Category: Events

  • Pumpkin parade, November 2024

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    We organized the inaugural Corktown pumpkin parade, where local families brought their pumpkin carving creations to cast a warm glow over Corktown’s Sackville Playground, as part of the City of Toronto’s most popular community engagement programs. Special recognition for all the creativity exhibited by our young Corktown carvers!

  • ‘The Light in the North’ mural installation, December 2024

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    We installed a new mural on external building wall just west of Corktown’s Sackville Playground through the generous support of the City of Toronto’s Outdoor Mural & Street Art Program and collaboration of Corktown business Green Roofs for Health Cities, designed to promote a local theme and facilitate commercial or industrial neighbourhood identity. Entitled ‘The…

  • Corktown 2021 AGM – March 2nd

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    It’s our first event of 2021 – and our Annual General Meeting! We’ll provide you with updates from our last year of work. From the Foundry to Small Business Advocacy, the last year has flown by but our team has been active in the background – and sometimes foreground – to advocate for our Residential…

  • Corktown March 2020 Newsletter

    Connecting You to Open Businesses and How to Help Your Neighbours It’s easy to feel helpless during the COVID-19 Pandemic.  We’re right there with you in isolation, shutting down our businesses and hoping that on the other side we’re able to re-open and bring back all of our employees. In the meantime, we’ve created a…

  • Corktown 2020 AGM Recap

    On February 4th, Corktown hosted its annual Annual General Meeting at the Cooper Koo YMCA. The event kicked off with an update from Toronto-Centre City Councillor Kristyn Wong-Tam. She gave an update to the community on a number of projects her office is working on. If you need to get in touch with the Councillor’s…

  • 2020 CRBA Bylaw Updates

    2020 CRBA Bylaw Updates

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    In the Summer of 2019, the Corktown Board of Directors started the process to update and modernize our Bylaws. Presented below are the Bylaws we started with and our updated version. In rewriting this document, we focused on 3 areas:1) The CRBA’s relationship with Businesses2) Clearly defining responsibilities for Board Members along with Committees3) Creating…