Urban Toronto has a picture spread of a four-storey townhome to be built as part of the Brownstones of Leaside Development at McRae Drive and Sutherland Drive. It is designed by Peter Higgins Architect Inc. who issued new renderings of the interiors of the development’s eight residences. Urban Toronto. To request more information directly from Brownstones of Leaside, The click here
San Francisco is progressive or radical depending on your politics. Now the City has moved a step closer to an ordinance that would require soft drink makers to put sugar warnings in all advertising. A lawsuit was brought to the federal court by the American Beverage Association, the California Retailers Association, and the California State Outdoor Advertising Association, all of whom have an interest in putting Coke, Pepsi and other sweet drinks on billboards and elsewhere. But the court says San Francisco can enforce the ordinance at least for now. The warning will read: “WARNING: Drinking beverages with added sugar(s) contributes to obesity, diabetes, and tooth decay. This is a message from the City and County of San Francisco.”
The construction of the LRT stations at Bayview (to be known as Leaside) Mt Pleasant, Don Mills (Science Centre) and at Chaplin Crescent and Bathurst Streets will require old-fashioned cut and cover digging. That’s what was needed to build the Yonge subway 65 years ago. The intersections at Eglinton and crossing streets will be opened up and then covered with metal plates to accommodate traffic as possible. Other stations such as Laird (which will go by its real name) and Avenue Rd. will be built by a process known as mining in which earth is dug out underground and removed by conveyor. Stations where transit lines cross, as in the case of Yonge and Eglinton, will see work done well underground. The LRT line must travel beneath the Yonge subway and its station will sit below the present subway stop.
MEETING TUESDAY
These were some of the things to be learned at a Metrolinx information meeting in the Lea Room at Leaside Gardens Tuesday night. Early in the evening at the two-hour exhibit of charts and photo/art depictions there were as many as 125 people present. Metrolinx employees circulated asking if there were questions. Work on the stations is beginning. Demolition has been completed at Bathurst, Avenue Rd. Bayview (McDonalds) Laird (the strip mall) and the historic former CIBC building at Mt. Pleasant, which will serve as the housing for the LRT station, is vacant.
The body of a man estimated to be in his 40s was found near Gloucester Street near Yonge Street just after midnight. Police say the death is suspicious and also that they think he was homeless.
A surveillance video installed by her family to make sure Alice Swailes was safe, witnessed a brutal attack on the 89-year-old woman from Hull, England and led to the capture of her attacker within hours.
Let the punishment fit the crime and so it does as the sparkplug of that donnybrook Sunday between the Jays and Rangers goes down for eight games. He also pays a $5,000 fine. The Toronto manager, John Gibbons, gets a three-game holiday for coming back on the field during the melee after being ejected earlier in the game.
Maurice Cody School on Belsize Drive held Raptors Spirit Day Tuesday to coincide with the first game of the Raps and Cavs in Cleveland. Some nice work here guys.
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Chatham Daily News carries reaction from Union Gas, which services southwestern Ontario down to Windsor.
Hudson’s Bay Company has announced plans to open up to 20 stores in the Netherlands as part of its European expansion. The company said it is in the process of finalizing long term leases and expected to open the first locations in the summer of 2017 under the Hudson’s Bay and Saks Off 5th banners. The 350 year-old retailer with roots among the courier du bois unveiled a major overseas expansion, starting with plans to open 40 Saks Off 5th discount stores in Germany, beginning next year. Hudson’s Bay, which owns Saks Fifth Avenue, Lord & Taylor and Hudson’s Bay department stores, had purchased the largest department chain in Germany and Belgium, Galeria Kaufhof, for $3.9 billion last year. “Expansion into the Netherlands is a natural extension of our existing presence in Belgium as well as our planned entry into Luxembourg and will complete our presence in all of the Benelux countries,” said HBC chairman Richard Baker in a statement. With CP
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Sighthill Ave. and MacLennan Ave don’t meet.
Justin De Ciano
There’s a questionable aspect to the dealings of the City’s planning and growth committee to permit residential and commercial construction within just nine metres of the Toronto-Hamilton rail corridor. The decision to ignore a City planning recommendation against such development was spearheaded by Ward 5 Councillor Justin Di Ciano. That was last Wednesday and the vote was 4 to 2. Councillors Di Ciano, David Shiner, Christin Carmichael Greb and John Campbell voted to support Di Ciano’s amendments. Councillors Kristyn Wong-Tam and John Filion voted to support the original recommendations by City planners. Now CBC News says Mr. Di Ciano and his twin brother, Julian, have ties to the developer, Dunpar Developments. Some say this connection should have been revealed at the committee. Councillor Di Ciano was also the leader of an unfortunate City Council decision in October 2015 to reverse itself on its previous commitment to introduce ranked ballots at the next election Mr. Di Ciano said the system would be too complicated and he persuaded Council 25 to 18 to go back on its decision. Readers may see who voted in favour and against that motion here. Toronto councillor pushes for planning changes that benefit developer despite ties to company CBC
Glen Murray
Ontario’s Liberal government is not denying a published report that its long-awaited action plan on climate change aims to phase out the use of natural gas in both home heating and the electricity system. Premier Kathleen Wynne and Environment Minister Glen Murray have been working for months on an action plan to reduce carbon emissions through a mix of incentives to choose green options and new regulations to shift people away from using fossil fuels. At Queen’s Park, the opposition blasted the plans, saying they don’t make sense and will harm Ontario homeowners. CBC
RADICAL?
It seems like stunning news and opens many questions about what homeowners will wish to do to protect the family if homes, heated by electricity, go off grid in mid-winter. Gas furnaces and gas fireplaces can be kept running in a power outage. Would such a decision see a return to wood-burning fireplaces for emergency use? Are more dangerous fuels like propane likely to see a boom? Ministers won’t deny plan to phase out natural gas
