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Torontoist Week in Review: July 13-17
A lot happens in the course of a workweek. Here’s a look back at the top stories from the past five days that you might have missed, or might care to revisit.
The Canadian rhythmic gymnastics team. Photo by Jeremy Gilbert from the Torontoist Flickr Pool.
We’re one week into this year’s Pan Am Games, complete with lots of medals, a Kanye West debate, and Pachi. We reviewed seven of Toronto’s top Pan Am hopefuls to try and get you into the mood to cheer.
From the article:
With the 2015 Pan Am Games in full swing, we took a look at our top athlete picks who hail from the 6ix.
The Ernst & Young tower, in happier times. Photo by Ian Muttoo from the Torontoist Flickr Pool.
In 2012, modernist-architecture history Marie-Josée Therrien led a successful citizens’ appeal to overturn provisions that would have allowed Cadillac Fairview to erect signs on the outside of TD Centre’s Ernst & Young tower. Whether or not signage belongs on the TD Centre towers at all remains a point of heated debate.
From the article:
Since their installation last fall, illuminated signage on the Ernst & Young tower of the TD Centre complex has been lamented by architecture aficionados—most recently, and publicly, in a column from The Globe and Mail. These signs aren’t just a design aberration. Given unresolved heritage considerations, the change probably shouldn’t have happened at all.
Courtesy of Waterfront Toronto.
Three levels of government announced a cost-and-assess study of Toronto’s waterfront revitalization.
From the article:
For a project as large as the proposed naturalization of the mouth of the Don River and the accompanying redevelopment of the Port Lands, Mayor John Tory feels that taxpayers expect officials at all three levels of government to do their homework.
An image of two-time Polaris Prize loser, Drake, when he was one of our 2013 heroes.
With the 2015 Polaris Music Prize Awards coming September 21, Canada’s most reputable music award ceremony announces its shortlist of the top 10 contenders.
From the article:
The shortlist for the 2015 Polaris Music Prize (aka, the Canadian music recognition that actually matters) was just released, and it’s quite the doozy:
Photo by Dennis Gonzales from the Torontoist Flickr Pool.
Over 200 restaurants participating in the bi-annual Summerlicious/Winterlicious festival. Restaurant owner Samira Mohyeddin shares an industry view on the mixed emotions that come with each event.
From the article:
I have been participating in Summerlicious and Winterlicious for the past seven years—not as a diner, but as an owner of a decade-old little Iranian restaurant along Queen West.