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Building Storeys: Rail Bridges (Torontoist)

The Heroes of Harbord (Toronto Star)

The Scarborough Hospital Honours its Past (Inside Toronto)

A Lesson in the Joys of Toronto's Messy Urbanism (BlogTO)

Heritage Toronto will be providing a weekly recap of heritage news in our city.

Feel free to add your comments at the end of this posting, including any stories we may have missed.

Heritage Toronto will be providing a weekly recap of heritage news in our city.

Feel free to add your comments at the end of this posting, including any stories we may have missed.

Restoration of 5 St. Joseph is huge undertaking (Toronto Star) 

Massey Tower will ‘breathe new life' into neglected site (Toronto Star) 

Long Branch sees spike in lot severances (Etobicoke Guardian) 

Derelict Delights: the Loblaw warehouse building

Heritage Toronto will be providing a weekly recap of heritage news in our city.

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Neighbours fear demolition of historic Wesley Mimico United Church (Toronto Star) 

In Paris, Ont., Drew Skuce finds good karma in old stuff (Globe & Mail) 

Derelict Delights: 295-305 George Street (The Grid) 

Derelict Delights: Canada Linseed Oil Mills Building (The Grid) 

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Heritage Toronto will be providing a weekly recap of heritage news in our city.

Feel free to add your comments at the end of this posting, including any stories we may have missed.

Highrise plan looms over Allan Gardens (Toronto Star) 

LOOKING BACK: Annis house continues to welcome guests on Kingston Road (Inside Toronto) 

City looks to designate Loretto Abbey (Town Crier) 

81 Wellesley Street East: A Message from Councillor Wong - Tam 

By Jamie Bradburn

Update 3/5/12: City Council has voted to designate the property

Personal story: the first time I went to the Paradise was to see Robert Altman's Nashville. The print was faded, but watchable; my seat was in rougher shape. The armrest was barely attached to the rest of the chair with either duct tape or chewing gum. While some people would have hightailed it to the nearest theatre with stadium seating, the improvised fix gave the Paradise a certain charm.

Heritage Toronto will be providing a weekly recap of heritage news in our city.

Feel free to add your comments at the end of this posting, including any stories we may have missed.

Phone app brings Toronto architecture to life (Globe & Mail) 

LOOKING BACK: Annis house continues to welcome guests on Kingston Road (Inside Toronto) 

King George school marks 100 years of education (Inside Toronto) 

Heritage Toronto will be providing a weekly recap of heritage news in our city.

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Demolition of historic Toronto house has locals fuming (Toronto Star)

Hume: Heritage is the way of the future (Toronto Star) 

Two North York residents to be invested into Order of Ontario (Inside Toronto) 

Monty's Inn escapes budget axe (Inside Toronto) 

By Jamie Bradburn

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Casa Mendoza and The Real Jerk brought quirky personality to Toronto (Toronto Star) 

Scarborough councillors reject heritage designation for home built in 1939 (Inside Toronto) 

Heritage plea for Macphail home gets lukewarm response (Inside Toronto) 

What Yonge Street looked like in the 1950s (BlogTO) 

Heritage Toronto will be providing a weekly recap of heritage news in our city.

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A bolder and more balanced Toronto (Toronto Star) 

A look inside the Flatiron (Toronto Star) 

A Toronto that might have been (Globe & Mail) 

As Toronto's east end grows and changes, Jilly's remains (National Post) 

On Thursday, November 3rd, 2011, a dialogue on post-war suburban architecture was presented by the North York Community Preservation Panel (NYCPP) together with The City Institute at York University (CITY) at the North York Civic Centre.

To see video of the event, please click on the following links:

Presentations

Discussions

Moderator:

Christopher Hume, Toronto Star columnist

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Does a 34-storey building belong in the Distillery District? (Toronto Star) 

Toronto's Flatiron building sold for $15 million (Toronto Star) 

Old City Hall bells saved by the bureaucrats (Toronto Star) 

‘A little oasis in the middle of the city' (Toronto Star) 

By Jamie Bradburn

With the Raptors set to return to action on Boxing Day, we look back at Toronto's first major league basketball team.

Given that basketball was invented by a native of the Great White North, perhaps the fates were at work when the first game of the league that would become the National Basketball Association was played in Toronto on November 1, 1946. That distinction would be one of the few highlights of the short existence of the Toronto Huskies. Poor personnel decisions, a problematic star attraction, and lousy gate receipts all proceeded to sink big-time basketball before it could establish itself in Toronto.

By David Wencer

On the afternoon of July 6, 1936, angry citizens of York Township stormed the local relief office and occupied the building. They held the township's relief officer and later the township's Reeve as their prisoners, along with several employees of the relief office. The crowd's demands? That relief in the township be restored to its earlier levels, so that the unemployed and impoverished of York need not live in the newly-erected tent village.

The Globe, July 7, 1936 edition

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Brilliant new life for the Gardens (Globe & Mail) 

Yonge Street's seedy past (The Grid TO)

New digs in old school (Town Crier) 

Museum too important to close (Town Crier) 

A Gardens Gallery (Torontoist) 

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Saving the Montgomery Inn (Toronto Star)

End of days at 48 Abell St. (Toronto Star)

A Toronto tour through ‘man's imprint on the environment' (Globe & Mail)

Conversion of churches into condos a 'labour of love' (Inside Toronto)