Above is Mayor John Tory performing the actual ribbon cutting on Saturday June 8th, 2019 at 20 Zachary Court in Lawrence Heights. Below are the various dignitaries that spoke including Mayor John Tory, Kevin Marshman, the President and CEO of Toronto Community Housing, Howard Cohen, the President of Context (Heights Development), Marco Mendicino, MP, Eglinton - Lawrence, Robin Martin, MPP Eglinton - Lawrence, and Michael Colle, City Councillor Ward 8 My favourite moment other than when Michael Colle admitted that there had originally been quite the push back in the beginning for this project. Odd favourite I know. If you think about it though it's good to know that seemingly impossible things can be accomplished despite the naysayers. They always seem to yell the loudest. Anyways, back to my other favourite moment. I simply delight in exploring new places and spaces. The rooftop at 20 Zachary is such a charming location that I would never otherwise have had access. I hope the people in this community enjoy this little rooftop haven. I know I would. My not so favourite moment was when I realized that what TCHC, "in their infinite wisdom", (Mom's expression) with their developers, have designed a kitchen space in a five bedroom RGI unit that has less cupboards to store food and dishes to feed umpteen number of people than what I have in my one bedroom unit. I even have substantially more (like double) the available counter space in my kitchen. As if that wasn't bad enough there was no separate dining room/living room. Not even a sizable combined communal living space. You can either fit a dining room table with enough seating for a large family in the space OR you can fit a living room set on the main floor. Adding bedrooms on either side of the family space drastically cut down on the number of interior design options for tenants.
I'm not the only one that felt that way. As I recall one lady muttered under her breathe that she felt like she was in jail as we were on the tour of the units. Now, if someone feels like that on a tour I can't imagine what forcing people to live in those conditions on a permanent basis could do. Maybe Lawrence Heights is a longitudinal study in space deprivation. Let's see how that works out for them.
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So the Raptors won their first NBA championship. Well I'm not exactly a sports fan. To be perfectly honest I couldn't care less. But I knew this would be a once in a lifetime opportunity to complete a basketball themed article about housing and I had just been to the Housing TO consultations the week before. Without further ado let me introduce to the star of my team, the Empty Homes Tax. Kawhi? Kawho?
The Danforth Music Hall is proud to celebrate its 100th year as a leading Toronto concert and events venue. With that, we are excited to announce two special shows for an anniversary celebration this August 2019, presented by Budweiser and Embrace.
On Friday August 16th, Montreal indie rockers WOLF PARADE bring their soaring choruses, rousing anthems, sprawling guitars and chaotic keys to the Danforth stage. With their first three critically acclaimed albums, the band helped define 2000s indie rock, before entering an indefinite hiatus in 2010. Although they returned with a new album and tour in 2017, this will mark only the band's third visit to Toronto over the past decade. Then on Saturday August 17th, we welcome back Vancouver's musical collective THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS, who we last saw at the Danforth in 2015. Having recently announced plans for a new album, we are excited for a potential sneak preview of what they'll add to an already impressive discography of seven critically acclaimed albums (Blender ranked their debut album, 'Mass Romantic,' the 24th best indie album of all time, and Rolling Stone included the follow-up, 'Electric Version,' in their 100 Best Albums of the Decade). We invite you to be part of this celebration. Tickets for both shows are on sale this Friday June 28th at 10am, with presales on throughout the week. Visit thedanforth.com for more details. TORONTO, ON – In 2010, Rush took a break from recording what would become the band’s final studio album – Clockwork Angels – to launch its Time Machine Tour. During that tour, the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer’s recorded their April 15, 2011 performance in Cleveland. It was a fitting tribute to the city, which was the first to play Rush’s music on the radio.
That epic concert was released on CD in 2011, but the full show has never come out on vinyl, until now. TIME MACHINE 2011: LIVE IN CLEVELAND becomes available today June 7 as a four-LP set via Anthem / ole label group. The Time Machine Tour was a fan favourite thanks in part to the tour’s incredible set list, which encompassed songs from the group’s entire career. Another reason is that Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson and Neil Peart did something during these shows that they’d never done before, which was to play their quadruple-platinum album Moving Pictures (1981) in its entirety. It remains the band’s best-selling record in the United States where it reached #3 on the album chart. In the band’s native Canada, it hit #1. In addition to the singles, “Limelight,” “Tom Sawyer,” and “Vital Signs,” Moving Pictures also earned the band a Grammy nomination for the instrumental track, “YYZ.” Named for the airport code in Toronto, the song’s rhythm is based on the letters Y-Y-Z played in Morse code. Rush: Live In Cleveland can be purchased here |