The Greenbelt, an over 800,000-hectare ecologically sensitive zone around the Greater Golden Horseshoe, was created in 2005. It provides environmental protection and specifies where development should not occur.
Shoreline Lake, in Mountain View, is holding its third annual Sail-A-Dinghy-Day on Sunday, April 12th, from 10am to 4pm. Visitors to "Silicon Valley's best kept secret" will get access to free skippered sailboat rides, helmed by the Boathouse's experienced instructors, as well as other Welcome-to-Sailing activities.
The Bloor-Yorkville corridor gets a lot of attention for its shopping, but for families, it's the Royal Ontario Museum around the corner, smooth subway access, leafy streets for stroller walks, and density of good cafés that make it the neighborhood worth settling into.
House on Georgian Bay, a 3,780 sq. ft. (350 m) year-round residence designed to replace a beloved but aging family cottage with a home intended to endure for generations. Grounded in principles of aging in place and long-term livability, the project reinterprets the traditional Georgian Bay cottage through a contemporary architectural lens.
The architectural proposal organizes new construction and heritage structures into a cohesive campus, establishing visual and physical connections between the city and Lake Ontario. By consolidating the five existing Pods, the Cinesphere, and the new building into a unified spatial framework, the design reinforces the waterfront's civic identity while reinterpreting Ontario Place's original ambition as a landscape for public learning, innovation, and recreation.
The plans would affect an area known as Royal Victoria Dock West, which is the end closest to London City Hall and the Cable Car. If carried out, the two biggest changes will be a range of floating walkways reaching into the dock, lined with water plants. The other change will be the introduction of walkways on the south side of the dock for long-term residential boat moorings.
Ontario will consolidate its 36 conservation authorities into nine across the province. Environment Minister Todd McCarthy says there will be no job losses as a result. He says the province listened to feedback after several town halls and 14,000 comments on its plan, which initially proposed having seven conservation authorities.
With its floor-to-ceiling glass walls and timber-clad ceilings, it was the only place in the ice hockey rivals' lives where curtains didn't have to be drawn. It was here, in the season finale (titled The Cottage) that the heat of their rivalry finally cooled into something meaningful.
RED HOOK - A SPECIAL EXHIBITION - "Brooklyn Marine Terminal: Past, Present, & What's Next for Red Hook?" - will hold its opening Friday night from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Compere Collective, 351 Van Brunt St. in Red Hook. The display, hosted by Resilient Red Hook in collaboration with Pratt Institute's School of Architecture, features student work that explores alternative visions for the BMT, bringing academic insight, community priorities and design innovation together.
Simon Larson, spokesperson for the city, said in an email Thursday that the city, together with the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority, evaluated the site and decided that that a "less intensive land use would better support ecological management objectives. "The Toronto Humber Yacht Club is the only boating club located along a river. Given the erosion and flood hazards present in the Humber Valley, environmental considerations are heightened in the site the Toronto Humber Yacht Club occupied," Larson said.
The Supreme Court of Canada will hear an appeal from a coalition challenging the constitutionality of legislation that opens the door to major changes at Ontario Place. The urban park on the Toronto waterfront, opened in 1971, included a theatre that showed movies on a huge screen, children's play areas and several pavilions suspended above the water. The Ontario government plans to redevelop Ontario Place to include an elaborate spa operated by a private company.
Vancouver has experienced an unusually warm winter, on track to be its first without snow in 43 years. Even the bees were out in Vancouver Thursday. (Nav Rahi/CBC) The city is already looking lush and green after one of its warmest Januarys on record. Some of its famed cherry blossoms were blooming by the middle of last month, and have since been joined by daffodils and other flowers.
A long weekend is finally upon us and it's bound to be a busy one with the Olympics, Valentine's Day and Family Day. The holiday weekend comes just as daytime temperatures slowly warm up into the positive degrees after weeks of brutal winter weather. If you're planning ahead to celebrate or break free from your winter hibernation, here's a list of what's open and closed on the holiday Monday.