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General Discussion / Tenants rally April 2nd
« on: Today at 10:17:06 am »
"No Demovictions" has apparently called a rally in front of City Hall at noon on Tuesday April 2, 2024

Short notice ahead of a scheduled April 5th meeting of the Planning and Housing committee of city council

ND suggests writing letters and having tenants showing up in person or otherwise getting intervenor status and so on - I’m paraphrasing.

No Demovictions.ca

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General Discussion / DON MILLS AREA MEETING
« on: March 04, 2024, 03:39:41 pm »
** CORRECTION **

I just re-read my mention of the Don Mills Collegiate meeting (non-binding Q&A with local reps and city officials) and realized I got the date wrong!

The meeting is TONIGHT, Monday March 4th!

I must have had "Super Tuesday" on the brain this past week, sorry.

DMC is located just south and east of the intersection of Don Mills Road and Lawrence Ave. East. Note that (because the walled-off folks who live along the Bridle Path don't like to have their evenings disturbed) there is no direct bus service from Yonge Street. Instead you take the Lawrence East bus from Eglinton Station, go figure. Ask to be let off just east of Don Mills Road and it's a couple of hundred meters south to the front doors which face west along "the Donway" which is a very strange name for E.P. Taylor's winding boulevard but there you have it.

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*THIS POST HAS BEEN EDITED BECAUSE THE DAY FOR THE DON MILLS COLLEGIATE MEETING WAS WRONG*

Good discussion point any way you look at it. Mike Colle - good man. But SUPER aged when I saw him on TV a couple of days ago. Wow.

I passed by Paula Fletcher in the crowd at the "No Demovictions" event last October.

https://www.nodemovictions.ca/act-now

^ ^ ^ above link has not been updated lately. Big job. These people (eg. Megan and her crew) stress that they are volunteers

Ideas for how to help them: if you can, donate some cash or show up at events, or at city council. Or just phone your own city council rep.

2.) I'm not a technical person but I think my web server (about $12.00 per month, pay as you go) has a feature where you can grant FTP access to a single sub-directory to someone, even someone who is otherwise unaffiliated. I don't like "Wix" and would advise against them using it but if I can get Megan to give me a simple listing - like a "recent headlines.html" or a similar page - we could add the toronto dot CTV News story to the page.

I've mentioned this before but "No Demovictions" got a front page mention in the Toronto Star in January.

3.) Councillor Burnside is having a public gathering at Dons Mills Collegiate THIS EVENING, Monday March 4. Attend and raise the issue of intensification and the overbuild. Bring your notes from last year (March 27, 2023) and ask what has changed... in a way there has been good news as the idea for four high-rise condos at 155 St. Dennis Dr. got denied!

155 St. Dennis is where that golf course is, just east/south-east of Don Mills and Eglinton, east of the Ontario Science Centre.

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General Discussion / Federal housing advocate
« on: February 20, 2024, 02:22:49 pm »

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General Discussion / Toronto City Budget
« on: January 06, 2024, 02:30:31 pm »
Discussions about the city's budget for 2024 are either underway or will start shortly. To speak in person you have to register in advance. Ask different councillors and/or their staffs for help with framing and presenting your argument(s).

(Obviously different councillors will have different... agendas; individual staff or assistants may reflect, or be guided (or even hemmed in by) the boss’ leanings and priorities)

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General Discussion / Meet Bonnie Crombie - NDP
« on: December 21, 2023, 12:53:26 pm »
Nasty attack web page put up by the New Democratic Party: https://meetbonnie.ca/

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General Discussion / Re: science centre
« on: December 07, 2023, 11:32:53 am »

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General Discussion / science centre
« on: November 29, 2023, 01:04:51 pm »
So the Ontario government is said to have released its... updated proposal to relocate the science centre. They suggest it would be cheaper to relocate the institution.

I don't know if the government has internet (I don't, not really) but looking at the "infrastructure Ontario" web page the most-recent comments by Michael Lindsay are two weeks old. Other posted information dates back to March!

https://www.infrastructureontario.ca/4ae05d/contentassets/84df22e71b7c40b2aaeef94da88c78b5/osc-business-case-full-redacted-no-appendices.pdf

Vaguely related: the government's privacy pages: https://www.ontario.ca/page/privacy-statement

Anyway in case you missed it Olivia Chow's comments about inappropriate housing on the Science Centre land were still making headlines late Tuesday evening. And all through Wednesday morning!

It's funny how the proposed overbuild of inappropriate housing on the other side of the street is mentioned, like, never!

Ergo the east side of Don Mills Road, south of Eglinton Ave. E.

By the way there is or was a large City of Toronto sign either on the science centre land (or about 2.3 cm to the north of it) heralding skyscraper condos. It was there for most of this year (2023); I have pictures on file.

To my (arguably un-educated) eye it is also passing strange how the pond behind the proposed location suddenly dried up. When is a flood plain no longer a flood plain?

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General Discussion / Re: Interesting Discussion about Rent Strikes
« on: November 29, 2023, 12:53:37 pm »
I seem to have missed most of "National Housing Day" although a few un-dated, un-captioned pictures are in... I went to places like Dundas Square, City Hall and Queen's Park - not much was going on.

It may be that the strikers went south on Bay Street... on Monday evening I took a picture of a sign in a possible... Dream Unlimited building (??? ... I'm not sure) that heralded the company's food festival!

I hope I have gotten this way, way wrong.

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(Addendum 1:15 p.m.) Nope - I got it right. I did a search in Duckduckgo for "350 Bay St." and "Dream"!

    https://dream.ca/dcfinancialdistrict

By the way one of those "restored historic alleyways" stinks to high heaven. Like something straight out of Dickens, only worse.


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General Discussion / Re: National Housing Day
« on: November 22, 2023, 11:43:06 pm »
Wednesday's events didn't seem to get much in the way of media coverage.

Perhaps there will be mentions on the radio (CBC) on Thursday morning.


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General Discussion / National Housing Day
« on: November 22, 2023, 09:41:19 am »
I have come across some different links related to today's events. Might be useful to post in a "news" section. Credit Jennifer Alexander for the CMHC one:

https://ofl.ca/event/rally-march-for-national-housing-day

https://www.cmhc-schl.gc.ca/nhs/national-housing-day

Regards, Roman • https://25problems.com

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Maintenance / Elevator issues
« on: November 15, 2023, 12:35:02 pm »
High-rise issues - specifically elevators - was the topic on local CBC radio’s "Ontario Today" program during the lunch hour today, Wed.

Wow... lot of nooks, crannies and wrinkles, parts supply chain worries in the category as we go higher and higher! (Well duh!)

Again that was CBC Radio One, 99.1 FM - noon hour Wednesday Nov. 15... I found the web listings for the show a bit obscure, but a staffer answered promptly when I called them.

https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-45-ontario-today

Related London-area item: why do elevator repairs take so long...??

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Rent / Re: Validition of N1
« on: November 06, 2023, 08:42:02 pm »
Also - there is at least a small mention of acceptable methods of service on the LTB pages.

This is something that's bothered me for a long time. Nothing worse than having something important ending up buried with the junk mail, or in your spam folder.  :(

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Rent / Re: Validition of N1
« on: November 06, 2023, 10:06:06 am »
I'm not a lawyer but the rules around this seem clear enough.

I should think that common courtesy suggests letting the tenant know the why's and wherefore's, plus any details like changes in ownership or at the "head office" - ergo at the landlord's end.

And the LTB *does* caution the landlord: if they don't get it right, the form may not fly.

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General Discussion / No Demovictions demo Oct 2
« on: October 03, 2023, 12:38:48 am »
About 125 people (my guesstimate) at city hall Monday evening and many stuck around for a march to Queen's Park. Three MPP's spoke along with many activists and tenants. Lots of media. I saw Councillor Paula Fletcher in the crowd so that was something. Click this image to enlarge it.


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