Hello and welcome! We are here once more with a roundup of stories, upcoming events, general happenings, and updates from WEP HQ! All the important details from our neighbourhood that we want to share, it’s your Weekly WEP.
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From the Pages of WEP
Your first look at the gorgeous wrap around cover of our latest issue, delivering this weekend to all subscribers — Welcome To Rexdale.
Featuring the iconic 1911 Looff carousel found at The Woodbine Fantasy
Fair Mall (photographed by WEP photo director Jalani Morgan)
Read all about; the Woodbine Fantasy Fair Mall, a champion canary, Chloe Brown’s Rexdale, and so, so much more. All in the pages of WEP.
News you can hold in your hand in big, beautiful print. Delivered right to where you read it.
Upcoming Community Events
Wavelength Music goes “East to West” across downtown Toronto for the 24th edition of its annual Wavelength Winter Festival.
the Toronto-based fest is celebrating it’s 24th anniversary, and excited to bring together the local music community for one cozy weekend of programming — championing diverse, emerging artists while animating new and innovative music spaces across the city!
more details HERE
Toronto author Melodie Edwards in support of her Feb. 27 book release ONCE PERSUADED, TWICE SHY.
This modern reimagining of Jane Austen’s Persuasion is a slow-burning, second chance romance set in beautiful Niagara-on-the-Lake, and full of witty banter, romantic angst and compelling characters.
Melodie will be hosting a launch celebration on Tuesday, February 27th at 7:00pm at Type Books (888 Queen St. W Toronto, ON M6J 1G5), with an in-conversation event with Hannah Mary McKinnon moderated by Kayleigh Platz.
BLOORDALE BEACH PARK could be the name of Croatia Street's new park.
Sign the petition to help make this happen: www.change.org/bloordalebeachpark
Paper petitions are available in Bloordale at B-Side Barbers, Nuthouse, and TOWN, in case you'd prefer to sign with pen on paper—if you don't see the petition there, just ask.
Upcoming at WEP Central
This year, at WEP Central, we wanted to build on a foundation that we started to pour when we opened our doors to mayoral candidates for town hall discussions ahead of the 2023 mayoral election. Bricks were added when we hosted scores of supporters standing up for public spaces at our telethon for Ontario Place. The guiding question was: Together, what can we do to repair, maintain and hold onto the city we love?
It’s with that spirit that we’re embarking on a series of conversations with great thinkers in our city, to ask them what they think we can do to put the pieces of the city back together.
To launch this series of conversations, we have a one-of-a-kind kickoff event: the journalist and 26th Governor General of Canada Adrienne Clarkson sitting in conversation with her partner, writer and philosopher John Ralston Saul, moderated by city columnist Edward Keenan.
Keenan will talk to Clarkson and Saul about their lives as Torontonians, where this city has been, where it’s going and how it can become the best Toronto possible.
We hope that you’ll join us as we sit and work together on a vision for the city’s future.
Join us on Sunday, February 25th at 11 AM
Seating for this event will be limited. Tickets $40 +HST / person.
An ongoing fundraising series for the West End Phoenix, Sponsored by BMO