Canary Kids: Halloween Trick or Treating on Front Street!

Kids! Come trick-or-treat with your family down the Front Street Promenade. Businesses and buildings all along Front Street, from Cherry to Bayview, will give out treats!

How to participate

Visit businesses and buildings between 6:00 PM and 7:30 PM on Thursday, October 31. Kids in costumes will receive treats: usually small wrapped candies, sometimes other goodies like stickers. Participating businesses will be clearly marked with a sign, and a map will also be available, just reply to this email.

Want to participate and you're not a kid?

1. Find out if your building is putting out a treat station! You can volunteer there and join the fun.
2. Ask your favourite business if you can help (Pro Tip: We hear Aviary is looking for volunteers!)
3. Just stroll along Front Street and enjoy the vibe!

Wait, Are You a Dog?

Well then head straight to Corktown Common (maybe detour at Zendog for a treat) for Dogs of Corktown's annual Howloween, starting around 6pm in the centre lawn (or thereabouts).

Saturday October 19th —
Guided Walk in Corktown Common

Last chance to RSVP for this Saturday's FREE 45-minute guided park walk: Take a Walk (in Corktown Common). 

• Saturday October 19 @ 10am
• FREE
• Approximately 45 mins
• Accessible paths
• Some slopes

Did you know that our Corktown Common is much, much more than "just" a park? It's also flood protection, a haven for native plants and pollinators, and a site with a rich industrial history. It boasts a series of interconnected outdoor environments that humans, animals, birds and insects can enjoy.

Come see Corktown Common with new eyes on an informal walking tour of this beautiful park.

Click here to RSVP

Volunteers Needed: Tree Reporting

Looking for volunteers to help us report the 100+ trees that need City maintenance? 

This summer CDNA volunteers checked the health of all 500+ trees in our neighbourhood streets. The result: although they were planted only a decade ago, just  63% of them are still healthy: 16% have died and the rest are not doing well.

Toronto Urban Forestry officials have advised us to report each individual unhealthy or dead tree via the City's 311 system to get them into the work queue.

Are you willing to help? You'll be assigned a block and given a map of all the non-health trees. You'll take photos of each and report them through the 311 system.

We need to get moving on this before the leaves fall! Please write back to volunteer.

Metrolinx Noise Update 

Thanks to neighbourhood activists Metrolinx have made some changes to the night-time construction noise levels — unfortunately it has not been enough.

Maple House residents living next to the site have been experiencing respiratory problems as a result of the copious dust being thrown up.

Efforts to find solutions continue, but we must keep up pressure.

If you have not already, please sign our petition asking them to stop overnight construction. We are a small neighbourhood and they think that means we don't matter; let's show them we will not back down.

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