YQNA

YQNA will be hosting its second meeting in cyberspace on July 14, 2020, with the Island Airport and 200 Queens Quay W. at the top of the agenda. Please join us! http://yqna.ca/?p=2652

Beginning March 26, #Toronto’s Parks green spaces will remain accessible, but all amenities. e.g. playgrounds, off-leash dog runs, etc. within City parks will ...be closed. #parksclosed #COVID2019 #stayhome #PhysicalDistancing Toronto Parks, Forestry and Recreation YQNA -York Quay Neighbourhood Association St. Lawrence Neighbourhood Association Gooderham & Worts Neighbourhood Association Corktown Toronto Parkdale Residents Association Scarborough Bluffs Community Association BluffsTo Birch Cliff Community Group, Toronto Birch Cliff News Bluffs Monitor The Beach Village Leslieville BIA Riverside Neighbourhood Humber Bay Shores Residents Association NoJetsTO CommunityAIR

YQNA's March 18 meeting is cancelled due to public health concerns. http://yqna.ca/?p=2652

Could a big trench for a gas pipeline rip up Queens Quay? The scenic bike path along the Waterfront is Enbridge Gas’s first choice for a 4.5 kilometre dig for new gas pipes. York Quay Neighbourhood Association (YQNA) strongly objects! Tax payers paid $130 million for this award-winning promenade in 2015. Crowds of tourists and people from the GTA flock to the beauty and cultural events here. YQNA asks Enbridge to pick Harbour Street instead for these gas pipes. You can too by emailing: [email protected] before the deadline on February 22, 2020. http://yqna.ca/?p=3055

Happy New Year from all of us at Waterfront for All! Wishing you all peace, happiness and the full enjoyment of our wonderful waterfront from Etobicoke Creek to... the Rouge River. St. Lawrence Neighbourhood Association Parkdale Residents Association BluffsTo Scarborough Bluffs Community Association YQNA -York Quay Neighbourhood Association Bathurst Quay Neighbourhood Association (BQNA) NoJetsTO Birch Cliff News, Humber Bay Shores Discussion Guild Park Outer Harbour Marina The Beach Village Leslieville BIA Riverside Bia The Waterfront BIA Gooderham & Worts Neighbourhood Association Corktown Toronto Waterfront Toronto Toronto and Region Conservation Authority National Yacht Club Algonquin Island Association Clubhouse Toronto Islands Able Sail Toronto

Pleased with the turnout this evening! Glad to have MP Adam Vaughan, MP Julie Dabrusin, Chris Glover MPP, Spadina-Fort York, and Norm Di Pasquale, Ward 9 TCDSB ...Trustee in attendance. And our featured speakers Chris Glaisek of Waterfront Toronto and Nancy Gaffney of the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority. We heard key updates on the future of the Central Waterfront, the Scarborough Waterfront Project, Ashbridges Bay, Rouge Park, the challenge of high lake levels along the waterfront. Parkdale Residents Association YQNA -York Quay Neighbourhood Association, St. Lawrence Neighbourhood Association, Gooderham & Worts Neighbourhood Association - GWNA Inc., NoJetsTO, CommunityAIR, Scarborough Bluffs Community Association The Beach Village, Leslieville BIA, Toronto Islands, Humber Bay Shores Ratepayers & Residents Association, The Waterfront BIA, BluffsTo, Bluffs Monitor.

Concerned about the recent announcements and cuts to education? Come out to an education town hall with Stephanie Donaldson, Chris Glover MPP, Spadina-Fort York and I to ask questions, learn more and tell us what your priorities are! #topoli #onpoli #onted

Tomorrow Chris Glover MPP, Spadina-Fort York is hosting a Holiday Levee! Get to know our excellent MPP and enjoy a hot beverage and some treats!

What better way to ring in the holiday season than to skate at The Bentway on opening day with Chris Glover MPP, Spadina-Fort York! FREE hot chocolate and cookies await! #topoli #onpoli #onted

Today is Adam Vaughan’s Ports Modernization meeting. See our submission here: waterfrontforall.ca/portsmodernization, RSVP to attend the meeting here: avaughan.liberal.ca/events/ #topoli #cdnpoli

A letter from Waterfront for All to Federal Minister Marc Garneau re the proceeds of sale of the Port Authority land at 30 Bay Street. Subject: Sale of 30 Bay for $96 million; PortsToronto should be accountable to the public Dear Minister Garneau:... Please find enclosed a letter from Waterfront from All, an umbrella group of citizens organizations interested in the revitalization of Toronto’s Waterfront. We urge greater public accountability and transparency as to the proceeds of the recent sale of 30 Bay Street near Toronto Harbour for $96 million, by PortsToronto. You recently approved this windfall by granting Supplementary Letters Patent giving permission for the sale. This huge amount of public money flowed entirely to PortsToronto, to be spent entirely as it sees fit. It should have at least gone into the general coffers of the federal government. It should NOT be left entirely to the discretion of PortsToronto, an unelected and unaccountable port authority under the Canada Marine Act, often at odds with local residents, as to what happens to such a large amount of public money. There are many competing funding needs around the Waterfront, now undergoing a multi-decade rebirth, one of the largest revitalization projects in the world. It is irresponsible to allow one agency, notoriously lacking in transparency, to allocate the money to its own pet projects that may well be at cross-purposes with waterfront revitalization as a whole. This case will serve as a precedent for the future. There are other hugely valuable properties around Toronto Harbour of which PortsToronto is custodian. Can it sell those lands too and keep the huge proceeds to spend as it pleases? All three levels of government, through Waterfront Toronto, co-fund and have an interest in the revitalization of Toronto’s waterfront. There must be transparency among all stakeholders as to what happens to that money. All three levels of government, and the public, should have input. Edward Hore Chair, Waterfront for All Barrister & Solicitor Edward Hore Professional Services Corporation 10 Queens Quay West, Suite 609 Toronto, Ontario M5J 2R9 Tel.: 416 455-9323

Come to the YQNA General Meeting. Lots happening on our Waterfront. Wednesday, June 7, 7-9 pm at the Radisson on the Waterfront.