Thank you neighbours!
Before we launch into the future, here's a BIG thank-you to the ±30 volunteers who scoured the neighbourhood for litter last month! Also to Fuel+ who donated free coffee to the humans and Fur Baby Dog Walking who donated treats to the helpful doggies who supervised. Thank you all!
Monsters on the Promenade
Friday 31 October:
Trick-or-Treat @ 6pm-7:30pm
Dog Costume Parade @ 5:30pm
Businesses and buildings will put out trick-or-treat stations all along Front Street on October 31. (Is one of them yours? Check with your management/boss, maybe you can help.)
Dog Costume Parade: First, at 5:30 dressed-up-doggies will assemble with their humans by the Water Guardians (our very own big blue monsters at Front & Tannery). The costumed canines will be judged by crew of connoisseurs, and then prance away in a preening pooch parade up and down the Promenade.
Trick or Treating: By 6:00 businesses and buildings will have goodies set out for the trick-or-treaters! Even if you have no kids, dogs, or costumes, plan to stroll through the neighbourhood that evening for some wholesome fun.
Click here for more details and guidance.
Vote now to improve our public spaces!
October 1-31, 2025
As a resident of Ward 13, you can vote directly on civic improvement ideas submitted by residents. The ideas that win the most votes will be fast-tracked to City Council.
Participatory Budgeting (explained here on the Toronto Centre Projects website) was launched by Toronto Centre City Councillor Chris Moise. In it, residents suggest and then vote on how funds are spent within their community.
So what ideas can I vote on?
During spring 2025, residents submitted more than 20 creative ideas to improve our community, and those ideas were narrowed down to a number of finalist projects focused on our parks. Since the City has reserved $750,000 to spend on qualifying projects within our neighbourhood (we’re in ‘Cluster 6’), residents can now vote on the projects they like most. Vote for as many ideas as you like, up to a combined cost of $750,000.
Now it’s time to vote on the finalist ideas! We have just one month to vote. Here’s how:
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Vote online
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Vote in person: On Saturday October 18, 11:00am-2:00pm, City staff will host a voting station on the Front Street Promenade in Canary District, where you can view the ideas and vote on the spot.
What happens after I vote?
Once voting ends on Oct 31, the Toronto Centre Councillor’s office will publish the results on Toronto Centre Projects website and submit a motion to City Council to approve these projects. Then serious planning work will begin to roll-out the feasible ideas as quickly as possible.
Help Improve the Park at Lawren Harris Square
The small gravel-topped park located next to Corktown Common and surrounded by condominiums is an underutilized gem in our neighbourhood. Good news: there is a strong chance the City will dedicate funds to refreshing and/or improving this space (see Participatory Budgeting, above).
We want to hear from you about how you use the park currently, and how you think it could be refreshed or improved to make it even better.
Here's a questionnaire to have your say in writing. And watch for us in the park over the month of October as we conduct in-person interviews as well. We want to hear from you!
PollinateTO Grant Applications Open until October 21
Toronto's PollinateTO offers grants up to $5,000 to support community-led projects that create, expand or enhance pollinator gardens and rain gardens in Toronto. Projects from the current round of applications will be started in 2026.
We already have a number of pollinator gardens in the neighbourhood created through this useful grant, all placed in the shared garden beds around apartment buildings. Why not yours?
Click here to learn more about the program, eligibility, past projects and application details.
From Cube House to— whatever this is
59 and 55 Storey Towers Proposed for 1 Sumach
Community Consultation:
6 November, 6-7:30pm, Cooper Koo YMCA
The City has received an application to permit two towers at 1 Sumach Street. That's basically the northeast corner of Eastern and Cherry, across from Green Storage. The site encompasses the Cube House and the little houses there.
- Height: 59 and 55 Storeys
- Number of Dwelling Units: 1,284
- Parking Spaces: 39
- (no visitor parking, 1,416 bike parking)
The City's holding a community consultation meeting (open house) on November 6th, 6-7:30pm at the Cooper Koo Family YMCA. Plan to come if the project makes you want to express an opinion.
Metrolinx Moss Park and Corktown Open House
Want to know more about the two new Ontario Line stations being constructed in our neighbourhood(ish)? Metrolinx is holding an in-person open house to learn more about the Ontario Line subway stations under construction at both Moss Park and Corktown.
Details:
- Wednesday, October 22, 2025
- 5:30 PM to 7 PM
- Regent Park Community Centre, Banquet Hall (402 Shuter Street)
Registration: Please register in advance by visiting the Open House event page and clicking the “Register” button
Folks are starting to move in to the first Cherry House tower that is finished enough to live in. The official word from the company website is that move-ins start early 2026.
Although technically outside of Canary District (it's on the far side of Cherry Street), we're taking a lively interest in the development. Cherry House is one of four rental apartment blocks in the neighbourhood under the umbrella of "Canary Landing": Maple House opened last year, and Birch House this year. The fourth, Oak House, will be built behind Maple House once Metrolinx releases the land.
Once Cherry House is full, it will have more residents than any other complex in the area (about 1,500).
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