Media Coverage Archive 2011
Our Media Coverage page offers a selection of recent news and online coverage regarding Waterfront Toronto’s many projects. Check back often to see profiled stories as well as noteworthy archive items. We would be happy to include any of your blog posts in this section, since Waterfront Toronto considers all bloggers, social media participants and journalists as active participants in important online conversations. If we have yet to feature your writing, please email us with the link and someone will reply shortly.
Petty Toronto politics mustn’t sink chance to do something great with the waterfront
Globe and Mail
December 30, 2011
Hume: 10 reasons to feel optimistic about Toronto
Toronto Star
December 25, 2011
George Brown’s waterfront campus to provide benefits to students and public
Inside Toronto
December 19, 2011
Port lands: what’s the rush?
NOW Toronto
December 15, 2011
Hume: Waterfront Toronto feels the pressure of its new-found popularity
Toronto Star
December 14, 2011
Don’t push the Port Lands
NOW Toronto
December 13, 2011
Ontario minister attacks Ford’s Port Lands strategy
Globe and Mail
December 12, 2011
Safdie building will bring new sophistication to East Bayfront
Globe and Mail
December 9, 2011
Taking a fresh look at Toronto’s Port Lands
National Post
November 26, 2011
Port Lands makeover to speed up
Toronto Star
November 25, 2011
Waterfront Toronto open to fast-tracking Port Lands development
Globe and Mail
November 25, 2011
Waterfront Toronto Launches a Public Review of Port Lands Plans
Torontoist
November 25, 2011
Waterfront plan has good flow
National Post
November 19, 2011
The Best New International Parks
The Atlantic Cities
November 11, 2011
9 Cool Projects Under Freeway Overpasses
The Atlantic Cities
September 23, 2011
What’s next for Waterfront Toronto?
The Grid
September 23, 2011
Toronto Mayor casts Port Lands retreat as a victory for all
Globe and Mail
September 23, 2011
How exactly did the ‘consensus’ on the Port Lands happen?
National Post
September 21, 2011
Applause as Port Lands plan passes unanimously
Toronto Star
September 21, 2011
Ford’s Port Lands plan sinks
Toronto Sun
September 21, 2011
Ford gives up goal of seizing Port Lands
Toronto Star
September 20, 2011
James: Waterfront 101: clean, green, people place
Toronto Star
September 20, 2011
‘Consensus’ reached on Port Lands revitalization
Toronto Sun
September 20, 2011
Ford forfeits goal to control Port Lands property
Globe and Mail
September 20, 2011
Councillors sink Fords’ Port Lands plan
National Post
September 20, 2011
Waterfront Toronto ‘keen to collaborate’ on Port Lands
Toronto Star
September 9, 2011
New Port Lands plan will cost taxpayers $270-million
Globe and Mail
September 8, 2011
From great glass pyramids to gigantic Ferris wheels; a history of Toronto waterfront development
Toronto Star
August 31, 2011
Stick to waterfront plan
Toronto Star
August 31, 2011
Flooding needs to be dealt with before any Ferris wheels appear in port lands
National Post
August 31, 2011
The Waterfront Toronto plan for the Port Lands
The Globe and Mail
August 30, 2011
Mimico Waterfront Park phase two to open next summer
Inside Toronto
August 30, 2011
George Brown College’s New Waterfront Campus Coming Along
Urban Toronto
August 30, 2011
George Brown a proud part of Toronto’s waterfront plan
The Globe and Mail
August 29, 2011
Park City: At the water’s edge
Spacing Toronto
August 13, 2011
Hume: Sherbourne Common is anything but
The Toronto Star
August 5, 2011
Sherbourne Common: Clean, green, brainy and blue
The Globe and Mail
July 29, 2011
Sizing up Sherbourne Common
Now Toronto
July 28, 2011
Public Art Integrated with Water Infrastructure
Renew Canada
July 27, 2011
$30-million, 1.47-hectare Sherbourne Common opens complete with sculptural water treatment plant
Yonge Street Media
July 27, 2011
Sherbourne Common opens in Toronto
Azure
July 27, 2011
Waterfront Toronto opens new park near Lake Ontario
Daily Commercial News
July 27, 2011
New waterfront park doesn’t feel like a boondoggle
National Post
July 27, 2011
Celebration held for new waterfront park
Inside Toronto
July 26, 2011
A waterfront gem
Toronto Star
July 26, 2011
Sherbourne Common’s uncommon beauty
Now Toronto
July 26, 2011
Waterfront Toronto Officially Opens Sherbourne Common North
Urban Toronto
July 26, 2011
Toronto and Region Conservation Authority to build second phase of Mimico Waterfront Park
Daily Commercial News
July 22, 2011
Second phase of waterfront park breaks ground
Inside Toronto
July 19, 2011
Construction begins on last stage of Mimico Waterfront Park
City News
July 19, 2011
North side of Sherbourne Common Park opens
BlogTO
July 15, 2011
Headspace: John Campbell discusses Toronto’s waterfront
Spacing.ca
June 13, 2011
Waterfront revival: Needless spat over the Quay
Toronto Star
June 13, 2011
The Future of Toronto’s Waterfront
CanCulture.ca
June 10, 2011
Toronto’s Underpass Park “Will Change The City Forever”
Treehugger.com
June 9, 2011
Toronto waterfront communities to receive super-fast broadband
The Wire Report
June 9, 2011
Hume: Out with the new and in with the old
Toronto Star
June 9, 2011
Construction begins on phase 1 of Waterfront Toronto’s 1-hectare Underpass Park
Yonge Street Media
June 8, 2011
Ultrafast Internet comes to Toronto
Calgary Herald
June 8, 2011
Toronto’s waterfront developer plans ultra-broadband network
IT Business.ca
June 8, 2011
New waterfront communities to get ultra high-speed Internet
National Post
June 8, 2011
Ultra-high-speed broadband for a wired waterfront
Globe and Mail
June 8, 2011
Toronto waterfront set for “ultra – broadband”
World News Australia
June 8, 2011
Toronto’s new waterfront neighbourhoods will feature cutting-edge ultra-high speed broadband network
Asia TMC Net
June 7, 2011
Toronto Waterfront Set for ‘Ultra-Broadband’
New York Times
June 7, 2011
High-Tech Community Praises Waterfront Breakthrough: “A vital step towards an Intelligent Canada”
Canadian Advanced Technology Alliance
June 7, 2011
Toronto waterfront set for “ultra-broadband”
Orlando Sentinel
June 7, 2011
Hume: Waterfront unveils the future while city remains stuck in the past
Toronto Star
June 7, 2011
A speed-wired waterfront
Toronto Star
June 7, 2011
Toronto’s new waterfront neighbourhoods will feature cutting-edge ultra-high speed broadband network
Daily Commercial News
June 7, 2011
Toronto waterfront set for “ultra-broadband”
Reuters
June 7, 2011
Underpass Park to be built beneath a maze of overpass bridges
Inside Toronto.com
June 6, 2011
Selling Toronto the right way to tourists
Toronto Sun
June 5, 2011
Queen’s Quay Revitalization About to Get Derailed?
Torontoist
June 3, 2011
Underpass Park to connect two halves of Toronto’s West Don Lands
Daily Commercial News
June 2, 2011
Sugar Beach!
Toronto4Kids
June 1, 2011
Jim Flaherty to the rescue
Toronto Sun
May 29, 2011
Redpath Sugar is staying put, condos be damned
Globe and Mail
May 27, 2011
Construction starts on first phase of Underpass Park
City News Toronto
May 27, 2011
Toronto’s West Don Lands Moves Forward
ReNew Canada
May 26, 2011
Ground broken in Underpass Park despite criticism of the project
National Post
May 26, 2011
Hume: Underpass Park will change the city forever
Toronto Star
May 26, 2011
Reality Check: Waterfront Countdown
Now Magazine
May 12, 2011
Ford’s short-sighted vision of Toronto’s waterfront
Globe and Mail
May 7, 2011
Crombie still sees magic in Toronto’s waterfront
Globe and Mail
April 29, 2011
Ford’s sale of city’s waterfront real estate begins
Globe and Mail
April 29, 2011
Waterfront board works
Toronto Star
April 19, 2011
Get Toronto’s waterfront right this time
Toronto Sun
April 24, 2011
George Brown College waterfront campus construction starts commanding attention on Queen’s Quay East
The Toronto Blog
April 23, 2011
Let’s Play Ball with the Waterfront (Again)!
Spacing
April 18, 2011
Hume: On the waterfront, Doug Ford needs a business lesson
Toronto Star
April 17, 2011
Doug Ford sees stadium in waterfront’s future
Globe and Mail
April 16, 2011
Waterfront’s bright future still only on the billboards
National Post
April 16, 2011
Developer dismayed by Ford threat to waterfront project
Globe and Mail
April 15, 2011
Are We Losing the Eastern Waterfront?
Steve Munro.ca
April 14, 2011
Toronto’s waterfront might be a 2012 budget victim
BlogTO
April 12, 2011
Waterfront Toronto is moving too slowly: critics
National Post
April 12, 2011
Sneak preview of Moshe Safdie’s forthcoming Parkside condo tower on the waterfront
Toronto Life
March 18, 2011
Waterfront tower a real contender
National Post
March 18, 2011
This might be Toronto’s most exciting condo project
BlogTO
March 17, 2011
City-bashers control City Hall, but city-builders rule waterfront
Toronto Star
March 11, 2011
Soil Recycling in the Portlands
Spacing Toronto
March 8, 2011
Sherbourne Common is Toronto’s newest skating rink
BlogTO
February 1, 2011
New skating rink is icing on the waterfront cake
Toronto Star
February 1, 2011
Sherbourne Common rink opens at end of month
Toronto Sun
January 26, 2011
Design firm West 8 brings a modern sensibility to urban landscapes
Wall Street Journal
January 22, 2011
Canada’s Sugar Beach Media Coverage
Design firm West 8 brings a modern sensibility to urban landscapes
Wall Street Journal
January 22, 2011
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