Last time I was in 43 Junctun Rd, a Junction Dundas St. Business was thinking of moving it.
Now a much sought business across the city – The Organic Garage is repurposing a large portion of the building for their Toronto store. This supermarket proabaly be the buggest draw of people from other areas of the city.
Most of the other floor space in the building will be sat a fitness centre.
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As many readers know this blog shies away from promoting individual shops. Yet every once in a while that tendency must be softened. This post is one such occasion. The newish fishmonger and seafood business Honest Weight is a welcome and needed shop in the Junction, a type the community has been missing for decades. The Junction is lucky because we obtained a shop type need but a excellent one at that. The shop has obtained good rec. across the city. We are lucky
They are wise as they have placed themselves in easy reach of both the Junction and the Junction Triangle.
click image to visit their site.
twitter: @honest_weight
New England–style fishmonger/seafood spot highlights daily catch prepared numerous ways.
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Address: 2766 Dundas St W, Toronto, ON M6P 1Y3
Phone:(416) 604-9992
Hours: Open today · 11:00 AM – 8:00 PM
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Born on 17 May 1882 Mr Mulock died suddenly in 1918 while visiting New York, a casualty of the Spanish influenza epidemic.
This blogs research subjects just converged few minutes ago, about 1am when my sentiment analysis stript, crashed, while interpreting railroad articles pre 1920 as to how they described the Junction. Today I added in another script to simply pull out articles about Junction theatres and copy them to a folder in my sever, but perform no analysis. But had set it up as a loop by mistake. A mistake that proved to most interesting, that revealed a lot about the Junction I may not have come upon.
Ok, enough of tech description how this info came about and here it is.
Cawthra Ave Mulock Ave are the 1st and last name of a person born into a high stratified Toronto family. He had much to with the organisation of Maple Leaf Mills and the surrounding area. Which he wanted people of the era to know. He also wanted us and history to know too as he named two streets off Junction Road after himself. Cawthra Ave. & Mulock Ave.
The blog will post a lot more, about this man in a few weeks, after I get someone to write it up, from the mass the data the script when off and pulled in, all pre 1920 as I set the reference date on the railway articles to that.
Here are some exciting items about the man,
He was a
1)On the board of the Toronto Guild of Civic Art.
2)He created a syndicate for the building the Royal Alexandra Theatre
2)While VP of Maple Leaf Mills in 1911 put together a number of bakeries to create Canada Bread Company Limited.
A few things this blog author thinks Mr Mulock would be in a much sorrow as I am with.
A) the loss of Monarch Rd. From the Junction.
B) the loss of Canada Bread from our area. A company that started in the Junction and left with leaving a memorial of itself, Ugh!
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a quick blast of whats on
Etobicoke York Community Council Meeting 11
Tuesday, January 19, 2016 9:30 AM
Council Chamber, Etobicoke Civic Centre,
As usual most items our for Front Yard Parking Appeals in the south west area of ward 13, which can commonly be referred to as the wards suburbs.
Ward 13 may move a Accessible Parking Space a few meters 24 meters, this is probably to get it closer to the disabled person access. so that is good.
Ward 12 has a number of Residential Demolition Applications as usual, one hough deserves a post of its own – see post right above this one.
…those are the highlights for the 1st meeting in 2016
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The blog watches the Toronto and East York Community Council for items affecting the Junctions which includes wards 14 , 18 and 19 which geographically touch on the Junction Triangle, The Junctions and other areas that have touch points to the Junctions, and the local railways.
…but the upcoming council sessions have little on board for those area.
Appointments to Business Improvement Area Boards of Management
Ward 14, Gord Perks, who does not know he is a Councillor, a good one but one who feigns off running for mayor which he should.
People leaving Parkdale Village BIA:
Crowe, Nicole
Fiore, Francesco
Mallory, Adam
Ward 19 Trinity-Spadina
Mike Layton
Toronto City Councillor
People leaving Ossington Avenue BIA:
Angell, Jamie
Bryan, Sean
Georgopoulos, Ken
Nguyen, Linda
Pentland, James
…a bit of a blurb from the cities site, that is a bit wrong, BIA’s get 50% of capital expenditures from the city, so the BIA pays half of capital items, benches on streets, etc and your taxes pay 50%.
A Business Improvement Area (BIA) is a group of self-funded (not completly) commercial property owners and business tenants created to improve the local business environment. BIAs are governed under the City of Toronto, Municipal Code – Chapter 19.
For more information, contact Ron Nash, City of Toronto, BIA Office, at 416-392-7354, or at rnash@toronto.ca.
…and a development application for at 56-58 Atlantic Avenue, 25-35 Liberty Street and 57-65 Jefferson Avenue.
This application proposes a 12-storey office building with retail at grade, a 2nd floor showroom and 4-levels of underground parking at 56-58 Atlantic Avenue, 25-35 Liberty Street and 57-65 Jefferson Avenue. The proposal also includes retention of the historic corner building known as 25 Liberty Street. The overall proposed building height is 53 metres (59 metres to the top of the mechanical penthouse).
Proposal The application proposes to redevelop the site with a 12-storey office building (59 metres including mechanical penthouse, 53 metres excluding mechanical penthouse), retaining the 3-storey building on site known as “25 Liberty Street”, located at the southwest corner of Liberty Street and Atlantic Avenue. This development proposes a total gross floor area of 26,301 square metres with 24,696 square metres of office use and 1,605 square metres of retail use at grade, with frontage on all three municipal streets. The second floor will contain a 1,975 square metre showroom with no retail use. The total proposed floor space index represents an overall density of 7.9 times the area of the lot. The building is proposed to have a 4-storey podium with a 5-storey glass atrium connecting to the retained building at 25 Liberty Street. The 3rd floor of the building has a south-facing outdoor amenity area located behind the 25 Liberty building. The 5th floor of the building contains an outdoor amenity space area that wraps around the perimeter of the roof of the 4th floor podium. Above the podium is an 8-storey tower with an average floorplate of 2,285 square metres. The tower will be setback 8.3 metres from Liberty Street and 6 metres from the south property line. The tower will be setback 0 metres from both Jefferson Avenue and Atlantic Avenue. Above the 25 Liberty building will be a 10 metre clearance distance between the roof of the building and the cantilevering of the 8-storey tower. The proposal includes photovoltaic solar panels on the roof of the 12th storey and the roof of the mechanical penthouse in lieu of the green roof requirement.
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The plugin author broke the plugin, so I am having difficulty deleting the 3 posts.
Things I am working on for blog archiving and making sure everything is stored beyond simply me maintaining it for future reference.
…multiple archiving formats and locations
….call up information, the blog is hosted on netfirms which was a Canadian company with local TO servers, no longer and they no have no any DNS severs in Canada UGH!
…different landing views of posts for the different Junctions for immediate access to local posts up top on the blog with other posts from other Junctions follow just below. so if you reside or view the blog from the Junction Triangle you will see posts related to the Junction Triangle, with other post following just down in the list, same hierarchy for Junction posts.
…and a new surprise for January that I have to finalize to bring more content, and have the content more finessed. getting input from a couple of people who have worked on beat blogging though the knightfoundation.org.
Oh, the blog will remain as always, will be sponsor, advertiser, and grant free, to insure no bias can creep in.
Just a disclaimer, I do get sponsors and grants for my art work, so i not standing on a podium here. I just care about the blog and the community to much deal with funders.
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This tagged reference is placed in the post, to archive the post image if the link to the Getty archives is lost, or disconnected by closing of the service.
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Excerpt of
article below followed by Ontario Ombudsman info.
After a decade in which the Ontario Ombudsman had to turn away more than 11,000 complaints about municipalities, things are about to change with sweeping new powers for the provincial watchdog. What won’t change is the office’s inability to investigate closed-door meetings in most big cities. “That is the problem with the patchwork system; municipalities can hire their own private investigator,” acting ombudsman Barbara Finlay said Wednesday. She announced her finding that 16 “illegal” closed meetings were conducted by municipalities between September 2014 and August 2015 — plus seven more since then. But that figure doesn’t include any complaints of that kind from most of Ontario’s large cities.
full article here
end of Toronto Star article Excerpt
post continues with Ontario Ombudsman info. (TORONTO – December 16, 2015) A new era of local government accountability begins January 1 when the Office of the Ontario Ombudsman takes on full oversight of municipalities, Acting Ombudsman Barbara Finlay said today in releasing the Office’s latest report. “We look forward to the chance, at long last, to help people resolve their issues with the governments that are literally closest to home,” Ms. Finlay says in the 2014-2015 report 
on the work of the Ombudsman’s Open Meeting Law Enforcement Team (OMLET). Since 2008, the Ombudsman’s Office has investigated complaints about municipal council meetings that are closed to the public, and promoted local transparency through its reports and publications. “We have been encouraged by the response of local councils to our recent findings and recommendations,” Ms. Finlay said. “I am optimistic that this constructive spirit will continue as we start reviewing broader municipal complaints for the first time in the new year.” Today’s report notes that OMLET has handled some 800 complaints about closed meetings in the past eight years, with this past year being particularly active. Between September 1, 2014 and August 31, 2015, it reviewed 85 meetings held by 61 municipalities. The Ombudsman deemed 16 meetings “illegal” – that is, they did not meet the open meeting requirements of the *Municipal Act, 2001* – and found 40 procedural violations. And in another 15 reports issued since August, OMLET reviewed 30 meetings in 13 additional municipalities, with the Ombudsman finding seven illegal meetings and 23 procedural violations. Although most violations are the result of confusion or ignorance of the rules, the report notes some concerning trends – such as the use of emails to do council business away from public view. In two such cases, council for the Township of Leeds and the Thousand Islands technically did not violate the law, but the Ombudsman warned members that their emails were “inconsistent with [the Act’s] underlying principles of openness and transparency.” Still, the municipalities that dealt with the Office since 2008 have shown progress in embracing transparency and Ombudsman oversight, Ms. Finlay says in the report: “We have learned a great deal along the way, and worked productively and co-operatively with municipal officials across the province who appreciate that our common goal is to serve the public interest.” On January 1, 2016, the Ombudsman’s Office will be able to take complaints about the full spectrum of municipal administration, services and officials, as provisions of the*Public Sector and MPP Accountability and Transparency Act, 2014* (also known as Bill 8) take effect. Ms. Finlay emphasized that the Office will use its new role to encourage municipalities to strengthen accountability mechanisms at the local level.
Email the Ombudsman’s Office here <info@ombudsman.on.ca> 
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Full article here
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DENISE BALKISSOON’s article, outtakes are listed below is so important as it reflects many members of the city councils need for notoriety over substance in their work.
the blog has listed a few links to other writing of Ms. Balkissoon.
Mr. Kelly’s Twitter stream is made up of jokes, pictures of Toronto and, as befits a Governor-General’s award-winning historian, random tidbits about days gone by. Oh, and lots and lots of hip hop.
I beg you, Jimmy, no. Stop throwing confetti around @norm. The fluttering bits are obscuring the fact that despite his recent donning of black youth culture, he hasn’t spent much of his 30-year stash of political currency on them at all.
The politician says his interest in hip hop is youth-centered. Well, great. Scarborough has 100,000 residents under 14 and the city’s highest population of 15-to-19-year-olds. But in the past five years alone, Kelly has voted against letting young people use city pools for free and against using millions of provincial dollars to create badly needed child care.
One classmate wanted to discuss the racialization of poverty in Scarborough – like many suburban Toronto neighbourhoods, it keeps getting less white and more poor – and referenced the seminal Three Cities report that came out of U of T’s Cities Centre, where the talk was held. Kelly replied with a pat answer about immigrant success, along the lines of “immigrants are the highest-earning individuals in Canada.”
The job of a city councillor is to make Toronto a better, more livable place. That isn’t achieved by lobbying teenagers for retweets and likes. Ok @norm, I get it, you’re a totally cool 6 Dad – but a dad’s real job is to take care of us.
Another recent article of by Ms Balkissoon
In the Globe, a look at all of the buzzy new purpose-built rental
buildings in Toronto, and whether any of them fill the housing gaps
that really exist in a city with a 1.6% vacancy rate.
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On this day in 1963, two years after the beginning of the construction of the Berlin Wall, 4,000 West Berlin citizens were allowed to visit their relatives and friends living in East Berlin.
Until this moment, West Berliners were prevented from visiting East Berlin and East Germany. In 1963, negotiations between East and West allowed for short time and limited visits during the Christmas season that year.
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Most newish and old floors have snag problems from nails working them up to the surface from their clinch point. To wood grain shearing producing sharp uplifted shards of wood.
With a few layers of slightly damp paper towel very lightly rub the wood floor. Using this technique you can find the nails and uplifted wood shards – look carefully at knots and dark grain areas.
AS you find a area of issue work the problem – pull nails which are very loose, and replace with a slightly larger finish nail. Counter sink the nail.
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