The Heintzman Place condominium just north of Keele St And Dundas has on the east side has a admirablecourt area elevated from the street and accessible by the staircase to the north of the the Canadian tire Gas Bar.
Today it has a winter wonderland feel to it.
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The St. Paul The Apostle Roman Catholic church on Dundas St. W. is a vibrant church 1st build in the 30’s but with further additions.
One the most impressive changes is the roof razing a thoroughly modern roof addition – pictured.
Location:Dundas St W,Toronto,Canada
Gabby’s restaurant which has a big picture window and a kids half price night on Tuesdays, both of which are high on the junior junctionite’s musts for restaurants. The restaurant received the more request after eating at the restaurant yesterday. The top review possible by this four year old.
Parents may be wanting to know, the service was great. The children’s food was ordered 1st as the parents decided – and came 1st – wonderful and the food was great with the beef still searing on the plate.
Gabby’s in the Junction at the top if High Park Ave. – 3026 Dundas St W
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Toronto Rally for Climate Justice on Friday
The details,
Friday February 1, 2013
11:00 am – 1:00 pm
Convocation Hall – University of Toronto
Toronto, ON
The Call Out:
On Friday, February 1, join University of Toronto Environmental Action and other groups as we march from Convocation Hall to Queen’s Park (south) to protest the injustice of government inaction on climate change. We’ll listen to guest speakers including City Councillor Gord Perks, Greenpeace Canada campaigner Keith Stewart, and university & high school youth leaders, and deliver an open letter to federal, provincial, and territorial leaders.
At the recent COP18 conference, Canada was ranked 58th out of 61 countries for its action on climate change–the worst in the developed world. The current national goal is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to a point 17% below 2005 levels. It is not ideal; however, meeting this target would go far in protecting Canadian citizens.
Current analysis by Environment Canada and the National Round Table on Environment and Economy shows that by 2020 all current and planned action by the federal, provincial and territorial governments will only achieve half of Canada’s goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions to a point 17% below the 2005 level.
This failure will lead to catastrophic future costs to be borne by us–students, youth, First Nations, and disadvantaged populations everywhere–even though we have very little power over Canada’s emissions.
This is unfair and unjust. This is intergenerational injustice.
For that reason, the University of Toronto Environmental Action (UTEA) group respectfully asks Prime Minister Harper and all the provincial and territorial Premiers to tell us today what action they will take now to be sure we reach the Canadian goal.
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Now it is a long block of retail hugged in the north by the CPR tracks.
About the site as industrial island.
Once land belonging to the CPR Railway and used as a transshipment structure from train to trucks, the bulk of the building was taken down a over 1o years ago, but the above ground docks and the foundations were left.
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Playgrounds and community hubs – especially those run by the community are a great benefit to everyone, even if you only use it occasionally. Centers even benefit those who do not use them at all, as they offer gathering spaces, play possibilities and permanent place for community groups to have a drop in centre and volunteer programs to run their efforts. Many of these groups are concerned about everything from road repair, to parks and traffic issues, when they apply their effort to any areas such as these it benefits everyone.
So why write about a plane used a kindergarten/daycare in a far off place? The 1st reason is this author had seen the images of the plane parked and interior use of the plane. How the plane was transported and what type of community was it placed in was something interesting.
Gathering up all the images I could find on this projects and then using google maps to find the school – by comparing the surrounding buildings in the Google satellite view it could be determined on what street the centre and the plane were sat.
The children’s centre and the plane are sat in an urban area, where the plane must have been trucked too – sans wings which were later later attached. What a job all of that must have been and the collaboration needed to achieve such a community goal.
Adapting the plane to this use, was a great solution to a problem of needing more space, fast and without the cost and time to build a new building.
Now, in the Junction we have a building the old 11 division police station. A community group is working to get this station for the community, and you can help by going to their meeting or site and helping them get a stay on the building being sold, so they have time to raise funds and develop plans to get the buildings.
Please do.
Headmaster Gari Chapidze brought the old plane from Tbilisi airport for an unspecified sum and arranged for it to be transported to Rustavi.
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Link to video and post at Core blog – click this line
Imagine you had to build four towers, one of them nearly the tallest in Manhattan, on top of nearly a dozen active train tracks—without disrupting the daily train traffic. That’s the challenge faced by Brookfield Properties, the developers of the Manhattan West project a block west of Penn Station, and their team: The architecture firm of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, mechanical engineering firm Laros, Baum & Bolles and railroad & civil engineering outfit Parsons Transportation.
Thanks to blog reader Brian for sending this in.
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This stretch of Dundas brought up in a comment is one the greatest challenges in the Greater Junction Area to become a pedestrianized and public and commercial useful area.
Right now the area is difficult to walk as a pedestrian and primarily serves as car interchange between Dupont Ave, Dundas W. and Annette St. Off to the south-west is a wonderful residential community and to the north-east begins the Junction Triangle – the full mix Junction area – just walk though its festooned with wonderful neighbourhoods and new commercial and digital industry with a small slice of the old industrial favor. Ok the blog went off topic there.
The intersection could easily be viewed as the western gateway to the Greater Junction Area? …and in need of some urban renewal respect?
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The Life Scientific podcast has an interview with Annette Karmiloff-Smith a Research Fellow at Birkbeck, University of London on Developmental Neurocognition – this interview is dry as that sounds, but fascinating. The blog author listened to it twice last night, hoping to impart some of the information in my parenting.
download of the MP3 file link image after the continue reading link.
There are lots of TTC/stroller articles out there in the “mainstream media”, here is a good one that is not
and anyone interested here is the link to the Transportation Research Board (US) publication on the issue.
Click image to view PDF of this publication
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Taking time to see what urban transport really combines this film is a wonder.
From Topos magazine link
Link to YouTube – TRAINS OF THOUGHTS – official Sofa Surfers musicvideo of a film by Timo Novotny
Urban infrastructures serve the collective city life and develop a life of their own, be it as ecological niches or as sociological biotopes. The Austrian documentary filmmaker Timo Novotny reflects in his audio-visual essay “Trains of Thoughts” upon one of these sociological biotopes. He explores and compares metro-systems around the world. The journey leads the viewer to New York, Los Angeles, Moscow, Vienna, Tokyo and Hong Kong. Novotny surveys the underground world.
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If you are wondering what one of the top – if not the most important subjects for the next city elections in 2014 here it is. Is/did the current council serve the city and do the job they were elected for. In other words has Toronto’s political leadership failed the city?
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