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Province announces $29 billion transit funding plan

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ontario 29 billion transit fundingPremier Kathleen Wynne made a major promise to fund transit in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton areas today at Queen's Park. As part of a 10 year plan that would involve a $29 billion investment in provincial transportation infrastructure, the GTHA would receive as much as $15 billon of funding for projects like new subways, roads and bridges. That sure sounds promising, but where exactly the full sum of this money will come from has yet to be revealed.

While Wynne did announce that the province would redirect all HST collected on fuel taxes as well as an additional 7.5 cents per dollar of the gas tax to levy the funds required for transit expansion, that still leaves a lot of money to come from other sources. Specifics are promised in the spring budget. What do you think? Is this a promising step towards improving transit infrastructure in and around Toronto?


The Best Muffins in Toronto

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muffins torontoThe best muffins in Toronto are mmm, mmm good. When I was growing up, nothing signified breakfast pleasure more than a fresh-baked muffin. In fact, the muffin seemed like the comforting answer to any problem. New neighbour, illness in the family, bake sale contribution, death of loved one? Drop off a basket of muffins. After-school snack, morning commute, feeling blue? Grab yourself a muffin.

There were mini muffins and muffin loaves, stuffed muffins and jumbo muffins, muffins that tasted like pillows and muffins that tasted like pucks. There was the muffin man song, then muffins hit the malls (Mmmuffins!). My next door neighbor loved muffins so much she named all her cats Muffin, one after another; Muffin One, Muffin Two and so on, five Muffins in all.

Muffins enjoyed a moment in the pop-culture spotlight in the '90s: Who could forget the Seinfeld episode when Elaine has her muffin top shop idea, and her old boss stole it, and then they have to hire Newman to get rid of the muffin stump problem? (Top of the Muffin to You! Or was it Top of the Muffin TO YOU?)

By the 2000's, muffins came to signify the extra padding that spilled out over skinny jeans, and then new food trends stepped in to take the poor muffin's place. Thankfully, muffins are back, and they're being baked all over Toronto - to happy cheers across the city.

Here are the best muffins in Toronto.

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Today in Toronto: Bunner's Cookbook, BookThug, Images, Glow-in-the-Dark Ping Pong, Second Seder

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Today in TorontoToday in Toronto Junction bakery Bunner's will launch their cookbook Bunner's Simple & Delicious Gluten-Free Vegan Treats with free arcade games and snacks at Get Well. SPiN is hosting glow-in-the-dark ping pong and slinging black light gin + tonics, and Images invites you to bring your masterpiece to their open screening at Cinecycle. Jacob Wren, Aisha Sasha John, and Guadalupe Muro will read at BookThug's spring launch. For more events, click on over to our events section.

Have an event you'd like to plug? Submit your own listing to the blogTO Toronto events calendar or contact us directly.

Fantastic cakes are the specialty at new Bathurst bakery

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sugary swirls torontoDupont and Bathurst locals have a new place to drown their sugar cravings. The cakes (and the cupcakes!) at this bakery on Bathurst are both gorgeous and delicious. They also serve all manner of pastries, tarts and other sweet treats - though some of them may pale in comparison to the cakes.

Read my review of Sugary Swirls in the Baked Goods section.

This week on DineSafe: Belly Buster Submarines, George's BBQ & Deli, It's All GRK, Crepe It Up

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dinesafeDineSafe is on a two-week streak of no red cards, though George's BBQ & Deli is back on the list - only this time, it's the Dundas East location that's been cited with a yellow card.

Here are the rest of this week's worst offenders on DineSafe.

Belly Buster Submarines (389 King St. West)
Inspected on: April 8, 2014
Inspection finding: Yellow (Conditional)
Number of infractions: 4 (Minor: 2, Significant: 2)
Crucial infractions include: N/A

George's BBQ & Deli (254 Dundas St. East)
Inspected on: April 8, 2014
Inspection finding: Yellow (Conditional)
Number of infractions: 6 (Minor: 1, Significant: 5)
Crucial infractions include: N/A

It's All GRK (366 Bloor St. West)
Inspected on: April 10, 2014
Inspection finding: Yellow (Conditional)
Number of infractions: 2 (Significant: 2)
Crucial infractions include: N/A

Crepe It Up (507 Church St.)
Inspected on: April 10, 2014
Inspection finding: Yellow (Conditional)
Number of infractions: 6 (Significant: 5, Crucial: 1)
Crucial infractions include: Operator fail to maintain hazardous food(s) at 4C (40F) or colder.

Kintaro Yakitori Japanese Pub (459 Church St.)
Inspected on: April 10, 2014
Inspection finding: Yellow (Conditional)
Number of infractions: 2 (Significant: 2)
Crucial infractions include: N/A

Curry Kitchen (117 Dundas St. West)
Inspected on: April 9, 2014
Inspection finding: Yellow (Conditional)
Number of infractions: 6 (Minor: 2, Significant: 4)
Crucial infractions include: N/A

Japanese curry spot opens near Yonge and Dundas

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gyugyuya torontoToronto's Japanese restaurants are overwhelmingly focused on sushi, but this new spot on Dundas breaks with tradition by offering bowls of Japanese curry. The yellow paint and industrial decor don't offer much in the way of atmosphere, but their pork and beef curries make for a satisfying meal.

Read my review of Gyugyuya in the restaurants section.

Company Theatre's Belleville a nail-biting drama

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belleville torontoAmy Herzog's Belleville is frighteningly intense. So intense, even, that you may find yourself holding your breath and digging fingernails into your seat during one of the many unnerving scenes. These moments usually find their home in silence, which arrives after the tumult subsides.

The Company Theatre has a track record of piercing and provocative social dramas, and this latest offering is no different. Often difficult to watch due to its strong performances, Belleville features characters as fragile as they are volatile. While the narrative feels a bit heavy-handed, and the direction from Jason Byrne leaves little room for any sort of tenderness, a drama that penetrates as much as this one does is ultimately a drama that gets a lot right.

On the surface, the play has the trappings of a social drama about Millennial struggles with contemporary life, complete with privilege and ennui. It's seemingly one of those portraits of an over-coddled and over-medicated generation and the destruction they can end up causing. But it's dangerous to read Belleville in general terms. More correctly, it's a localized portrait of two individuals and their struggle with mental health and the resulting challenges it poses to the strength of their relationship.

Zack (Alan Hawco) and Abby (Christine Horne), a young couple that has left the United States to live in Paris, are on the verge of spending Christmas away from their families. When Abby finds Zack home in the afternoon, instead of at his job contributing to AIDS research, the foundation of the couple's relationship starts to crumble.

From the very first moment, Herzog drops her characters into situations of discovery. The search for, and uncovering of, new information drives the action forward and motivates the characters' erratic behaviour. The dialogue is crisp, full of suspect, and is laden with a history of conflict. The playwright layers on all manner of mental illness and deception in the build to a formidable climax. The consequence is that there's almost too much trauma to process here.

Byrne does a fine job giving colour to the fights and, more importantly, masters the silent stage actions that reveal each character's dark inner thoughts. One area that could have made the drama more complex was in finding a true tenderness, amidst the nicknames and body contact, that could have provided even more contrast to the severity of their division. Without it, both characters lack likable qualities.

Horne is a powerful force. She weaves in and out of Abby's vengeful passion and retreats to a far more complex headspace in moments of defeat and fear. Hawco, of Republic of Doyle fame, exploits the contradictions of his character to maximum effect. His portrait of delayed adulthood, on one hand charming and on the other maddening, hits the right note. Meanwhile, Alioune (Dalmar Abuzeid) and Amina (Marsha Regis), a Senegalese couple, are a fine foil to the married Americans featured in the drama.

Your reaction to Belleville might not be what you expect -- a lack of empathy, perhaps, or a complex response to the conclusion. What's important is not how you feel, but that the drama has inspired such a reaction in the first place.

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Belleville, written by Amy Herzog and directed by Jason Byrne, runs at the Berkeley Street Theatre until April.

Photo courtesy Canadian Stage.


House of the week: 5 Hawthorn Gardens

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5 Hawthorn Gardens Toronto5 Hawthorn Gardens is a dream home -- particularly as it's staged for sale. Despite its nearly $16 million asking price, one doubts that its future owner will be able to match the artistic pomp that's on display as this Rosedale residence goes to market. Look carefully at the photos below and you'll see the work of Diane Arbus, Bernd and Hilla Becher, and a host of other big name photographers beside collections of ceramics carefully sealed away in display cases around the home. And that's not to mention the library, which is Disney-esque in its grandeur and beauty.

Up for sale by art collector-cum-artist Ydessa Hendeles, the fantasy-like quality isn't lost on whoever's writing copy for the realtor. The brief description of the house -- which is written in all caps, no less -- lays it on about as thick as it comes. "Like The Slipper On Cinderella's Foot, The Home Perfectly Embraces Its Magical Ravine Setting. 5 Hawthorn Gardens Has Been Transformed Into A Singular Piece Of Great Art."

But, hey, when a place is this nice, who can really take fault with a little typographical enthusiasm? While it lacks an in-house pool or bowling alley as you might find on the Bridle Path, the ravine views, lush wood, and adorned ceilings speak to the architectural pedigree of the Eustace G. Bird-designed 1911 home.

5 Hawthorn GardensSPECS

  • Address: 5 Hawthorn Gardens
  • Price: $15,900,000
  • Lot Size: 100 x 287 Feet
  • Bedrooms: 4
  • Bathrooms: 7
  • Taxes: $55,520.38 (2013)
  • Walk Score: 68

5 Hawthorn GardensNOTABLE FEATURES

  • Ravine lot
  • 6 parking spaces
  • Fireplaces
  • Two gas ranges
  • Library fit for a game of Clue
  • Nicest ceilings in the city

5 Hawthorn GardensGOOD FOR

Hermits. Move in here and you'll never leave. On the bright side, the library is a wonderful place to read, and the kitchen demands live-in help, so you'll never actually be alone. At the risk of poor taste, this would be a good place to die.

5 Hawthorn GardensMOVE ON IF

Theft worries you. Make sure to keep a little cash on hand for a quality alarm system because posts likes this are total heat scores (sorry, Ms. Hendeles). More seriously (but what's the point in that?), you might skip this absolutely gorgeous home if you think $16 million warrants more than four bedrooms. That would make you a philistine, but whatever -- it's your money.

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Read other posts in this series via our House of the Week Pinterest board.

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TTC construction forces long closure of Queen & Leslie

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Queen Leslie constructionThose fancy new streetcars sure are nice, but the TTC needs somewhere to put them. Enter the Leslie Barns, a new car house being built at Lake Shore that will accommodate about half the fleet of new low-floor vehicles. As part of this project, the TTC has to install new tracks at Queen and Leslie streets, which will result in an extended closure of the intersection this spring. Between May 11 and June 21 (assuming everything goes according to plan) the corner that's home to The Duke and The Nose will only be passable if you're on foot or bike.

This will be a bit of a pain in the ass for motorists, who will have to jog up to Dundas before returning to Queen, but the real annoyance will be borne by streetcar riders. Heading east, the 501 car will divert to Gerrard St. via Broadview before returning south on Coxwell. That's a pretty big chunk of Queen St. that's going to lack streetcar service. Oh, and in case you live in the west end and think this doesn't affect you, do bear in mind that the 501 struggles with bunching as it is, and this detour isn't likely to help. It's just over a month, though. And those new streetcars really are nice.

Photo by Michael Kelly

Local promoters help bring piece of MUTEK to Toronto

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MUTEKMontreal's unique MUTEK festival has been delivering impressive programming of electronic music and digital art since 2000, and many Toronto fans make the trip to Quebec each spring for the party - or wish they could. While Toronto is a ways away from having its own festival of this scale, events like the Foundry series have been laying groundwork for future large scale events, while MUTEK themselves have been presenting events in Toronto for a few years. This Saturday, the Montreal fest will present AVANT_MUTEK at 99 Sudbury together with lauded Toronto promoters breakandenter.

AVANT is a warmup event taking place first in Montreal on Friday, then here in Toronto on Saturday night. Swedish duo Minilogue, who've played MUTEK proper twice, will play a delirious four hour set, and mark their first and last time in Toronto - the duo will take an indefinite hiatus after their current tour.

With Toronto's electronic scene getting stronger all the time (random CityCouncil decrees or not), I checked in with Alain Mogneau (MUTEK's General and Artistic Director / Programmer) and Patti Schmidt (MUTEK's Editorial Manager / Programmer) to see if they're planning to branch out further into Toronto.

"We definitely have some close connections with the artistic community, and there is usually a big contingent of Torontonians who we see at the festival every year. It would be great to establish something in Toronto, and it's certainly always on our mind."

What would it take for TO to have a fest similar in scale? "Get the city and province on board," the duo explains. "Get them to believe in niche, specialized and forward thinking communities, music and art scenes so that they let them 'do their thing.' This means developing a grasp of how small cultural festivals enrich communities and cities, and how to cultivate them - how to accommodate cultural activity that falls outside of normal hours (night time economy), and outside of the prevailing understandings of music culture that are usually determined by how rock and roll works."

"A certain curiosity and openness to new experiences is crucial to building an electronic and digital arts scene," they continue. "Plus some critical mass. Montréal is already a "city of festivals." There are more than a hundred every season, and making room for each other is part of the constant economic and cultural dialogue here."

While Toronto currently feels like a city of festivals where people stand around in plaid and rubber boots waiting for three decades worth of indie rock bands to set up, supporting AVANT_MUTEK and promoters like breakandenter and Foundry, as well as small fests like Sound in Motion, is a crucial step along the way to Toronto creating infrastructure for dynamic electronic and arts events the size of MUTEK or various European festivals.

MUTEK will celebrate its fifteenth year in Montreal with over one hundred artists from May 27 to June 1 together with Montreal digital arts festival Elektra, rebranded for one year only as EM15. Toronto's AVANT_MUTEK show is Saturday, April 19th at 99 Sudbury.

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The top 5 bike trails in Toronto

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Bike Trails TorontoCycling trails in Toronto offer sanctuary from both vehicular traffic and the general hustle and bustle of city life. We are a city blessed with ravines, and that is a very good thing if you like to ride your bike off road. While Toronto is also endowed with a healthy number of bike paths, the idea here is to focus in on unpaved places to ride your bike, where you can sometimes fool yourself that you've left the city altogether. The level of difficulty of these trails varies widely, so you need not own a full suspension mountain bike to enjoy all of the off-road opportunities around town. And, unsurprisingly, should you wish to drive a short distance outside the city, there's a ton of trail systems to choose from.

Here are the top 5 bike trails in Toronto.

Don Valley Ridge Trails
The trails that line the ravine wall of the Don Valley have been around since the mid-1980s (and possibly before), but it's only in the last decade or so that intense efforts have been made at trail management to help diminish the effects of erosion and overuse. These trails aren't for novices, with plenty of off-camber sections, some North Shore-style structures, and plenty of technical sections. If you mountain bike in Toronto, this is your favourite place for a quick ride. Strung together, there's almost 10 kilometres of trails in this system (which actually extends further east than the linked map indicates.

Don Valley River Trails
Along with the more challenging ridge trails, Crothers Woods also offers some more path-like trails around what was once the Sun Valley dump. This section isn't however, particularly extensive. If you're looking to extend your ride and aren't afraid of close encounters with GO trains and CN Rail police, follow the official trail down toward the river, where you can hook up with a mostly flat and winding trail that runs adjacent to the paved Lower Don River Trail (but on the other side of the river).

Belt Line Trail
Much of the Belt Line series of trails is built on an old commuter railway bed that opened int he late 19th century. It was officially converted for trail-use in 1988, though people had been using parts of it in that capacity for years before that. The trail system starts around Caledonia and Eglinton and makes its way all the way to the Don Valley Brick Works (totalling around 9km), though there are a number of at-grade road crossings that you'll need to make. The best section of the trail heads southeast through the Moore Park Ravine. With hard-packed dirt and a steady decline, it's a beautiful stretch of riding that takes very little effort.

Taylor Creek Trail
Taylor Creek isn't a long trail -- just 3.5 kilometres -- but it's a nice diversion if you're looking for an easygoing ride in a natural setting. You can also use these trails to access the Don Valley trail system if you're coming from the east. There's no technical stuff here, just hard-packed dirt with a few winding sections. This would be a good place to introduce someone to off-road riding.

Centennial Park - Etobicoke Creek Trails
Another series of trails well-suited to novice and casual riders, the common way to access these trails is via Centennial Park, though the system does extend toward the 401 in the north. Meandering along both sides of the river the trails have wider path-like sections mixed with stretches of easy-to-ride single-track. There's nothing too difficult here, but the setting is so inviting that west-end riders of all abilities use the trails. There's roughly 10 kilometres of trail in total.

Photo by Collette V in the blogTO Flickr pool.

Is Bay & Bloor in danger of becoming a condo jungle?

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toronto yorkvilleFour major residential towers planned for the south end of Yorkville, near Bloor and Bay, are putting the local area on course for a "disturbing" future, the chair of the city's Design Review Panel says.

The group of experts who advise city staff about how to blend new developments with the public realm is worried the size of condos proposed at 50 Bloor Street West, 2 Bloor Street West (which already has OMB approval,) 37 Yorkville Avenue, and 1 Yorkville Avenue could ruin the livability of the upscale neighbourhood.

The developments paint "a clear and disturbing picture" for Yorkville and the surrounding area, Gordon Stratford, the review panel chair, said in his summary of the Bloor-Yorkville Study in March (the details of the meeting were only made public yesterday.) "It shows a growing cumulative impact that puts this area of the city at serious risk."

toronto yorkvilleBloor between Yonge and Bay is a prime target for what planners call "intensification" - the practice of encouraging an area to grow vertically - because of its location at a major subway interchange, but with several tall buildings already in the area, including the Hudson's Bay Centre, the CIBC tower at 2 Bloor West, and the Four Seasons Hotel, the experts are getting nervous.

The members of the panel "felt the assembly of projects would not deliver in terms of complexity of experience, aesthetic pleasure, and quality of life," according to their report. "They expressed unanimous concern and caution about whether this was an appropriate direction for the development of the City, suggesting that they would result in an over-crowded and unpleasant environment, the consequences of which should be seriously considered."

The panel were also troubled by the anticipated lack of public space, parks, wind protection and natural sunlight if all of the projects were allowed to be built as currently designed. The wall created by the towers would cast places like Jessie Ketchum Park and Town Hall Square in shadow at peak times of the day, they said.

The 70-storey, 234-metre 1 Bloor East tower, currently under construction on the southeast corner of Yonge and Bloor, will also become a factor when it tops out in the next year or so.

50 YorkvilleIn response, the panel suggested the buildings that have yet to receive approval should be scaled back, reduced in density and lowered in height. The proposal for 50 Bloor Street West, which started out as an 83-storey behemoth, has been significantly trimmed and streamlined since the plans surfaced last April, judging from the latest images.

The panel also lamented "the 'first to the post' style of development" that has arisen without a proper planning framework for Yorkville. "This could end up compromising the very quality of the neighbourhood that currently makes it so attractive."

City staff will consider the Design Review Panel's findings as the proposals move through the approval process.

Are you concerned about the development near Bloor Street? Is the panel justified in their concern or should transit nodes like this be allowed to become dense with towers?

Chris Bateman is a staff writer at blogTO. Follow him on Twitter at @chrisbateman.

Images: Wallman Architects, Minto Group; R. Varacalli Architect Inc., NAK Design Group, ERA Architects; Pellow & Associates, Morguard Corp.

Huge blackout hits the west end of Toronto

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toronto blackout 2014A large portion of Toronto's west end is in darkness this evening following a sudden and massive power outage. The lights went off around 9:15 and some reports on Twitter mentioned a bright flash in the sky.

Toronto Hydro says the issue was caused by a Hydro One transmission issue. The latest outage map on the electricity provider's website says the worst of the problem is confined to an area south of the 401, west of Caledonia Road, where more than 25,000 customers are in the dark. Service is also patchy south of Lawrence, west of Bathurst, through midtown and into the Port Lands.

toronto blackout mapSome traffic lights are out (remember to treat intersections as a four-way stop) but the TTC says full service has resumed on Line 2 (Bloor-Danforth.) Brad Ross said the power failure knocked out some communication systems, leading to a delay deploying shuttle buses. The vehicles are still out while service below ground catches up. Streetcar service was unaffected.

In the last few minutes, power has been restored to parts of High Park, Roncesvalles, Bloor West Village, the Junction, St. Clair West, the Annex, and pockets north to around Dufferin and Glencairn.

Mayor Rob Ford told listeners of Joe Warmington's Newstalk 1010 show that power should be restored to the remaining customers before midnight.

Chris Bateman is a staff writer at blogTO. Follow him on Twitter at @chrisbateman.

Image: Jason Tang/Twitter


The Best Grilled Cheese Sandwich in Toronto

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grilled cheese torontoThe best grilled cheese sandwich in Toronto satisfies nostalgic cravings for that straightforward-but-awesome combination of bread and gooey melted cheese. The childhood favourite is a staple at lunch counters citywide, and even has whole menus devoted to its goodness. Whether you're a purist interested only the standard orange cheddar, or you're open to innovative extras (say, pulled pork or poached pears) there's a sandwich on this list for you.

Here are the best grilled cheese sandwiches in Toronto.

See also:

5 Toronto restaurants serving gourmet grilled cheese sandwiches
The Best Sandwiches in Toronto
The Best BLT in Toronto
The Best Peameal Bacon Sandwiches in Toronto
The Best Mac and Cheese in Toronto

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Today in Toronto: Free Poutine, Vintage Crawl, Lido Pimienta + Tanya Tagaq, Michel Brault, Man Forever

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Today in TorontoToday in Toronto we can say the two words you most want to hear: free poutine. Lou Dawg's is celebrating their anniversary on King St. from noon until 2am, and the party includes a rib eating contest and - let me say it again, because I care about you - free poutine. Note: the evening before Good Friday will be a great night for both film and music fans to throw on a spring jacket and head outside (we don't even have room to list all the great concerts here). For more events, click on over to our events section.

Have an event you'd like to plug? Submit your own listing to the blogTO Toronto events calendar or contact us directly.

Photo via Lou Dawg's Facebook

Female-driven punk bands to take over Smiling Buddha

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Girls just wanna have punkThe no-longer-so-divey stage at Smiling Buddha will be rocked and rattled this Friday at Girls Just Wanna Have Punk. The all-ages show will feature ten women-powered punk bands, beginning early on (7pm) with Girls Rock Camp veterans Unfinished Business, and finishing off with in-your-face rock from Terminals.

Proceeds will benefit Sistering: A Woman's Place and Girls Rock Camp Toronto, and the price of admission gets you a copy of the freshly released This is Not a Test compilation, chock-full of female-driven punk from across the world.

This is Not a Test is being released through High Art For The Low Down (HA4TLD), a Toronto-based DIY punk label that has been throwing hardcore shows in Toronto's south end since 2005. The label has been a nurturing force in Toronto's hardcore scene, taking on projects like a punk comp CD benefiting the Books To Prisoners program in collaboration with Girls just Wanna Have Punk organizer Erika Supply.

Beaver SlapThe comp features locals like U.T.I., Anti-Vibes, and City Death, plus bands from Czech Replublic, the United States, and across Canada. I scored a few tracks prior to the release, and spoke to Supply about why Friday's show is important.

Inspiration for Girls Just Wanna Have Punk stems from Supply's immersion in the punk community, where she's seen the presence of women overlooked for far too long.

"My hopes are that this show and compilation are a tangible way of showing that, although the punk scene can seem like a boys' club, women are kicking ass in the same scene. We all need to keep making space for one another by working together and showing support."

With these kind of initiatives, a change in Toronto's too often male-dominated music landscape is inevitable. The support system being built by organizations like Girls Rock Camp (July 14-20 and August 11-17, 2014 at the Tranzac) helps young women to carve out a confident place and identity for themselves as musicians. As time goes on these girls will no doubt continue to give back to the community they've grown to be part of.

Girls Just Wanna Have Punk is Friday, April 18, 7pm. $10-$12 including a copy of This is Not a Test. All ages.

Photos of Beaver Slap via Facebook

Refined resto-bar opens in Scotiabank Plaza

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SpeakEasy 21The streetscape at Bay and Adelaide will soon be buzzing with life now that this retro resto-bar plans to add 3,500 square feet of patio space. Located in the heart of the Financial District, the new spot swears that its focus is on the drink menu, though it features a menu of munchies that's way more sophisticated than any snack bar ought to be.

Read my profile of SpeakEasy 21 in the restaurants section.

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