AGM June 10 – call for nominations & volunteers
Virtual Meeting
Get more involved with your residents’ association today!
We are seeking new volunteers to help shape and drive ABCRA’s activities as our neighbourhood continues to evolve and grow. YOU can help improve our community by serving on the Board of Directors, helping out regularly as a street representative, or just occasionally on special projects and committees. You’ll be contributing to making your community a better place to live.
City hall finally found a way to help ease traffic congestion — and bring in more money. Not everyone is happy
Not many things come cheap in Toronto, but there is one thing that has, until very recently, been a heck of a bargain: blocking streets for construction.
In 2022, for example, a utility contractor that wanted to close two lanes across 4.5 kilometres of Lake Shore Boulevard paid just $4,398.65 in fees to Toronto city hall’s transportation department for its month-long project.
‘It’s time’ for OpenStreetsTO to make a comeback, Toronto resident says
A Toronto resident is campaigning to revive a popular street event after a years-long pause.
OpenStreetsTO is an event that closes roadways to cars and opens them to pedestrians, encouraging physical activity and recreation while allowing residents to experience the city’s streets and architecture differently.
“Open Streets has widespread community support,” said Robert Zaichkowski, who’s leading the charge to restart the event. “It’s a no-brainer to bring it back.”
Think Toronto is shabby and ugly? Changing this one thing could help halt the city’s race to the bottom
Toronto often feels shabby. There are many examples but the renovation of College Park comes to mind. The general idea was good — skating trail, landscaping, sculptural giant frogs — but the execution seems cheap and the details look rough and unthoughtful. There’s a clunky Zamboni-storing field house, expanses of lawn turned to mud and natural pedestrian routes blocked by obstacles. It should be great, like New York’s Bryant Park, but it’s shabby.
Ramsden Park: A Park that Built a Community
The ABC Residents Association believes Ramsden Park has an interesting and important story to tell. Since the City of York’s earliest beginnings, this unique landscape has had a meaningful connection to this community. We believe that Ramsden Park meets the criteria for designation as a Cultural Heritage Landscape.
Massive new Toronto co-op project will offer hundreds of affordable and market-priced units — in technicolour
Designs for a massive new housing development across from Scarborough’s Kennedy GO station look something like a technicolour game of Connect Four.
Hundreds of windows on three different towers are framed in circles of concrete, stained to vivid shades of yellow, orange, blue and red. The towers sit on a wide, interconnected base, which the architects say will be home to gathering spots, community gardens and a blanket of greenery.
Councillor Saxe Speaks
During the April meeting of Toronto City Council, Councillor Saxe spoke about the state of congestion in Toronto, and how best to tackle it. Here’s what Councillor Saxe had to say:
Councillor Saxe on Congestion & Bikes
For more information, read the expert testimony from the court case.
Ontario is scaling back species at risk protections, worrying advocates and inviting federal intervention
Ontario’s government wants to “unleash” its resources with sweeping changes to its laws on protecting species at risk aimed at speeding …
Hooray! Rosedale subway station landscaping underway
The construction that began in 2022 to make Rosedale subway station accessible with the addition of two elevators is almost complete!
Landscaping work has started and should be completed soon.
May 2025 Newsletter
Councillor Dianne Saxe’s March 2025 Newsletter for University-Rosedale is now available!