Inside this issue:
The City of Toronto's TalkTransformation! event series continues on November 26 with a conversation focused on reducing emissions from transportation, the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in Toronto.
TalkTransformation! is a component of TransformTO, an initiative that will create a detailed action plan to reduce Toronto's greenhouse gas emissions by 30 per cent by 2020 and a longer-term vision to achieve the City's 80 per cent reduction target by 2050. To date, city-wide emissions have been reduced by 25 per cent from 1990 levels.
2016 marks the 12TH anniversary of this much-loved publication, and they make great presents or stocking stuffers for friends and family, host/hostess gifts this holiday and for your colleagues at work, if not destined for your own home.
Help celebrate the natural heritage of our city and support the work of the Toronto Parks and Trees Foundation with every purchase.
Date: Monday, November 16 to Sunday, November 22, 2015
Work description and purpose
During the week of November 16, TTC track crews will replace the worn rails at the northbound streetcar stop on Broadview Avenue at Wolfrey Avenue. This work will require 504/304 King and 505 Dundas streetcars to be diverted on the November 21-22 weekend.Traffic and parking restrictions
Join Councillor Paula Fletcher and the Leslieville BIA for a special Tree Lighting and Holiday Celebration in Leslie Grove Park.
Come to Leslie Grove Park on November 19 at 6:00pm as the festivities kick-off, and enjoy some holiday cheer and refreshments.
Please bring a non-perishable food item as a donation to a local food bank.
Also, don't miss this chance to take part in the Leslieville BIA's Wanderlust. Explore the incredible shops and food offerings of our beloved neighbourhood following the Tree Lighting.
The City of Toronto has been named as a finalist in the C40 Cities Awards, a program of the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group. The awards provide global recognition for cities that demonstrate world-leading policies and programs that reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve sustainability all over the world.
The Toronto Atmospheric Fund (TAF), an agency dedicated to providing funding to facilitate action on climate change, is the focus of the City's finalist designation in the Finance and Economic Development category.
Thanks so much for your email and your advocacy for voting reform. I want to assure you I also support electoral reform
I agree that ranked ballot voting is an exciting concept. So are other voting reform concepts like proportional representation. Meaningful reforms that get more people engaged and out to vote should be a priority for all governments.
Thanks to the feedback we received from the community in July 2015, we are pleased to announce that the playground design has been finalized.
We received lots of great comments and suggestions in support of many of the proposed features and as a result established features that are the most important to the community. Popular features of the design included the slide, amphitheatre seating,climbing rocks, climbing structure, and water play. Overall, there was great support for the use of natural materials (i.e. rocks, logs, water) in the playground design.
There is always so much going on in Ward 30. You can read about work being done at City Hall, community groups and events, and an overview of the various ways we're getting the City moving on transit, by bike or foot, and with road improvements in the Fall/Winter edition of my newsletter.
TalkTransformation! Preparing for an Extreme Weather Future – Community and Infrastructure Resilience will exchange ideas on ways that Toronto can build its resilience given the predicted rise in temperature and precipitation, as the year 2050 approaches.
TransformTO is a two-year project that will engage Toronto residents and businesses in imagining the transformative changes we will need to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions by 80%, while at the same time improving public health, enhancing our local economy, and reducing social inequalities.
