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Yesterday, the province gave Toronto $52,000 to test recycling programs in apartment complexes as part of the goal to divert 70 per cent of waste from landfill by 2010.

2005_03_04waterfront.gifWith the city in a frenzied upsurge of residential architecture, and everyone from Harry Stinson (with his, er, quietly tasteful Sapphire Tower design) to the Donald (having hard-balled the City into allowing his Trump Tower to jump from 68 to 70 stories) leaping for a piece of the pie, Torontoist can’t help but wonder the fate of our dreaded waterfront. Whether for better or worse, its transformation will represent the biggest architectural development of our generation.

Stinson, a slight man dressed all in black, sipped a beverage from a straw as he milled about the grand hall, which he says functioned as a bank until 2001. He told us that the club aspired to be a place that felt like family, a place where people would go to spend a lot of time.

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