Tirgan Festival
Saturday, July 20, 1:51 pm at Harbourfront Centre.
Spotted
A small group gathered outside the U.S. Embassy on University on Saturday, July 20, as part of a National Day of Action held across North America to protest the acquittal on murder charges of George Zimmerman in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin. Protestors wore hoodies in support.
Photo by Suzette Vidale
Mandela Day
WHAT Community celebration for Nelson Mandela International Day
WHEN Thursday, July 18, at Nelson Mandela Public School in Regent Park
WHY To mark the 95th birthday of the former South African president and civil rights leader.
Photo by Struan S
Cityscape
The gay village becomes the latest proving ground for a pilot project to make downtown streets more pedestrian-friendly. Work crews were out this week constructing “parklets,” essentially wood decks, along Church between Wellesley and Alexander in street space usually reserved for parking. They’ll be there until August. The effort is less ambitious than the Celebrate Yonge pedestrianization project championed by local councillor Kristyn Wong-Tam last year. That project is expected to make a return in 2014, once council digests a transportation study later this year.
Photo by Enzo DiMatteo
Climate watch
1,018
Number of calls received by the city about trees downed in July 19’s thunderstorm.
4,100
Tonnes of material collected by garbage crews in the wake of the July 8 flood.
Sounding off
“It has about as much chance of success as The Lone Ranger had at the box office.”
Amalgamated Transit Union prez Bob Kinnear pans the TTC’s plans for a whistle-blower hotline, which he says wrongly “promotes the idea that there is widespread fraud and theft” on the part of transit employees.
