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Thursday, March 11, 2010
Thursday’s headlines
DAVID MILLER / BUDGET SURPLUS • James: Surprise! City bolsters budget with surplus [ Toronto Star ] • Six odd things about Miller’s budget news [ Toronto Star ] • Maestro Miller plays us again [ National Post ] • What The Money Means [ National Post ] • Critics question…
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Newsstand: March 11, 2010
Illustration by Roxanne Ignatius/Torontoist. You really need to see the plans for Waterfront Toronto's Underpass Park to believe them. The park is to be the centrepiece of the thirty-two-hectare West Don Lands development, a sustainable, pedestrian-friendly neighbourhood currently in the…
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Urban Planner: March 11, 2010
Urban Planner is Torontoist's guide to what's on in Toronto, published every weekday morning, and in a weekend edition Friday afternoons. If you have an event you'd like considered, email all of its details—as well as images, if you've got any—to events@torontoist.com. Artists of the…
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Photoist: March 11, 2010
Every weekday morning, bright and early, we feature a photo or (two) from a photographer in Torontoist's Flickr Pool, our way of showing off their great work and starting the day off as prettily as possible. Re-Branded BY METRIX X
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Calendar: Scarborough RT open house tonight
Find out more about plans to convert the RT to light rail and extend the line to Sheppard Avenue East and beyond tonight.
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Calendar: Donate to the World Wildlife Fund in TTC stations today
Read Transit Toronto’s March 10 post for details.
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Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Buses detour during St. Clair construction west of Keele, starting March 15
Next week, the ongoing TTC and the City of Toronto project to rebuild the streetcar tracks on St. Clair Avenue West reaches the end of the line. Contractors start work in Gunn’s Loop at St. Clair Avenue West and Gunn’s Road, west of Keele Street. The TTC is detouring the buses that…
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He’s done this before, you know
A photo I took when we went through this ritual in mid-2008. Context! June 13, 2008. A Friday. I was covering City Hall for Eye Weekly at the time. At 2:24 in the afternoon, the City put out a press release. Seventeen minutes later, my editor forwarded it to me, asking if I had any idea…
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CMW 2010: The Twitter Files
Attention fans of live music and mind-blowing, character-limited insights! Starting tonight, and every night until Sunday, Torontoist's small-but-sturdy crew of festival-goers (Ashley Carter as AC, Alex Nino Gheciu as ANG, and Nicole Villeneuve as NV) will be on live-Twitter patrol on @TOistlive…
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TTC detours buses during film shoot, early March 14, 15, 16
The City of Toronto is closing the entire intersection of Front Street West and Bay Street during a film shoot early Sunday, Monday and Tuesday mornings. The TTC is detouring bus service during the shoot.
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Hog-O-Vision
Every other week, Hog-O-Vision takes an illustrated look into Toronto's future.
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Battlestar Gets Sabotaged!
See it while you can before someone at Universal goes apeshit on the innernet.
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Images 2010 Puts the "Art" Back In "Obtuse Installation and Experimental Video Art"
Image from John Greyson's Covered. If you’re really into stuff like “modes,” “forms,” “gestures,” “ephemera,” or the relationship between cinematic time and the empty vastness of gallery space more generally (or just like a good noddle-scratch), than put down that dog-eared…
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Transit breaks for kids during spring break, March 15 to 19
Transit systems in Barrie, Burlington, Niagara Falls, Oakville and Toronto are making it easier for kids to get around, while they’re enjoying their break from school next week.
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Less service to high schools during spring break, March 15 to 19
Most area secondary schools pause for spring break next week, so fewer students and staff are traveling by transit to high schools. Many Greater Toronto Area and Golden Horseshoe transit agencies do not operate special routes and services to high schools from Monday, March 15 until Friday, March…
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World Wildlife Fund volunteers seek donations in subway stations tomorrow
Representatives of the World Wildlife Fund - Canada (WWF) will collect cash donations to support the WWF, one of the world’s largest conservation organizations, in two subway stations tomorrow, Wednesday, March 11. The volunteers will be in Bloor - Yonge and Eglinton Stations from 7 until 9…
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CMW Questionnaire: Dan Mangan
Each day during Canadian Music Week, Torontoist is tracking down one of the festival's performers and hounding them about their show(s) and the city on your behalf. Photo courtesy of Killbeat Music. Who: Dan Mangan From: Vancouver, BC Mangan is the latest in a…
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Another open house on proposed carhouse in Malvern tonight
If you live in Malvern, you have another opportunity to review and discuss plans for a new light rail vehicle facility near your neighbourhood tonight, Wednesday, March 10. The City of Toronto and the TTC are hosting the second open house for the new Transit City carhouse to give you chance to…
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Balenciaga Fall 2010 Shoes
The shoes in the Balenciaga Fall 2010 collection needed a post of their own. I always anticipate crazy shoes from Balenciaga and this time we got block heel brogues and loafers. What do you think of the shoes? I’m liking the three shoes in the top photo. I love the colour…
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CMW Best Bets, Vol. 1: Wednesday
From March 10 to 14, Torontoist is covering the crap out of Canadian Music Week, with daily concert and film previews, reviews of the latest action, questionnaires with your favourite and soon-to-be-favourite bands and industry stars, and more, maybe. Fucked Up. Photo by lanny's pics from the…
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Corey Haim (1971-2010)
Corey Haim, the 80's film heartthrob who was born and raised here in Toronto, has died at the age of 38 in Los Angeles. The New York Times reports that his death is under police investigation, and that a full obituary will follow. More...
Balenciaga Ready to Wear – Fall 2010
Nicolas Ghesquière was influenced by cosmonauts, seventies Formica, packaging and food boxes, Synthetic foam, plywood, sleeping bags and biscuits for the Balenciaga Fall 2010 collection. The weirder Nicolas goes the more I eat it up. He’s pushing new techniques and fabrics advancing the…
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Things That Go Bump On Harbord Street
If a ride along Harbord Street over the past few days had made you feel like you're stuck in an old episode of the Batman TV series, do not be alarmed. They may be onomatopoeias, but they mean no harm. The painted-on words-that-sound-like-their-sounds…
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Alexander McQueen Ready to Wear – Fall 2010
Here it is, the last collection. The Alexander McQueen Fall 2010 collection was perfection. I can’t believe we will never see the product of his genius again. It’s just so sad. I’ve included the full collection here. You might want to head to nytimes.com’s fashion…
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i want: Pose lace-up ankle boots by Acne
Pose lace-up ankle boots by Acne They say these are boots. I’m not sure how to describe them but they seem like a summer shoe to me. I love all the laces and the fact that you have to be committed to lacing them up to own them, similar to Doc Martens. It doesn’t look like [...]
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Mayor David Miller announces higher than expected surplus and move to two year operating budget plan
David Miller announced this morning that the City of Toronto has a larger than expected revenue surplus and is making moves to work with improved financial foresight by adopting a two-year operating budget plan going forward. "I'm announcing today that the City of Toronto is taking the first…
David Miller Announces $100 Million in Additional Surplus
Photo by Christopher Drost/Torontoist. David Miller announced today that the City of Toronto has discovered, in its most up-to-date analysis of its finances, that its 2009 budget surplus is $100 million higher than previously calculated. This will enable the City to make adjustments to its…
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Ontario auto insurance changes hit pedestrians, cyclists
Anyone who doesn’t own a car, and the insurance that goes with it, is going to have fewer resources to deal with injuries if they are hit by a car, as a result of changes to auto insurance just introduced by the Province of Ontario. In an effort to reduce auto insurance costs, the Province…
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Filmmaker Profile: Clement Virgo
From humble beginnings growing up in Regent Park, filmmaker Clement Virgo has gone on to direct TV shows like The Listener and The Wire and feature films including his most recent Poor Boy's Game. Here he talks to us about his next project (he has optioned Lawrence Hill's The Book of Negroes) and…