Restaurant food safety In the Junction is great. 
Only one restaurant currently has a conditional pass.
To date this year the Junction restaurants have achieved a almost perfect inspection rate.

Great , but the blog cannot imagine this type of infrastructure being built in Toronto. We are so far behind in community demands for infrastructure needed for today and our cities future.

Not that Toronto should just copy this exact design, although such a design at the bottom of High Park where you have cross the three roadways to get to the waterfront is where one is needed. Another one would do well at the intersection of the Don Valley Parkway and Gardiner Expressway.
The Hovenring is a suspended bicycle path roundabout on the border between Eindhoven and Veldhoven in the Netherlands! It is the first suspended bicycle roundabout in the world.

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A breakdown of the text with commentary.

City of Toronto is establishing a Community Liaison Committee (CLC) for the development of the men’s shelter at 731 Runnymede Road. 

The CLC will be made up of residents, businesses, shelter clients, social service agencies, Ward Councillors and City staff.
Shelter clients, are listed as one of the groups the committee is supposed to be made of. The methods of choice and requirement consideration and the location of the meetings make it impossible for shelter clients, to be on the Community Liaison Committe.
Residents will be selected based on the following considerations:

Must live in Ward 11 or Ward 13, 

Problem 1, shelter clients are nomads, and without a residential address are not considered to live in a ward. This author who worked to get homeless people to vote in the last federal election, jumped though a series of hoops to prove resident rights for homeless persons. 

Available to commit to a regular meeting schedule

Problem 2, shelter clients operate their lives on a agenda and not a plan or preplaned dates

Prepared to participate in a Working Group once established..

Problem 3, participation is not a problem for homeless people, if the timing works within the shelter and social system hours, that they are required to work within.

Commit to updating neighbours on the work of the CLC
Problem 4, Shelter clients do this daily, though most often it is a rough going between shelter clients and residents.

Meetings will be held at the David Appleton Community Centre located at 33 Pritchard Ave M9N 1T4. The meetings will be held from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm 

Anyone interested in research or empirical data proving this is the best location to have the meetings email the blog and the information can be sent to you.

Problem 5,  A big one. Shelter users will be required during these times, to be at the shelter to retain their bed for the night. Shelter mangers are simply too busy to manage a pass system for shelter users to solve this problem. Also passes are also used by shelter users to go out and Abus are drink and drugs.

A very easy solution to most of the above problems.

Have the meetings at the shelter in the food hall.

Text of the  application process as set out by the city, as sent out by the city.

The City of Toronto is establishing a Community Liaison Committee (CLC) for the development of the men’s shelter at 731 Runnymede Road. 

 The CLC will be made up of residents, businesses, shelter clients, social service agencies, Ward Councillors and City staff.

We are seeking 15 residents to participate on the CLC. If you are interested, please fill out the attached Expression of Interest form and submit online before August 2, 2016 at noon.
Link to CLC Application Form

Residents will be selected based on the following considerations:
Must live in Ward 11 or Ward 13
Available to commit to a regular meeting schedule
Prepared to participate in a Working Group once established

Diversity of age, gender and cultural origin

Commit to updating neighbours on the work of the CLC

Geographic diversity – representation from the different areas of the neighbourhood

Diversity of interests regarding the shelter development
Employees of the City of Toronto, including Agencies, Boards, Commissions and Corporations are ineligible to sit on the Resident Advisory Group
Please note that the CLC is not the only way to participate in the development of the shelter. Working groups with resident participation will also be established as the shelter development work progresses. More information will be provided soon regarding the establishment of the following workgroups:
Safe Growth Group – to address with safety and security in the neighbourhood

Rockcliff-Smythe/Junction Strategy – to identify needed programs and services to improve economic development and access to City and social services that improve neighbourhood wellbeing

As well, a website, email address and dedicated phone number are being established so residents can obtain updated information and provide their input on the work of the CLC.
What is the Commitment?
Resident volunteers on the CLC will participate in weekly meetings until September 7th 2016, and then regular meetings will be established by the CLC. 
When Will Meetings Be Held?
Meetings will be held at the David Appleton Community Centre located at 33 Pritchard Ave M9N 1T4. The meetings will be held from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm and are scheduled for the following dates:
August – 10, 17, 24, 31
September – 7
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Papadopoulos, who is 62, has spent much of his life fascinated by bikes, often to the exclusion of everything else. He competed in amateur races while a teenager and at university, but his obsession ran deeper. He could never ride a bike without pondering the mathematical mysteries that it contained. Chief among them: What unseen forces allow a rider to balance while pedalling? Why must one initially steer right in order to lean and turn left? And how does a bike stabilize itself when propelled without a rider?

Has a Hungarian physics lab found a fifth force of nature?

He studied these questions intensely as a young engineer at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. But he failed to publish most of his ideas — and eventually drifted out of academia. By the late 1990s, he was working for a company that makes the machines that manufacture toilet paper. “In the end, if no one ever finds your work, then it was pointless,” he says.
But then someone did find his work. In 2003, his old friend and collaborator from Cornell, engineer Andy Ruina, called him up. A scientist from the Netherlands, Arend Schwab, had come to his lab to resurrect the team’s research on bicycle stability.

Two wheels good
Together, the researchers went on to crack a century-old debate about what allows a bicycle without a rider to balance itself, publishing in Proceedings of the Royal Society1 and Science2. They have sought to inject a new level of science into the US$50-billion global cycling industry, one that has relied more on intuition and experience than on hard mathematics. Their findings could spur some much needed innovation — perhaps helping designers to create a new generation of pedal and electric bikes that are more stable and safer to ride. Insights from bicycles also have the potential to transfer to other fields, such as prosthetics and robotics.

“Everybody knows how to ride a bike, but nobody knows how we ride bikes,” says Mont Hubbard, an engineer who studies sports mechanics at the University of California, Davis. “The study of bicycles is interesting from a purely intellectual point of view, but it also has practical implications because of their ability to get people around.” © 20 16 M ac m illan Publishers Li m ited . A ll ri ghts reserved .

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Update:the online version has more graphics than the version of this article printed in Bature magazine.

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Above December 2015 

Above July 2016

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If people are territory, then Bloordale is more than just an urban space. It is a high density, high diversity Toronto neighborhood that has started to change rapidly. 

The object of the Bloordale Improvement Group (B.I.G.) and by extension its commission of JOUEZ for the festival, is to connect people with place, enabling a communal narrative to unfold through the ongoing practice of creating our street culture together.

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$17,000 in funds towards our own voucher program as well as other programs that use healthy food to build resilient communities. This is wonderful news. Thank you so much for celebrating with us, we couldn’t have done it without you.

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