Junction Triangle

I moved into the neighbourhood just a few weeks ago. The week before I moved into my new home there was a shooting just up the street from our house (on Edwin just north of Dupont). Needless to say, I was less than enthused by this and was actually really regretting my decision to move where I did. I started googling the neighbourhood and news items discussing it and that is how I came to learn of both this site and the fuzzy boundaries site. I viewed both sites as positive signs that I had made the right decision moving where I did and it made me hopeful that there were more caring individuals sharing the neighbourhood with me.

I think that the naming initiative is a great community building exercise and also a great way to let the rest of Toronto know about our neighbourhood through the media coverage the process has garnered and will garner. That's not to say that people in the Triangle did not care about the community before this initiative, but the naming process provides the city with tangible evidence by way of the vote. I know change is hard for some people, but I really think that even if the name remains "Junction Triangle" (which seems likely) the process is a beneficial one. It helped change my perspective of the neighbourhood and I'm sure there are countless others who feel the same way.