Caribbean Carnival’s brilliant colours in full bloom during the annual parade Saturday, August 3, at Exhibition Place and Lake Shore.
Nuke Fix
WHAT Ontario Power Generation’s Deep Geologic Repository, aka nuclear waste dump, proposed for Kincardine, Ontario.
WHERE Deep underground but only 1.2 kilometres from the shores of Lake Huron – too close, environmentalists say, to the world’s largest freshwater source to make the dump safe.
WHY To store “low” and “intermediate level” nuclear waste in rock that OPG says is “seismically quiet.” Opponents, however, point out that some of the waste being proposed for dumping (about 10 per cent) will remain toxic or radioactive for 100,000 years.
Details
Mock-up of Ryerson’s Student Learning Centre exterior curtain wall, which is currently under construction at Yonge and Gould. The model, which doubles as an art project, will be used to help fine-tune final installation details when the curtain wall is erected.
Photo by Enzo Dimatteo
Heritage watch 906 Yonge
Ridpath’s Ltd. Showroom & Store, designed by Mackenzie Waters, constructed in 1928 and added to the city’s inventory of heritage properties in 1974.
Proposed A 35-storey hotel and condo tower fronting Yonge and connected by a two-storey podium to a 28-storey condo directly behind it facing McMurrich.
Background The developer is proposing to build more than three times higher than what’s currently permissible, and to incorporate the Tudor facade and part of the side walls and gable roof into the design.
Photo by Enzo Dimatteo
Shelter gap
5,219 Toronto’s homeless population, according to interim results of the city’s Street Needs Assessment report released last week.
24 Percentage increase in people sleeping outside compared to 2009
34 Percentage who identified as aboriginal
19 Percentage who identified as LGBTQ
16 Percentage who said they had served in the military
10 Percentage who are older than 61, up 4.7 per cent from 2009
3.1 Average number of years people are homeless
In Memoriam
R.I.P. James Gray (1960-2013)
Multi-instrumentalist, most notably of Blue Rodeo, passed away Tuesday, August 6, of a heart attack. Read more.
