The white elephant in the neighbourhood: for over 17 years this life-sized Indian elephant sculpture has watched over Seaton Village from its home at 77 Yarmouth Rd. The 9 foot tall plaster sculpture was created by Matt Donovan in 1999 as part of his student thesis at the Ontario College of Art and Design and has lived on Yarmouth since 2003.

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Churches and synagogues ready for on-line services By Mary An Nine months into the global pandemic, religious communities have shifted their pulpits onto digital platforms. With Christmas coming, churches seem to be taking the social isolation mandates that limit their ability to connect physically with congregants in stride, while enjoying expanded audiences and in some […]

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ANNEX GLEANER NEWS (Oct. 2020): 7-Eleven location at Bloor St. and Spadina Rd. closed temporarily

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Robert Watt House, the former home of Anne Mirvish’s studio, is on its way from 610 to 604 Markham St. The building is being preserved and re-located as part of Westbank’s Mirvish Village development.

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36 storeys and a re-think of a tired corner By Khyrsten Mieras Connectivity, diversity, and adaptability, these are the buzz words promoters are using to describe a proposed redevelopment of the northwest corner of Bloor and Spadina. Members of the development team presented the project’s updated design during a community meeting at Trinity St. Paul’s […]

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Emerging from the dust will be much greater density The Annex is by no means exempt from the building boom that sees the City of Toronto with more cranes in the sky than any other North American municipality. The Gleaner is distributed to homes from College Street in the south, Dupont to the north, Avenue […]

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Creating a spot to gather Originally published in October of 2016 in anticipation of the granite installations in the Bloor Street Parkettes. By Geremy Bordonaro Humans have been moving stones to create monuments since at least prehistoric times, an act that is taking on a very local incarnation, thanks to the Bloor Annex Business Improvement […]

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A sample of this year’s exhibits in the Annex Star Moon Water Stone by Ensemble Jeng Yi at Church of the Redeemer: More information on the exhibit: Star Moon Water Stone   W-O-M-A-N, a large-scale, interactive, multi-artist installation created and curated by women, at Spadina Museum: More information on the exhibit: W-O-M-A-N   SEE MORE: ON THE […]

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  READ MORE ON THE ELECTION: NEWS: Grilling potential MPPs (Election Special 2018) EDITORIAL: The market has no moral compass (Election Special 2018) GREENINGS: Choosing the lesser evil (Election Special 2018) FORUM: Bold new initiatives for Ontario (Election Special 2018) FORUM: Reducing downtown’s vehicles by 25 per cent (May 2018) FORUM: What kind of Ontario do we want? […]

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  READ MORE EDITORIAL: Westbank’s positive precedent (April 2017) NEWS: Westbank presents latest proposal (MARCH 2017) FORUM: Build a neighbourhood (March 2017) NEWS: Height, density still top concerns (July 2016) NEWS: Westbank submits revised application (June 2016) DEVELOPINGS: Annual review reflects tension between community activism and OMB (March 2016) Westbank towers over 4 Corners (January 2016) City hosts first Mirvish Village […]

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The Annex played host to several installations late last month for Nuit Blanche Toronto. Nine artists contributed to OnePath Toronto, a group exhibition that explored ideas of identity and nationhood through large-scale and interactive installations on the grounds of Spadina Museum. In Ephemerality (above), a multi-media installation founded on the Greek concept of all things […]

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