Results tagged “islington”

Torontoist is ending the year by naming our Heroes and Villains of 2007––the people, places, and things that we've either fallen head over heels in love with or developed uncontrollable rage towards over the past twelve months. Get your dose, starting Boxing Day and running into the new year, three times a day––sunrise, noon, and sunset.

The bus platform of Pape station was engulfed in a whirlwind of mops and microphones early yesterday afternoon as workers scrubbed the walls and windows till they sparkled and the media mingled with curious commuters, all of them eager for TTC chair Adam Giambrone to arrive and kick off the Station Modernization Program. This whammy of a project, which will include the restructuring and redesign of nine subway stations, was set into motion at three p.m. yesterday with speeches by Giambrone as well as by members of the Toronto Community Foundation. Pape (above), Dufferin and Bloor-Yonge are first in line for a makeover, followed by Victoria Park, Islington, Kipling, Museum, St. Patrick, and Osgoode.

Ontario Lottery Corporation recalls over a million scratch lotto cards after a customer complains you can see a winner without scratching. Between this and the retailers-stealing-jackpot-tickets flap a few months ago, it is probably even odds that every Ontario lotto jackpot in the last five years has been won by one guy in Whitby named Fred.

Way, way, back, Torontoist reported that transit activists were busy organizing a transit forum in an attempt to promote civic engagement in public transit. You've probably been wondering, "what ever happened to that forum? Could Torontoist have misreported?" Well, we were a year off in our prediction as to when it was to happen, but it is happening: this Friday and Saturday join transit activists, politicians, and the staff of various transit providers to help breath more energy into what may possibly be our favorite way to get around.

Dave Miller isn't the only baller in the GTA. Mayor Hazel McCallion of Mississauga will put on a B-Ball clinic with Thatcher-like authority tomorrow for the 2nd annual 2005 adidas All Canadian Basketball Game. Hazel will throw up the jump ball at 2 P.M. at Mississauga's Hersey Centre.