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Bloor Street bike lanes
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‘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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drugs arrest
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Local harm-reduction coordinator backs push to decriminalize drug use

October 24, 2021October 26, 2021 Dennis Hanagan COUNTERfit Harm Reduction Program, decriminalization, drugs, Joe Cressy, Rhiannon Thomas, South Riverdale Community Health Centre

Decriminalizing possession of illicit drugs for personal use could help stem illegal drug activity, Rhiannon Thomas says.

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camps and skating lessons cancelled
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Holiday camps and winter instruction programs shut down by city

December 18, 2020December 23, 2020 Rodger Burnside CampTO, cancellations, COVID-19, Eileen de Villa, Joe Cressy

Thousands of kids looking forward to city-run holiday camps and skiing or skating lessons will have to forego those activities that get them out of the house, as the programs have been cancelled.

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Josh Matlow at top of election poll.
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Midtown councillors riding high in early poll

December 10, 2017December 28, 2017 Jay Garak Christin Carmichael Greb, Doug Ford, Jaye Robinson, Joe Cressy, Joe Mihevc, John Tory, Jon Burnside, Josh Matlow, Kristyn Wong-Tam, municipal election

Midtown city councillors have nothing to worry about in the next municipal election, to judge by a recent poll by a young market research company.

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NEWS 

Thinking of sponsoring a refugee?

September 22, 2015March 28, 2017 Eric Emin Wood Joe Cressy, Joe Mihevc, refugees

Like other midtown residents, city councillor Joe Mihevc wanted to find out how he could sponsor one of the more than four million refugees displaced from Syria.

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THAT WAS THEN. This is now.

Empringham Hotel 1903
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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.

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
Mt. Pleasant loop being built
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When building transit was simpler at Mt. Pleasant and Eglinton

May 9, 2019November 24, 2020 Eric McMillan
Hay wagons on Yonge Street
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The days of hay wagons and streetcars on Yonge Street

February 1, 2019February 3, 2019 Eric McMillan
Avoca bridge being torn down
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The viaduct that brought Moore Park into Toronto

December 1, 2018December 15, 2018 Streeter staff

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