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Ripley’s Aquarium has opened its “Dangerous Lagoon” to experienced divers, giving them a chance to swim with the sharks.

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GARY BETTMAN, DONALD FEHR ANNOUNCE WORLD CUP OF HOCKEY FAN VILLAGE

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From Sept. 16 to 25, the Distillery District will be turned into a World Cup of Hockey Fan Village, a free place where Torontonians will be able to watch the games at huge viewing parties, take in live music, meet with NHL alumni, and more. Justin Skinner/Metroland

The Toronto Zoo baby boom continues with the birth of a Grevy’s zebra, which are endangered, with approximately 2,000 left in the wild. Zoo visitors can get a glimpse of the filly daily between 9 a.m. and noon.

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The Eglinton Crosstown LRT has reached an important construction milestone. All tunnelling for the 10-kilometre underground portion of the Eglinton Avenue light rail line is finished, a stretch which spans from Black Creek Drive in the west to east of Leslie Street.

Metroland file photo FULL STORY: bit.ly/tunnellingends WHY YOU SHOULD READ MORE: There is still much work to be done before the LRT is ready for service.

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HUNDREDS JOIN OLIVIA CHOW TO HONOUR LATE NDP LEADER JACK LAYTON Hundreds of people came out to Riverdale Park West on Monday evening to mark five years since the passing of Jack Layton and to pay tribute to the late NDP leader’s legacy. Family members and former political colleagues shared memories and anecdotes about Layton.

Justin Skinner/Metroland FULL STORY: bit.ly/laytonfifth WHY YOU SHOULD READ MORE: Read about the legacy Layton left behind for his family and former colleagues.

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Dr. Eric Hoskins announced a $10-million funding increase to assist seniors with challenging and complex behaviours associated with dementia and other mental health issues.

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A motorcyclist found mortally wounded in an underground parking garage on the weekend was murdered, Toronto police say.

John Ignagni, 33, suffered gunshot wounds. Police believe he was the intended target. A person of interest left the area on a bicycle.

Joanna Lavoie/Metroland FULL STORY: bit.ly/johnignagni WHY YOU SHOULD READ MORE: Read about the circumstances of this daytime shooting at 954 King St. W.

Alexa Brand, her 22-year-old son James and his girlfriend Helen Frank are this year’s official first family of the CNE, which opened for its annual late-summer run on Aug. 19. It wraps up on Labour Day Monday (Sept. 5). Dan Pearce/Metroland FULL STORY: bit.ly/cneopening WHY YOU SHOULD READ MORE: Find out what’s new at this year’s CNE and how you can purchase tickets online.

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CNE OFFICIALLY OPENS WITH LESLIEVILLE FAMILY FIRST IN LINE TO HELP CUT RIBBON

COUNCILLORS SEEK TTC BUS SOLUTIONS The 29 Dufferin bus, known by its users as the “Sufferin’ bus”, is in need of additional improvements.

Metroland file photo FULL STORY: bit.ly/dufferinbus WHY YOU SHOULD READ MORE: Read why the bus is nicknamed.

PLAQUE TO MARK MUHAMMAD ALI TRAINING FOR HISTORIC 1966 FIGHT

Liberal MP for Parkdale-High Park, Arif Virani, hosted a Canada Post Review town hall Monday at the Annette Street Library and those in attendance agree — keeping door-to-door delivery is a crucial service that should be maintained.

Those who attended said going online cannot be the only way.

Metroland file photo FULL STORY: bit.ly/mailtownhall WHY YOU SHOULD READ MORE: The town hall is a part of a series of consultations headed by the Public Services Minister.

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Muhammad Ali’s 1966 visit to Toronto will be commemorated at the former home of the Earl Sullivan’s Toronto Athletic Club on 109 Ossington Ave. Ali trained for his fight there against Canadian heavyweight champion George Chuvalo. They fought in Maple Leaf Gardens for 15 rounds.

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If you’re one of the unfortunate souls who’s been regularly riding Line 2 of the subway through the heat of this summer, you’ve learned some tricks.

Before you get onto a subway car, put your hand through the door and see if it ignites. If it does, the air conditioning is off and you might be better trying the next car. If that one’s overheated too, you make your way to one end of the car or another, and conserve your strength until it reaches the next station, and try and move to a third car before the doors close again… and then repeat this until you find a car with air conditioning, or get to the last or first car on the train – which usually has air conditioning.

In any case, it’s wise to hydrate. Because even if you eventually get in the right car, on weekends and off-peak you might find yourself waiting in the tomblike heat of a station or during rush-hour, staring through suffocating crowds as over-stuffed trains – many more of which are not air conditioned – pass by.

Hot subways and crowded platforms aren’t the only problems that the Toronto Transit Commission is facing, but they are symptoms of the same problem: chronic under-funding, dating back decades, which has required commission staff to juggle priorities and in so doing deliver a service that at times barely approximates the reasonable expectations of its customers.

And so it is that subway air conditioning during heat waves is managed rather than repaired, as the TTC’s backlog of repairs grows.

There was a bit of kismet this week when the August heatwave broke for a couple of days, and the federal government came to Toronto to announce the “down payment” of $840 million in fund-

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The down payment is substantial – $500 million, ear-marked for among other things subway repairs and bus repairs – which hopefully will include some of those AC units – but many other projects too: bike parking at TTC stations, new buses, escalator overhauls and more.

The challenge will be to ensure that it keeps going, and that will be a trick. This federal money is atypical for more than its magnitude: it is not, as TTC Chair Josh Colle remarked, the kind of funding that visiting federal officials like to announce.

No one wants to cut a ribbon on a repair job, after all, and that’s what these things entail. Really, a well-financed transit system shouldn’t need $500 million in one-time funding to bring its aging but not ancient infrastructure up to scratch; there should be a consistent and sustainable funding source that allows ongoing maintenance and at least modest expansion.

It doesn’t seem as though such a source is on the horizon.

This fall and next year, the TTC will be responding to instructions from Mayor John Tory to cut $15.9 million or 2.6 per cent from its operating budget. That will be an annual reduction, and it is dramatic enough that TTC CEO Andy Byford reported earlier this summer that if implemented he would have no choice but to recommend service cuts.

Given that long-term reality, one wonders how much longer it will be before another federal government has to open up the treasury to bring the system back to where it should have been all along.

Better hang on to those water bottles.

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Once back in Toronto, she applied for a competition being delivered by Enterprise Toronto. “I ended up becoming a finalist,” says Jess. “It was a push – if I hadn’t been a part of the contest I might have just sat on the idea.”

“From the competition there was one person who wanted to sell onigiri, so I sold her some,” she says. “Without that contest, I don’t think it would have happened because every encounter since then has led to something else.”

Abokichi looks to make Japanese convenience store snack a Toronto favourite It was during a seven-year stint in Japan that Thornhill-native Jess Mantell first tried Onigiri – a Japanese snack made of rice balls stuffed with pickled or salty ingredients, sometimes wrapped in seaweed and commonly sold at convenience stores and gas stations in the country.

By June 2013, she and her partner Fumi Tsukamoto, had incorporated their onigiri concoctions under Abokichi . At first they rented kitchens and sold through shops but eventually moved into the space at the Annex Hodgepodge, taking the shop over form the previous owner and adding onigiri to the existing menu. They’ve also developed a condiment called Okazu, a crunchy filling made of miso, sesame oil, garlic and chili that they often use to spice up their handmade triangular onigiri.

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Struggling ForSpace So much has changed in downtown Toronto since the 1970s.

Today, redevelopment is taking place more rapidly than ever, putting pressure on the few open public spaces in the downtown core.

When Mark Garner first visited Yonge Street south of Bloor, it was the late 1970s and like many young people of the era, he came from a distance – in his case, all the way in from Scarborough – for the famous street’s sometimes seedy but irresistible charms: in those days, rows of video arcades and record stores, movie theatres and music venues and bookstores, the then-fresh glass cavern of the Eaton Centre. If he were born a few years later, it might have been the early and evolving annual Pride parades that drew him downtown, or Busker Fest, or North By Northeast.

But these days, Garner—who is now Executive Director of the Downtown Yonge Business Improvement Area—is watching the exploding redevelopment of Yonge Street and other avenues in the downtown core, with more than a faint worry that without significant change, those kinds of memories might be confined to an era.

“These streets are the same streets I walked on as a kid from Scarborough,” he says. “They have not gotten any wider at all.

They’ve poured new concrete, but this is the same street. ” The street is the same but the buildings around soon will be not. The 80-storey Aura condominium tower at Yonge and Gerrard streets is currently the tallest condominium in the country. In a few years, it will be just the eighth tallest in Toronto, as new towers at Elm Street, Yonge and Gerrard, and Yonge and Bloor take form.

And other of those buildings will occupy what has been useful open space in the neighbourhoods surrounding Yonge Street: the surface parking lots on Bay Street and more crucially, Church Street to the east. When those go, so goes crucial concert and marshalling spaces for the annual Pride Parade, and other smaller

festivals like Busker Fest and North by Northeast.

“With this type of intensification, with parking lots disappearing for programming, how do we build a quality neighbourhood?” says Garner. “This was always the high street, the retail street. It’s been a music Mecca not just for retail but also performance. And we’re about to redevelop the street. What’s the character of the street to be? We all had a rite of passage on Yonge Street. The street we need to build now is for the future generations.”

Toronto planners are seized of this question, not just for Yonge Street but for all of the downtown. With a huge growth in population, and unprecedented redevelopment of scarce downtown land, how does the city provide the public spaces that have in the past existed temporarily or in an ad hoc way, for a population that may have quadrupled?

Earlier in August, Toronto Mayor John Tory announced a plan to spend what could be hundreds of millions of dollars to cover over rail lands south of Wellington Street, to turn into a 21-acre “central park.” The plan is informed by an ongoing city planning project, TOcore, looking at comprehensive ways to “finish off” Toronto’s downtown redevelopment in a way that allows the much larger downtown to retain the charms and amenities that made it such a desirable place in the first place.

“We’re finishing off the downtown and as we finish it off we need to make sure we don’t kill the golden goose by losing our open spaces and green spaces,” says Toronto’s Chief Planner Jennifer Keesmaat.

That inevitably means investment—either in real estate, or in repurposing the public realm. In the case of the rail-cover park plan, that means spending as much as $20 million an acre

Toronto’s downtown is growing at a phenomenal rate.

Just look at the numbers.

In 2011, downtown Toronto had a population of 199,495. In 2015, city planners estimate that more than 240,000 live here, and in 2025, that’s expected to double.

The BIA have done traffic counts, and found that out of 42 million people travelling on the street north and south, only a quarter do so by car, and just five per cent by bicycle.

The rest are pedestrians.

Keesmaat says that other city-run traffic studies on other downtown streets suggest that cars should have even less primacy.

On King Street, cars take up 64 per cent of the space but move only 16 per cent of the people.

“Right now there’s a profound efficiency if we can shift infrastructure so that the infrastructure that moves the most people has the most allocation,” says Keesmaat.

Spadina-Fort York MP and former City Councillor Adam Vaughan says plans like the Yonge Street plan will be essential to making downtown communities work in the future.

“One of the things we realized is that we’re losing flat space to intensification and flat space is where people gather,” he says. “I think we sell ourselves short when we think of Toronto as culturally deficient—it’s one of the most vibrant places in North America. But if you don’t pay attention to it—don’t think about new ways to use residual lands—you’ll lose that advantage very quickly.”

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on decking and landscaping overtop of train tracks. That might seem like a lot, but Keesmaat points out that purchasing land in the downtown core would cost the city between $50 and $60 million an acre.

There is no rail corridor to build over on Yonge Street. There is, however, the street itself. And it here that city planners, the Downtown Yonge BIA and local Toronto Centre-Rosedale Councillor Kristyn Wong-Tam are looking for relief.

“The grand vision is to redesign and repurpose Yonge Street from Davenport to the waterfront, and rebuild the street so it’s much more dynamic… people friendly… pedestrian friendly,” says Wong-Tam. “If I gave you a street designed to be able to be turned over to festivals, with wayfinding and stages built into the street itself, would that not have value for a neighbourhood?

Would that not have value with people?”

Earlier this year, Wong-Tam and the BIA launched an environmental assessment, looking at the possibility of turning sections of Yonge Street—or possibly the whole stretch—over to pedestrian malls, or at least widening the sidewalks. Garner admits that he has gotten flack from some in his organization who chaffe at the idea of shutting down a stretch of downtown roadways to cars. But he says his membership – and the data – bear this out.

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Mark Garner, Executive Director of the Downtown Yonge BIA, is pictured near the intersection of Yonge and Gerrard streets. As part of a series of ongoing major developments in the area, the buildings behind Garner will be replaced with several large condo properties in the near future.

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Much of that development will come to live in new residential developments. In June of 2015, 31,554 housing units had been submitted to the city in the form of planning applications. Another 28,812 had applied for or received building permits, and 16,321 were under construction.

Add to that employment numbers, and downtown Toronto swells during the day, with more than 830,000 people downtown during the day.

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Stiltwalkers perform during last year’s Toronto International BuskerFest for Epilepsy, which is happening Sept. 2 to 5 at Woodbine Park this year. New this year is the Be A Busker Zone, an interactive area for kids to experience the many busking arts.

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Submitted photo FULL STORY: bit.ly/allenhighpark WHY YOU SHOULD READ MORE: Check out Allen’s work and how he portrays Toronto’s High Park in photos, cards and calendars.

CELEBRATING PUNK ROCK ICON JOE STRUMMER AT LINSMORE TAVERN Organized by the Joe Strummer Foundation in the U.K., StrummerJam is a global fundraising project that aims to celebrate punk rock icon Joe Strummer, and hopes to give aspiring musicians an opportunity to showcase their talents and to raise funds for music-related charities. Submitted photo

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AHI will officially debut his new album during a Sept. 23 launch party at the Music Gallery. Submitted photo FULL STORY: bit.ly/ahibuskerfest WHY YOU SHOULD READ MORE: Learn how Toronto Buskerfest raises funds to benefit Canadians with epilepsy.

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FULL STORY: bit.ly/strummerjam WHY YOU SHOULD READ MORE: Learn more about Joe Strummer and his impact on the alternative rock industry in the U.K.

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