Are you looking for a fun, local, date night?
Are you looking for a fun, local, date night? Sign up for Date Night, Mount Dennis, taking place on April 16! [...]
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Apply now for Mount Dennis BIA’s Small Green Business Incubator Hub!
Do you have a great business idea but need support to bring it to life? The Mount Dennis BIA Small Green Business Incubator Hub is offering 6 spaces for entrepreneurs to launch and grow their ventures in Toronto’s next major transit hub. [...]
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The BIA’s 4th Annual Chalk My Walk is this Saturday, June 7!
We hope to see you at the Mount Dennis BIA’s 4th annual FREE event, Chalk My Walk, this Saturday, June 7 from 2 to 5 p.m.! Every year the BIA closes Hollis Street at Eglinton and Weston for a fun-filled afternoon featuring live entertainment, giveaways, chalk art, and community information tables. This year the BIA is thrilled to welcome some amazing York South-Weston performers including Canadian Beatboxing champion Scott Jackson, the acrobatic and comedic Bex in Motion, the playful and [...]
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Join us for Date Night, Mount Dennis on March 6!
Did you miss Valentine’s Day? Looking for a fun, local, date night? Then you need to come out for Date Night, Mount Dennis! [...]
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Join us for Date Night in Mount Dennis!
Looking for a fun, local, date night in Mount Dennis? [...]
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Save the date: Calabar Grill and Bar to reopen on Saturday, Sept. 16
Join Calabar as they emerge from hibernation and ignite the culinary scene once again! After a temporary pause, we're thrilled to announce Calabar's soft reopening. Indulge in tantalizing flavours, reconnect with friends and family, and create new memories in our warm and inviting ambiance. [...]
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Mount Dennis 5k Fun Run Returns!
Come out to Caplan’s Appliances parking lot at 1111 Weston Rd. on Sunday, September 24 at 9 a.m. to cheer on the participants of the Mount Dennis 5K Fun Run! Free snacks and coffee for all runners by supercoffee in case you need an incentive to sign up! For more information or to register, please contact Nelson Rodrigues at [email protected]. [...]
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Mount Dennis Celebrates Ballroom Expressions’s Grand Opening
On Sunday, September 10, the Mount Dennis BIA was delighted to help celebrate the grand opening of Ballroom Expressions in the old Shilla Restaurant building at 1161 Weston Rd. (2nd floor). Vice-chair of the BIA, Cassandra Nicolaou presented them with a certificate of welcome from Councillor Frances Nunziata, supercoffee served free coffee and drinks, and Ballroom Expressions offered free classes. Ballroom Expressions is a premier dance studio that specializes in ballroom and latin dance programs for children and adults of [...]
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And the winners are…..
We're thrilled to announce the five winners of our #TRANSITioningMountDennis photo contest! [...]
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Young Ukrainian Couple Fleeing War Brings Dance…and Joy! to Mount Dennis
When Igor Borysov signed his last contract as a professional ballroom dancer on a cruise ship, leaving his wife and two young children behind in Ukraine, he had no idea that war would break out the following February. [...]
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Mount Dennis BIA Instagram Contest celebrates “The Last Day of Work”
The Mount Dennis BIA would like to share a huge thank you to everyone who entered our Instagram “#TRANSITioningMountDennis contest”. To celebrate Robert Burley’s (@burleyrobert) Scotiabank Contact Photography Festival (@contactphoto) exhibit “The Last Day of Work” installed on the outside of Toronto Public Library’s Mount Dennis Branch, the BIA was pleased to hold our photo contest. To enter the contest, Instagram users had to like our post on Instagram, follow @mountdennisbia, share a photo of, or a selfie with, Robert Burley’s Scotiabank Contact [...]
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A possible Kodak moment: Our visit to Mount Dennis finds a storied community at a crossroads
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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LORINC: Local communities to help build Metrolinx projects
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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Spotted: The Colourful Lights of Mt. Dennis
Streetlamp art installation Nyctophilia lights up the night in rainbow hues. [...]
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New Mount Dennis Public Library a neighbourhood beacon: Hume
The recent reopening of a 60-year-old local branch a sign that libraries are alive and well in Toronto. [...]
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A community in profile: Weston-Mount Dennis
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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The past and the future of Mount Dennis
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 ArticleMt. Dennis residents picture something different for Kodak lands
Fri, 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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Crosstown LRT a Revitalization Catalyst for Mount Dennis
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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Revitalizing Mount Dennis, one cup of coffee at a time
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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