 This past Wednesday, the G20 Independent Public Review—commissioned by the Toronto Police Services Board last year, and so far still the only undertaking of its kind—began its public segment with open deputations. [MORE] | "I know that when I'm downtown, sometimes you have to walk around these people, they're right in the middle of the sidewalk and you'll run over them if you don't pay attention... And from the taxpayers standpoint we're paying millions of dollars to try to help people that need it but we're also paying for it another way, when visitors come to Toronto and they see these people on the street, they probably get the impression that we're not doing anything or we don't even care."... [ MORE ] |  | Toronto's central waterfront—the heavily-travelled stretch of Queen's Quay between Bathurst and Lower Jarvis—has long been slated for a makeover by Waterfront Toronto. The plans include a complete revamp of the streetscape, and require that the streetcar tracks currently running through the centre of Queens Quay be shifted a bit south from their current location.... [ MORE ] |  | Hanging out in parks is great this time of year, but actually finding friends across expansive playing fields, through stands of trees, and amongst crowds of other parkgoers can be tricky.... [ MORE ] |  | A huge challenge for opera companies in Toronto—and it has been for some time—is reaching newer, younger audiences. The Canadian Opera Company is doing some cool stuff, choosing more adventurous programming and offering discounted standing, rush, and youth tickets. But one new opera company is taking a different, more blunt tactic with audiences. It's thrusting them right into the middle of it.... [ MORE ] | | |
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