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Thought I'd create a miscellaneous space to post pretty much anything you want about the city that is news or noteworthy.
Something that really shook me to the core was the brutal and unprovoked attack of a 29 year old Autistic man at the Mississauga central bus station. The video in the link shows the attack and it is pretty disturbing. I hope they find all these goons and are brought to justice.
Peel Regional Police have identified another suspect in the violent beating of a man with autism at a bus terminal in Toronto. A Canada-wide warrant has been issued for 21-year-old Parmvir Singh Chahil. He is the second suspect identified in relation to the attack, 25-year-old Ronjot Singh Dhami was identified on Monday. A Canada-wide search warrant was also issued for him. Dhami’s last known address was in Surrey, B.C. Court records show he was previously convicted of assault with a weapon in that city.
Sidewalk Labs "hadn't foreseen" how fiercely Canadians would demand that their data be retained within the country when it first sought out to design a "people first" high-tech neighbourhood in east Toronto, says one of the local leaders working with the start-up, which is owned by Google's parent company Alphabet.
It was announced in October that Sidewalk Labs won a competition to partner with Waterfront Toronto to develop the Quayside neighbourhood "from the Internet up" with features including roads designed for driverless cars, environmentally friendly design and innovative infrastructure. Its plans will ultimately need government approval before any construction moves forward. When asked by an audience member where the project's data would be housed, Sidewalk Labs head of legal Alyssa Harvey Dawson said "security is going to be paramount," but did not directly answer the question.
Toronto is nearing the “tipping point” in its quest to become*a leading hub for health innovation – a development that promises to help modernize an aging Canadian health-care system while giving the broader economy a shot in the arm.*
Interesting video on the Streets of Toronto. It examines how streets are the lifeblood of a city. It gets into how we have planned our cities with vehicles at the top of the food chain but that it is changing in the city towards more dense, walkable nabes where the pedestrian is increasingly reclaiming access to this lifeblood.
TORONTO, March 6, 2018 /CNW/ -*Courteous and helpful staff and improvements to airport ambiance have inspired passengers travelling through Toronto Pearson in 2017 to award Canada's largest airport an Airport Service Quality (ASQ) Award and the title of Best Large Airport, serving more than 40 million annual passengers, in North America by Airports Council International (ACI), the global organization representing the world's airports.
Toronto’s executive committee approved moving ahead with Mayor John Tory’s SmartTrack plan. The report is scheduled to go to council next week.
The executive committee debated a report, released by city staff last week, which recommended the implementation of the six SmartTrack Stations program.
SmartTrack, which Tory campaigned on during the 2014 mayoral race, will use existing GO Transit lines.
However, the original vision for SmartTrack had 22 stops over 53-kilometres of heavy rail track.
Despite its drastic size change, Tory believes it will still be a good thing for the city.
“It will provide real transit options, real relief and real economic benefits at a reasonable cost,” he said.
According to Tory, SmartTrack will “provide a service level of six to ten minute peak service frequencies at six new stations and eight existing stations” and remains in the projected budget of $1.2 billion.
Interesting graphic, but Silicon Valley is not a city, but a region. Hmmm.
Nat, from " lifestyle " Vancouver.
Hmm observant. You'd think that would have been in the SF Bay area's (which includes Silicon Valley) sphere of influence and not separate. Fusion2 from its hard to make friends in the establishment
The man behind the Sharp Centre for Design at OCAD (Ontario College of Art and Design) also known as the OCAD cube, has passed away. Will Alsop was 70 years old. The Sharp Centre for Design is one of the most distinctive architectural structures in the city and will be a lasting tribute to a great man and architect who helped embolden the architectural landscape of Toronto.
It’s got long steel legs, windows rimmed with hot pink and a skin that resembles a Cubist checker board. But for architect Will Alsop, his Sharp Centre for Design at Toronto’s OCAD University was missing one important thing. “I think what the school needs,” he told me a few years ago, “is a really good bar.”
That was vintage Alsop. The London-based designer, who died on Saturday at age 70, was known equally as a bon vivant and as an architect who brought a sense of colour, literally and figuratively, to his profession. He also made an important mark on Toronto with the Sharp Centre, which is among the most distinctive buildings in the country.
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