There are only a few more weeks until summer. Until then, there are a few things going on in our community to pass the time. Here’s a list of Cabbagetown events and sales you won’t want to miss: The 8th Annual InspiraTO Festival This year’s InspiraTO Festival will consist of 28 ten-minute plays, performed in four differently colour-coded groups: The Red Show – All plays begin with the line “I see a rabbit” The Blue Show – One character leaves home The Orange Show – The play’s setting is a tunnel The Yellow Show – Rope is used as a …

– Regent Park, Toronto: A Story of Commitment, Commonality, and Collectivity – Growing the “Garden City” At the beginning of the 20th Century, Regent Park had been known as Cabbagetown, a name now associated with the neighbourhood due North. But it wasn’t until 1948 that city officials envisioned a new urban design for this 69-acre lot. Inspired by the idealized “Garden City” movement, the area was to be dismantled, leaving behind only remnants of two of its original streets – Regent Street and Park Street. Thus the name Regent Park came into existence, a new name for a postwar modernist …

Zakkushi Izakaya As the latest izakaya restaurant to venture  from Vancouver to Toronto, Zakkushi finds a warm welcome in Cabbagetown.  Although there has been an increase in Japanese pub-style restaurants in the neighbourhood since 2008, Zakkushi’s extensive and semi-exotic menu earns them a notable place on Carlton.  With meals prepared over authentic Japanese white charcoal, all dishes served are full-flavoured and aromatic. Thankfully, after quite some time without one, Zukkushi has recently attained their liquor license and offers guests a variety of unique alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages. Due to the dining capacity of the restaurant (only twenty-or-so tables), there is …

June Callwood was a force to be reckoned with; especially to those that were in her way to granting kindness to all. It’s said that with power comes responsibility and in the case that you had power over a resource that June Callwood needed, you were pursued till she made you realize the responsibility you have to all you have power over; I call her “The Warrior Princess.” I don’t usually write about people on my blog rather I focus on buildings and places in Cabbagetown that I find interesting so this is a new feat for me as I …

Annual General Meeting Ontario Restaurant, Dundas Street between Ontario and Milan Date: 09 Jan 2013 7:30 PM Annual General Meeting Notice is hereby given of the 2013 Cabbagetown South Association Membership Meeting (also known as the Annual General Meeting), in compliance with our bylaw. (7.1. Notice of a membership meeting shall be given to members in good standing at least ten (10) days in advance of the meeting.) On Wednesday January 9, 2013, at 7:30 pm, a public meeting of the Cabbagetown South Association will be called to order. It will adjourn almost immediately and the 2013 Cabbagetown South Annual …

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I’m starting a new home search! This will not be the first home I’ve ever bought but it’s definitely a first experience to buying a home to live in exclusively. I’ll explain! The first home that I ever bought was with my brother and the family was to be living in it. We still own that house in Brampton and the purchase process was quiet unique. We are a big family with six siblings and though my two sisters were happily married and living in their own homes, my mother insisted that it be a big enough home where they …

Regent park is host to one of the biggest investment initiative ever taken by Daniel's Corporation in conjunction with the City of Toronto and Toronto Housing Corporation to revitalize our downtown core and raise the living standard currently offered in the slums of Toronto.

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