What a shame that they felt a 16" high sign was necessary on Wallace, where there is next to no drive by traffic and the only people that can see the sign from more than fifteen feet away are the residence in the loft across the street. Does anyone know if this is even allowed? I was under the impression the city had strict sign bylaws.
Dang, I've lived in this area for almost a decade as a renter, and was hoping that this redevelopment would have some smaller sized units as well. ie: 600 square feet mixed into those bigger 800 and 900+ units. While I agree that family housing is important, this is a neighbourhood made of mostly detached family homes, so I don't really feel there's a shortage of it. The opportunity to look into a nice smaller unit in a historical building would have been great.
Hey Vic,
Wow old news, sad these things happen, but interesting never the less.
There are a lot of these types of stories and tragedy's that happened in the community(JT). One sad tragedy that sticks in my mind and one story that I tried to find in the archives of the main strem papers that's because I remember the family was the house fire about 30 yrs ago on Sarnia avenue that killed 4 members of the family, dad and the youngest child( daughter) survived. JF
Staff mentioned this at the meeting last night. Apparently this was left unpaved due to one of the utilities needing to do additional work. Not sure if that's actually done or not, but they said they're planning on paving it soon. No idea exactly when...
Local resident Jeff Winch was given a guest column in Air Rail News in response to a news release posted there by Metrolinx regarding the ARL. Jeff made the film "Bending The Rails" and has been very active is opposing diesel trains and supporting the better electric option.
Just wanted to confirm that you were right not to trust these childcare providers. My child was in their care for a few months until I removed her when I was told not to speak to other children's parents about the daycare. I felt it was totally natural that parents should want to speak about the care that their children were receiving and found it very suspicious that they were afraid to encourage this.
Apparently, Scott Dobson also received an award, nominated by the Dovercourt Boys' & Girls' Club, for his work with them and the Friends of West Toronto Railpath.
If anyone know of other local award recipients (or if there's a list posted somewhere), please post here.
Clean Air Train Coalition considering legal action against province
York Guardian (From Inside Toronto)
The Clean Train Coalition (CTC) is considering taking the province to court in an effort to electrify a planned air rail link scheduled to open by the start of the Pan American Games.
A spokesperson for the group said CTC is seeking legal advice to ensure the link, which will run between Union Station and Pearson International Airport, is electrified in time for the start of the Games in 2015.
“A judicial review is something we may pursue,” said Rick Ciccarelli. “We’re considering our options.”
A legal remedy to get the Ontario government to reverse track on its decision to operate diesel trains on the link from the outset was one of several strategies discussed by the group’s membership at a public meeting on the evening of Wednesday, July 18.
At the meeting, held at the Davenport-Perth Neighbourhood Centre, members agreed to incorporate the coalition as a non-profit, which would see CTC transform from a loose association of residents to a formal entity with a board of directors and increased fundraising capabilities.
Formed over concerns about carcinogen levels rising due to a three-fold increase in diesel train traffic along the line, the coalition plans to hold formal elections for up to 15 board seats at a future meeting in six months.
Ciccarelli told the membership incorporation was necessary to raise the money required to pay for publicity campaigns on par with Metrolinx, the provincially funded planning agency which is tasked by the McGuinty government to study potential electrification of the air rail link.
“Metrolinx can put out a weekly newsletter to 300,000 residents living in the corridor,” said Ciccarelli to the 40 people in attendance at the meeting.
“We must articulate and sharpen our message if we’re going to counteract theirs.”
Staffers for local NDP MP and MPPs Cheri DiNovo, Andrew Cash, Mike Sullivan and Peggy Nash were in attendance, as was Davenport MPP Jonah Schein, who told the coalition his private member’s bill in support of immediate electrification is scheduled for debate at Queen’s Park in September.
Schein called the electrification debate an issue of “equity” for the less wealthy residents living along the corridor forced to breathe in toxic fumes of trains carrying wealthier commuters.
“This wouldn’t happen in Rosedale.” said Schien, who is also the NDP’s transportation critic.
Resident Dawn Buie said she wanted to attend the meeting to learn more about electrification.
“It’s been frustrating to sort out the information,” said Buie, who lives at Indian Grove and Dundas Street West. “If really intelligent people who care about their neighbourhood cannot figure out what’s going on, I don’t how anyone can.”
She said she was especially concerned that special barriers to be errected by Metrolinx to drown out the din coming from the GO and freight trains travelling along the mixed-used corridor would ruin the essential beauty of the area.
“I love cycling through the rail path,” said Buie of the multi-use trail that runs alongside the rail corridor. “I can’t stand to imagine a five-metre high wall going up there.”
Also at the meeting, outgoing CTC co-chair Carina Cojeen was announced by Ciccarelli as this year’s winner of the Railbender award for outstanding service.
Cojeen, who has been heavily involved with the coalition since its inception in 2009, will be officially presented the award at an annual event held at the Gladstone Hotel, said Ciccarelli. The award was first presented last year, when former chair (and current York South-Weston MP) Sullivan won it.
I noticed this morning that a sales centre has been set up at 1564 Bloor St. W., between Dundas West and Dorval (right next to Movie Art Decor). I guess that's why they're marketing this as "Bloor by the Park" rather than in the Junction Triangle... Looks like they're ramping up their marketing.
Also worth noting....kevin putnam won an award for his work on the library expansion project. Joanne Alfonsi won an award for her volunteer work with the Boys and Girls Club and the Perth Avenue Public School SAC and Schoolyard Enhancement Committee members also won an award. Well done everyone!
I know this may sound silly but did you mean Junction Triangle or the Junction which are two different areas?
Also, although it's a little north of the Junction Triangle there are I'm certain a number of rental units of newly built town homes in Davenport Village. You could do a general search for rentals by focusing on properties on Foundry Ave or Turntable Cres. Or the Foundry Lofts on Lansdowne. Just a thought.
Something worth noting: Carmen Martino, our local long-time librarian at the Perth-Dupont branch is receiving an award for community service. The awards ceremony takes place during the festival, Saturday at 1:00PM in front of Bloor Collegiate. Come show your support for Carmen (and others) who help make our community great.
i trained and fought in Lansdowne for many years. It was a great place. George and Clyde Gray would be training there along side of me and it was inspirational. I miss that gym...the way it was when Birdie ran it in the 70's.
i strongly suggest that john take a wander into perth park on any given friday evening where upwards of 30 families will often be found sharing in a wonderful potluck dinner. or how about campbell park with their saturday night suppers and campfires. or how about any one of the small business on our strip of dupont, whose owners always greet you with a smile. or how about the library where the librarians know almost everyone-child and adult-by name. or how about perth avenue public school and its soon-to-be new school yard, won through an incredibly successful COMMUNITY driven campaign to win a $50,000 grant.
sure, maybe the JUNCTION TRIANGLE WAS cheap a few years ago and maybe that is the reason some of us moved here, but its the people that chose to move here that have created the wonderful neighbourhood that now exists here. i am so thankful that we moved into the junction triangle seven years ago. i can't imagine living anywhere else.
calling an entire engaged and supportive neighbourhood a "hell-hole" is completely ridiculous and doesn't even deserve the time it's taken me to write this reply.
Yes be nice here, no name calling please. But you are right. I too remembered the yellow snow, and i'm sure everyone hasn't dug up there yards or parks to clean up the toxins...here's a good link for everyone...please read. http://www.yorku.ca/anderson/geog3040%20f10/edwin%20avenue.pdf
Dear John,
I can appreciate your concern but the way it was delivered suggests that no one can really take you seriously. It was written with such hate and disdain for the current and past residents. I think we are all well aware of what was in the area but I think the same can be said of many areas of our city along with other major cities in N.America(New York, Chicago, Baltimore etc) that have been revitalized as a result of those factories being moved and cleaned up to bring more residential possibility. The cancer statement is so general and perhaps people should go after the companies(including tobacco companies) instead of hating on people who are attempting to make homes in the neighborhood. What use is of it to hate on people who have bought in the area? If there is anyone liable spread your energy towards the companies that do that to all of its consumers on the daily. To equate it to one neighborhood is simply ignorant.
I have read all of the medical and environmental studies that are at the Perth Library and at City Hall relating to Junction Triangle . Your broad alarmist statements are not borne out in any findings I have ever seen. So unless you have some secret information that 30 years of monitoring and study missed I suggest you stop needlessly alarming past or current residents with unsubstantiated claims. I dont know what your problem is but having the entire community rally a few weeks ago for celebrating Railpath, and then raising funds 2 weeks later for a new school playground; both events attended by new and life long residents makes your statement and name calling untrue.
What a shame that they felt a 16" high sign was necessary on Wallace, where there is next to no drive by traffic and the only people that can see the sign from more than fifteen feet away are the residence in the loft across the street. Does anyone know if this is even allowed? I was under the impression the city had strict sign bylaws.
Dang, I've lived in this area for almost a decade as a renter, and was hoping that this redevelopment would have some smaller sized units as well. ie: 600 square feet mixed into those bigger 800 and 900+ units. While I agree that family housing is important, this is a neighbourhood made of mostly detached family homes, so I don't really feel there's a shortage of it. The opportunity to look into a nice smaller unit in a historical building would have been great.
Hey Vic,
Wow old news, sad these things happen, but interesting never the less.
There are a lot of these types of stories and tragedy's that happened in the community(JT). One sad tragedy that sticks in my mind and one story that I tried to find in the archives of the main strem papers that's because I remember the family was the house fire about 30 yrs ago on Sarnia avenue that killed 4 members of the family, dad and the youngest child( daughter) survived. JF
Staff mentioned this at the meeting last night. Apparently this was left unpaved due to one of the utilities needing to do additional work. Not sure if that's actually done or not, but they said they're planning on paving it soon. No idea exactly when...
The Grid has an article today, though it lacks any significant details of the proposal.
http://www.thegridto.com/city/local-news/making-dundas-and-sterling-safer/
(I hope to post some notes/photos here soon)
http://jnyyz.wordpress.com/2012/07/30/dundas-and-sterling/
Local resident Jeff Winch was given a guest column in Air Rail News in response to a news release posted there by Metrolinx regarding the ARL. Jeff made the film "Bending The Rails" and has been very active is opposing diesel trains and supporting the better electric option.
http://www.airrailnews.com/index.php/component/simplelists/item/847
Just wanted to confirm that you were right not to trust these childcare providers. My child was in their care for a few months until I removed her when I was told not to speak to other children's parents about the daycare. I felt it was totally natural that parents should want to speak about the care that their children were receiving and found it very suspicious that they were afraid to encourage this.
Don't forget, this meeting is just a couple of days away. Please come if you can.
Even if you can't make it, please post any additional comments, suggestions, or other random thoughts here.
Apparently, Scott Dobson also received an award, nominated by the Dovercourt Boys' & Girls' Club, for his work with them and the Friends of West Toronto Railpath.
If anyone know of other local award recipients (or if there's a list posted somewhere), please post here.
Thanks to all of you. :)
Clean Air Train Coalition considering legal action against province
York Guardian (From Inside Toronto)
The Clean Train Coalition (CTC) is considering taking the province to court in an effort to electrify a planned air rail link scheduled to open by the start of the Pan American Games.
A spokesperson for the group said CTC is seeking legal advice to ensure the link, which will run between Union Station and Pearson International Airport, is electrified in time for the start of the Games in 2015.
“A judicial review is something we may pursue,” said Rick Ciccarelli. “We’re considering our options.”
A legal remedy to get the Ontario government to reverse track on its decision to operate diesel trains on the link from the outset was one of several strategies discussed by the group’s membership at a public meeting on the evening of Wednesday, July 18.
At the meeting, held at the Davenport-Perth Neighbourhood Centre, members agreed to incorporate the coalition as a non-profit, which would see CTC transform from a loose association of residents to a formal entity with a board of directors and increased fundraising capabilities.
Formed over concerns about carcinogen levels rising due to a three-fold increase in diesel train traffic along the line, the coalition plans to hold formal elections for up to 15 board seats at a future meeting in six months.
Ciccarelli told the membership incorporation was necessary to raise the money required to pay for publicity campaigns on par with Metrolinx, the provincially funded planning agency which is tasked by the McGuinty government to study potential electrification of the air rail link.
“Metrolinx can put out a weekly newsletter to 300,000 residents living in the corridor,” said Ciccarelli to the 40 people in attendance at the meeting.
“We must articulate and sharpen our message if we’re going to counteract theirs.”
Staffers for local NDP MP and MPPs Cheri DiNovo, Andrew Cash, Mike Sullivan and Peggy Nash were in attendance, as was Davenport MPP Jonah Schein, who told the coalition his private member’s bill in support of immediate electrification is scheduled for debate at Queen’s Park in September.
Schein called the electrification debate an issue of “equity” for the less wealthy residents living along the corridor forced to breathe in toxic fumes of trains carrying wealthier commuters.
“This wouldn’t happen in Rosedale.” said Schien, who is also the NDP’s transportation critic.
Resident Dawn Buie said she wanted to attend the meeting to learn more about electrification.
“It’s been frustrating to sort out the information,” said Buie, who lives at Indian Grove and Dundas Street West. “If really intelligent people who care about their neighbourhood cannot figure out what’s going on, I don’t how anyone can.”
She said she was especially concerned that special barriers to be errected by Metrolinx to drown out the din coming from the GO and freight trains travelling along the mixed-used corridor would ruin the essential beauty of the area.
“I love cycling through the rail path,” said Buie of the multi-use trail that runs alongside the rail corridor. “I can’t stand to imagine a five-metre high wall going up there.”
Also at the meeting, outgoing CTC co-chair Carina Cojeen was announced by Ciccarelli as this year’s winner of the Railbender award for outstanding service.
Cojeen, who has been heavily involved with the coalition since its inception in 2009, will be officially presented the award at an annual event held at the Gladstone Hotel, said Ciccarelli. The award was first presented last year, when former chair (and current York South-Weston MP) Sullivan won it.
Original story here
I noticed this morning that a sales centre has been set up at 1564 Bloor St. W., between Dundas West and Dorval (right next to Movie Art Decor). I guess that's why they're marketing this as "Bloor by the Park" rather than in the Junction Triangle... Looks like they're ramping up their marketing.
The organizers of the Railpath Run (Sept. 30) also got an award (photo).
Good too see so many local people, events, organizers, etc. getting some recognition.
Carmen receiving award
Kevin Putnam's Award
Also worth noting....kevin putnam won an award for his work on the library expansion project. Joanne Alfonsi won an award for her volunteer work with the Boys and Girls Club and the Perth Avenue Public School SAC and Schoolyard Enhancement Committee members also won an award. Well done everyone!
A few with just a google search...
http://www.canadapropertylisting.com/2-bedroom-Apartment-for-Rent-in-228...
http://toronto.kijiji.ca/c-real-estate-apartments-condos-2-bedroom-Den-B...
*The same style of town homes were built in the Junction Triangle on Wallace Ave and I believe have the street address of Elsie Lane.
I know this may sound silly but did you mean Junction Triangle or the Junction which are two different areas?
Also, although it's a little north of the Junction Triangle there are I'm certain a number of rental units of newly built town homes in Davenport Village. You could do a general search for rentals by focusing on properties on Foundry Ave or Turntable Cres. Or the Foundry Lofts on Lansdowne. Just a thought.
Don't forget, the BIG on Bloor festival happens this weekend!
Something worth noting: Carmen Martino, our local long-time librarian at the Perth-Dupont branch is receiving an award for community service. The awards ceremony takes place during the festival, Saturday at 1:00PM in front of Bloor Collegiate. Come show your support for Carmen (and others) who help make our community great.
i trained and fought in Lansdowne for many years. It was a great place. George and Clyde Gray would be training there along side of me and it was inspirational. I miss that gym...the way it was when Birdie ran it in the 70's.
i strongly suggest that john take a wander into perth park on any given friday evening where upwards of 30 families will often be found sharing in a wonderful potluck dinner. or how about campbell park with their saturday night suppers and campfires. or how about any one of the small business on our strip of dupont, whose owners always greet you with a smile. or how about the library where the librarians know almost everyone-child and adult-by name. or how about perth avenue public school and its soon-to-be new school yard, won through an incredibly successful COMMUNITY driven campaign to win a $50,000 grant.
sure, maybe the JUNCTION TRIANGLE WAS cheap a few years ago and maybe that is the reason some of us moved here, but its the people that chose to move here that have created the wonderful neighbourhood that now exists here. i am so thankful that we moved into the junction triangle seven years ago. i can't imagine living anywhere else.
calling an entire engaged and supportive neighbourhood a "hell-hole" is completely ridiculous and doesn't even deserve the time it's taken me to write this reply.
Supper is served at 5:30, hose and toys are out by 5pm and there is always a lovely fire :)
Marina
Hi
this week is Asian Inspired:
Main--suggested donation $5
Stirfry with chicken and shrimp
Stirfry with tofu and almonds
dessert suggested donation $2
Fried bananas dipped in coconut with gf almond yoghurt or ice cream
There is organic coffee, juice, water and pop available for donations 50cents to $1
See you there
Marina
Yes be nice here, no name calling please. But you are right. I too remembered the yellow snow, and i'm sure everyone hasn't dug up there yards or parks to clean up the toxins...here's a good link for everyone...please read.
http://www.yorku.ca/anderson/geog3040%20f10/edwin%20avenue.pdf
Dear John,
I can appreciate your concern but the way it was delivered suggests that no one can really take you seriously. It was written with such hate and disdain for the current and past residents. I think we are all well aware of what was in the area but I think the same can be said of many areas of our city along with other major cities in N.America(New York, Chicago, Baltimore etc) that have been revitalized as a result of those factories being moved and cleaned up to bring more residential possibility. The cancer statement is so general and perhaps people should go after the companies(including tobacco companies) instead of hating on people who are attempting to make homes in the neighborhood. What use is of it to hate on people who have bought in the area? If there is anyone liable spread your energy towards the companies that do that to all of its consumers on the daily. To equate it to one neighborhood is simply ignorant.
I have read all of the medical and environmental studies that are at the Perth Library and at City Hall relating to Junction Triangle . Your broad alarmist statements are not borne out in any findings I have ever seen. So unless you have some secret information that 30 years of monitoring and study missed I suggest you stop needlessly alarming past or current residents with unsubstantiated claims. I dont know what your problem is but having the entire community rally a few weeks ago for celebrating Railpath, and then raising funds 2 weeks later for a new school playground; both events attended by new and life long residents makes your statement and name calling untrue.