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ART: The Metropolitan United Church donated a thirty-by-sixty-foot exterior wall of its own building to a handful of international graffiti artists (Chor Boogie, Siloette, Elicser, and Mediah) so that they may paint a collaborative interpretation of faith. The United Church of Canada’s website, WonderCafe.ca, hosts the wall’s "Paint Your Faith" unveiling today. Various faith and art activities accompany the reveal, including fresh blank canvases for the inspired. Oh, and there’s music, refreshments, and a barbecue, too. Metropolitan United Church (56 Queen Street East), Saturday, 12–4:30 p.m., FREE.

       

This year, the winter season has been less than kind to Étienne Brûlé Park. The park, which took a beating in February during a flash thaw, took another one on Saturday when torrential downpours caused parts of the Humber River to spill its banks. On Sunday, we went down to the park to survey the damage, and we have to say that parts of Étienne Brûlé feel more like a treacherous obstacle course than a park. Since February, the city has tried to clear some of the paths, but huge chunks of ice still block most of the walkways near the Old Mill entrance. The parking lot, which sits at the base of the bridge at the end of Old Mill Road, is still entirely obscured by pools of water and dirty, and increasingly dangerous, sheets of ice. We managed to climb over or around most of the obstacles, but recent rains and the warmer weather have weakened a lot of the ice sheets, and we fell through several of them.

      

Last week's unseasonably high temperatures, combined with lots of wind and rain, brought chaos to some parts of the city, with roads flooding, power lines collapsing, and trees falling. Chris Dost, a member of Torontoist's Flickr Pool, captured the devastation at Étienne Brûlé Park, a park alongside the Humber River.

Way up in the very northwestern corner of the city, the old Indian Line used to mark the boundary between Etobicoke and Peel Region (Mississauga and Brampton). The road carved its way through farm fields and across a bridge over the Humber River before continuing north past Steeles Avenue. Most of the old road was effectively wiped out by the initial construction and subsequent widening and extending of Highway 427 starting in the late 1960s and continuing through the early 1990s. Other portions of the road fell victim to realignments of Albion Road, Steeles Avenue, and Regional Road 50 heading north out of the city. But as with other abandoned roads in the city, a few stretches of the old roadway still exist.

The city’s Discovery Walks program, while extensive, doesn’t cover every nook and cranny of Toronto. For instance, there is very little ground covered east of the Don River.

Old Mill station offers a brief respite from the dirty grey walls of the subway’s usual monotony of underground tunnels. Crossing over the Humber River, the windows of the station offer a view of daylight and trees in either direction. Not surprisingly, Old Mill station is also the start point for another of the city’s Discovery Walks: the Humber RIver, Old Mill and Marshes.

Step right up, kids. Not too close though, you don't want to scare the rock people away. We know that you look at those precariously balanced piles of rocks on the beach or—in this case—in the Humber River and think to yourselves that there must be more to this than simply resting one rock on top of another. Surely there are screws, rods, glues, or props of some description used in the construction of these fanciful towers.

Peter Riedel could hardly have chosen a better location to ply his trade. We've seen rock balancers in the eastern beaches, in the western beaches, and even at the Ex, but this is the first time we've seen one working the Humber River. Literally in the river.

Each weekday morning, we pick a recent image from the Torontoist Flickr Pool and feature it here on the site. It's our way to give the many excellent photographers in our pool the attention they deserve!

Each weekday morning, we pick a recent image from the Torontoist Flickr Pool and feature it here on the site. It's our way to give the many excellent photographers in our pool the attention they deserve!