Breakfast Television was live on location at MakerKids Leaside (1661 Bayview Ave) this morning! MakerKids empowers the makers of tomorrow through award-winning STEM camps and programs in Coding, Robotics and Minecraft. Their grand opening party will be held on June 29th, 2019 at their brand new Leaside location. Pop in and see what they’re all about.

? CELEBRATE CANADA DAY AT JUNE ROWLANDS PARK

Monday July 1st, Appletree Markets hosts an 8:00pm pre-show and community dance party with fireworks to follow at June Rowlands Park, 220 Davisville Ave.

? NEIGHBOURS TOGETHER ON CANADA DAY AT RIVERDALE PARK

Monday, July 1st 12-4pm, Riverdale Park East, 550 Broadview Avenue featuring live music, flag raising, face painting, inflatable obstacle course, birthday cake and BBQ.

? EAST YORK TORONTO CANADA DAY CELEBRATION
Monday, July 1st, 2019

Parade Route: The East York Toronto Canada Day Parade begins at 10 am on Cosburn Ave, outside Dieppe Park, and heads east to Coxwell Avenue, turning south at East York Collegiate, passing East York Civic Centre and Michael Garron Hospital. It turns east onto Sammon Avenue to Woodbine, where it heads north through just south of O’Connnor. A block away from the Festival kicking off at Stan Wadlow Park.

Festival: Our festival grounds are at Stan Wadlow Park – 373 Cedarvale Ave. The festival includes music, children’s activities, artisans, merchants and community group market and when the sun goes down, a spectacular firework display at 10pm. By popular demand the midway and the Muddy York Brewing Craft Beer Garden. The Kiwanis Pool will aslo be open so bring your suit.

Sidewalk Labs’ draft Master Innovation and Development Plan for Toronto’s eastern waterfront, titled Toronto Tomorrow: A New Approach for Inclusive Growth, was publicly released today. Toronto Tomorrow includes three volumes (plus an overview). This blog post, from Sidewalk Labs CEO Dan Doctoroff, boils the plan down to five of the most important points you need to know. And if you’re inspired to learn more, you can download the entire book on the newly updated Sidewalk Toronto web site.

Google sister company releases details for controversial Toronto project https://t.co/6FScodE2tM

— Guardian news (@guardiannews) June 24, 2019

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A pooch named Scamp the Tramp has won this year’s World’s Ugliest Dog contest, held Friday at the Sonoma-Marin Fair in Petaluma, California, beating out a field of 18 other four-legged contestants.

“He’s Scamp the Champ, no longer Scamp the Tramp,” owner Yvonne Morones of Santa Rosa, California told the Santa Rosa Press-Democrat after the victory. “I think the audience saw his beautiful spirit and everything he’s given back to the community.” Today Show

Crews were called to Kennedy Lodge, at Kennedy and Ellesmere roads, at around 11:50 a.m. this morning after receiving an alert from an alarm company. TTC buses have been brought in to shelter the displaced residents and paramedics have responded as a precaution as well. Toronto Police Services tweeted that no injuries have been reported. CP24

Seniors home in Scarborough evacuated after smoke prompts fire response https://t.co/TvepuEVncb pic.twitter.com/GUAvFYYGZC

— CP24 (@CP24) June 24, 2019

*update*
Fire: Kennedy Rd / Ellemere Rd
– roads have reopened
– residents returned inside of the building#GO1171179 @TPS41Div ^ka

— Toronto Police Operations (@TPSOperations) June 24, 2019

The Leaside Aerodrome Facebook page has posted an album commemorating a Leaside milestone. On this day in 1918, (June 24) the very first official airmail delivery sent in Canada landed at the Aerodrome at Camp Leaside, a training facility for RAF aviators. Captain Brian Peck was the pilot on Canada’s first official postal flight, which took place between Montreal & Leaside. The flight was planned as part of a publicity event to encourage wartime recruitment. The Leaside Aerodrome Facebook Page was created and is managed by Jeremy Hopkin of Hopkin Design.

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11:59 AM – 17 Jun 2019 – Nathan Phillips Square is at capacity, no one else will be allowed on the Square. Watch the parade + rally on big screen at Coronation Park. Everyone onsite: please celebrate safely… @TorontoPolice want you to be able to enjoy the entire event! #WeTheNorthDay #WeTheNorth (Twitter: @cityoftoronto)

Queen, Osgoode and Dundas TTC Stations are closed due to overcrowding at street level.

Screens have been set up at Yonge-Dundas Square to watch the Toronto Raptors victory parade in an effort to ease overcrowding at Nathan Phillips Square, Toronto police said.

Toronto Police, Fire and Ambulance have set up a medical post in the intersection on Bay Street, South of Dundas and just East of City Hall. If you or others are feeling unwell, please look for the parked ambulance to get attention.

New Road Closures: Yonge Street is closed from Richmond to just north of Dundas. Also, Dundas is closed between Bay and Church Streets. No vehicles permitted.

To give you a sense of how overcrowded it is, the ramp to city hall was blocked off. But in the past hour, @torontopolice are lifting people who want to leave up and over the wall. A lot of people are choosing to leave.#WeTheNorthDay #RaptorsParade pic.twitter.com/0r5AVSzYXM

— Nick Westoll (@NWestoll) June 17, 2019

MLSE says it will make a determination at 5 p.m. this afternoon whether or not to move Jurassic Park indoors to Scotiabank Arena due to weather conditions. 680 News’ Momin Qureshi is on the scene and has tweeted that “The lineup to Jurassic Park is now completely empty!” (4:47pm) CBC tweeted “Raptors fans had waited hours for a spot in Jurassic Park for Game 6. Now the lines have been shut down with Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment suggesting the die-hard Raps fans may instead be allowed into Scotiabank Arena.”

UPDATE: MLSE is moving ahead with the Game 6 Raptors Tailgate viewing party at Jurassic Park. Gates open at 7 p.m. Staff will continue to monitor the weather situation and Scotiabank Arena will be used if there’s lightning.

Fans back in line rain or shine. #JurassicPark #WeTheNorth pic.twitter.com/KLpggZqfcx

— Mark McAllister (@McAllister_Mark) June 13, 2019

THIS JUST IN: MLSE says it is going ahead with outdoor viewing of Game 6 in #JurassicPark #Raptors #WeTheNorth pic.twitter.com/5ehlBzJqBO

— NEWSTALK1010 (@NEWSTALK1010) June 13, 2019

People were treated to the wonderful sight of orcas on Wednesday afternoon in the city’s most inner waterway. The Vancouver Aquarium said this is the first reported sighting of killer whales in False Creek since it began collecting data in 2000. Jeff Wilson tweeted a fabulous photo documenting his “epic” day. More

Epic day in False Creek today 1430 pic.twitter.com/9dyStroEzZ

— Jeff Wilson (@JeffRollout) June 12, 2019

Councillor Jaye Robinson (Ward 15) has published a handy round-up of local developments in her recent newsletter. You can view it below — click images to enlarge. Or visit her website and get updates via her interactive local development map.

Also included in the Councillor’s newsletter is a list of improvements planned for our local parks.