The organizers of the Women's March Toronto were expecting a few thousand people to show up today, in solidarity with the huge Women's March on Washington.

However, the crowd that gathered at Queen's Park, and then marched down towards City Hall, by far exceeded expectations. An estimated 60,000 people showed up.

The diverse group, filled with people of all ages, started assembling around noon to hear from a roster of speakers. There was a moment of silence at 1 p.m., and then the March began down University Ave. while the song "We are Family" played in the background.

Here are some of the highlights from today's Women's March as seen on social media.

Free events in Toronto this week will help get you through the grey days of January with one of the city's most intriguing new events. The Toronto Light Festival is organized by the folks behind the annual Toronto Christmas Market, so it'll be a lovely thing to walk through to brighten up your night and Instagram feed.

All food trends eventually make their way to Toronto, and this winter, it looks like a golden one's getting settled in the city.

Turmeric lattes, or golden milk as they're are referred to in the U.K., have been making their way onto menus at health-conscious juice bars and cafes across Toronto. But what makes these hot beverages so alluring, beyond their stunning yellow glow?

"We’re trying to flush out whether it’s part of the trend or mystery surrounding it. A lot of people are curious about taste and what it’s all about," says Kate Taylor, who owns Nutbar. 

"But it’s been for sure our most popular hot beverage over the past few weeks by a mile." Taylor thinks it's a great alternative for those who want to replace coffee or tea with another warm beverage.

Greenhouse Juice Co., just introduced a lineup of hot drinks, including a turmeric latte it calls it a Gold Star latte.

Since it's made with cold-pressed almond milk, the Gold Star is pretty thick (or dare I say, goopy). Thanks to the addition of ginger, however, it's quite pleasant to sip on. It tastes super healthy too - much healthier than my cream-laden daily coffee.

Along with these spots, turmeric lattes are also on the menu at Thrive Organic Kitchen and Offsite.

Turmeric evangelists, such as Gwyneth Paltrow and Dr. Oz, as Maclean's reports, claim the yellow root has extraordinary anti-inflammatory properties thanks to its active ingredient curcumin. But as Maclean's writes, there's little to no evidence to support this.

In a Huffington Post blog titled "Turmeric Was India's Cure-All Long Before Hipsters Made It A Latte," writer Deepi Harish takes readers through turmeric's long history before it became one of the trendiest foods of 2016.

So will your turmeric latte give you super, anti-inflammatory powers? Who knows? But will it look great on Instagram? Definitely. 

Toronto's craft beer scene seems to be booming, and one neighbourhood's becoming particularly sudsy.

Liberty Village, known for its historical industrial architecture and its condos, has lots of options for craft beer drinkers. From multiple beer bars to a bona fide brew pub - those who live in work in the area have needn't walk far to find locally brewed offerings on tap.

The Craft Brasserie - with its 120 taps - 3 Brewers, Local Public Eatery, Brazen Head and now Big Rock are all within a few blocks radius of each other.

Big Rock just moved here from Calgary. It opened its taproom and retail store around Christmas and plans to opens its brewpub, in collaboration with Oliver and Bonacini, at the beginning of February.

Head Ontario brewmaster Connor K. Patrick says Big Rock will brew right on site in Liberty Village. This smaller operation joins the brand's main production facility in Etobicoke.

This means in-house brewer Dan Ellis can be creative with what he whips up for the Big Rock Brewpub. He expects to have beer like a white raspberry Berliner weisse, a chocolate stout and a black plum Baltic porter on tap when the brewpub opens.

Ellis has lived in Liberty Village for the past five years and thinks its proximity to destinations such as BMO Field and the newly renamed Budweiser Stage make it a great fit for craft beer-focused establishments.

“With the type of crowd that comes through Liberty for events like that, I think a craft a brewpub is a welcome site,” he says.

Casandra Campbell from Liberty Village Brewery Company says she her team saw the neighbourhood's potential as a craft beer hub when they got started five years ago. "It’s kind of cool to see all that playing out now," she gushes.

Liberty Village Brewery Company's signature beer, 504 Pale Ale, has been on tap at The Craft Brasserie since day one. And while they don't brew in the neighbourhood, they're still looking for a spot in the area to set up a tasting room.

The Liberty Village BIA thinks the neighbourhood's younger-skewing demographic enables craft beer bars and pubs to flourish. 

"Liberty Village is a true destination neighbourhood. With a mix of over 600 creative, tech and media businesses, and a vibrant millennial  population, Liberty Village is natural place for craft beer and brewpubs," said the BIA in a statement.

Unlike other craft beer-oriented neighbourhoods, such as the Junction and the Junction Triangle - brewpubs such as Big Rock and 3 Brewers are part of much larger chains. 

And while there's lots of craft beer-related competition in the neighbourhood, Ellis, for instance, doesn't seem too worried.

"It’s a pretty welcoming industry," he says. "And obviously if Liberty Village can become a little bit of a craft beer destination that’s great for everyone.”

Photographer Scarlet O'Neill has shot nearly 500 weddings. Now, she's bringing a group of her contemporaries together for an art show at the Gladstone Hotel.

Photo by Erin Leydon.

Not only does she does she hope to show how wedding photography's evolved - from stiff portraits to more natural shots - she also wants to create an alternative wedding show of sorts to help highlight and support the industry here in Toronto.

Photo by Hugh Whitaker.

The Love (Actually) Exhibition starts on February 2, just in time for Valentine's Day. But O'Neill explains the show's about more than just romantic love; it also features the special, intimate moments between local families, as well as Toronto-based couples.

"We’re focusing on the narrative of the pieces and also pointing out the different vendors involved," she says.

As a wedding photographer, she relies mainly on word-of-mouth referrals, so she rarely participates in conventions. But she did go to one while planning her own wedding last year.

“You almost feel like you can’t take it all in because it’s so busy and it’s just so crazy, so I feel like this is a cool kind of spin on it," she says, noting how February's still inquiry season.

Photo by Jenn & Dave Stark Photography.

If a visitor's inspired by something they see in one of the photographs - like a dress or floral arrangement, for instance - they can learn more about it because all of the vendor information will be listed nearby.

But beyond that, O'Neill hopes to dispel some of the assumptions others make about wedding photography, a specialty area many such photographers try to downplay.

Photo by Frances Beatty.

Although today, thanks to the proliferation of wedding television shows, Instagram and Pinterest, it's easier and easier for those outside of the industry - and even those who are years away from planning a wedding - to appreciate wedding photography as more of an art.

For O'Neill, that's really what it's all about. "I think being able to put together a showcase of these real moments really shows people the worth and value behind wedding photography."

Toronto was treated to a series of dense fog events this weekend, which turned the city into a moody and beautiful landscape just waiting to be captured on camera. The fog was at its thickest at dawn yesterday and today, though various areas also saw a patch roll in last night that made the city look like a set for a film noir.

On side streets, cars appeared out of nowhere before their headlights cast wide beams illuminating all the water in the air. The tops of skyscrapers were engulfed by mist, leaving only an ethereal glow in the sky. And the CN Tower? Well, at times it disappeared altogether.

Here's what Toronto looked like consumed by fog this weekend.

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Toronto could have a completely reshaped downtown over the next 15 years. In the same way that South Core pushed heavy commercial and retail development below Front St., a mega project on the former Unilever site at the foot of the Don Valley Parkway will pull the core of the city east.

Aerial view showing scale of East Harbour site. Rendering via First Gulf / City of Toronto.

The plans for what's known as East Harbour have been in the works for some time, but only recently has the full scale of the project come to light in the wake of supporting documentation filed with the city. It reveals that beyond the transit and commercial priorities of the development, the retail component is going to absolutely huge.

Well, to step back for a moment, everything about this project is huge. Set upon some 60 acres of land, it would represent one of the largest master developments Toronto has witnessed. The proposed transit hub would integrate GO train lines, a streetcar route, and possibly a relief subway line if we ever get such a thing built.

Outdoor retail space with transit hub in background. Rendering via First Gulf / City of Toronto.

Right now, there's 11 million square feet of office space proposed for the site, spread over a number of towers. Yes, that's right. This isn't more condos. On the contrary, this is the place where developer First Gulf hopes that residents in places like the East Donlands and Bayfront will come to work, eat, and shop. 

There's already been considerable buzz about the very European-looking concept drawings of the transit hub, which would curl along existing tracks with a huge, multi-layered glass shed. It's the type of building Toronto's always dreamed of having, and would help to take strain off of perpetually busy Union Station. 

Pedestrian areas and street-side shops. Rendering via First Gulf / City of Toronto.

But the retail concepts are also fascinating to consider. The proposal calls for a whopping 2 million square feet of retail to be placed on site, which would be divided in half shops and restaurants accessible only indoors (via the transit hub and various office towers) and stores with entrances from the street.

In other words, the goal from the start is to make this as far from a traditional mall or power centre as possible. The planning documents refer to this component as a retail market, which is meant to gesture to the way that shops and restaurants are spread across the site.

Preliminary overview of site highlights. Rendering via First Gulf / City of Toronto.

So while there will be more total retail square footage than Yorkdale Shopping Centre (1.7 million square feet), it won't look anything like it and is likely to have significantly less leasable space based on the layout. Regardless, it's a development worthy of adjectives like "huge," "sprawling," "massive," etc.

There will be new streets, new transit stops, new towers, and a hell of a lot of new shops and restaurants. When it's all said and done more than a decade from now, the shape of Toronto's downtown might be completely transformed by East Harbour. 

Things to do in Toronto this week range from the adorable to the spectacular. The Toronto Light Festival kicks off, showcasing work from local and international artists. There's also a piano festival, Robbie Burns Day, and the city's first Italian restaurant week.

Streetcar Crowsnest is a dedicated performance space for theatre-goers east of the Don and the official home of Crow’s Theatre. The theatre company, founded in 1983, was a touring one for much of its existence, and now finally has this permanent place to call its own.

Situated on arterial Carlaw in Leslieville, the theatre has a welcoming lobby that's big but not too intimidating, industrial but warm with touches of wood. And of course, it’s a bee line from the entrance to the bar, well-stocked with local craft beer like Left Field on tap, and Hop City and Ace Hill cans.

There are two theatres, the Guloien main stage and the Scotiabank community theatre off to the side. While they may share these areas with other theatre companies who need the rehearsal space, they’re already bringing in literary, music, and youth programs, and are hosting the storytelling series The Spoke.

There’s also an art feature in the lobby, more eye-catching from outside. It’s a piece by local artist Jacob Yerex, dozens of messy, curving, floppy white shapes which when suspended in mid-air in a group look like a flock of birds, befitting the theme of the place.

The great thing about Crowsnest is the Guloien stage is completely modular. It’s a giant black box with a 27-foot ceiling that can seat around 200, and these simple black chairs can be moved around on mobile platforms to create whatever effect best serves the content of the theatrical performance.

The space will also feature a restaurant called, appropriately, Gare de l’Est. The people behind Table 17 and Ascari Enoteca, John Sinopoli and Erik Joyal, will run this brasserie concept. At the bar, for every show there’ll be a custom cocktail and cocktails are actually allowed in all spaces.

As Artistic Director for Crow’s Chris Abraham puts it, Streetcar Crowsnest is “at the crest of a wave” in terms of arts in Toronto. East end theatre buffs are bound to agree.

This week on DineSafe there's a closure to announce. Kowloon Dim Sum Restaurant found themselves in hot water as they landed seven infractions, which included failure to prevent gross unsanitary conditions. That just never sounds good. 

See which other restaurants got carded by DineSafe this week.

Darband Restaurant (879 York Mills Rd.)

• Inspected on: January 16, 2017
• Inspection finding: Yellow (Conditional)
• Number of infractions: 3 (Minor: 1, Significant: 2)
• Crucial infractions include: Operator failed to wash hands when required.

Death In Venice (536 Queen St. West)

• Inspected on: January 18, 2017
• Inspection finding: Yellow (Conditional)
• Number of infractions: 5 (Minor: 3, Significant: 1, Crucial: 1)
• Crucial infractions include: Operator failed to wash hands when required.

Kowloon Dim Sum Restaurant (5 Baldwin St.)

• Inspected on: January 18, 2017
• Inspection finding: Red (Closed)
• Number of infractions: 7 (Minor: 3, Significant: 2, Crucial: 2)
• Crucial infractions include: Operator failed to prevent gross unsanitary conditions and operator failed to maintain hazardous foods.

Anh Dao (383 Spadina Ave.)

• Inspected on: January 19, 2017
• Inspection finding: Yellow (Conditional)
• Number of infractions: 2 (Minor: 1, Significant: 1)
• Crucial infractions include: N/A

Banjara (164 Eglinton Ave. East)

• Inspected on: January 19, 2016
• Inspection finding: Yellow (Conditional)
• Number of infractions: 3 (Minor: 2, Significant: 1)
• Crucial infractions include: N/A

Kiva's Bagel Bar (15 St. Clair West)

• Inspected on: January 19, 2017
• Inspection finding: Yellow (Conditional)
• Number of infractions: 2 (Minor: 1, Significant: 1)
• Crucial infractions include: N/A

The Jerk Joint (238 Queen St. West)

• Inspected on: January 20, 2017
• Inspection finding: Yellow (Conditional)
• Number of infractions: 6 (Minor: 2, Crucial: 4)
• Crucial infractions include: Operator failed to wash hands when required, failure to protect food from contamination or adulteration, operator failed to ensure food is not contaminated/adulterated and operator fail to thoroughly re-heat hazardous food items.

Note: The above businesses each received infractions from DineSafe as originally reported on the DineSafe site. This does not imply that any of these businesses have not subsequently corrected the issue and received a passing grade by DineSafe inspectors. For the latest status for each of the mentioned businesses, including details on any subsequent inspections, please be sure to check the DineSafe site.

The best new cafes in Toronto are innovating what it means to be a humble coffee bean. Light, robust, aromatic, citrusy, tangy, delicate...these guys can do it all, and get you to work on time, to boot. 

Here are the best new cafes that opened in Toronto during 2016.

It's easy to stay cooped up indoors during the wintertime; why venture outside unless you absolutely have to, right? But a new art project wants to change that.

Winter Diamonds (Platant, Music Garden East)

Ice Breakers, from the Waterfront BIA and the team behind Winter Stations, made its debut this weekend.

Incognito (Curio Art Consultancy and Jaspal Riyait, Rees Street Parkette)

The outdoor exhibition features five public art installations scattered along Queen's Quay. And instead of continuing to walk around with your head down, these sculptural installations will force you to pay attention to your surroundings.

Tailored Twins (Ferris + Associates, Peter Street Basin)

Take the Tailored Twins, of the giant gold hands by Ferris + Associates, which seem to grasp the skyline, for instance. They add a little bit of whimsy to the otherwise monotonous winter landscape.

Leeward Fleet (RAW, Canada Square at Harbourfront Centre)

Two of the installations are interactive. Leeward Fleet, by RAW at Canada Square, invites you to hop aboard pivoting sailboats and Icebox, by Polymetic, at HTO Park lets you walk around a giant box perched beside the water.

Icebox (Polymetic, HTO Park)

While this exhibition isn't as transformative as Winter Stations, it still provides a welcome artistic reprieve during these long winter months. The installations will stick around until February 26.

One of Toronto's most famous soup purveyors is now appearing at a curbside near you. While winter may be an odd time to launch a food truck,this past weekend popular local restaurant RaviSoups rolled out their very own. 

Similar to their multiple brick-and-mortar locations, the RaviSoups food truck will serve a full menu of wraps, soups and salads. This includes crowd favourites like curried apricot and red lentil soup as well as grilled flank steak wraps.

Most soups and wraps will set you back about $10.

The truck is already roaming the streets so keep your eyes peeled to Toronto Food Trucks to find out their exact location.

We all know Toronto's housing market is on fire. We smashed real estate records in 2016 and houses continue to sell for way over asking all over the GTA. But how do we compare to other cities around the world?

According to the 13th Annual Demographia Housing Affordability Survey, Toronto has the 13th least affordable housing market in the world, right behind London, U.K.

Demographia measures affordability with a widely used metric called the Medium Multiple, which it describes as "the median house price divided by the median household income." Toronto's Medium Multiple is 7.7.

The least affordable market is Hong Kong (18.1), followed by Sydney, Australia (12.2) and Vancouver (11.8), respectively. 

Yorkville is a Toronto neighbourhood experiencing major redevelopment pressure.

Along with being the site of one of the city's most dramatic condo booms of the last decade, the neighbourhood is also in the midst of a retail transformation, as its smaller shops slowly make way for even more luxury brands seeking square footage.

The latest step in this process involves the buildings between 102 and 108 Yorkville Ave. First Capital Realty, the company that owns Yorkville Village (formerly Hazelton Lanes) and a number of other properties in the area, plans to construct two midsize buildings in place of the existing Victorian-era houses-turned shops. 

One of the development's casualties is Asuka Japanese Restaurant, a popular sushi joint. It closed down at the end of 2016 after 28 years in business, citing the reconstruction of its home at 108 Yorkville as the reason why it shut down. 

One of the things that made Yorkville's retail scene unique was the manner in which the area's historical homes were converted into shopping spaces, many of which included lower levels, as was the case with Asuka. Now, as these buildings disappear, lease rates for premium spaces price older tenants out of the market.

The other casualty, of course, is the historical buildings themselves. Despite the architectural quirkiness that they add to Yorkville, they don't enjoy heritage protection because of the extensive alterations that have been made to them over the years.

Still, you could argue that these very alterations are worth preserving as a style typical of the neighbourhood — an argument that's been playing out further west on the street with another new condo proposal.

Yorkville is a neighbourhood that's undergone sweeping changes in the last 50 years, from its days as a hippie haven to a luxury shopping destination, but the newest version of the neighbourhood doesn't have a lot of room to keep its old character and tenants (remember the Coffee Mill?).

Some of it still remains, but it's vanishing quickly.

Just when you think Toronto's making real progress on preserving its built heritage, a lovely historical building gets demolished before receiving protected status.

Such is the case at 2444 Yonge St., where a Bank of Montreal building dating back to 1907 met the wrecking crew last week, reports CTV News.

The fly-by-night demolition is irksome for a number of reasons, especially since the previous developer filed an application with the city to preserve part of the property in a new five storey building on the site. It was an example of facadism, but it would have surely been better than this result.

A heritage study was launched in conjunction with those plans, but it was never completed after the property changed hands last year. The new owner of the site pulled the initial application before subsequently filing a request to demolish the building on January 18.

Guess what? It doesn't take very long to tear a building down. As of this afternoon, the site was a heap of rubble.

Local councillor Christin Carmichael Greb blamed the loss of the building on poor communication between city departments, but that sounds like an understatement. 

"It was identified as a heritage site in the Yonge Eglinton Secondary Plan," Linda McCarthy, director of the Lytton Park Residents’ Organization, noted in a press release.

"Although not yet listed on the City’s Inventory of Heritage Properties, City staff had identified the existing building to be of heritage interest with heritage value and they were officially reviewing it."

Strictly speaking, all of this went down by the books, but it seems that more than one person was asleep at the switch when a demolition permit was granted on a building that heritage staff characterized as significant and worthy of review for preservation.

In about five years, Toronto will unveil the largest expansion of the TTC's rapid transit network since the 1960s. The Crosstown LRT will consist of 25 stops stretching across 19 kilometres of Eglinton Avenue, 10 of which will be underground.

While this massive project won't open until 2021 (assuming it stays on target), it's already transforming Toronto in profound ways.

The construction of rapid transit spurs development, whether it's a heavy rail subway or an LRT, but the placement of a new line is always crucial. In the case of the Eglinton Crosstown, there are already plenty of signs that the route will lead to a huge increase in density along the street after which it's named.

It'd be overreaching to claim the condo boom in and around Yonge and Eglinton as the direct result of the coming LRT. The area is already so well served by transit thanks to its proximity to the Yonge Line.

When you follow the route away from the core, however, it's amazing to see how many developments have already been proposed, many of which will be completed shortly after the LRT opens.

As developers look for less expensive land outside of the city's core, the Crosstown represents an ideal scenario for future growth. Much of this will be concentrated on the east side of the line, as that's the corridor where huge sites of land are ripe for redevelopment. 

When LRVs start running on the Crosstown, they will emerge from the underground portion of the line just east of Laird Avenue to pass through an Eglinton Avenue marked by tall towers and new mixed use communities in place of the mid-century shopping malls and other low density land uses.

At Leslie Street, there's the On the Park development in the works at the site of the former Four Seasons Inn on the Park. It'll have 1240 condo units spread over four towers ranging between 28 and 39 storeys. Throw in 943 square metres of commercial space, and you have a whole new community. 

One stop further east, there's an even bigger redevelopment in the works on the former IBM/Celestica lands. This is a 60 acre site now controlled by a consortium of developers (Diamond Corp., Lifetime Developments, and Context Development Inc.).

We don't know exactly what this will look like when it's all said and done, but concept drawings show what you might characterize as a brand new neighbourhood here, complete with residential, retail, office space, parks and a community centre. 

Continuing along in our brand new Flexity Freedom LRV, we pass by the Don Valley Parkway before arriving at the next redevelopment sites. The sea of parking lots that currently marks this area will be entirely transformed when both Eglinton Square shopping mall and the Golden Mile become vertically oriented mixed use communities. 

The plans for Eglinton Square call for 1,640 residential units spread over five buildings ranging from 25 to 40 storeys. There will also be a major retail component preserving the current use of the site as it's diversified and intensified. 

The Golden Mile, on the other hand, is even bigger. A whopping 2,500 residential units are proposed for 11 new buildings, again with a significant retail component at grade. The death of the mid-century shopping mall in Toronto will come at least partially at the hands of light rapid transit.

There are also intensification plans in the works at 1891 and 1966-2050 Eglinton East further to the east. And that's just the stuff in the works right now. Can you imagine how many more projects might be proposed over the next five years? 

Planners often point out that the Bloor-Danforth subway line in Toronto never brought with it the type of intensification that you might expect of major subway line. Part of the reason for this is that it services so many established low rise Toronto neighbourhoods and was built along a route already populated with two storey buildings. 

This will not be the case along Eglinton Avenue, particularly in the east end, where the number redevelopment projects already in the works is positively dizzying. 

Events in Toronto today will work your imagination. There's a blanket fort pyjamas party, an art battle, and a Harry Potter trivia night at the Lockhart. It's a day to feel like a kid again!

The Toronto version of the Women's March on Washington brought out an estimated 60,000 people on Saturday to stand up for human rights in solidarity with our neighbours south of the border.

With protests and rallies happening across the world, on all seven continents, participants created poignant signs to express their frustrations with the status quo.

On Facebook, Margaret Atwood - one of Toronto's most famous residents - rounded up a series of signs inspired by her 1985 novel The Handmaid's Tale.

In Atwood's dystopian  story, women have little autonomy and no control over their reproductive rights. A television adaptation, starring Elizabeth Moss as Offred, is currently filming in Toronto.

Here are some of the Atwood-inspired signs that appeared at the Women's Marches this past weekend.

There's a reason why Lawrence Park has some of the most expensive real estate in Toronto. While the lot sizes don't compare to the sprawling estates of the Bridle Path, some streets feature large properties that attract architecturally significant houses - such is the case with 263 Dawlish Avenue. 

This modern brick home is located on a 70 x 172 foot lot, which grants it a gorgeous, private backyard, complete with a basketball court. A new buyer could probably reconfigure the court area, but there's no rush to change the layout, as the existing yard is already such a nice space.

The interior is no slouch either. From the intriguing nook for the bed in the master bedroom to the apartment-sized walk-in closet and the pimped out basement bar, this house drips with luxury and tasteful design. It's difficult to pick out the nicest feature because there are so damn many to choose from. 

Specs

• Address: 263 Dawlish Ave.
• Price: $7,800,000
• Lot Size: 70 x 172 feet
• Bedrooms: 6
• Bathrooms: 8
• Parking: 9
• Walk Score: 28
• Transit Score: 58
• Listing agent: Jovana MacDonald
• Listing ID: C3688717

Noteworthy Features

• 11 foot ceilings
• Large lot
• Garden balcony off of master bedroom
• Basketball court
• Heated garage
• Luxury finishes throughout

Good For

A big, rich family. This home has been designed to be beautiful, but also functional. There's plenty of space here for adults to entertain and kids to play (case in point: the elaborate fort that's right beside the slick basement bar).

Move On If

You don't love the idea of having to drive everywhere you go. This house has a terrible Walk Score and the Transit Score isn't a whole lot better. There will be lots of car trips for residents here, even if it's just to the corner store. Fortunately, there are nine parking spaces.

Thank you to Bosley Real Estate Ltd, Brokerage for sponsoring our house of the week. All editorial written and selected by blogTO.