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Extra, Extra: Plans for the Post-Election Sign-Off, and a More Powerful Core
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An alternative to recycling: a Trinity-Spadina election sign mashup. Photo by _Rashomon_ from the Torontoist Flickr Pool.
- After Monday—for those who aren’t interested in keeping their elections signs displayed in their front windows as constant reminders of democracy to passersby—the City’s Solid Waste Management Services division is setting up six election sign recycling spots across the city. Until May 24, residents can drop off three types of signs: corrugated plastic/“Coroplast”, paperboard, and plastic film/sleeve style. Candidates’ campaign offices are responsible for removing all signs by end of day May 5; the City’s garbage services will not collect signs during their regular weekly curbside pickup.
- It may sound counterintuitive, but a new way of looking at major urban centres—such as Toronto—as models for ecological diversity is emerging. Read here about how New York City has become a “capital of nature.”
- The Windsor Station, the downtown core’s transformer station at Wellington and John streets, has seen better days. As a result, Toronto Hydro is planning a new transformer facility, the Bremner Station, which will allow Windsor to go offline for upgrades and will increase the electrical capacity of the area once it and Bremner are operating. The new station will be build mostly underground, but its footprint runs into the John Street Roundhouse’s Machine Shop Annex, which is a heritage property; Toronto Hydro and Heritage Toronto are working together on plans to dismantle the building and reassemble it in place on top of the Bremner Station. Many more details about the project, courtesy of Urban Toronto, are available here.
- No one’s surprised that Rob Ford is officially endorsing Stephen Harper for PM, but what’s raising eyebrows is the timing of his announcement (tonight, with just two days left until election day), and where it’s happening (outside Toronto’s city limits, in Brampton). See all of Torontoist‘s federal election coverage here.
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This post originally stated the Windsor transformer station is at Wellington and Bremner. In fact it is at Wellington and John streets.