Canada Water week site and screening of Tapped

www.canadawaterweek.comWater week site click here

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Tapped screening

Lampton Ave combo retail and house building really excites

Scarce. Buildings exhibiting a character of use though a multitude of small changes over time, and seeming frozen from change are becoming non existent in the the Greater Junction Area.

This Lampton building is one of the last pristine examples.













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Canada news wire reporting - Canadian Tire Offers Funds and Volunteers to Rebuild High Park Playground Following Weekend Fire

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March 18, 2012 1:59 PM - Financial - Retail



Pledges $50,000 to help rebuild children's playground




Will host a community weekend in High Park for all those who want to help and contribute to rebuilding of popular children's playground
TORONTO, March 18, 2012 /CNW/ - Canadian Tire will engage Toronto families and offer funds to help rebuild a popular children's playground in High Park after it was extensively damaged by fire over the weekend.

Canadian Tire is pledging up to $50,000 to fund the rebuilding of the Jamie Bell Adventure Park - a large wooden castle and play area that was originally built by volunteers in 1998. Additionally, Canadian Tire will work with the City of Toronto and area volunteers to host a community event in High Park. This will be an opportunity for Canadian Tire volunteers and local families interested in helping with the rebuild to contribute. Local Canadian Tire stores and Dealers are also supporting the reconstruction of the facility.

"For 90 years, Canadian Tire has been an anchor in Canadian communities. Children having fun, playing and enjoying the outdoors is one of the core reasons why we exist as a company - and is why we want to make sure the Jamie Bell Adventure Park is quickly rebuilt for Toronto's families," said Duncan Fulton, Senior Vice President of Corporate Affairs at Canadian Tire.

Canadian Tire will work closely with City Councillor Sarah Doucette and the City of Toronto to ensure a quick rebuild of the High Park playground so families can again enjoy this important Toronto landmark.

Origami is first power folding stroller in the world

In a community with a larger stroller mob, the blog thought this would interest a few.

Via-coolest-gadgets.com

Check out the Origami – most of the time, first time parents find that going out with a little baby in tow is not an easy task at all, as one needs to figure out all the possible eventualities, and bring along enough provisions. Well, setting up a standard stroller could prove challenging, especially when you are already carrying a couple of bags across your shoulders. Well, the Origami might be able to solve whatever problems you have in terms of being too bulky – as it is the first power folding stroller of its kind in the world.

4moms has developed this particular power-folding stroller, where all it takes is a single touch of the button to fold itself. It is also self-charging for that added bit of independence, since generators located in the rear wheels will juice up the Origami whenever you start to walk – or in the case of a stroller, one would naturally stroll. There are also daytime running lights which ensure you and your baby will be able to see what’s going on ahead, as the pathway lights that are located under the stroller will turn on automatically in low-light conditions. Embedded sensors will know whether a child is in the seat, so that it won’t fold itself by accident. All details from the thermometer, speedometer, odometer, tripometer and lifetime tripometer will be displayed on the LCD dashboard. The asking price is definitely not cheap though at $849.99 a pop.



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http://www.coolest-gadgets.com/20120316/origami-power-folding-stroller-world/


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Ward 13 Councillor Sara Doucette to hold safety update meeting

Text from.... Councillor Doucette

Dear Junction residents and friends,

In the past couple of months, a number of local crime related issues have been in the media. We will be getting together with our local police officers and safety specialists to discuss what has occurred, what results have emerged, and what we can do to protect ourselves.

Date: Thursday, March 22, 2012
Time: 7:00 - 8:30 pm
Location: West Toronto Baptist Church (Dundas Street West)

Location:The Junction, Toronto,Canada

No window bars please

Why some retailers and commercial building owners see and feel the need to have windows bars fitted to the shop windows of their buildings is odd.

This happens throughout the Greater Junction Area. It is really unnecessary, as smash and grabs are almost unknown here, even during the period of "The Decline" in economic activity in the year.

And with today's prosperity in the GJA this activity only harms that area the community, especially the residential sector. It causes passers by to get that chilly fright of a risky area, which we are not.

Isn't it time we let these shops and building owners know we don't what these window bars blighting our visual views and the living character of our streetscape.

In the following images the black painted shop with the window bars is in the Junction Triangle and the other store is on the Dundas St strip.

Stockyards retail development landscape images.

The huge and highly anticipated retail mall at the north west corner of St Clair Ave and Keele St. has had building permits issued.

But right now the most viable and rather striking feature of the conversation of the last major lot in the old stockyards area are the large landscape views afforded.

These image were taken access the new TTC loop on St Clair Ave. at Gunns Rd. Also pictured below showing addition landscape work being performed.


- TTC loop below

Weston Rd at Black Creek drive has really livened up.

With the massive new railway track bridge being inserted between the early 80's bridge crossing Black Creek Drive at Weston Rd its very different activity level.


Retail of a very different type is
Moving into the area also with a new (update, Mikee’s has been there for years.)  bike shop in a newly renovated facade building. This area has been deprived of retail for decades.


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Graffiti in the old Symes Rd destructor vehicle repair building

At the old waste processing site sits two magnificent buildings one has become a canvas.

Location:Rockcliffe Ct,Toronto,Canada