Mount Dennis has always been working class, and in a city that's becoming increasingly gentrified in one way or another, from the Junction to Long Branch, and Ossington to darkest Leslieville, that makes Mount Dennis something special. [...]
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Steve Shallhorn, chair of the Toronto Community Benefits Network, says the group in the past several months has held a series of four engagement/recruitment meetings in parts of the city with high unemployment levels (Mount Dennis, Malvern, Flemingdon Park). Working with labour and community organizers, the TCBN sought to identify candidates for apprenticeship programs that will produce trained workers who can be recruited from hiring halls by the winning consortia. [...]
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Streetlamp art installation Nyctophilia lights up the night in rainbow hues. [...]
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The recent reopening of a 60-year-old local branch a sign that libraries are alive and well in Toronto. [...]
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See where we rank! [...]
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Often referred to as the priority neighbourhood that is not a priority any more, the Toronto neighbourhood of Weston-Mount Dennis rarely makes the front pages, and even when it does, it's guns, gangs, poverty and violence that dominate. [...]
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Last weekend's Jane's Walk featured many worthy destinations, but I was compelled to join the walk in Mount Dennis, focused on the Eglinton LRT line that will have its west end terminus there, once the two massive tunnel boring machines being built there finally emerge at the eastern end of this massive - and long overdue - project. [...]
Read ArticleFri, Feb 28: The Refocus Kodak project is encouraging community members to provide ideas for what they would like to see built. Metrolinx is planning a transit station including a maintenance and storage facility for LRT vehicles. Mark McAllister reports. [...]
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The new Mount Dennis Crosstown LRT Station will consolidate two stops at Weston Road and Black Creek into one. Placed under GO's Georgetown Corridor and the new Union-Pearson Express, the redesigned station provides access to these lines as well. [...]
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In the heart of Mount Dennis where there is a dearth of independent coffee shops, Cassandra Nicolaou decided to open up supercoffee at the corner of Weston Road and Eglinton Avenue. “It just seemed like a perfect opportunity,” said Nicolaou, who isn’t a stranger to the former city of [...]
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