November 28th CP24 Joshua Freeman Crews in hazmat suits will be back at a home in the Mount Pleasant Road and Eglinton Avenue area for a third day Friday to continue clearing out a man’s home of mountains of hoarded materials that have become a fire hazard. The work began Wednesday after [...]
November 22nd 2013 Alanna Kelly Village Living Magazine The community along Eglinton Avenue has a few lessons to learn when it comes to the impact that the Crosstown Light Rail Transit will have on them. With construction well underway on the only LRT in Toronto, local residents and businesses need to start [...]
November 12th 2013 CP24 Chris Fox A Toronto city councillor wants the city to officially make the long-discussed downtown relief line its number one transit priority and undertake an environmental assessment on the project in order to get the ball rolling. A motion prepared by Coun. Josh Matlow that will be debated during [...]
November 6th 2013 Toronto Star Josh Matlow When I was first elected to Toronto City Council three years ago, I knew city hall would be an interesting place to work. That now seems like a remarkable understatement. Like many new councillors, I was excited to get to work on priorities such as improving [...]
November 2013 Post City Magazine David Paterson The Toronto District School Board (TDSB) recently posted a notice on the fence surrounding the construction for a new condo development on Roehampton Avenue, just to the north of Eglinton, warning future residents it can’t guarantee space will be immediately available at a school in the neighbourhood. [...]
November 2013 Post City Magazine Angela Hennessy There is prime real estate for sale at 415 Mount Pleasant Rd., which could see some unprecedented development go up in the area. The land, which is currently a large parking lot attached to a Kentucky Fried Chicken, has been designated as multi-use, which means — [...]
October 9th, 2013 NOW Ben Spurr City council has, for the moment at least, refused to let Ryerson University out of an agreement to keep the iconic Sam the Record Man sign on its campus. The school was seeking to dissolve the terms of an easement the institution entered into in 2008 when [...]
October 9th, 2013 CBC News It was the subway, not the LRT, that won out in Tuesday’s close council vote to extend the TTC’s Bloor-Danforth line in Scarborough. To see how each councillor voted, check out our council vote tracker posted at the bottom of this story. The decision means the subway will [...]
October 3rd, 2013 Inside Toronto Justin Skinner For years, development in the Yonge and Eglinton area has been handled in a piecemeal fashion, leaving local residents in the lurch as they have tried to preserve green space. That is set to change with an initiative underway to create a plan for the midtown [...]
September 25th, 2013 CBC News Counillor Josh Matlow is calling on Toronto’s Ryerson University to confirm that the Sam The Record Man sign, once an iconic piece of the Yonge streetscape, has not been damaged, broken or “even destroyed.” Matlow wrote to Ryerson president Sheldon Levy to clarify what he says are rumours [...]
