Richard Longley, Author at NOW Toronto

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What is Toronto’s heritage worth?

February 21, 2019

Heritage Toronto releases Changing The Narrative, its annual state of heritage report, today (Thursday, February 21). Since the province declared the first Heritage Week in 1985,...

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Can Ontario Place be saved from Doug Ford?

January 18, 2019

When Ontario Place opened in 1971 as this province’s counterpoint to Expo 67, it seemed like something built by extraterrestrials. Architect Eb Zeidler’s pods, bridges...

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A year after the flood, Toronto Islands rebuild for storms yet to come

November 7, 2018

On the Toronto Islands, where the homes of the more than 600 residents were either flooded or at risk of flooding during the deluge of...

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Hidden Toronto: our annual summer ode to the city’s best-kept secrets

July 26, 2018

In Toronto, there are places so mysterious, they might as well be invisible. And there are buildings in plain sight that contain unseen stories, histories, industries,...

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Hidden Toronto: The War Memorials Of Harbord Collegiate

July 10, 2018

At Harbord Collegiate Institute, The Soldier, by sculptor George W. Hill, was dedicated in 1921 to honour “These former pupils who died for humanity in...

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Hidden Toronto: Terracotta House

June 25, 2018

In the 1890s, 30 years before he began work on the Canadian War Memorial at Vimy, sculptor Walter Allward refined his skills by making moulds...

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Doors Open 2018 hits highwater mark

May 24, 2018

The first Journée Portes Ouvertes – Doors Open Day – was held in France in 1984. In 1990 the idea reached Scotland. It was there, in...

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The Bentway busts out in a big way

January 10, 2018

It’s not a Yellow Brick Road, it doesn’t lead to Oz, and it’s not yet a kilometre long, but the first phase of The Bentway...

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Changing how we remember war

November 9, 2017

There are more than 6,000 war memorials in Canada. In Toronto, war history is remembered in styles that run from the imperious, to the modestly...

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Saving Sunshine Valley

November 1, 2017

Sunshine Valley, a landscaped community of 197 cottage-like homes, fits into the triangle between O’Connor, St. Clair East and Victoria Park in the former East...

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Toronto-Dominion Centre still a triumph at 50

October 18, 2017

When Ontario Premier John Robarts cut the ribbon at the formal opening on May 13, 1968 of the Toronto-Dominion Centre’s two black towers, the timing...