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A popular midtown off-leash dog park will soon be off-limits to professional dog walkers after neighbourhood complaints prompted the local city councillor to bring forward a motion banning commercial attendees The motion sparked an outcry among local businesses and dog owners who frequent the park. Ramsden Park, sandwiched between Yonge …
Read More »‘Downtown has not kept up at all’: Pressure on Toronto parks grows as population climbs – Toronto
For a long time, the parks, parkettes and ravines scattered around Toronto were regarded as “nice to have” and as “frills,” advocate Dave Harvey says, but now he believes people have come to see them as vital infrastructure akin to schools, roads and hospitals. Harvey, the co-executive director of Park …
Read More »Parkette dedicated to the memory of Leslieville shooting victim – Toronto
Family and friends gathered in the heart of Toronto’s Leslieville neighbourhood to remember Karolina Huebner-Makurat as a parkette was renamed in her honour close to a year after she was tragically killed in a shooting. More than a hundred people gathered in the parkette near Gerard Street East and Logan …
Read More »City called out for poor condition of fountain in Toronto tourist hub – Toronto
Unlike the salmon depicted in a piece of civic fine art, the water hasn’t been running in a fountain tucked in between the Rogers Centre and the CN Tower, allowing it to be tagged multiple times by vandals. The Salmon Run fountain sits at the southern edge of the Bonnie …
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