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Nicely said. You are 100% correct.

When completed in several years, Filmport will be a large complex, and will be in demand by large Hollywood feature films. Meantime, Phase 1, which will soon be operational, will be about 130,000 sq ft of studios, roughly the same as TFS / Eastern. One of its studio will be the huge Mega-Stage...

...and coincidently, another project which required the demolition of a vital Toronto film studio just last year, and another reason why maintaining 629 Eastern as studios is so critical to the film industry.

It's actually very simple. This land and it's buildings are the motherland of the Toronto film industry, and for twenty years, 25,000+/- skilled jobs have depended on it. Filmport's more expensive studios provide additional studio space, but are not a replacement for TFS / Eastern Ave.'s low to...

On its website it states it was founded in 1979 and has been at its Church Street address since 1986. There's no info on its previous address.

A rebel with many causes http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20080329.MAVERICK29/TPStory/TPEntertainment/Ontario/ AGENT OF CHANGE: YVONNE BAMBRICK A rebel with many causes LISAN JUTRAS March 29, 2008 In the middle of one of the snowiest winters on record, you may have...

It ain't the Kensington Market library either Cameron Strandberg, National Post This Ain’t the Rosedale Library, the saint of the small press, comrade to the counter-culture and lover of left-wingers, is moving to Kensington Market after 22 years on Church Street. Charles Huisken said...

Chunky hash delivers a real kick This is not your father's Kensington Market... http://www.thestar.com/living/article/339411

Might As Well Jump http://torontoist.com/2008/03/kensington_jump.php from torontoist.com Mark Oliver Tessaro just sent us a link to the video above, of an unbelievably fun-looking do-it-yourself ski-hill that he and his roommates built in mid-February on their Kensington Market deck...

Father and son bio up for literary non-fiction award http://www.towncrieronline.ca/main/main.php?direction=viewstory&storyid=6589&rootcatid=21&rootsubcatid= Father and son bio up for literary non-fiction award (Posted Date: Tuesday, March 4, 2008) By Lorianna De Giorgio FILM BUFF...

Hard architecture and urban grit will be missed http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20080301.ROCHON01/TPStory/Entertainment/columnists is the full article. I've pruned the parts which don't pertain to Kensington, but it's definitely worth reading the unabridged version which...

Queen Street West Fire BlogTO contains many very powerful photo images of the fire, plus comments: http://blogto.com/city/2008/02/6alarm_fire_at_queen_bathurst/ Also, http://www.thestar.com/Speakout/Voices/article/306000 We asked you to tell us your memories of the heritage conservation...

Uhhh... never... at least not in the last ten years. But shhhh... if you listen real hard, you just might hear us shoot the bull once in awhile.

Poor Charlotte Creamer from Halifax, twenty years wasted in Toronto. Her thinly veiled racism shan't be missed. Being a "feotid (sic), filthy, third-world slum", it's sure grand to be upwind of her though. Ah Kensington... there's nothing like the "stench" of "filth and gunfire" in the morning.

500 very fine photos of Kensington Market http://flickr.com/search/groups/?q=kensington&w=26909951%40N00&m=pool

http://www.hfxnews.ca/index.cfm?sid=104512&sc=264 Kensington Market. Even in the dead of winter, it's a bustling place where you can buy everything you want, if what you want is a pink wig or a tomato. Pretty two-storey houses as skinny as Posh Spice squeeze in to create a more human scale of...

http://torontoist.com/2008/01/snappy_answers2.php Dear Snappy Answers, I moved here from the U.S. a little while ago. Down there, I would hear these stories about the lax marijuana laws here and the more lax enforcement of those laws. When I got here, I thought I would have an easy time...

Meet Brad, indie ice cream maker http://www.thestar.com/living/Food/article/296361 Entrepreneur goes back to the basics for his organic ice cream Jan 23, 2008 04:30 AM Jennifer Bain Food Editor It's safe to say Brad Kurtenbach can bring his personality to work now. That wasn't...

Perola Supermarket http://www.thestar.com/living/Food/article/294229 Perola Supermarket turns its Salvadoran café into a Mexican one Jan 16, 2008 04:30 AM Jennifer Bain Nothing says changing demographics like Perola Supermarket's transformation of its Salvadoran pupuseria into a...

When Motorists Attack: Road Rage in the Market ...the driver threw a bunch of garbage out the window, the courier picked it up and threw it back in. He got out and threw coffee on her, she keyed the car. He proceeded to stomp on her bike and then hit her before bystanders pulled him away. :o...