Junction 8th Annual Summer Solstice Festival road clourse notice

We would like to kindly advise you of the full road closure on Dundas St. W. from 2:00 AM on Saturday, June 22, 2019 until 4:00 AM on Sunday, June 23, 2019 due to The Junction 8th Annual Summer Solstice Festival. The area affected is from the east side of High Park Avenue to the west side of Keele Street, and from the east side of Keele St. to the west side of Indian Grove. Keele St. will remain open to traffic.

 

As a result of this road closure, the entrances onto Dundas St. W. from Pacific Ave., Medland St., Mavety St., Keele St., Heintzman St., and Indian Grove will be blocked off between 5:00 AM on Saturday, June 22, 2019 and 2:00 AM on Sunday, June 23, 2019. Any vehicle parked within this public road closure during this time will be towed at the owner’s expense.

 

Event Purpose: The Junction 8th Annual Summer Solstice Festival is an event celebrating the beginning of summer and the longest day of the year. It showcases neighbourhood businesses by inviting both local residents and visitors to explore The Junction. This beloved community event includes live music, an art market, food + craft vendors, street performers, and lots of fun for the whole family!  We hope you will join us!

 

Event Date: Saturday, June 22, 2019

Suzuki Butterflyway project Toronto, happy people

Gardiner expressway under structure repair and make ready for new cast sections.

June is National Indigenous History Month

June is National Indigenous History Month

Enjoy a month-long series of events, educational, cultural, and culinary experiences during National Indigenous History Month. Celebrate the heritage, contributions and cultures of Indigenous peoples in Canada all June long at Toronto History Museums. 

Indigenous Arts Festival – June 21 to 23

Enjoy the annual Indigenous Arts Festival at Fort York National Historic Site! Celebrate traditional and contemporary Indigenous theatre, storytelling, film, crafts, and culinary experiences. Featuring  performances by Indigenous artists from across Turtle Island, including Beatrice Deer, Quantum Tangle, Fawn Big Canoe, Jah'kota and more.

The festival is produced by the City of Toronto in partnership with Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation, Na-Me-Res, the Native Canadian Centre of Toronto, and The Friends of Fort York. The festival is presented by Tim Hortons with financial support from the Government of Canada.

Shawn Micallel Star Columnist Gets it right about the new MEC store.

Three great takeaways from Shawn Micallel Star Columnist’s about the new MEC store.

All text the columnist via the paper.  

The disappearance of surface parking lots in Toronto is a great thing. The scourge of the city for half a century after being devoured by the automobile and its auxiliary needs, Toronto has been luckier than most cities in North America in correcting these historic mistakes as most downtown lots have been filled back in with more city.

One of the most recent to disappear was at Queen W. and Soho Sts. Unfortunately it’s been filled in by a new mistake.

Indeed, MEC makes a big deal about their social and environmental responsibility and their commitment to “green buildings” and “lightening their impact.” Yet there are few bigger impacts than abandoning an already built, perfectly fine building that will soon be torn down, and constructing a new one a couple blocks away. Walmart does this, MEC shouldn’t, as land use planning and adaptive reuse of existing buildings are integral to sound environmentalism.


Full story here at this link,  

https://www.thestar.com/opinion/star-columnists/2019/05/24/new-mec-store-in-downtown-toronto-is-an-environmental-architectural-and-heritage-shame.html 

Quicksand at Vine Ave and Keele st.

this 1912 report is not he last time quick sand was shown to be a problem at Vine Ave and Keele St. during construction of Henizmen Place the Keele St at Vine Ave, open up due to subsiding sand.

Yonge St 300 block east side continuing work to provide sidewalk protection and overhead offices for condo

Tomorrow 11am Red Embers opening, Allen gardens.

Red Embers will transform Allan Gardens in downtown Toronto. For the first time in the city's history, monumental art by Indigenous womxn artists will be displayed for free to the public. The banners have been created in Toronto and across Canada by commissioned artists and will float from 13 tall charred-black gates throughout the park. Two of the banners will face the Victorian-era glass Palm House, while the others will straddle the major pathways of the park, allowing visitors to admire them from all directions and walk below them. The local eastern cedar, hand-peeled structures will measure about 18 feet high with vertical posts that cross at the top. Red Embers opens to the public with a smudging ceremony, drumming and guest speakers on June 8, 2019, 11 AM. All are welcome! Red Embers honours the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, and the strength of community resilience



https://www.redembers.ca/

Artist info below,

Truck platooning needs to legally adopted in Canada.

Truck platooning where one driver driving  a truck controls other trucks, typically in a resource extraction usage such as forestry can provide greater safety in a dangerous environment. 

Truck platooning is an emerging vehicle

technology in which trucks are linked by

a computer system that maintains the

desired distance between trucks, as well

as controls acceleration and braking,

reacting faster than a driver typically can.

Platooning uses a dedicated short-range

radio communications protocol

approved for communications at high-

speeds, as well as a CPS system, and radar

technology. 

This technology is only in the testing phase in Canada, while legal in several U.S. states, including Tennessee and Georgia.