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Ten days of Toronto Jazz is in full swing!
Friday, June 19 to Sunday, June 28. Experience the rhythm of Bloor-Yorkville at Toronto Jazz Fest. Every day there will be FREE shows in Yorkville.
• OLG stage at the Cumberland Street Park
• Sidewalk locations along Yorkville, Cumberland and Bloor
• The Rock, in the Village of Yorkville Park off Cumberland
• The Pilot on Cumberland Street – late night sessions starting at 8:30 p.m.
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Did you miss Councillor Saxe’s Congestion Town Hall ?
ABCRA welcomes Dr. Danielle Martin, the new Liberal MP for University–Rosedale
Rowanwood Avenue transmission watermain construction is restarting
Interested in how your Municipal Taxes are spent?
Do you care about our urban trees? Get involved in the City’s Tree Maintenance Review
ABCRA 2025 newsletter – a year in review
As we reflect on this year’s newsletter content, it’s clear how the ABC Residents Association helps to shape our community. These stories highlight our mission to protect character, enhance livability, and ensure that development also serves the public good. It is a constant challenge as the forces of intensification have remade some of our neighbourhoods in ways unimaginable 25 years ago.
One Bloor West named among the best in the world for 2025
A handful of notable new Toronto buildings were recently bestowed with awards recognizing their importance in several categories.
The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) announced the winners of its 2025 Award of Excellence competition with plenty of local landmarks making the cut this year.
A safety win for Roxborough Street West: New temporary crosswalk coming soon
ABC Residents Association victory at the OLT!
It’s easy to think that you can’t win at City Hall – or the OLT – but ABC’s recent victory at the Ontario Land Tribunal is proof that opposing inappropriate developments and continuing to believe in the power of communities to shape the city of Toronto is worth the effort.
“No amount of massing refinements and architectural design can cure the fundamental flaw with respect to the 39-storey height of the Proposed Development, which does not conform to the City’s OP, the Downtown Plan, and the SASP 211*. Although there is a broad provincial policy which is supportive of intensification, this does not confer an unfettered right to height.”
~ Jean-Pierre Blais, Vice Chair of the Ontario Land Tribunal