Category Archives: corktown

Toronto Centre All Candidates Meeting this Sunday, October 5, 2008

Saw this in the CRBA Google group, and thought it was worth reposting (links added are mine). Jenna and I plan to attend.

Toronto Centre All Candidates Meeting
Sunday, October 5, 2008
5:00 - 7:00 pm
at
C’est What
67 Front Street east of Church Street
You are invited to an informal gathering to meet your riding candidates [...]

Popeye’s to open in former Coffee Time location

Earlier this year, the Coffee Time at Queen and Sherbourne closed its doors because the owner was arrested (for allegedly selling drugs out of the store).
It has sat, windows papered over, for months, until recently, they tore down the Coffee Time sign and repainted:

A few days ago, they installed a Popeye’s Chicken and Seafood sign [...]

Post office at Queen and Parliament

According to the sign out front, the Canada Post in the Shoppers Drug Mart across the street is set to open today:

Lots of pizza at Queen and Parliament

For some reason, our corner is going crazy for pizza.
Today, I stopped into the soon-to-open Magic Oven at 360 Queen St. East, and talked to the owner, Tony about my little WiFi project. He said they plan to open for tomorrow night, Friday the 20th.

A bit farther west, there seems to be a Domino’s going [...]

Mesh network update

My little Meraki-based public WiFi project has expanded south.
Marty Millionaire on the southwest corner of Queen and Parliament now has a repeater.
If you’re in the neighbourhood, look for SSID Corktown .

Free Neighbourhood WiFi at Queen and Parliament

Inspired by Peter Rukavina’s experiments with mesh networking, I ordered three Meraki Minis this week, and installed two of them this morning. One sits on a bookshelf in our living room, and the other points north out our back window.
You can see the status of the network, named Corktown, right here online. And if [...]

The changing face of Queen and Parliament

The intersection of Queen and Parliament — a major intersection in my new neightbourhood — seems to be undergoing a bit of a facelift these day. Part of me wonders if its a bit of the Leslieville revamp creeping east. About two years ago, a Shoppers Drug Mart appeared on the southeast corner:

Right next door [...]

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