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Canada Packers butchers wanted ad 1959
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150 Symes Road – Site Plan Approval Application
Final Report – 150 Symes Road – Site Plan Approval Application
Origin
(July 18, 2014) Report from the Director, Community Planning Etobicoke York District
Summary:
The purpose of this report is to advise that a staff report entitled “150 Symes Road – Site Plan Approval Application – Final Report” will be finalized and available for consideration at the August 12, 2014 meeting of Etobicoke York Community Council. The finalization of this report is contingent on City Planning receiving comments from other City divisions and agencies.
Background Information:
(July 18, 2014) Placeholder Report from the Director, Community Planning Etobicoke York District regarding 150 Symes Road – Site Plan Approval Application
http://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2Final Report – 150 Symes Road – Site Plan Approval Application
Origin
(July 18, 2014) Report from the Director, Community Planning Etobicoke York District
Summary:
The purpose of this report is to advise that a staff report entitled “150 Symes Road – Site Plan Approval Application – Final Report” will be finalized and available for consideration at the August 12, 2014 meeting of Etobicoke York Community Council. The finalization of this report is contingent on City Planning receiving comments from other City divisions and agencies.
Background Information:
(July 18, 2014) Placeholder Report from the Director, Community Planning Etobicoke York District regarding 150 Symes Road – Site Plan Approval Application
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150 Symes Road Heritage Property to considered on August 12, 2014
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This item will be considered by Etobicoke York Community Council on August 12, 2014. It will be considered by City Council on August 25, 2014, subject to the actions of the Etobicoke York Community Council.
Etobicoke York Community Council consideration on August 12, 2014
EY 35.18 ACTION Ward:11
Alterations to a Designated Heritage Property and Authority to Enter into a Heritage Easement Agreement – 150 Symes Road
Origin
(June 19, 2014) Report from the Director, Urban Design, City Planning Division
Recommendations:
The City Planning Division recommends that:
1. City Council approve the alterations to the property at 150 Symes Road, in accordance with Section 33 of the Ontario Heritage Act, to allow for the rehabilitation of the property in accordance with the plans and drawings prepared by Jedd Jones Architect Ltd. dated June 5, 2014 and the Heritage Impact Assessment (HIA) prepared by Philip Goldsmith Architect dated May 23, 2013, both on file with the Manager, Heritage Preservation Services and subject to the following conditions:
a. Prior to the issuance of Final Site Plan approval, the owner shall have:
i. Entered into and registered a Heritage Easement Agreement for the property at 150 Symes Road substantially in accordance with the Heritage Impact Assessment prepared by Philip Goldsmith Architect dated May 23, 2013 and subject to and in accordance with the herein required Conservation Plan, all to the satisfaction of the Manager, Heritage Preservation Services, including registration of such agreement to the satisfaction of the City Solicitor.
ii. Provided a Conservation Plan, prepared by a qualified heritage consultant, that is consistent with the conservation strategy set out in the Heritage Impact Assessment for the property at 150 Symes Road prepared by Philip Goldsmith Architect dated May 23, 2013 to the satisfaction of the Manager, Heritage Preservation Services.
iii. Completed all heritage-related pre-approval conditions contained in a Notice of Approval Conditions for Site Plan Control to the satisfaction of the Manager, Heritage Preservation Services.
iv. Provided Final Site Plan drawings including drawings related to the approved Conservation Plan to the satisfaction of the Manager, Heritage Preservation Services.
v. The related Zoning By-law and Official Plan amendments giving rise to the proposed alterations shall be in full force and effect in a form and with content acceptable to the City Council, as determined by the Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning in consultation with the Manager, Heritage Preservation Services.
b. Prior to the issuance of a Heritage Permit, the owner shall have:
i. Provided full building permit drawings, including notes and specifications for the protective measures keyed to the approved Conservation Plan, including a description of materials and finishes, to be prepared by the project architect and heritage consultant to the satisfaction of the Manager, Heritage Preservation Services.
ii. Provided a Letter of Credit, indexed annually, in a form and amount satisfactory to the Manager, Heritage Preservation Services to secure all work included in the Conservation Plan.
c. Prior to the release of the Letter of Credit, the owner shall have:
i. Provided a letter of substantial completion prepared and signed by the heritage consultant confirming that the conservation work has been completed in accordance with the Conservation Plan and has maintained an appropriate standard of conservation, to the satisfaction of the Manager, Heritage Preservation Services.
ii. Provided replacement Heritage Easement Agreement photographs to the satisfaction of the Manager, Heritage Preservation Services.
2. City Council grant authority for the execution of a Heritage Easement Agreement under Section 37 of the Ontario Heritage Act with the owner of the property at 150 Symes Road.
3. City Council authorize the City Solicitor to introduce the necessary bills in Council authorizing the entering into of the Heritage Easement Agreement.
Summary:
This report recommends that City Council endorse the conservation strategy generally described in this report for the designated property at 150 Symes Road (Symes Road Incinerator) in conjunction with an application to amend the Official Plan and the existing Zoning By-law in order to facilitate the redevelopment of the site and rehabilitate the historic incinerator, provided the Symes Road Incinerator is retained, conserved and subject to a Heritage Easement Agreement. Should City Council endorse this strategy, staff recommend that Council require the owner to enter into and register a Heritage Easement Agreement with the City and authorize staff to take the necessary steps to enter into such Heritage Easement Agreement, to ensure the long-term protection of 150 Symes Road.
Financial Impact:
There are no financial implications resulting from the adoption of this report.
Background Information:
(June 19, 2014) Report from the Director, Urban Design, City Planning Division regarding Alterations to a Designated Heritage Property and Authority to Enter into a Heritage Easement Agreement – 150 Symes Road
(http://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2014/ey/bgrd/backgroundfile-71238.pdf)
Attachment No. 1 – Location Map, 150 Symes Road
(http://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2014/ey/bgrd/backgroundfile-71258.pdf)
Attachment No. 2 – Site Plan, 150 Symes Road
(http://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2014/ey/bgrd/backgroundfile-71259.pdf)
Attachment No. 3 – Archival Photographs, 150 Symes Road
(http://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2014/ey/bgrd/backgroundfile-71260.pdf)
Attachment No. 4 – Photographs, East and West Elevations, 150 Symes Road
(http://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2014/ey/bgrd/backgroundfile-71261.pdf)
Attachment No. 5 – Photographs, East and West Elevations, 150 Symes Road
(http://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2014/ey/bgrd/backgroundfile-71262.pdf)
Attachment No. 6 – Proposal: East and West Elevations, 150 Symes Road
(http://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2014/ey/bgrd/backgroundfile-71263.pdf)
Attachment No. 7 – Proposal: North and South Elevations, 150 Symes Road
(http://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2014/ey/bgrd/backgroundfile-71264.pdf)
18a Toronto Preservation Board Recommendations – Alterations to a Designated Heritage Property and Authority to Enter into a Heritage Easement Agreement – 150 Symes Road
Origin
(July 18, 2014) Letter from the Toronto Preservation Board
Summary:
The Toronto Preservation Board on July 17, 2014, considered a report (June 19 , 2014) from the Director, Urban Design, City Planning Division, regarding Alterations to a Designated Heritage Property and Authority to Enter into a Heritage Easement Agreement – 150 Symes Road. The Toronto Preservation Board recommended to the Etobicoke York Community Council adoption of the recommendations contained in the report, without amendment.
Background Information:
(July 18, 2014) Letter from the Toronto Preservation Board regarding Alterations to a Designated Heritage Property and Authority to Enter into a Heritage Easement Agreement – 150 Symes Road
(http://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2014/ey/bgrd/backgroundfile-72252.pdf)
Source: Toronto City Clerk at
www.toronto.ca/council
We really need grocery cart lockers here.
Grocery cart lockers can be found in a few countries, the three pictures above are in Japan.
Some of the lockers are even refrigerated. Lockers such as these can really reduce travel time, and car trips for those grocery shop via car.
Imagine, grocery shopping, Beer shopping pushing your cart into the fully refrigerated locker. Pop off for a meal or a movie or anything else.
Retrieve your cart with your crisp veg and cold beer, and eh, cold bread too.
And off u go.
Note:the blog does not aim
to promote beer drinking in the Junction. But the majority do.
Directional Signage Workshop July 31
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The City’s hosting a Civic Centre Directional Signage Workshop – July 31 at the York Civic Centre, Council Chamber, 10-11am
The City of Toronto is hosting a series of Signage Workshops to gather feedback on upgrades to existing directional signs in Civic Centres. The signage will be posted on an interim basis prior to the completion of a full review of signage (expected in 2015) to ensure the City’s Civic Centre signage is accessible and complies with required standards.
Civic Centre Directional Signage Workshops will be held at Civic Centres on the following dates and times:
The mall and the trail – did u know the Stockyards mall runs up to one if the best
Across from Stockyards Mall over Gunns Rd starts one of mode tree and plant trails in the west part of Toronto.
In the Google Map below, the mall now sits in the area of the lower right corner of the map image, when the trail begins across GUNNS Rd.
The trail is named Lavender Creek Trail. The trail is a dense grown of trees and undergrowth with a paved pathway. Along the route to the south you can glimpse some industry.
You can also get up close to some K12 electrical transmission towers carrying 115 thousand volts.
Yet the trail defies all this man created stuff and wraps you in a deep cool green belt of goodness.
TIL u can walk down Dundas street and the Junction BIA wifi works
Until now…only though it worked in side the shops.
2952 Dundas West, wondering
2952 Dundas West, the location of the much prized Junction Bar – Margret on Dundas sits with paper covering the building front windows – but with a new coat of grey paint.
The bars Facebook page is still active, could this mean it’s coming back?
Hopefully.
And also wishing the troubadour would reopen too.
The night difference if a occupied storefront and one in transition
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The view at night really highlights the difference of a unoccupied or retail site construction building.
A store or restaurant that is open and operating completely changes the streetscape.
As pictures below.
Metrolinx earth movers on Junction Rd.
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The construction firm doing the Pearson link on Junction Road has parked the big dump trucks.
Probably in readiness to remove the bulk of the soil between the two walls that were created with all the piles driving that took place.
Night time at 6 Lloyd Ave.
The proposed condo development on Lloyd Avenue on the old Benjamin Moore paint plant site will really change this area at night – dramatically.
Currently as you can see by the pictures, the site dominates corner.
Dark and rather foreboding, it is not a place you would like to hang around at night.
However the intersection where this lot sits, is curved and beautiful. It has potential to be one of the most beautiful corners in the Junction area.
The corner curves as it heads towards the railroad tracks. Mulock Avenue intersects it, at the most pleasant place to put the entrance for the condo. With a small parkette towards Keele Street, which will be hopefully will greatly upgraded with the section 37 money that the city will receive from the condo project.
British thinktank article with reference to he recent success of Canadian Conservatives with ethnic minority voters
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Demos a non conservative thinktank has a current article which reference Canada, the article below re-posted from Demos.co.uk
In attempting to solve their difficulties attracting ethnic minority voters, the Conservative party has little to learn from Canada, argues David Goodhart.
For the surprisingly small number of people in the Conservative party who worry about the long term implications of the party’s inability to attract Britain’s fast-growing ethnic minority electorate, the ‘Canadian model’ has become an important source of solace and inspiration. But the recent success of Canadian Conservatives with ethnic minority voters may not easily cross the Atlantic.
The raw facts are now quite well known. In Britain ethnic minority voters overwhelmingly back Labour. The number has been drifting down in recent years from 82 per cent in the landslide year of 1997 to 68 per cent in the defeat of 2010. But in 2010 the Conservatives attracted only 16 per cent of the minority vote.
There has been a shift to the Tories among relatively economically successful groups like people of Hindu Indian background, yet a much larger slice of the minority electorate has the socio-economic profile, and social attitudes, that suggests they should be voting Tory. Anti-immigrant rhetoric from Conservatives from the 1950s to the 1990s and their apparent ambivalence about racial justice in those years has kept much of the minority vote in the Labour camp despite a much closer alignment with Conservative values on everything from the family to small business.
In Canada this pattern has been broken. The Liberal party was the historic party of Canadian minorities and the creator of modern Canadian multiculturalism but the Conservatives have now wrestled away some of that minority support increasing their ethnic minority voter base from 9 per cent in 2000 to 31 per cent in 2011. Moreover, the party actually enjoyed a higher level of support among the foreign-born at the last election—42 per cent—than among the electorate overall.
This is a remarkable turnaround and no doubt Conservative political strategy and in particular the work of Jason Kenney, nicknamed the minister for ‘curry-in-a-hurry’ (though actually Minister for Employment and Multiculturalism), is entitled to claim some of the credit. Kenney says that the Canadian Conservatives are the only centre-right party in the world that wins a larger share of votes from immigrants than from native-born citizens. ‘I keep telling our cabinet that immigrants are our new base,’ he says.
Listening to Kenney speaking in London this June, delivering a lecture to the centre-right think-tank Policy Exchange, he underlined two reasons for Conservative success in Canada. First, the importance of emphasising the degree of overlap between the small ‘c’ values of most immigrants and the policies of the Conservative party. Second, the importance of ‘showing up’: of engaging with minority communities and finding symbolic issues that illustrate how much you care.
But this shift in the political preferences of both immigrants and Canada’s settled minorities is not just the result of applying the common sense principles above. It also reflects the fact that Canada’s selective immigration system has become even more biased towards the well-qualified, middle-class newcomer in recent years. In 1980 about 25 per cent of all Canadian immigrants were degree-educated; in 2005, nearly 60 per cent were graduates. The equivalent figures for native Canadians was just 14.1 per cent and 19.9 per cent. The nature of the newcomers has also changed. Until the late 1960s Canada had a huge bias towards white European immigrants. In the past three decades well educated Chinese and Indian immigrants have dominated the inflows.
There was some hostility to non-white immigration in Canada in the 1960s and 1970s, and to some degree again in the early 1990s, and it was articulated most by Conservative politicians, but it has left a much less significant political echo than in Britain. Moreover, since the late 1970s there has been a much greater national consensus around a Canadian idea of multiculturalism—consciously designed as distinct from the US idea of the melting pot—combined with acceptance of the economic benefit of large-scale immigration.
So, for two important reasons British Conservatives should not imagine that the Canadian experience is easily transferable. First, the British immigration story has been far less middle-class since the 1960s and many more British immigrants and descendants of immigrants are likely to be relatively poor, to work in relatively low-skilled jobs or in the public sector, all more ‘objective’ reasons for sticking with Labour. Second, there is no Canadian equivalent of Enoch Powell and the memory of active opposition to both immigration and immigrants from the political right in Britain that has left a scar on the minority political consciousness.
But there are some more complex problems too with the Kenney approach. Should liberals and conservatives so readily think of non-whites as primarily members of their ethnic group rather than as individual citizens? Kenney’s ‘curries-in-a-hurry’ are invariably shared with community leaders who are persuaded to deliver the votes of ‘their’ people in return for particular policies catering for the perceived interests of a particular minority. Can one justify using left-wing bloc vote methods to achieve conservative or liberal ends?
If reinforcing separateness and group rights is the price of multiculturalism then it is a price that Britain has become more reluctant to pay in recent years. And the different history of British and Canadian immigration means that group rights multiculturalism is more of a problem in Britain, because a higher proportion of post-war immigrants have come from traditional cultures that are harder to absorb into a modern liberal society.
Finally, the Canadian approach too readily assumes that there are no differences of interest between established citizens (of all colours and creeds) and new citizens. But on issues such as immigration itself and the speed with which newcomers gain access to the full social rights of citizenship there are differences. Although in the longer-term minority views about immigration tend to converge on the majority, in the short term immigrants often have an interest in immigration openness in order to bring in relatives. This tension may, again, be less of an issue in Canada where there is a more open attitude to immigration among the general population but in Britain appealing Kenney-style to minority leaders is not compatible with the popular British Tory attempt to bring immigration down to ‘tens of thousands’.
The differences in the immigration experience between Canada and Britain mean that Conservative Canadian successes cannot easily be replicated in Britain. Nonetheless, the Conservatives should and could be doing better than they are especially among the most successful minority groups. It is not healthy for British politics and the place of minorities in British society for the minority vote to be so concentrated in one political party.
And the Conservatives can still learn from their political allies in Canada in finding symbolic issues, particularly in relation to race equality, to highlight how much they have changed. Theresa May’s speech to last year’s Conservative conference on reducing the scale and increasing the effectiveness of stop and search may have been an example but it did not attract enough attention (and was watered down by No 10). The Tories need to find other symbolic issues, as well as continuing to promote minority figures such as Sajid Javid into senior positions.
Even without Kenney’s curries, minority Canadians would have started voting conservative in their own economic self-interest, though the curries may have speeded up the process a bit. But there are countries closer to home in Europe that show the centre-right can win over minorities when they become more settled and successful. One is Germany, where both the SPD and the Greens have lost almost a third of their Turkish minority supporters in the past decade, the main beneficiary being Angela Merkel’s CDU. A decade ago, the SPD could count on the support of 60 per cent of Turkish voters, by 2013 it had dropped to 42.9 per cent.
Perhaps British Conservatives should be looking as much to Berlin as Toronto for lessons on attracting minority voters.
Kentucky Fried Chicken to serve beer at Stockyards location
Beer will be served at the Kentucky Fried Chicken Fresh location in Stockyards Shopping Centre, on Weston Road and St. Clair Avenue West soon.
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