Join us Saturday June 13, 2015 from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. for the Leslieville Tree Festival in Leslie Grove Park (corner of
Public meetings took place in March to collect feedback on the potential station
areas and evaluation process for the Relief Line. You can read a
high level summary of the Ward 30 meeting
held at Riverdale Collegiate Institute.
Additional information is available at:
The City of Toronto today announced the details of its 2015 Clean Toronto Together campaign. Every year, tens of thousands of Toronto residents, schools, businesses and community groups take part in the spring cleanup to help keep the city clean and green.
At the same time, City divisions are conducting inter-divisional cleaning activities across Toronto, including removing graffiti vandalism, cleaning up litter and hauling away dead trees and branches from City property.
The City of Toronto has been awarded the Bicycle Friendly Community Gold designation by the Ontario-based Share the Road Cycling Coalition.
The designation recognizes Toronto's strong cycling culture, high level of cycling activity and efforts to support cycling in the community.
Toronto is one of the first North American cities with a population greater than one million to receive the gold designation. Toronto was awarded a silver designation in 2012.
Rooming houses provide affordable housing to a variety of tenants: seniors, students, newcomers, people who are marginalized and vulnerable, as well as some families. The City is embarking on research to identify issues affecting regulation and enforcement in order to improve conditions in rooming houses and their impact on surrounding communities. The review also seeks to find
The biennial Toronto Urban Design Awards are returning in 2015 and this year we are celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Awards program.
The City of Toronto Urban Design Awards recognize a wide range of projects that demonstrate improvements to the built environment and quality of public places in the city. The Call for Entries is open as of March 13th.
Nominees must be residents of the City of Toronto.
Deadline for submitting nominations is Monday, May 11, 2015.
Aboriginal Affairs Award
The Aboriginal Affairs Award was established in 2003 to honour the volunteer contributions made by person(s) or organizations and whose efforts have made or are making a significant or ongoing contribution to the well-being and advancement of the Aboriginal community in Toronto. These contributions can be made for services or advocacy work on issues such as health, shelter work, street work, governance and self-determination, human rights or cultural activities."Published on Sun Mar 15 2015
A civic-spirited developer, an open-minded neighbourhood and a resourceful city councillor have turned an urban dilemma into a remarkable success story.
Three months ago, it looked as if the Red Door Shelter would be forced to close. The building in which it had been a tenant for 33 years was caught in a nasty real estate dispute between two wealthy families. It had been placed under bankruptcy protection. A new developer was eager to build an upscale condominium on the site."
Read More - Toronto Star Editorial: Great model for the city.
TORONTO, Ont. – March 9, 2015
The Red Door Family Shelter, the City of Toronto and Harhay Construction Management have constructed a plan to save one of Toronto’s oldest shelters for homeless families located at 875 Queen St. East. Last year, the shelter was left without a concrete future after the property it sits on was placed into receivership, and was in the process of being sold to a developer.
Join us as we move to the next stage in the design competition for the Jack
Layton Ferry Terminal and Harbour Square Park. The five shortlisted design
teams will come together on Monday, March 16 at Toronto City Hall in the
Rotunda to present their bold and innovative ideas to the public.
The five design proposals will be on display in the Rotunda at Toronto City Hall
