Welcome to the November 2024 newsletter from Canary District Neighbourhood Association. In this issue, we talk about:
Canary Dental is inviting the whole community to drop by their office and the patio outside to enjoy hot chocolate, music by Mo Guzman, and an opportunity to meet Santa and take pictures! Next-door-neighbour Fuel+ will be getting in on the fun with free homemade cake.
Meanwhile, just across the road at Marché Leo's there will be more warm drinks and freshly baked cookies! They'll top it off with loot bags with small treats and coupons for Region Restaurant and Marché Leo's Market. You'll also have a chance to enter a raffle for a $25 chocolate basket.
Bring donations for Canary Dental's toy and food drive to benefit the Yonge Street Mission (YSM). You can also take in donations before the event. Click here for more details.
Curious about The Port Lands? You should be! It’s in the process of transforming into a new neighbourhood adjacent to ours, featuring outstanding amenities that we will all get to enjoy. But to get there, the area is undergoing some extreme engineering, performed while preserving aspects of a rich Toronto past.
Suit up in your warm winter clothing to enjoy a 2 hour walk through the heart of the Port Lands, exploring and learning about these extraordinary layers of history and future dreams.
Click here to learn more and RSVP
Having been advised by Urban Forestry officials that we have to report each individual unhealthy or dead tree via the City's 311 system to get them into the work queue, neighbourhood volunteers got to work to do just that.
Five volunteers used the tree maps created last spring to find, photograph, and report 70 street trees/stumps for removal and/or replanting or (in some cases) emergency care. The automatic estimates presented by the reporting app indicate it will be at least 6 months before anything happens.
Workers have already started 7 months of jet grouting, a soil stabilization technique that involves injecting grout deep into the soil. This work will take place near the east side of the Don Yard site, well east of our buildings, and they promise it will not be noisy. We shall see about that (or hear about it) from now until June.
Each night (11pm-5am) from December 1 to 6 the DVP southbound will be reduced to one lane from Dundas to south of Eastern Avenue; the off-ramp at Richmond Street will also be closed.
This is to allow temporary line painting and barrier installation to shift the southbound traffic lanes slightly so that workers can safely use the shoulder to do work on the bridge pier on the west side of the DVP as well as the underside of the structure.
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Finally! The warm weather's here! Here are some things to plan for:
As the weather finally warms up (just ignore today's temperature) here are some things to plan for:
2026 is off to a great start! Here are some reasons why: