Natika33
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I'm cackling at the pigeon's expression
Toronto Ookwemin Minising | ?m | ?s | Waterfront Toronto
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GameOnBrad
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Waterfront Toronto Open House 2025 - Thursday October 23rd
251 Queens Quay East Toronto, ON M5A 0X3
About This EventJoin us on October 23, 2025 to see how the next phase of waterfront revitalization is coming to life. Learn about the projects bringing new housing, destinations and connections to the eastern waterfront. Listen in on presentations to get the latest updates on Quayside, Ookwemin Minising and the Waterfront East Transit. Drop in any time to meet the teams working on these projects, ask questions and provide your feedback. Light refreshments will be served. Doors open at 5:30 pm.
Waterfront Toronto Open House 2025
Discover the next phase of Toronto’s waterfront — updates on Quayside, Ookwemin Minising & more. Drop in to learn & share feedback.
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UtakataNoAnnex
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...wasn't sure it was a pigeon or mourning dove from that angle.I'm cackling at the pigeon's expression
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Amare
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I think Waterfront Toronto should shelve this continued talk of the Waterfront East "LRT" for the foreseeable future, because it's clear it's not being built this decade and probably not next decade either.Waterfront Toronto Open House 2025 - Thursday October 23rd
251 Queens Quay East Toronto, ON M5A 0X3
About This Event
Join us on October 23, 2025 to see how the next phase of waterfront revitalization is coming to life. Learn about the projects bringing new housing, destinations and connections to the eastern waterfront. Listen in on presentations to get the latest updates on Quayside, Ookwemin Minising and the Waterfront East Transit. Drop in any time to meet the teams working on these projects, ask questions and provide your feedback. Light refreshments will be served. Doors open at 5:30 pm.
Waterfront Toronto Open House 2025
Discover the next phase of Toronto’s waterfront — updates on Quayside, Ookwemin Minising & more. Drop in to learn & share feedback.
GameOnBrad
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GameOnBrad
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Promontory Park has more lamp posts, right along Cherry Street. And this one flowering plant in particular is taking over entire areas along Cherry Street.
And anybody need some dirt?
And anybody need some dirt?
Northern Light
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The New England Asters are gorgeous................but what happened to those poor Oaks.
I can't quite tell from the photo, but the leaf shape suggests either Swamp White Oak or a Bur Oak.
Anywhoo............Oaks of that age should hold their leaves into at least December if not January.
They are looking in really bad shape. Pretty sure those went in last year too.
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I keep expecting to see the scaffolding being removed from the Atlas Crane - it does seem to be taking LONG time to repair and paint it.
GameOnBrad
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Some of the planters along this stretch have had some struggling plants. It's very strange. Some planters are positively lush and then others are pretty clearly dying out. A project for Parks Toronto next summer I guess.
Northern Light
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I hope not. If the trees were planted last year, the warranty likely runs out next year. Best to get them replaced before the warranty runs out!
If the shrubs are healthy but the trees are dead, it's probably just the stock, but they would need to extract the tree and see if the planter got the spec'ed soil at deeper levels. Contractors have been known to cheat, as they did on Bloor originally, putting crap in the bottom of the planter (and I don't mean fertilizer, I mean junk fill, instead of good soil)
Some of the species choices they made were off, most are good........but anytime I see a roadside planter with common juniper I shudder. It shows that the L.A. does not understand that plant at all.
(by way of explanation, common juniper, the spreading, low-lying evergreen can do well in almost any soil, if you don't drown it. But it's happiest in gravely, rocky, low-nutrient outcroppings that most other plants can't take.......
which is to say, it prefers low competition. Put it in super rich soil and the 'weeds' will fill in around it and smother it). It works, if you're willing to weed the beds 2x per year and mulch. Otherwise, bad choice.
xmyth_
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Was riding through for sunrise this morning and was pleasantly surprised to see workers already toiling away before 8am. They wouldn’t…be opening new parts before either would they? Would love to cross over to the west side of Cherry on the south side at least.
Also. Who can we poke at Apple and Google to update their satellite photos already. Cmon now. They don’t even show Cherry street being finished.
Also. Who can we poke at Apple and Google to update their satellite photos already. Cmon now. They don’t even show Cherry street being finished.
ash_iwn95
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Google Earth technically has the updated images, but it isnt live officially.
if you search up the park and go to historical images, you can technically see the satellite images for 2025 with the fully formed island and park.
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Creatures buried in soil for over a century burst back to life in Toronto waterfront
A project to restore coastal wetland leads to astonishing discoveries of a host of life: seeds and plant scraps, as well as water fleas, worms, larvae and plankton
www.theguardian.com
GameOnBrad
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I see paved paths inside Promontory Park.
Zoomed in. grass growing and it looks like some trees are already planted in there.
Zoomed in. grass growing and it looks like some trees are already planted in there.