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Ontario Advances High-Speed Rail Between Toronto and Windsor
High-speed trains could be barrelling between Toronto and Southwestern Ontario within the next 10 years, Premier Kathleen Wynne announced today in London and Kitchener.Ontario's Deputy Premier Deb...
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'Rear Lane' Towns Released at Adi's Stationwest in Burlington
The GTA's hot housing market stretches well beyond the Toronto city limits, and demand remains high in surrounding municipalities. Near Burlington's Aldershot GO Station, sales have gone well for the...
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Doors Open Toronto: Previewing This Year's Special Events
On Saturday May 27th and Sunday May 28th, the 18th Annual Doors Open Toronto will give visitors a rare—and free—chance to check out hundreds of seldom-seen buildings throughout the city. This year's...
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DenseCity Part 2: Toronto's Rocky History of Managing Growth
In Part 1 of our DenseCity series, we took a look at the current planning framework that governs density in Toronto, exploring where we build and why. While this analysis explains current growth...
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King Street Pilot Gets Mixed Reactions at Second Consultation
Yesterday, Thursday May 19, hundreds of people came out to the InterContinental Hotel at Front and Simcoe, to see the City of Toronto's preferred option for the King Street Pilot Project. Back in...
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Photo of the Day: Flooded Woodbine Beach
Today's Photo of the Day features a view of the newly-formed body of water on Toronto's Woodbine Beach, the product of rising Lake Ontario water levels over the past several weeks. Submitted to our...
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Berczy Park redesign displays St. Lawrence neighbourhood’s creative thinking; Honest Ed’s sign to be removed; How do we preserve the Distillery District but still make it livable?; and more news:Berczy...
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Celebrating 50 Years of GO Transit
It was 50 years ago today, on May 23, 1967, that GO Transit first began operations. Originally conceived as a three-year pilot project by the Government of Ontario (hence the acronym 'GO'), it has...
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Former Latvian House Facade Being Incorporated into New LCBO
A new LCBO location is taking shape at 491 College Street, between Markham and Palmerston in Toronto's Little Italy neighbourhood. Allied Properties REIT and RioCan are redeveloping the Classical...
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Conservatory & Richmond's 150 Pearl Presented for Feedback
On Tuesday May 16, a public consultation for The Conservatory Group's 150 Pearl St development proposal was held at Metro Hall, with about 40 members of the public in attendance. Designed by Richmond...
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Iconic Honest Ed's Sign Coming Down on Markham Street
Another chapter in Toronto's long-form eulogy for Honest Ed's is playing out on Markham Street today. This morning, part of the former discount store's instantly recognizable sign was disassembled at...
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Crowded Broker Launch Kicks Off Vaughan's Transit City Condos
The line stretched through the lobby of the new KPMG Tower at 100 New Park Place, winding and folding over itself before spilling out into the building's Claude Cormier + Associés-designed plaza and...
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Oxford and EY Open Their New Downtown Toronto Office Tower
This morning, having entered through the restored doors of the Concourse Building, executives and employees of Oxford Properties and EY Canada gathered in the lobby of their new Richmond Adelaide...
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Photo of the Day: Bergeron Centre for Engineering Excellence
Today's Photo of the Day comes to us from York University, presenting a dusk view of the recently constructed Bergeron Centre for Engineering. Submitted to the UrbanToronto Flickr Pool by Empty...
View ArticleDaily Headlines: News from the Internet for May 24, 2017
TTC agrees to arrange third-party study of subway air quality; Mayor John Tory urges Ontario to fulfill ‘moral’ obligation to repair social housing; Vintage TTC streetcars are back every Sunday this...
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Toronto Home Sales Decline as New Listings Surge
A large drop in the rate of GTA home sales in May—20.3% behind the same period in 2016—is being weighed against the positives of a substantial increase in new listings. Market reports in recent months...
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Photo of the Day: Hall to Hall
New photos from 2017's Doors Open Toronto continue to appear on our Flickr Pool, including the view from the shuttered City Hall observation deck featured in today's Photo of the Day. Submitted by...
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Toronto Islands flooding should prompt real discussion on climate change; Toronto’s housing market feels chill from provincial measures; Toronto’s ambitious bike plan, one year later; and more...
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Great Canadian Homes: An Intimate Glimpse at 150 Years of Design
From the vision, to the planning process, to construction and completion, the pace of Toronto's development can leave little room for reflection and review. By the time new buildings are actually lived...
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First Look at Plaza's 33-Storey Mississauga Square
A growing corridor of high-rise residential developments along Mississauga's Hurontario Street is about to get denser. The latest project to enter marketing in this area is Plaza's Mississauga Square,...
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