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Asquith's little green

Toronto has big parks, but tucked in here and there are pocket parks — or “parkettes” — that are neighbourhood-sized spaces, sometimes as small as a single lot. At the top of Church Street, as it starts to curve west and become Davenport Road, is Asquith Green, both a park and a passageway into Yorkville. Placed around the...

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Toronto's unsung co-ops

BY Shawn Micallef

In the west part of Cabbagetown, just south of the St. Jamestown towers, is the Bleeker Street Co-op, a sprawling collection of low-rise (but not too low) towers and townhouses connected by interior...

Travelling Buddies

BY Shawn Micallef

The now-venerable Buddies in Bad Times Theatre at 12 Alexander, just off Yonge, is part of Toronto’s indie theatre establishment. However, when it was founded in 1979, the company did not have their...

Krishna Korner

BY Shawn Micallef

At the T-intersection of Dupont and Avenue Road is the Hare Krishna Temple, a local landmark since the 1970s in a very un-’70s building. Built in 1899 by Toronto firm Gordon & Helliwell (builders...

Harbord firebombing

The four-storey modern brick building at85 Harbord marks where Henry Morgentaler’s abortion clinic was firebombed in 1992.

Catholic pavement

Ontario’s publicly funded Catholic school system is not the heavy parochial and corporal kind of educational environment that the words “Catholic School” traditionally evoke, but perhaps a bit of a latent desire to make life a little hard on kids comes out...

Slate museum

Toronto has a secret, living museum, but to find it you’ve got to look up, way up. Artifacts from our past often hang out above our heads, like the old wooden telephone and hydro poles (that some people hate and think are ugly) and, more subtly, slate roofs...

West Toronto Rail Path

This past year “Phase 1” of the West Toronto Rail Path opened up along the old Grand Trunk Railway line (today known as the Georgetown Go Train corridor) from the Dundas Street overpass north to Cariboo Avenue in the Junction neighbourhood. Like the “wave...

Secret art treasures on King

At 778 King W. — near where the wind sometimes blows up the farm-and-death smell from the Toronto Abattoirs/Quality Meat Packers Building on Tecumseth — the fine old "Uniforms Registered" Deco factory building with blanked-out windows gives no... (1)

The Dundas angle

In a grid city, Dundas Street is all about the angle

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