RE: Bloor “foremost a public space” (July)
As someone who’s been pushing improvement in Bloor bike safety for at least a decade now, I’m glad that the Gleaner has kept up its coverage. And while I am in total agreement that improvements to bike safety are quite overdue in the Annex, I’m less certain that the proposed trials of bike lanes are in the right place or with the right timing.
Opining on rail safety, daycare, development, health care, and Bill C-51
Transition to green economy, stand up for civil liberties, and be fiscally responsible
By Nick Wright
I am running for the Green Party in the upcoming Oct. 19 federal election for University-Rosedale because it is the only party with a plan to solve the emerging global environmental and economic crisis and transition to a sustainable and prosperous way of life while standing up for civil liberties and fiscal responsibility.
Only the Liberals have a progressive economic agenda
By Chrystia Freeland
I have a political skeleton in my closet. I was the Liberal member of Parliament for Toronto Centre and am running as the Liberal candidate in University-Rosedale, but the first party I ever canvassed for was the New Democratic Party when my mother, Halyna Freeland, ran under that banner in Edmonton-Strathcona.
44 Walmer Rd. faced changed to its character in 2001
In his Aug. 24, 2015 column for The Globe and Mail, “A pop art prize”, Dave Leblanc points to Alfred Holden’s May 2001 column in The Annex Gleaner about 44 Walmer Rd., a design by renowned architect Uno Prii. Leblanc reminds us that the questions raised by Mr. Holden in 2001 remain relevant today. Here is a reprint of that Gleaner column.
A tree that keeps fighting back
This elm, located on Bathurst Street just south of Dundas Street, thrives in the urban landscape against all odds and despite the continued presence of Dutch elm disease. Brian Burchell, Gleaner News
By Alfred Holden,
A review from when the Lillian H. Smith Branch was new
One of Ludzer Vandermolen’s griffins, which guard the entrance to the Lillian H. Smith Branch of the Toronto Public Library. Brian Burchell, Gleaner News
Pick a plan, the real enemy is inaction
For me, there is very little doubt that carbon needs to be priced. The only question is what mechanism we use as a nation to price it for the most effective carbon reducing strategy. I had the fortune of hosting the “Why Should I Care?” forum on carbon pricing in August. The two guests debated the merits of the carbon tax, the cap and trade, and the fee and dividend systems.
Harbord Bakery marks 70 years
Harbord Bakery’s special beet borscht beverage, developed in honour of its 70th anniversary.
AXILE GERONA/GLEANER?NEWS
By Annemarie Brissenden
For Rafi Kosower, Roslyn Katz, and Susan Wisniewski, VE day will always be a little extra special. Because it was on May 8, 1945, that their parents, Albert and Goldie Kosower, bought “the little bakery next to the fish market [at] the corner of Harbord and Major streets”.
Tags: Annex · News · Food · People
Proposal marked by diversity
An artist’s rendering shows the redeveloped Mirvish Village, as envisioned by Westbank in its application to the City of Toronto, from Lennox Street. The proposed development includes purpose-built rental housing, provides accommodations for cycling, and seeks to be as sustainable as possible.
COURTESY HENRIQUEZ Partners architects
In calling for bike lanes on Bloor Street, the Gleaner’s editorial (“It’s really a village, not a freeway”, July 2015) makes an obvious, yet routinely overlooked, point about how transportation planners still rank the movement of (single-occupant) cars far above neighbourhood values.
Tags: Annex · News · Editorial
Thank you for your thoughtful editorial in the July 2015 edition. I think you articulated very well the many reasons for replacing one lane of car traffic with bike lanes on Bloor Street.
You are right to note that if next summer’s pilot project is to succeed, it will be crucial that sufficient parking for cyclists be in place.
Tags: Annex · News · Editorial
Do voters want another four years of Stephen Harper?
By Jennifer Hollett
This year is a critical year for Canada. With an early federal election call, we are now in an 11-week campaign, one of the longest (and most expensive to taxpayers) in our country’s history.