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Community News & Events
St. Clair staircase
December 22, 2025
A project to restore the long-closed access to the ravine at St. Clair and Avoca is being initiated! A big hooray to that. Phase 1 will be a geotechnical investigation informing the feasibility and positioning of the staircase and Phase 2 will be a design-build contract to expedite implementation.
Bill 60
December 22, 2025
As many of you have noted Bill 60, the ‘Fighting Delays, Building Faster Act, 2025’ passed in the provincial legislature on November 25. The bill sparked a great deal of controversy and was opposed in a 23-1 vote by Toronto City Council over concerns that its passage would weaken tenant rights and increase evictions and homelessness in the city at a time when inventory is low and affordability is a general concern.
Midtown Ravines Group launches two new websites
September 25, 2025
If you want to find out what’s going on with our local ravines, head on over to the two new sites launched by the Midtown Ravines Group, a confederation of ten residents’ associations seeking to revitalize the ravines in Toronto’s midtown core.
Tracking the Health of Yellow Creek
September 25, 2025
Digital Waters is a Toronto-based non-profit developing affordable, made-in-Canada water monitoring technology to better understand and protect our local waterways. We were inspired by Toronto’s ravines. They are amazing veins of nature that stretch across town, always lush and green in the summers and the perfect way to take a break from life. But nothing lives in the waters that carve out Toronto’s ravines.