rob Oliphant, SafeTO, schools, shooting, Shoppers Drug Mart, snow clearing, Sobeys, Starbucks, Stephanie Bowman, subway, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto Transit Commission, vaccinations, vaccine, Valentine's Day, vigil, Yonge Eglinton, Yonge Eglinton Centre, Yonge Street

A quick look at the latest news, views and things to do in North Toronto neighbourhoods.

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Central Toronto Daily Updates

March 5, 2022March 7, 2022 Streeter staff ActiveTO, affordable housing, Alexandra Park, Andrea Barrack, Annamie Paul, anti-Semitism, arson, attempted murder, automated speed enforcement, Bayview Avenue, bike lanes, Bloor Street West, break and enter, break-ins, Brian Chang, car fire, Chinatown, Christie Pits Park, Chrystia Freeland, Clinton Street Public School, closures, collision, COVID-19, COVID-19 variant, David Morris, dog poop, Dundas Street West, El Mocambo, encampment, fatality, film festival, fire, firearms, first-degree murder, Food Basics, Friends of 225 Brunswick, goat, graffiti, green plan, gun control, hate, hate crime, homelessness, Howard Street, human remains, indecent act, Jack Layton, Jessica Bell, libraries, Little Italy, Loblaws, Marci Ien, methadone, Metro, Michelle Ross, motorcyclist, New Democratic Party, noise, outdoor recreation, overdoses, Palmerston Area Residents’ Association, parking permits, patios, pedestrian, pollinator gardens, Qi Sushi, Queen's Park, ravines, Remembrance Day, RenovictionsTO, rents, retail robbery, rinks, road closures, road work, robbery, SafeTO, Santa Claus, Seaton House, second-degree murder, sexual assault, shooting, Shoppers Drug Mart, sinkhole, snow clearing, snowstorm, spitting, St. George Care Community, St. Joseph Street, stabbing, Starbucks, streetcar, subway, tenants, Terry Fox, Toronto flag, Toronto Police, Toronto Urban Design Awards, town hall, trafficking, Trinity Bellwoods Park, Valentine's Day, vehicle break-ins, waste reduction, watermain break, wheelchair, YMCA Child Development Centre, Yonge Street, Yorkville Avenue

A quick look at the latest news, views and things to do in Central Toronto neighbourhoods.

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Riverdale-East York Daily Updates: July–December 2021

December 22, 2021January 18, 2022 Streeter staff 55 Division, affordable housing, assault, automated speed enforcement, bike lanes, break and enter, break-ins, car fire, collision, COVID-19, Danforth Avenue, Don Valley Parkway, East York Civic Centre, East York Hockey Associatio, East York Hockey Association, fire, flooding, fraud, Greenwood Station, homicide, Jack Layton, Julie Dabrusin, knife, libraries, luring, Malcolm Kelly, Mamma's Pizza, manslaughter, medication, Michael Garron Hospital, missing man, Monarch Park, Montcrest School, Nathaniel Erskine-Smith, next of kin, O'Connor Drive, Ontario Line, pedestrian, Petition, Presteign Heights Public School, pumpkin parade, rinks, Riverdale Park East, robbery, Second City, sexual assault, shooting, Shop and Vax, stabbing, Toronto Police, Toronto Public Health, Traffic Services, vaccination, Vax the Holidays, vehicle theft, Victoria Park Avenue, Wakunda Place, Wilkinson Junior Public School, Youth Leaders of East York

A quick look at news, views and things to do in Riverdale-East York neighbourhoods.

Bloor Street bike lanes

‘Temporary’ bike lanes to be made permanent, council decides

December 16, 2021December 17, 2021 Rodger Burnside Bayview Avenue, bike lanes, Bloor Street, city council, Danforth Avenue, Dundas Street East, Joe Cressy, John Tory, University Avenue

Drivers, cyclists and pedestrians had better get used to the bike lanes installed last year as temporary parts of the ActiveTO initiative.

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Benefits of the pandemic: new bike lanes and closed roads

May 27, 2021 Ali Nahsoor ActiveTO, Bayview Avenue, bike lanes, cycling, Danforth Avenue, Lake Shore Boulevard East, pedestrians

If there is one benefit we have received from the pandemic and lockdown over the past year or so, it’s the rapid extension of our bike lanes.

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Meetings THINGS TO DO

Join public meeting on ActiveTO midtown street project: April 27

April 13, 2021April 16, 2021 Streeter staff ActiveTO, bike lanes, cafés, Yonge Street

A virtual public meeting to discuss the ActiveTO Midtown Complete Street Pilot adding bike lanes and curb lane patios on Yonge Street.

Yonge Street patios and bike lanes

Yonge Street to be transformed with bike lanes, patios

April 10, 2021April 17, 2021 J. Diamond Daniel ActiveTO, Barbara Gray, bike lanes, CafeTO, patios, Yonge Street

City council has approved a pilot project that will see part of Yonge Street reduced to two lanes, bike lanes added and patios installed.

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Riverdale-East York Daily Updates: November–December 2020

December 31, 2020March 1, 2021 Streeter staff attempted murder, BigArtTO, bike lanes, books, Broadway Station, CampTO, COVID-19, Dundas Street, East York Chronicle, electric vehicles, Empringham Hotel, explosion, fire, Food Basics, nooses, Pape Station, power outage, robberies, stabbing, testing, Thorncliffe Park Public School, tobogganing, Toronto District School Board, washrooms

A quick look at news, views and things to do in Riverdale-East York neighbourhoods.

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Beaches-Leslieville Daily Updates: November–December 2020

December 31, 2020March 16, 2021 Streeter staff assault, automated speed enforcement, bike lanes, break-ins, CampTO, COVID-19, Dundas, Dundas Street East, East York Chronicle, electric vehicles, Glen Stewart Park, Greenwood Park, Mary-Margaret McMahon, murder, Queen Street East, skating, stabbings, testing sites, tobogganing

A quick look at the latest news, views and things to do in Beaches-Leslieville neighbourhoods.

Protected bike lanes

Protected bike lanes planned for ‘dangerous’ Dundas Street East

November 6, 2020November 6, 2020 Rodger Burnside bike lanes, cyclists, Dundas Street East, fatalities

A dangerous stretch of bicycle paths on Dundas Street East may become a little safer if the city installs protected bike lanes.

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Central Toronto Daily Updates: May–June 2020

June 30, 2020November 27, 2020 Streeter staff affordable housing, bike lanes, camps, cancellations, car chase, CNE, collision, coronavirus, COVID-19, cycling, farmers' market, fire, food bank, garbage, garden centres, Glen Road, gunshots, Harbord Street, homicide, libraries, medication, mischief, Mother's Day, museums, potholes, Pride, real estate, recycling, reopening, road closure, sexual exploitation, shooting, ShopHERE, Toronto Fire Services, Toronto Police, Toronto Public Library, Toronto Reference Library, washrooms, yard waste

A quick look at the latest news, views and things to do in Central Toronto neighbourhoods.

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Bike lane network to continue growing this year, city council agrees

May 1, 2020May 1, 2020 Rodger Burnside bike lanes, city council, John Tory, Kristyn Wong-Tam, Mike Layton, video conference

Bike lanes are to be installed or improved on 10 kilometres of streets this year, Toronto City Council decided during its first video conference meeting.

Leaside Daily Updates: March–April 2020

April 30, 2020November 22, 2020 Streeter staff Bayview Avenue, bike lanes, Butterfly Canoe, cancellations, coronavirus, Davisville Avenue, Distantly, essential workplaces, extreme weather, garbage, Laird Drive, Lake Leaside, Leaside Park, long-term care, Mabel's Fables, parks, Patrick Rocca, shutdowns, Toronto Police, traffic iights, yard waste

A quick look at the latest news, views and things to do in Leaside neighbourhoods.

Local cycling group pushes city to fund safe bike lanes

March 2, 2020March 9, 2020 Dennis Hanagan bike lanes, Brentcliffe Road, Cycle Don Valley Midtown, Eglinton Avenue, Holly Reid, Overlea Boulevard

Midtown cycling advocates are making sure the city sets aside money to build bike lanes as part of the the Eglinton Crosstown project.

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Beaches-Leslieville Daily Updates: January–February 2020

February 29, 2020April 13, 2020 Streeter staff bike lanes, child pornography, child sexual abuse, Danforth Avenue, Danforth Study, Fox Theatre, garbage, homicide, John Tory, Nathaniel Erskine-Smith, Peter MacKay, photo radar, Queen Street East, racism, Toronto Hydro, Toronto Police, Victoria Park Avenue, Winter Stations, Winterlicious, Woodbine Beach

A quick look at the latest news, views and things to do in Beaches-Leslieville neighbourhoods.

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THAT WAS THEN. This is now.

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From stately hotel to strip club—the Empringham story

November 19, 2020May 5, 2021 Eric McMillan

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

*FEATURED THAT WAS THEN

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

February 27, 2020March 4, 2020 Eric McMillan

*FEATURED THAT WAS THEN

When horses passed UNDER the Beltline bridge

December 1, 2019February 6, 2020 Eric McMillan

*FEATURED THAT WAS THEN

Now that the Yonge-Eglinton mess has been cleared up (almost)

October 24, 2019October 25, 2019 Eric McMillan

*FEATURED THAT WAS THEN

When building transit was simpler at Mt. Pleasant and Eglinton

May 9, 2019November 24, 2020 Eric McMillan

*FEATURED THAT WAS THEN

The days of hay wagons and streetcars on Yonge Street

February 1, 2019February 3, 2019 Eric McMillan

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The viaduct that brought Moore Park into Toronto

December 1, 2018December 15, 2018 Streeter staff

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