Category: Events
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Corktown community clean up, April 2024
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in EventsWe provided Corktown residents with free or borrowed supplies (gloves, hand sanitizer, bags, etc.) to clean Corktown together as part of the City of Toronto’s annual Clean Toronto Together initiative, held annually on Earth Day weekend. This was the second annual Corktown community clean up, initially undertaken through the kind support of the Downtown East…
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Historic street name unveilings, February 2024
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Coralina Lemos, Corktown Historian, along with heritage advocates Adam Wynne and Pancheta Barnett joined forces to commemorate two new street signs honouring Corktown’s Black and Indigenous history and persons of historical significance. Event attendees included MPP Kristyn Wong-Tam (Toronto Centre), City of Toronto Counsellor Chris Moise (Toronto Centre—Ward 13) and area residents. The two…
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Corktown 2021 AGM – March 2nd
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in EventsIt’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…
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Corktown March 2020 Newsletter
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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…
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Corktown 2020 AGM Recap
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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…
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2020 CRBA Bylaw Updates
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in EventsIn 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…