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http://www.merinews.com/catFull.jsp?articleID=144510 ...culinary tours can be a delight THE BEST combination of human nature, perhaps, is a foodie and travel bug. And the best entertainment of such an individual would be indulging in culinary travels. Though the word culinary travel is...

http://www.metronews.ca/toronto/work/article/125174 If Starbucks could mean the beginning of the end of Kensington Market, Queen Street West has been dead for years. While the stretch of scenester heaven is ...

Back yards in Kensington? Where?

http://torontoist.com/2008/09/pedestrianized_politics.php Pedestrianized Politics First J and a helper lugged a couch down Augusta Avenue for the comfort of at least a few of the audience members and put a blanket down on the street for others. One woman was polite enough to take her shoes...

The absolute antithesis of big box is Jacob's Hardware on Queen West, just west of Spadina, beside The Cameron. It's like a place of worship. You go in, line up in front of a small window cut through the shelves, and when it's your turn, you tell the high priest of hardware what you want, he...

http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/toronto/archive/2008/10/01/195321.aspx Starbucks denies Kensington plan Posted: October 01, 2008, 9:53 AM by Peter Kuitenbrouwer Kuitenbrouwer Starbucks Corp., which has 110 coffee shops listed in the Toronto phone book, uses the Vancouver...

http://www.citynews.ca/news/news_27488.aspx Starbucks In Kensington? Not On Their Watch Wednesday October 1, 2008 CityNews.ca Staff "I think it's horrific, horrific, yeah," fumes Chrissy. You might think she's talking about a terrible crime scene, or the financial crisis that's...

http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/toronto/archive/2008/09/30/in-kensington-a-venti-debate.aspx In Kensington, a venti debate about Starbucks Kuitenbrouwer After my piece last week on Starbucks’ plans to invade Kensington Market, persons unknown pasted posters all over the...

http://www.blogto.com/eat_drink/2008/09/starbucks_to_ruin_kensington_market/ Quote from BlogTO, bottom of page: As mom and pop shop owners in the area, a group of us feel our business is being dramatically affected by the so-called "defenders" of the market. It is so extremely...

Attitudes and acts... As "Mr. Pedestrian Sundays", Shamez, with help from like-minded busy-bodies, has transformed Kensington from a community, a neighbourhood, into a popular social destination. Hence the proliferation of cafés and nightclubs. Without the unanimous consent of the residents...

Quote from the above blogTO posting: i just don't want there to be another fire in the market...hope the neighbours have insurance. Posted by: shamez at September 26, 2008 3:33 AM Now there's an inflammatory comment.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20080929.COLETTS29-10/TPStory/Comment Inner-city suburbs MATTHEW HALLIDAY September 29, 2008 Toronto -- Re The New Kings Of Kensington (Globe T.O - Sept. 27): In the past four years, I've lived in four inner-city Canadian neighbourhoods...

My comments are based on the misrepresentations given by Toronto Life to those who oppose SmartCentres that this was to have been an objective journalistic exercise, not a SmartCentres love-in. Bottom line, no harm done as I doubt Toronto Life's readership questions much of anything anyway and...

Starbucks to Ruin Kensington Market? http://www.blogto.com/eat_drink/2008/09/starbucks_to_ruin_kensington_market/

Assuming one acknowledges that the article is absolutely weighted toward SmartCentres, how else could it serve a bland tabloid such as Toronto Life to take such a blatantly political stand other than to endear itself on some level to Mitch Goldhar et al, when this issue is still before the OMB...

Apparently both sides were interviewed for this article. It's amply apparent that Toronto Life is eagerly anticipating advertising revenue from stores located in Mitch Goldhar's malls and this article is a complete sell out for the "gold" in Goldhar. Toronto: 0 Toronto Life: 100

(cont'd) Resistance Is Futile - Page 3October 2008 It has become fashionable to predict that people are ready to change: with oil prices projected to rise north of $200 a barrel, it will soon be too expensive to make frivolous car trips to suburban malls. Goldhar has bad news for anyone...

http://www.torontolife.com/features/resistance-futile/?pageno=1 RESISTANCE IS FUTILE Like it or not, big-box chains are migrating downtown. Instead of mounting protests, urbanites should embrace the monster-retail movement By Philip Preville A 10-minute drive from the financial district...

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20080927.KENSI27/TPStory/National MARKET FORCES: 'THE RATE OF CHANGE HAS ACCELERATED' The new kings of Kensington With five new high-end shops on Augusta alone, can the bohemians hold off the barbarians of gentrification any longer...