News and Updates

City of Toronto's holiday activities and services

The City of Toronto encourages residents and visitors to take advantage of City programs and attractions offered during the year-end holiday period. Most City of Toronto operations and all municipal offices will be closed on December 25 and 26, as well as January 1. City services that regularly operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week such as 311 Toronto and emergency services will be available. Information about curbside waste collection is provided later in this news release.

Riverdale Park Rink & Skating Trail Now Open!

On Saturday, December 16, 2017 we celebrated the Grand Opening of the new rink and skating trail at Riverdale Park. Many of you came out to cut the ribbon and skate on the fresh ice. A big thank you to our Parks, Forestry and Recreation staff.

I hope everyone enjoys the new rink and trail over the 2017/18 winter season!

Click here for information on skating programs, public skate and shinny times.

Terror fears spark secret report recommending metal detectors, glass walls at city hall

By: Torstar News Service Published on Thu Nov 23 2017 08:56:00

Visitors to Toronto city hall should have to walk through metal detectors, surrender bags for inspection, and watch their councillors from behind glass walls, according to a secret city staff report to councillors.

The proposed transformation of what is now a bustling, mostly open building — home to a wedding chapel and daycare as well as official meeting space and wickets for parking passes and more — is in a confidential report compiled with threat assessments from Toronto police and Public Safety Canada.

City of Toronto consulting on laneway suites

The City's laneway suites study called Changing Lanes gets underway with a public consultation meeting on Thursday, November 30 from 6:30 to 9 p.m. in the Council Chamber at Toronto City Hall, 100 Queen St. W. The study will consider permitting laneway suites in Toronto and East York.

A laneway suite is a dwelling unit situated on the same lot as a detached house, semi-detached house or townhouse which is completely detached from the main house. It would generally be located behind an existing house with a laneway and be smaller in scale than the main house on the lot.

Looking to tackle negative perceptions, Toronto considers renaming homeless shelters

Public invited to submit 'more welcoming' suggestions to reflect a new direction in care

By Kate McGillivray, CBC News      Posted: Nov 18, 2017 6:00 AM ET

Is the word "shelter" poison to some Torontonians? Coun. Paula Fletcher, who listened to hours of citizens' deputations against shelters moving to their

East End Arts Community Consultations

Make your voice heard! East End Arts invites community members to participate in a Community Consultation process to help them #GrowForward. Share your ideas and feedback about arts, culture, and community within Toronto’s east end.

ATTEND A COMMUNITY CONSULTATION

There is a Community Consultation scheduled for each of the four City of Toronto Wards that East End Arts serves (Ward 29-32).

Help Rename the Emergency Shelter System

Council recently adopted a review of how the City locates homeless shelters, making it clear that the conversation about homelessness services has to change. To do that, homeless shelters—programs, service delivery models, and building designs—all need to be transformed.

Understanding that language and names are powerful signals of the transformative changes being proposed through the new service model, Council also suggested staff consider new names for the service.

Social Inclusion in Planning

Listen to my speech at Toronto and East York Community Council November 14th on item TE28.5 (1182 King Street West and 1221 King Street West -Zoning Amendment Application - Final Report)

"Social inclusion is so important, I want to thank everybody for raising that...You shouldn't give up on social inclusion as part of planning."

"Whatever we're doing now isn't working for social inclusion...I'd like us to think how we can take a step as well, as a committee...What other steps can we take that force this issue out further."

Ward 30 Tree Lightings - Hold the Dates

 

Thursday November 23 - Leslie Grove Park - starts at 5:30 - tree lighting at 6:00

Friday November 24 - Withrow Park - starts at 5:30 - tree lighting at 6:15

Wednesday November 29 - Greenwood Park - starts at 5:30 - tree lighting at 6:15

Thursday November 30 - Joel Weeks Park - starts at 5:30 - tree lighting at 6:15

 

 

 

 

 

 

New Mediah Mural in Leslieville!

The newest mural in Leslieville is bringing a lot of excitement to the Queen St. East and Boston Avenue intersection. Located on the side of 1014 Queen St. East, this powerful mural shares the space with a new popular Bike Share station.

The Mural Launch took place on Friday, November 3^rd, 2017 at Queen St. East and Boston Ave. Councillor Paula Fletcher was joined by the artist MEDIAH (Evond Blake) and staff from StreetARToronto, Toronto Parking Authority (TPA), Bike Share and Public Realm.