Archive for July, 2016

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Public Transportation Directions, drive and park, from the Junction That’s just crazy.
The GO

Taking GO to the Molson Canadian Amphitheatre is easy and drops you right at Exhibition GO Station, a short walk South through the Exhibition Place grounds to the Ontario Place / Molson Canadian Amphitheatre main entrance. Most Lakeshore trains run every 30 minutes. For more information visit GOtransit.com or call 1.888.GET ON GO (438.6646).

The TTC

From UNION station: Take the 509 Harbourfront streetcar to EXHIBITION loop. Walk south through the Exhibition grounds, over the Lake Shore bridge, to the Molson Canadian Amphitheatre.

From BATHURST station: Take Line 2 BLOOR-DANFORTH SUBWAY to BATHURST station. From BATHURST station take the 511 Bathurst streetcar south to EXHIBITION loop. Walk south through the Exhibition grounds, over the Lake Shore bridge, to the Molson Canadian Amphitheatre.

From DUFFERIN station: Take Line 2 BLOOR-DANFORTH SUBWAY to DUFFERIN station. From DUFFERIN station take the 29 Dufferin bus south to EXHIBITION (Dufferin Gate). Exit at MANITOBA DR AT NOVA SCOTIA AVE EAST SIDE. Walk south through the Exhibition grounds, over the Lake Shore bridge, to the Molson Canadian Amphitheatre.

For up-to-date TTC information & schedules: Call (416) 393-INFO or visit their website at www.ttc.ca

Monday Morning, This blog author got that old Junction feeling, as happened so ma y times growing up in the Junction. The thrill of a train ride shiny by at a good pace, on a roadway, where you can feel the wind and the dust.

There used to be many places this happened in the Junction, not any more.

It can happen in  more places in the Junction Triangle, where this thrill is usually had, for the author these days. 

Text CTV full article here 

CALGARY — Hunter Harrison, the plain-spoken CEO of Canadian Pacific Railway, insists he will be merely a “hired hand” who obeys orders after he takes on an advisory role and hands over the company reins to president and chief operating officer Keith Creel next year.

In a widely anticipated move, Canadian Pacific (TSX:CP) announced Wednesday that Creel will succeed Harrison as CEO as of July 1, 2017.

Harrison, 71, has agreed to stay with the Calgary-based company under a three-year, non-compete consulting contract following his retirement.

“The board said, ‘Look, we’ve got the opportunity to have two pretty good railroaders during a transition period and that’s not the worst thing in the world,”‘ said Harrison on a conference call to discuss Canadian Pacific’s second-quarter financial results.

“I don’t know how much I will be called on. I think it’s to be determined. I’m a hired hand.”

Creel, 48, has served as interim CEO for several periods when Harrison was out because of health issues in recent years.

CAR FREE: Saturday July 23, 1:00 pm to 12 midnight; Sunday July 24, 12 noon to 6:00 pm

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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.

JOUEZ’s challenge and artistic vision, as a festival within a festival, is to use the BIG on Bloor Festival of Arts and Culture as a vehicle to, make a shared community experience that everyone attending the free summer event may have a chance to become involved in. 

JOUEZ undertakes this by fostering a sequence of outstanding original, interactive, arts and culture programs, created by local artists, whose practices reflect the diversity of our downtown neighborhood.           
This year JOUEZ presents two culture hubs at the BIG On Bloor Festival of Arts and Culture <http://bigonbloorfestival.com/about/>.  

JOUEZ projects out on Bloor near St Clarens are delivered by: Justin Schwab, Andrew Harwood, Annie Wong, BONER KILL Young Women’s Empowerment Collective, LIFT Liaison of Independent Filmmakers Toronto), Melanie Lowe, Paul Butler College Party, Stephen Fakiyesi, Keith Cole and MERCER UNION. 

JOUEZ projects in the TDSB Bloor/Dufferin tennis courts are carried out by Native Women in the Arts, Patrick DeCoste, Impluse(b:), TSV (Trinity Square Video), A01 & UnoHu, Clint Griffin, TSA/Andy Fabo, Iain Downie, Finn and Wolf Sonic Media, Shantel Miller and Alexander Pilis.
For more detail about the JOUEZ programs, please see the attached document or click here for participatory/ performance art projects: <http://bigonbloorfestival.com/about/JOUEZ/> and here for music and video programs: <http://bigonbloorfestival.com/about/JOUEZ/2016-schedule/>.
JOUEZ is produced with the support of Heritage Canada Building Communities Through Arts and the City of Toronto through the Toronto Arts Council.            
~ JOUEZ @ BIG curator Carla Garnet, with special thanks to JOUEZ curatorial assistant, Jennifer Vong


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Had to pass this place alot last on my way to The New Regent Park. But that was always in the daytime, and it looked worn and barely open, 

Think I was wrong .

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This is I hope someones dream design, as a building it attacks the street.

east side

west side

Update reader Rlkenndy reports the subway is no longer owned by Canadian National Railroad.

From the firms site, 

Topper Linen & Uniform Service was founded in 1956 by Ed Topornicki. He started the business in the basement of his home, employing his wife Anne and mother Josephine. Together, they began servicing seven customers in the Toronto area. Today, it has grown into a 48,000-sq.-ft. operation, with over 100 staff members and 22 route service vehicles. Topper currently services over 1000 businesses in the GTA and Southern Ontario.

416-763-4576

Dance club, to be seen bar, music venue, slagging promoters, the weekend prowling  revellers in the city core, and the Junction is being spoken  about  – you going through near the name Junction City Music Hall, many times in the same sentence as 3030.