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Junction Summer Sidewalk Sale | Friday-Sunday, August 23-25
Junction Summer Sidewalk Sale | Friday-Sunday, August 23-25
enjoy our amazing selection of patios, services and artisanal goods.
We are hosting an end-of-summer Sidewalk Sale to celebrate the season. Whether you’re back to school shopping, or just looking for a preview of Autumn’s fashions and interior decor … we’ve got it all!
Here’s a sneak peek at some of our deals:
- Sweet Trolley Bakery: $3 Cinnamon Buns and raffle for store credit
- Junction Fromagerie: brand new housemade soup and preserves
- Delight Chocolate: housemade chocolates and caramel sauce
Look for these buskers at the train platform – east of Pacific on Dundas W:
- Big Art – Caricature artist, Patrick James
- Dina – Facepainting
- Balloon Greg & Friends – Balloon artistry
The Junction BIA · 396 Pacific Ave, Suite 205 · Toronto, Ontario M6P 2R1
Sun, Aug 18 Thunderstorms day and evening
Sun, Aug 18
Thunderstorms
26°/21°
80%
- Humidity: 82%
- Wind: SE 14 km/h
- UV Index: 7 of 10
- Sunrise: 06:24
- Sunset: 20:16
- Thunderstorms likely in the morning. Then the chance of scattered thunderstorms in the afternoon. Storms may contain strong gusty winds. High 26C. Winds SE at 10 to 15 km/h. Chance of rain 80%.
Sun Night
Thunderstorms Early
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60%
- Humidity: 80%
- Wind: SSW 15 km/h
- UV Index: 0 of 10
- Moonrise: 22:05
- Moonset: 09:12
- Moon phase: Waning Gibbous
- Scattered thunderstorms in the evening. Cloudy skies overnight. Low 21C. Winds SSW at 10 to 15 km/h. Chance of rain 60%.
Junction stockyards rescue from infuriated bull | September 1924, Toronto Union Stockyards
Edward Murphy, of West Fifteen-year-old., saved his father from certain death, when, armed with a heavy stick, when he entered a pen at the Union Stockyards, where an infuriated bull was crushing the man in the corner of the enclosure.
SEPTEMBER 1924 Volume 8 Number 3 Canadian Railroader
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Construction crane high counts in Toronto are misleading | when used to gauge the cities prosperity
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Toronto rises above all others for most highrise construction activity in North America according to the Rider Levett Bucknall Crane Index 2019, with 120 active tower cranes in the city in July.
RLB’s Crane Index for North America, published biannually, tracks the number of operating tower cranes in 13 major cities across the U.S. and Canada.
“It’s a way of visually tracking the change in the construction environment in the major cities across the U.S. and Canada and we do this in other countries as well,” said Joe Pendlebury, RLB senior vice-president. “It’s something that is simple to identify. People drive to work every day and they seem to see more and more cranes so it’s just one way of indicating the construction vitality of each of the major cities and it’s a simple way of tracking development from year to year to see if there are more cranes.”
Of the cities surveyed, Toronto, Calgary, Los Angeles, Denver and Chicago saw an increase in crane counts; San Francisco, Phoenix and Honululu had a decrease in counts and Seattle, Portland, Boston, New York and Washington D.C.’s crane counts held steady.
The 120 high rise cranes deployed in Toronto in July is an increase of 16 cranes from January and 23 cranes more than the same time last year when there were 97 in the city. That’s more than twice the next city on the list.
“It’s the highest count that we’ve had since we started keeping track,” Pendlebury noted. “Back in 2015 there was 113 cranes. There are some huge developments going on in Toronto. One site alone has seven cranes on it.”
The projects are split between residential, 68 per cent and mixed-use, 14 per cent.
“Between residential and mixed-use it represents 82 per cent of all the cranes in the downtown core and that’s clearly the lion’s share of all the work that is underway in downtown Toronto,” Pendlebury noted. “Toronto has another 400 high rise projects proposed and are working their way through the system, so the outlook for Toronto remains strong … It shows confidence in the Toronto market.”
RLB analysts noted most of the development in Toronto is happening outside the downtown core area.
“For a number of years, the number of cranes in the downtown core versus the outskirts has been dropping,” explained Pendlebury. “More and more work has been done in the surrounding GTA rather than in the downtown core… There are 246 cranes in the GTA and 120 in the downtown core and this reverses the trend of the work being done in the core versus the surrounding areas.”
In addition to Toronto, Seattle and Los Angeles top the list with 49 cranes each. Calgary (34) and Portland (30) round out the top five.
Calgary is also seeing a rise in the number of cranes due to highrise multi-family projects, according to the index. There were 34 cranes deployed at development sites in July, an increase of 26 from the same time last year. It is also the highest number of cranes in Calgary since the index started.
“The downtown area sees additions in the University District, East Village, and the Beltline areas, echoing that increase with office, commercial, mixed-use, healthcare, and infrastructure construction underway,” the index states.
The July 2019 survey marks the fourth consecutive increase in crane counts. Mixed-use and residential projects account for 67 per cent of all cranes counted.
“The construction industry continues to demonstrate growth, with projects coming to completion almost at the rate others are breaking ground,” states the index. “We forecast this trend to last through the end of the year.”
Toronto East Quay massive dewatering | Sugar Beach Toronto
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Kids going kerbal into space
An amazing edutaiment has kids, and big kids, going to space in thier own designs. This is the goal of Kerbal Space Program, a game available on steam.
In the thousands, yes thousands, of hours I’ve logged its incredible how today’s computers have the number crunching power to take my childhood lego master builder dreams and run them through a robust simulation.
To achieve results subconsciously the player is learning design methods, creativity and the very important life lesson of learning through failures. At first goals are simple to achieve, like get off the launchpad without blowing up. A few misplaced parts may lead to spontaneous component relocation.
Getting to orbit the first time is thrilling. Even when starting a new game with new mods that first orbit is a point of pride. I still remeber my first manned ship to thier Mars, called Duna. Watching the pilot land as his stattered ships wreckage floated down to join him. That meant making a better ship and with a spare seat to fly him home!
Speaking of mods a major one changes from the games smaller, thus easier, worlds to the full gravity, atmosphere and engines of real world rocket science. Others add planetary colonization, snacks and a host of ship parts.
When learning is fun the student will seek out learning. Given the ties to the real world players can delve into youtubes on history, track current space launches and study orbital mechanics my 6 year old self would never have had access to.
Whether a gamer, engineer-to-be or growing your confidence flying with those little green kerbals can launch your hopes.
Gerrard St, has an amazing sense of eat drink and sit and stay, as does much the local Leslieville and what local East Gerard is better not called today.
A few restaurants in the Junction have good eat, and a drop in and sit and stay culture, but not as many as in the other moving forth localities, around the city.
Parkdale has a abundance of local breakfast places which encourage this type of behaviour.
All the while this type of largesse of local businesses is Gerrard St Toronto hat creates part of a thriving community.
Gerrard St in Toronto, is spouting restaurants, and sitteries