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City of Toronto’s Parks, Forestry & Recreation Division and what you don’t one year contract to Hutcheson Sand & Mixs for the amount of $144,650.00 (contract 3920-17-0084), effective April 1, 2017 to March 31, 2018 with the option to renew the Contract for two (2) additional separate one (1) year periods,

Playground Sand is an important part of the most playgrounds in the Junctions, well used by children for play and exploration, the quality of the standards of the and it’s long-term play and safety characteristics, those in by the city should be no one by the each community. Below is the text from the winning better for the city of Toronto explaining the quality of their sand.

It has been said that all sands are the same. Nothing could be further from the truth…
Worldwide statistics indicate that 55%-75% of all playground injuries result from falls onto non-compliant compacted surfaces from adjacent play structures. The purpose of the protective safety surfacing is to reduce the number of injuries over-all and to protect children from life-threatening or debilitating injuries.
Hutcheson CSA Compliant Granite Playground Sand is an exceptional protective safety surfacing material created with the safety of children in mind. It is our goal to provide all customers with an economical protective surfacing material that continues to meet or exceed CSA standards and has excellent play value for kids of every age.

Hutcheson’s Canadian Standards Association (CSA) Compliant Granite Playground Sand is tested in accordance with ASTM F355, ASTM F1292, CAN/CSA Z614 specifications. Surface impact attenuation tests have been performed by independent consultants for ten years since initial installation and our Granite Playground Sand has continued to meet or exceed the CSA standards in dry, wet or frozen environmental conditions, without requiring rototilling.

In December 2009, The Hospital for Sick Kids, Toronto, published the results of a multiyear study titled, “School Playground Surfacing And Arm Fractures In Children: A Cluster Randomized Trial Comparing Sand to Wood Chip Surfaces” *. The findings of this real-world study indicated that granite sand surfaces substantially reduce the risk of arm fractures and other injuries caused by falls from playground equipment when compared with wood fiber surfaces. Subsequently, in the fall of 2010, independent surface impact tests were performed on two playgrounds that have had Hutcheson’s protective surfacing product installed for 10 years and have never been rototilled. These tests indicated that our granitic sand retained its CSA Compliance despite the lack of maintenance over ten years, even when the drop height of the load cell significantly exceeded the fall height of the play equipment.

PLOS Medicine Study – Further Reading
You may also email our staff for more information eugenet@hutchesonsand.com

Link to The Hospital for Sick Kids study here

Complete city requirements below,

Contract number: 47020602
Date awarded: April 27, 2017
Client division: Parks, Forestry & Recreation

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Living in the Juntion you ate in the wonderful position of living within shouting distance of Canada’s first national transportation effort to tie the Canada together. The CP rail line traveling through the Junction is the major component of the first linking of the country with technology.

Now the Canadian Senate is proposing a new transportation linkage to span the country. The opening up, and creating a greater ease of access to Canada’s Northern lands, is a wonderful goal. However developing this goal with business and commerce as the primary reason as the Sente reportdoes, will fail for our country, opening up Canada’s northern lands provides all Canadians the great opportunity discover and create new societal and naturally sustainable, communites for living.

Senate text below,

Ottawa – A 7,000-kilometre transportation corridor across Canada’s North will have as revolutionary an impact on today’s Canadian economy as the coast-to-coast railway did in the 1800s, the Senate Committee on Banking Trade and Commerce concludes in a report released Wednesday.

The report, called National Corridor: Enhancing and Facilitating Commerce and Internal Trade, calls for the construction of an east-west corridor through Canada’s northern regions, which would unlock significant economic opportunities. The idea is to establish a right-of-way that would accommodate highways, railways, pipelines as well as electrical transmission and communications networks. The new national corridor would tie into existing infrastructure in southern Canada like the Trans-Canada Highway and the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway.

click the full-size a link to the complete report is lower down in this post.

The Senate committee urges the federal government to take a leadership role in building a national corridor, starting with a $5-million grant to the University of Calgary’s School of Public Policy and the Montreal-based Center for Interuniversity Research and Analysis of Organizations for their research program on such a corridor.

The corridor will help Canada diversify its foreign markets by allowing companies to ship their goods to tidewater ports in the North. It will also spur economic growth, new job creation and provide benefits to Indigenous peoples and other northern residents.

Because the proposed national corridor would cross the traditional territories of a large number of Indigenous communities, the government must ensure they are actively involved from the beginning, the committee said. Their involvement in the corridor will be fundamental to its successful development. In particular, the committee met with the First Nations Major Projects Coalition and the First Nations Financial Management Board whose work has informed this study to a vast degree.

This bold and innovative project would create countless employment and economic opportunities for Indigenous communities, including through construction jobs, supplying builders and the acquisition of equity stakes in infrastructure projects.

Other potential benefits of a national corridor include decreased traffic on southern highways and railways. A corridor would also help Canada assert its Arctic sovereignty.

Quick Facts

Inadequate east-west transportation infrastructure limits the extent to which Canada can access tidewater in order to export goods.

There is a lack of ports and routes in Canada’s North that could be used to ship goods abroad.

A 7,000-kilometre coast-to-coast corridor through the North could open up ports in Canada’s northern regions.

Asia and Europe are growing in importance in terms of markets for Canadian exports; improved access to tidewater would make those markets more accessible.
Quotes

“Not since Sir John A. Macdonald’s National Policy in the 1870s has Canada had such an opportunity to build such a monumental infrastructure project with the potential to transform the country’s economy. As Canada looks forward to its next 150 years, a national corridor is the kind of infrastructure it will need to tap into new foreign markets.”

– Senator David Tkachuk, Chair of the committee

“The proposed national corridor is a visionary project that could unlock extraordinary economic potential. A national corridor would greatly help facilitate internal trade as well as increase access to foreign markets in Asia and Europe, which is exactly what our great country needs.”

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26th Annual Antique Machinery Show/Vintage Snowmobile Show & Swap

The Hope Agriculture Heritage Club is having its

26th Annual Antique Machinery Show and joining us is

Vintage Snowmobile Show & Swap

on

August 12th and 13th between 10:00 am –3:00 pm.

Taking place on the outskirts of Port Hope on the north-west corner of Highway 28 at Dale Road,

or 3090 County Road 28, The field is great for public viewing as well as a day out!

Admission is just at $5 with 12 and under free.

This year’s addition of

1st Annual Wheat Field Rendezvous Vintage Snowmobile Show & Swap Meet will add many more things to touch and see. Sorry we will not having snow to operate these old timers, but I am sure they will start and purr just like they did 50 years ago.

So come out with the family and enjoy tractor pulls, lawnmower pulls, games, lunch, and much more!

Of the show, one of the executive who has been with the show many years, Barry “The Bare”, has said that “This show offers something for all ages; nostalgia weekend for seniors, learning experience for those under 80 and a walk down memory lane for all. Kids can see and do and touch and experience the past.”

Exhibitors Welcome! Call Dan Lovshin at (905) 377-1348

Flea market both days! All vendors wanted and only $10 for a large space! Call Jack Malfait (905)-372-6308

Tentative Schedule

Saturday:

7:00 Gates Open

8:00 Registration/Breakfast

10:00 Lawn Mower/Garden Tractor Pulls (Pull area)

10:30 to 3:00 Continuous Tractor wagon rides of area / Wagon rides to Plowing Demo

11: 00 to 2:00 Judging: Tractors & Machinery

Best Restored Tractor, Best Original Tractor, Best Odd Ball/Unique Machinery, Best Restored Garden Tractor/Lawn Mower, Judges Favorite, Best Antique Cars/Trucks/Bike, Best Engines/Other, Best Restored Farm Equipment [Non-Tractor]

NOTE: Snowmobiles etc will be judged over the weekend as they do not go very far in wheat.

Best Antique – 1960 & Older
Best Vintage – 1975 & Older
Best Classic – 1995 & Older
Best Survivor (un-restored, 100% original)
11:30 Shingle Mill Demonstration

1:00 Grain Binding Demo

2:30 Shingle Mill Demonstration

3:30 Parade

Sunday:

9:00 Gates Open

10:00 Arena Games

10:00 Continuous Tractor wagon rides of area to Plowing Demo

11:00 Grain Binding Demo

11:00 Shingle Mill Demonstration

11:30 Plowing Demo (Wagon ride to field)

12:00 Lawn Mower Pulls Registration

12:30 Parade

1:00 Grain Binding Demo

1:00 Lawn Mower/Garden Tractor FUN Pulls

1:30 Shingle Mill Demonstration

1:30 Arena Games

2:00 Dyno meter…Test your horse power. Contact Office

2:00 SNOWMOBILES etc trophy presentation

3:00 Tractor/ Machinery Trophy Presentation/ $150 draw awarded.

Hope to see you there

The Alliston Potato Festival Committee and the ABIA have put together a fun filled weekend for all to enjoy. This is truly a community event with something for everyone from the very young to the very young at heart. Victoria Street and the fairgrounds will keep you hopping all weekend long. Enjoy the Free Shuttle Bus that runs from the fairgrounds to Victoria Street on Saturday, August 12th from 10am to 5pm. We hope you make some new friends, meet up with some old friends and make some great memories. That is what our festival is all about and why people come back year after year.

http://www.allistonpotatofestival.com

1.5 hours drive from the Junction.

Summer Night Paint Series | Colours Of The Night In Acrylic and Watercolour: mixing blacks without blacks
Tuesday August 15th 2017
6:30 pm to 9:30 pm
Price: $ 45.00 CAD

A closer look at the “dark side”, exploring low-value hues and expressing luminosity in acrylics or watercolours. Some experience in the medium of your choice is recommended.

Program Registration
All ARTiculations workshops require advance registration, unless otherwise noted. Admission to Artist Talks is available on a first-come, first-served basis.
In the event of a workshop cancellation, registrants will be notified prior to the workshop start date and a full refund will be given. Participant cancellations are not refundable within two business days of the workshop date.
Phone: call 416.901.7464 to register with Visa or Mastercard. Have your credit card number and expiry date ready.
In Person: drop by the shop and register for your favourite class with debit, credit card, cheque or cash.

Youth Registration: We require the ARTiculations Youth Registration Package to be completed for your child prior to participating in our programming. Once completed, this package is kept on file for the academic year.

Bonnie Briggs, a housing activist and poet who was 64, died suddenly Friday at her Parkdale home.

Bonnie worked tirelessly on homelessness and affordable housing in Parkdale and beyond. She was a member of the Parkdale Residents Association Executive for the past 2 years; along with chairing the Tiny Houses project and as a board member of the Parkdale Neighbourhood Land Trust.

Her generosity and compassion is cherished by all the people who met and worked with her.

Gord Perks statement below.

The Passing of Parkdale Activist Bonnie Briggs

It is with a heavy heart that I share the news of the passing of Bonnie Briggs. A Parkdale resident and housing activist, she passed away in her home on Friday, August 4th, 2017.

A memorial service will be held on September 10th, from 2pm- 6pm at the Holy Trinity Church, 19 Trinity Square. Guests will be asked to bring a can of food and, if possible, to make a donation to the Daily Bread Food Bank.

Work under this contract will be within the following district and wards, Junction, Mount Dennis, Rockcliffe-Smythe, 11, 12, 13 and 17.

Notes about how the work could be undertaken

…..that the work on major arterial, minor arterial, collector and some local roads shall be undertaken in the off peak periods direction only, roads like Dundas St., West

…..working hours shall be from 7:00 am to 7:00 pm

…..work on one side of the street at a time

…..close control must be employed to keep dust from forming and blowing

…..14 days prior to work start contractor shall notify ALL residents who will be affected by the upcoming construction

66,500 meters of repair for Arterial Streets

And

25,500 meters of repair for Local Streets

And 3200 meters of smaller repairs are included in this contract which includes work in wards, Wards 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 11, 12, 13 and 17

Successful bidder. and contract amount:
J. Construction Ltd. $665,700.00

J. Diiorio Construction Ltd Is an Etobicoke based business, on the companies website they was 15 Municipalities where they provide this type of service.

Scope: To decommission, abatement and demolition of all interior components of places pod no.1 and pod no.2, province to select contractor on Aug/15/2017

Info on the pods,

The Pods were first used to host a multimedia exhibition but were designed to be flexible and accommodate different functions. At the most basic level, each Pod is a three-storey box, encompassing 8,000 square feet. Designed by structures by Toronto architect Eberhard Zeidler.

Full bid info below,

Ontario Place Pod 1 & 2 Interior Demolition
Bid Date & Time:
08/15/17 11:00 AM
Prebid:
08/03/17 9:30 AM
Solicitation Title:
Ontario Place Pod 1 & 2 Interior Demolition Owner Solic Number:
6546
Status: bidding
Report: 7953250 Country : Canada
State: Ont Location: Toronto
Est. Low Value: $200,000 Est. High Value: $200,000
Scope: To decommission, abatement and demolition of all interior components of places pod no.1 and pod no.2
Notes: A Mandatory site meeting will be held on August 3, 2017 at 09:30 a.m. (Toronto Time) Ontario Place Administration Building. 955 Lake Shore Blvd. West, Toronto, ON, M6K 3B9. Contact info: Diana Rosco at e-mail: diana.rosco@ontario.ca or phone: 416-314-4256.
Plans: From Owner. See outside link.
Outside Link:
https://ontariotenders.bravosolution.com/esop/toolkit/opportunity/opportunityDetail.do?op portunityId=52420&oppList=CURRENT
Owner Type: Public

From and including: Thursday, August 10, 2017
To and including: Monday, October 22, 2018

• Or 1 year, 2 months, 13 days

Many Junction Houses present a tough challenge when renovating, if one of the criteria is to create an open environment. The removal of interior walls, bumping out exterior walls all can serve this idea. But those actions can be expensive and may create smaller rooms in the reaction to enlarging others.

A design fix to add viewing space is to design about the vertical members of the stair railing to of a thin high strength material. Above is a design drawing and completed build of such a design.

Below the handrail section of the code.

Building section, Height of Guards

(1) Except as provided in Sentence (2), openings through any guard that is required by Article 9.8.8.1. shall be of a size that will prevent the passage of a spherical object having a diameter of 100 mm unless it can be shown that the location and size of openings that exceed this limit do not represent a hazard.

(2) Openings through any guard that is required by Article 9.8.8.1. and that is installed in a building of industrial occupancy shall be of a size that will prevent the passage of a spherical object having a diameter of 200 mm, unless it can be shown that the location and size of openings that exceed this limit do not represent a hazard.

(3) Unless it can be shown that the location and size of openings that do not comply with the following limits do not represent a hazard, openings through any guard that is not required by Article 9.8.8.1. and that serves a building of other than industrial occupancy, shall be of a size that,

(a) will prevent the passage of a spherical object having a diameter of 100 mm, or

(b) will permit the passage of a spherical object having a diameter of 200 mm.

9.8.8.6. Guards Designed Not to Facilitate Climbing

(1) Guards required by Article 9.8.8.1., except those in industrial occupancies and where it can be shown that the location and size of openings do not represent a hazard, shall be designed so that no member, attachment or opening located between 140 mm and 900 mm above the floor or walking surface protected by the guard will facilitate climbing.

9.8.8.7. Glass in Guards

(1) Glass in guards shall be,

(a) safety glass of the laminated or tempered type conforming to CAN/CGSB-12.1-M, “Tempered or Laminated Safety Glass”, or

(b) wired glass conforming to CAN/CGSB-12.11-M, “Wired Safety Glass”.

All text the developer

Today, we are thrilled to announce that Slate Asset Management and Globizen Developments have filed a rezoning application for a new mid-rise condominium project at 2720 Dundas Street West in the Junction neighborhood of Toronto.

The proposed building contains 173 residential suites (including laneway towns) and at-grade retail along Dundas Street West. The residential gross floor area is approximately 155,000 sf and the retail area is almost 6,000 sf.

We’re calling it Junction House. That’s a working title, but it’s a deliberate one.

We believe that Toronto is at a tipping point where, for a variety of reasons, more of us will be living up, instead of out. And so from the outset, we challenged Superkül Architects to design a condominium building that would serve not only young people, but also families and people who may need a bit more space.

We wanted to create a better substitute for low-rise housing.

The result, at least at this early stage, is that 40% of the suites in the proposed building have 2 or 3 bedrooms and almost 40% of the suites are 2 storeys.

One of the reasons we ended up focusing on multi-level units was because when we spoke to families living in condos today they told us loud and clear that they wanted (needed?) greater acoustic separation between their sleeping areas and living areas. They told us it was simply impractical to have a baby sleeping behind a sliding glass door next to the kitchen while you try and flip eggs and blend protein shakes in the morning.

Ultimately, it is this obsession with multi-level units that ended up driving much of the architecture of the building. It translates into the specific proportions on the building’s facades.

The other driver of the building’s architecture is the site’s position on what we internally call an “urban island”, located at the eastern entrance to the Junction and at the top of the West Bend neighborhood.

As you drive or cycle up Dundas Street West and as the street starts to bend toward the west, the Junction House site becomes your exact view terminus. That’s why one of the existing buildings already has a rooftop billboard on top of it. Some clever person clearly discovered this unique vantage point before us.

Because of its positioning, Superkül felt it appropriate to encourage a sense of motion as you approach and pass the building. That’s why the upper portion (the white part) is outfitted with angled windows. The idea is for it to feel cinematic as you pass the building and enter the neighborhood.

The windows are also conveniently angled to optimize the views of downtown toward the southeast.

The other thing you might be noticing in the above rendering is the inconspicuous pink neon sign on the roof. This is a public art placeholder designed to replace the advertising billboard that’s there today.

We inserted a pink neon sign because, well, we love pink neon. But the intent is for this to be a community-driven process. We’re new to the area. We want locals to tell us what should go here and mark the entrance to the neighborhood.

It’s still early days for Junction House, but we’re excited and we hope you are too. In the coming months we’ll be working with both the city and the local community to make the project even better.

If you have any questions or if you’d like to learn more about the proposal, please feel free to reach out at @globizen or at hello@globizen.com.

The University of Toronto will hold an eclipse party at Princess Margaret Stadium at the CNE from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. with free eclipse glasses.

While there is no charge for admission to the event,

attendees will need to pay admission the CNE grounds.

Other Toronto locations,

The Ontario Science Centre has an all-day program. The eclipse begins at 1:10 p.m. with maximum coverage at 2:32 p.m.

York University will hold an event from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. at Lions Stadium.

Toronto will have 70 per cent of the sun will be blocked out.