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July 08, 2013 – Toronto, Ontario – Don Valley Footage – Rainstorm causes power outages and severe flooding in Toronto. The Don River crests and floods the Don Valley and the Don Valley Parkway stranding thousands of commuters.

Shot on a Samsung Galaxy S3 – John Zeus, 2013

A few crops in my urban garden only two/three weeks after planting. June 08, 2013 | Riverdale Neighbourhood, Toronto, Ontario

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Strawberries

Corn

Urban Garden Pepper

Tomato plants

First Nations Tobacco – Planting some crops next to vegetables help vegetables grow.

Oregano

Peppermint

Dinosaur Gourd not doing too well

Growing your own food is one of the most therapeutic and defiant things you can do. Green and nutritious gardens all around us make our urban ecosystems work.

Photos by: John Zeus

3:00pm, May 2013 | Toronto Port Lands | Canada | Shot with my Samsung GalaxyS3

Toronto Port Lands. Looking northwest.

My bike, my beautiful city and one of my favourite spaces on Toronto Harbour.

Colourized Toronto Port Lands

Toronto Port Lands.

Colourized Toronto Skyline looking northwest.

Toronto Skyline. CN Tower and surrounding buildings shot in negative.

Canada Goose

On Weekends The Tower Cranes Stand Silent.

During the week, there’s a flurry of construction activity underway in Toronto’s West Don Lands. Tower cranes are a common fixture here as they’ve been throughout Toronto since the condo construction boom began a few years ago. Signs of change in this neighbourhood are now becoming apparent. It’s an interesting area to explore on weekends. ^ Photos by John Zeus

Source: Earth Hour Timelapse – Toronto, Canada by Dave Dunville
http://vimeo.com/davedunville/earthhour

2:30pm Saturday February 23, 2013 | Bloor-Yorkville, Toronto Ontario, Canada

Strolling down Cumberland Avenue…

…on a beautiful Toronto wintry February afternoon looking at the process of making ice sculptures at Bloor-Yorkville’s Icefest. It was fun! Packed with guests, and hard to get good shots.

This year’s theme was “Wonderful and Whimsical” and took guests on a journey through a magical enchanted garden. IceFest transformed Bloor-Yorkville into a wonderland with fantastical sculptures including whimsical winged fairies, charming and adorable gnomes, oversized butterflies, magical flowers, trees and plants carved from 35,000 lbs. of ice.

The downtown Toronto neighbourhood just sparkled with excitement as Bloor-Yorkville IceFest introduced whimsy and warmed some of our hearts during this chilly winter. ^

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Toronto Ontario, Riverdale Neighbourhood | 10:30am – Thursday January 31, 2012 | Shot using a Samsung Galaxy SIII

The army of cranes redefining the Toronto skyline.

Toronto reportedly counts the most high-rise real estate projects under construction in North America!

Toronto Condo Construction | Photo Source: John Zeus

High rental vacancies…

“We believe that buyers in the current condo market exude hope over experience…” (Despite claims of a buoyant rental market investors are ending up with) “an astonishingly low return on invested capital.” – Source: Ohad Lederer, an analyst at Veritas Investment Research.

…and a growing number of preservationists who say too many new towers are destroying the city’s character.

Social Media: “Dear Condo Toronto, you were an awesome city before you turned into a condo developer’s dream. I used to love going downtown because you had a welcoming core with parks, community spaces and many innovative small businesses. Now downtown is becoming a high-rise construction haven littered with towering steel and glass walled shoeboxes hiding our lake and our sky. Unfortunately a daily commuter’s nightmare…” – 2013 John Zeus

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Toronto Condo Construction | Photo Source: John Zeus

“Toronto condo developers face formidable obstacles: an infrastructure buckling under soaring density rates, the laws of supply and demand and preservationists who says too many new towers are destroying the city’s character.” – Source: The Financial Post

Toronto Condo Construction | Photo Source: John Zeus

Toronto Condo Construction | Photo Source: John Zeus

“Since June 2011 the number of unsold high-rise units in the pre-construction stage has doubled. Unsold units under construction have also increased from fewer than 5,000 at the beginning of 2012 to almost 7,000.” – Source: Bank of Canada

Toronto Condo Construction | Photo Source: John Zeus

Adapted by John Zeus. Original Sources Include; Bank of Canada and The Financial Post.