Our 2026 AGM is Nov 5th
Dear Neighbours, We hope you’ll come to our AGM on Thursday, November 5, 2026. It is always a friendly occasion. We will once again be at the community centre, in the big room on the ground floor. We’ll start promptly at 7:30 and go until 9 pm. Our featured speaker is Jason Thorne, Toronto’s chief planner. He will answer our…
CONTINUE READINGLearn about our local Medicine Wheel this Saturday
Toronto Green Community is giving us neighbours an opportunity to learn more about the deep traditions behind the Medicine Wheel Garden tucked next to the walkway just north of Eglinton Park’s swimming pool. Only some of us have seen it or even known why it was there. Six hundred years ago, just below the hilltop, there…
CONTINUE READINGWorld Cup Watch Party!
Dear Neighbours Here comes the World Cup! Here is a nice, inexpensive way to join the fun, far cheaper than a ticket to the field. Come to the future Green P Park at Castlefield. Bring the kids if any, a folding chair or two, and settle in to sing the anthem, watch, marvel, cheer, and…
CONTINUE READINGSchool of Cities Maps of the Neighbourhood
Here is a set of wonderful maps by the School of Cities. It shows the urban fabric line that the Line 5 Crosstown, Line traverses, featuring the zoning, incomes, green space, room for cars, cycling infrastructure, population density, and age of population. It is easy to spot the tall rectangle of Eglinton Park, a little…
CONTINUE READINGTree Lighting Tonight: Nov 21 🎄
This Friday, between 5 and 7, the BIA invites us all to the official lighting of the pretty tree at Saint Clements Park. Everyone is very welcome!
CONTINUE READINGLest we forget
Dear Neighbours, Lest we forget! A local volunteer group has placed poppies in front of the houses from which soldiers went off to war (1914-1918) and never returned. Local memory of global events, nice to see. As the map shows below, one poppy is on Helendale, another on Roselawn near the park, and three more…
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