Friends of Ruby Home, Toronto, Ontario
Friends of Ruby Home, Toronto, Ontario
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Rainbow-coloured fins provide solar shading for the west façade of Friends of Ruby Home, a housing and support facility for LGBTQI2S-identifying youth. Photo courtesy Friends of Ruby
To write about a building you cannot visit is a daunting task. When I took on this assignment amid a global pandemic and in an emergency stay-at-home order in Toronto, my anxiety only grew when I looked up the project online and met its bright exterior. The Friends of Ruby Home’s façade adorned in rainbow-coloured fins initially set off both intrigue and alarm for me, not just as a monochrome-lover, but also as someone who has seen all too many one-note, pink-washed, queer-pandering projects. But after long Zoom calls with the building’s architect and hearing occupant testimonies, I understood that the true beauty of this building lies well beyond its bold queer signalling. Its success is rooted in the resp
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Condo development on Yonge Street leaves open spaces and brick facades
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A condo development has left portions of brick facades on a strip of Yonge Street that once housed shops and restaurants.
Back in 2018, the block at the southeast corner of Yonge and Gerrard had only a handful of businesses remaining in the deteriorating buildings. There was the tiny Doner Kebab House, heritage storefronts of Yonge Street Mission (now moved to Spadina), the Tea Shop 168 and Korean Grill House and Made In China.
PEO Chapter C PEO Chapter C officers attending the group s Dec. 14 meeting at Broadmoor United Methodist Church are, from left, Rachel Ehricht, recording secretary; Heidi Perry, vice president; Vallan Corbett, president; Linda Chauviere, treasurer; and Rose Ann Martin, corresponding secretary. Other officers are Gerry Daigle, chaplain, and Lynn Evans, guard. Due to COVID-19, the chapter eliminated its social activities, but still exceeded its annual fundraising goal for scholarships and projects.Â