Toronto Daily Blog Report: Fashion Week Finishes in Style, The Maple Leafs Twice Victorious,Toronto

This is a selection of recent popular blog articlesunits were built in the [downtown Toronto] area
from TorontoIAM where you will find the bestbetween 2001 and 2006” with many more
blogs from Toronto, Ontario as well as videobuilding permits currently in the process of being
uploads, social networking, rumors, and blogapproved.
authoring.The post reports that a study conducted by city
Fashion Week Finishes in Styleplanners meant to better understand
BlogTO has posted overall thoughts on thisToronto’s growth spurt of late, reflects a
year’s L’Oreal Fashion Week Springstriking shift in demographics within the downtown
08, which took place inside a large central tent incore. Using housing built since 2001 as the
Nathan Phillips Square. According to the post, thebenchmark for its findings, the study revealed
event came to a close last Friday, havingthat “only 4 per cent of households in the
achieved “an unprecedented air of livelinessnewer units have children, compared with 12 per
and enthusiasm”.cent in the older housing”. It also showed
In attendance was Fashion Television’sthat the majority of newer units currently house
Jeanne Beker who was reported to be hard atadults 25-39, most of whom are employed
work showcasing what Toronto has to offer byfull-time and most of whom enjoy incomes
nabbing designers and notable fashion experts andgreater than $60,000.00. “In the older
leading them “through the crowd to thehousing”, continues the post, “51%
front of the tent to interview them after mostof households were revealed to have incomes
of the shows.” The post said thatunder $60,000.”
“the way she made VIPs visible andCommenting on a dwindling child population, the
visceral was a striking statement.”post quotes Leonhardt as saying, "What is
Setting itself apart from New York’san issue, I think, is housing that's suitable for
fashion week, Toronto offered catered dinners inpeople when they decide to have children: Is it
the media room, which the post reportsbeing built?" It’s something
“had that wonderful effect of creatingthey’re looking into, she says,
camaraderie among those who [ate] together.“whether or not we need to look at
Veterans and newbies alike dished and dined andinterventions in the market to see that kind of
dashed back to the runway and felt better forhousing built.
it”.GTTA Drives Regional Transportation Plan
Maple Leafs Twice VictoriousSteve Munro’s Web Site reports that the
A posting on Howard Berger’s popular blogGreater Toronto Transportation Authority
reports back-to-back road triumphs for the Maple(GTTA) board met in Toronto recently to
Leafs this week over the Pittsburg Penguins andpresent first round plans and timelines for the
New York Rangers respectively. Apparently,creation of a Regional Transportation Plan (RTP).
“the club seems incapable of playing aThe board intends to have a completed plan for
relaxed, efficient brand of hockey on home ice,the project in place by fall, 2008.
[however] away from the "pressures"According to the post, this is a relatively
of the Air Canada Centre, it's a completelyaggressive schedule where “much work
different story.”needs to be done producing position papers and
With both the Penguins and the Rangersanalyses to convert the shopping list of schemes
seemingly caught in a pre-season slump, the postlike MoveOntario 2020 into a prioritized, coherent
says that the Leafs “sensed that theyplan.”
were playing a couple of struggling, top-endThe post lists a number of discussion which arose
teams, and somehow found the killer instinct thatduring meeting, such as concerns about the
is so often absent in their repertoire.” Theimpact of the project on surrounding
post also congratulates the Leafs for riding outneighbourhoods, the myriad of studies that lay
two Rangers power plays, both resulting fromahead, (both at the regional and federal level),
highly questionable calls made by referees Wesfunding considerations and considerations around
McCauley and Eric Furlatt.the prioritization of projects. For every concern
Of promising significance, notes the post, was atabled, the post notes that the board seems to
switch-up in the Leafs’ usual scoringhave a workable, however preliminary, solution in
patterns during both games. With Matts Sundinplace.
making just one assist in total, “the fancyThe post predicts that the really tough debates
work [was left] to people like Jiri Tlusty, John Pohl,will present themselves in 2008, “as the
Pavel Kubina and Alex Steen.” Perhaps theproject list grows with items missed by
ability to put the puck in the net is not just a oneMoveOntario 2020 notably much of the
man job after for this club. Could the tide finallyday-to-day capital cost of infrastructure and fleet
turning for Toronto’s beleaguered Maplerenewal.” In the end, it notes, it all comes
Leafs?down to money. “If the available funds
Toronto’s Sudden Growth Spurtwon’t pay for what is really needed, the
A post on the Torontoist reports that downtownGTTA could descend into the sort of
Toronto is one of the fastest growingus-versus-them debates that paralyzed transit
communities in the area, with “theplanning at the old Metro Toronto council.”
population of the downtown core [having] grownAbout TorontoIAM
by 65 per cent in the past 30 years, and nearlyTorontoIAM is part of a groundbreaking network
10 per cent in the past five.”of city-focused blog aggregation, user generated
According to the post, Barbara Leonhardt,media and social networking websites currently
director of policy and research in the city’srolling out across North America. Each IAM
planning department says that "We're seeingwebsite filters and organizes blog content as well
growth in other areas as well – all of theas offering video upload capabilities, social
areas where we want it to happen: the Northnetworking, blog authoring, favourites lists and
York centre, the Scarborough centre, therumours. The IAM Network is a division of
Etobicoke centre and along the avenues."SoMedia Networks Inc which also operates
Even so, says the post, “17,000 housingInveslogic.com, Greenedia.