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Spring into environmental action

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With spring’s warmer weather, we can finally turn our minds to the outdoors and to our gardens and parks. It’s time to roll up your sleeves, put on your gardening gloves and get ready for some spring cleaning and planting! There are two ways to get outside and help keep Ward 25 green this spring. … Continued

What keeps North York together

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Twenty-five years ago, community leaders along both sides of Yonge Street were sitting across the table from Mayor Mel Lastman, who wanted to keep his populist reputation intact and was willing to negotiate neighbourhood protections in order to get residents to support his “Downtown North York.” With my election to Toronto City Council in 1991, … Continued

Granite Club to grow again

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North York Community Council has recommended approval for a new and extensive outdoor recreation area project at the Granite Club in Bayview. The proposal is to add a new outdoor field space at 2374 and 2378 Bayview Ave., two lots already owned by the Granite Club but currently housing rental homes. Those would be demolished … Continued

Mediation possible for Art Shoppe condo proposal

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Following a mid-March Ontario Municipal Board (OMB) hearing over a proposed high-rise condo development at the long-standing Yonge Street Art Shoppe location, all sides are now considering if they will seek mediation and a compromise. “There’s an opportunity right now to see if the parties can come to a compromise that’s agreeable for everybody,” explained … Continued

Bayview traffic group being formed

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Bumper-to-bumper, white-knuckle commutes along Bayview Avenue will hopefully be a thing of the past if a new traffic working group has the impact it’s driving toward. North York Community Council has approved the forming of this new committee to take on the task of calming traffic along Bayview, specifically between Lawrence Avenue East and Highway … Continued

The ABCs of Summerhill traffic

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Summerhill residents are hoping to effect some calm on their streets and pump an increasing flow of through traffic back to the main arteries. Since September 2013, members of the ABC Residents Association have been studying and counting traffic through their residential streets, focusing mainly on the east-west flows along Roxborough Street West, Macpherson Avenue … Continued

Grand Theft Auto: Thornhill edition

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A dramatic, high-speed chase in a stolen car down Ontario’s busiest highways with a helicopter in pursuit? It may sound like a scene from a video game, but this real-life incident began, coincidentally, at a Thornhill video game shop. Police were alerted to a break-in at an EB Games store near Bathurst Street and Centre … Continued