Hill not the only thing rising on Toronto Waterfront - Waterfront Toronto

Toronto has a new hill. It’s between the Distillery District and the start of the Don Valley Parkway, and is the central feature of Don River Park, the new 9-hectare expanse of greenery speckled with 700 new trees and connected by a network of pathways and staircases, at the eastern edge of the West Don Lands.

New editor takes the reins at BMN
Beach Metro News
Jon's dramatic shots of Beach scenery and well-written stories on the environment (particularly changes at the Ashbridges Bay Treatment Plant) and local ...

Don't miss chance for something great with the Toronto waterfront - Waterfront Toronto

The new year promises to be a busy one for Waterfront Toronto. The agency is in the midst of reappraising its plans for the Port Lands, the tract of underused land on the east flank of Toronto harbour that Doug Ford made famous earlier this year with his musings about Ferris wheels and monorails. “The handcuffs are off,” Waterfront’s chief executive, John Campbell, told reporters in November.

Hume: Waterfront Toronto feels the pressure of its new-found ...
Toronto Star
We shouldn't forget that the Port Lands were created by filling in Ashbridge's Bay, once the site of the largest wetland on the Great Lakes.

Citizen of the year tells her tale
insideTORONTO.com
Beach Citizen of the Year 2011, Anne Butler, with her loving canine companion, Whiskey. Photo/COURTESY Community members recently gathered at the Millennium Gardens in Woodbine Park to unveil a plaque in Butler's honour on the Beach Walk of Fame. ...
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Waterfront Toronto

Waterfront Toronto is working with the William J. Clinton Foundation and consulting engineering firm Arup on custom-built software designed to form urban planning strategies near the shore of Lake Ontario. Funded in part by the Ontario Power Authority, the goal was to create a computer tool to predict carbon dioxide emissions if areas were developed in certain ways...

Weekend road closures in Toronto: Beaches Jazz, among others
680 News
See list below: Queen Street East from Woodbine Avenue to Beech Avenue will be closed from 6 pm to midnight on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Residents living south of Queen Street East, between Balsam Avenue and Lee Avenue, will be able to enter/exit ...
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Loving the old 'hood
Kawartha Media Group
Now I've always known the Lake Ontario-bordered portion of east Toronto (Not Scarborough, thank you very much!) as The Beaches but many still get pretty ...

Concerned residents want to make park safer place
insideTORONTO.com
Photo/TORONTO COMMUNITY NEWS A group of concerned residents who live near Stan Wadlow ... The park, located off Cosburn Avenue and east of Woodbine Avenue, ...

Sanctuary Denied
In These Times
Many stayed on and became prominent members of Canadian society, like King, who is a jazz musician and artistic director of Toronto's Beaches Jazz Festival. ...