- After a big blaze, then what? In The Grid this week: what’s happening at nine different Toronto locations struck by big fires in recent years, from 335 Yonge Street (nothing happening for a long time) to Musa’s Dundas West home (the future home of a Starbucks, maybe). Plus, online: what’s going on now with Queen Street West between Portland and Bathurst, four years after its massive six-alarm blaze that gutted almost an entire block. (More than a solid week of research and interviews went into cobbling this together; you would probably not be surprised to discover that business owners and landowners are not always the most forthcoming people, especially when it comes to fires.)
- I’ve been wanting to write about ghost bikes for a while now, but was hoping there wouldn’t be a news hook to give me the chance to. Sadly, last week, there was: Jenna Morrison was killed by a truck at Dundas Street West and Sterling Road. I followed the ghost bike as it was prepared for her and delivered to where she was killed. (In The Grid in print, there’s this great photo by Brett Gundlock of the bike being prepared.)
- When is it right to out someone? As the person behind a raccoon’s Twitter account, I mean. Edward Keenan and I argued about @City_Raccoon.
- I’m trying to find out who painted “DRAKE YOU HO THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT” on the side of the Starbucks at Queen & Dovercourt way back in 2005—and I will almost certainly fail. In other Queen & Dovercourt Starbucks news, the ugly yellow stucco is being chipped away.
- …and 48 Abell is being demolished. Let’s celebrate with bad poetry.
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