July 3, 2012 at 5:00 pm

Extra, Extra: Church Bells, Giant Eyes, and Fabric Sales

Every weekday’s end, we collect just about everything you ought to care about or ought not miss.

Local web designer Jim Bachalo has made a few short documentaries on Toronto-specific subjects. Particularly impressive is his latest, about the people who ring the tower bells at the Church of St. James, at Church and King streets. It’s embedded above.

My, what big eyes you have, City Hall.
The OneCity transit plan, released last week by Karen Stintz (Ward 16, Eglinton-Lawrence) and Glenn De Baeremaeker (Ward 38, Scarborough Centre), is full of ambitious proposals. But, as a practical matter, how should politicians go about arranging for new infrastructure to be built on that scale? John Lorinc has some ideas.
And King Textiles—on Richmond Street West, near Spadina Avenue—is being displaced by a condo development. (Surprise, surprise.) Naturally, they’re having a huge sale.