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01/08/2021

In this short documentary, TTC Enthusiast and Urban Explorer Jeremy Woodcock travels to Bessarion Station, the least used Subway Station on the Toronto Transit Map, to find out if it really does exist and why it would be built in the first place.

In this short documentary, TTC Enthusiast and Urban Explorer Jeremy Woodcock travels to Bessarion Station, the least used Subway Station on the Toronto Trans...

10/07/2020

The City of Toronto is finalizing an affordable housing plan that would require affordable units in new condos. Join ACORN's call for the strongest plan possible, and stop landlords and developers from lobbying for a weak plan that preserves their profits.

07/20/2020

Cool masks designed by local Toronto artists.

Done by a local artists. Watercolor, prints, and hand restored vintage Japanese art.
https://www.redbubble.com/people/killies/shop?a
rtistUserName=killies&asc=u&iaCode=u-mask

04/21/2020

Woot!

10/12/2019

These businesses and organizations are growing the circular economy, increasing social prosperity and reducing environmental impacts by:

promoting sharing, repairing, and seeing value in spent material
increasing people’s access to reused, repaired, and/or sustainably sourced items
growing people’s capacity to advance the circular economy themselves (e.g. teaching skills for repair).

The following case studies (printable version) highlight small businesses and organizations in Toronto that are supporting the circular economy by using products and materials to their full potential, reducing the need for more raw materials to be extracted. These businesses and organizations are gr...

08/27/2019

Airbnb and Kensington News

Housing advocates and property owners squared off Monday at a housing tribunal in Toronto that will determine the rules regarding short-term rentals like Airbnb. Regulations for short-term rentals were approved by Toronto city council in early 2018 but were appealed before they could be put in place...

04/30/2019

Baldwin St

Welcome to Baldwin.

04/06/2019

Historical house in the Junction.

"The Birches" at 344 Annette Street (corner of Laws Street.)

This house was built in 1889 for Theodor August Heintzman, founder of Heintzman Pianos. The residence was designed by Toronto architects Knox & Elliott.

One of the large piano factories was located at the east side of Keele Street at Vine Ave. Theodore died in the summer of 1899 when he was 83. Relatives lived in the house until 1920. The house still stands today.

This photo was donated to our archives by Thomas Heintzman Graham.

02/15/2019

Victoria’s Arctic Fashion (V.A.F.) is an up and coming design label which fuses traditional northern garments and accessories with a modern style. Started by Victoria Kakuktinniq, V.A.F. has already established itself in its community of Iqaluit and throughout most of Nunavut.

The creator of V.A.F., Victoria Kakuktinniq, a Nunavummiut, born and raised in Rankin Inlet, has always been deeply immersed in the Inuit Culture. Surrounded by skilled seamstresses, Victoria was always intrigued and inspired by the parkas she saw sewn. Following a traditional sewing course in Rankin Inlet, she knew she had found her passion and soon after enrolled at MC College in Winnipeg, where she would prefect her craft in the Fashion Design and Apparel Production program. Victoria gained notoriety there for her form fitting parkas, with signature embroideries. Soon after completing the program, Victoria returned to Nunavut and created Victoria’s Arctic Fashion.

https://vafashion.ca/

Parkas, but with Inuit-sourced materials.


Victoria's Arctic Fashion
https://vafashion.ca/