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The West End Phoenix is a new, not-for-profit monthly newspaper with a storytelling stride. Post West End sightings or email tips to [email protected].

01/16/2025

I walk a lonely road, the only one that I have ever known…

📍Boulevard Of Broken Seams, 1126 College St

01/15/2025

A small reminder we are not owned by a tech bro billionaire, we are an independent, subscriber supported, algorithm free print newspaper for humans of the West End and beyond.

To help us keep our presses rollling, please consider a subscription to WEP, independent voices help keep our democracy strong.

SUBSCRIPTION LINK IN BIO

01/14/2025

This week’s garage mood: seasonal

01/11/2025

Winter majesty in Bickford Park

01/10/2025

WALK THIS WAY! The WEP 2025 Crossing Guard Calendar is in the mail and subscribers should expect to receive theirs in the coming days.

Lets kick of this year with our Mr January, Mohammed, who you will find at Clinton and Harbord mist school days.

Thank you to all of the crossing guards featured in the calendar, and thank you to Ali Amad for managing this project and for the portraits.

01/07/2025

NEXT THURSDAY: SONGS FOR A WINTER’S NIGHT

We’re bringing some light to these dark January days with an evening of music celebrating the magnificent beauty of winter.

Join us Thursday January 16th at for a stacked lineup of West End talent including Lee Rose, Ryan Wayne, Dave Bidini, Sameer Cash, Peter Demakos, Alli Sunshine, Randy Ray, and Gentleman Reg, backed Ian Goodtimes and Don Kerr!

Tickets are $35 + tax per person, limited to 35 seats.

01/06/2025

Good morning from the kids of Ossington Station.

01/05/2025

A poem for your Sunday….

Horizon By David O‘Meara
from the latest issue of WEP.

They had left a row of tulips along the pathway when we came. Each year, though the soil was moved, fine yellow blooms poked through the grass.

A wind would bluster, banging at the eaves,
thundering like a box collapsing down some stairs.
It wasn’t Greece. Not Italy. But the day could bend across the walls in a ballroom waltz of sun. Archives

won’t record each moment a door closed, a kettle boiled, each call with sudden news, bad
or good. We watched the horizon arranged outside
our care. After the fire, our bamboo blinds

lay blackened in the ashes. The illusions
fall away. 𝙏𝙬𝙤 𝙙𝙖𝙮𝙨 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙣𝙤𝙬 𝙩𝙤𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙧𝙤𝙬
𝙬𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙗𝙚 𝙮𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙙𝙖𝙮. It feels like I just got here.

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Excerpted with permission from Masses on Radar by David O’Meara (Coach House Books, 2021). The italicized line is by Matthew Walsh, from their collection These are not the potatoes of my youth.

01/04/2025

Good news comic fans! The second instalment of Fish Out Of Water, the comic memoir written by and illustrated by is coming in our February issue!

Get yourself caught up exclusively in the print edition of , out now!

SUBSCRIPTION LINK IN BIO!

01/03/2025

Keep an eye on your mailboxes, subscribers, the WEP 2025 Crossing Guard calendar is coming your way next week!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

01/02/2025

New Year, New Issue! We have opened our community classifieds for the upcoming February Issue.

If you’ve got a community message, a request, or an upcoming event you’d like to promote, fill out the form in our bio to place your FREE classified ad in the pages of the West End Phoenix!

Please keep all ads to 25 words!

12/31/2024

This week’s garage mood: impermanence

12/30/2024

un/SHELTERED: Finding Solutions

Join us January 20th for a panel discussion on practical solutions to Toronto’s housing crisis and a celebration of the winner of the un/SHELTERED design competition.

In Toronto, approximately 1,000 people are unsheltered, which means they are living outside—in encampments, ravines, doorways, and bus stops. It’s clear our housing systems are not working.

Last year, the West End Phoenix and Maytree launched un/SHELTERED: Toronto Design Challenge, a competition seeking innovative housing solutions for people who are unsheltered.

On January 20, 2025, at the Toronto Reference Library, hear from housing experts, civic leaders, and key stakeholders as they share insights on addressing this critical issue. Discover four of the most exciting entries from the design challenge, celebrate the winning solution, and join the ongoing conversation about reimagining housing in Toronto.

This event is free to attend, reserve your tickets by following the link in our bio.

12/27/2024

As we close out another banner year at WEP, here’s a look back at the full issues we brought you this year.

We will be sharing online articles from each of these issues over the coming days in our stories, keep an eye out for them!

FEB: Rexdale Issue, with a full fold out cover of the Woodbine Fantasy Fair Mall

APRIL: Omnibus Issue featuring artist and his iconic Tour Lego on Harbord.

JUNE: Music Issue featuring Los Adventureros live from El Pastorcito

OCT: Dovercourt Issue, our city in 21 blocks

DEC: The Home Issue, 25 stories on how housing shapes who we are.

Let’s have a huge round of applause to all who make these pages come to life each year, the writers, illustrators, photographers, poets, editors, and designers.

And thank you to our subscribers, patrons and advertisers, without you we would not be in print.

And finally, thank you the backbone of our operation, our volunteer delivery army, for bringing these issues to thousands of homes in the West End.

Excited to bring you more West End magic in 2025!

LONG LIVE PRINT!!

12/23/2024

This week’s garage mood: elevated

12/21/2024

As much as home is defined by where we live, home can also be a plate a food.

In our latest issue, we go behind the counter at Bloorcourt’s .pizza, and meet the Palestinian/Lebanese owners who are using traditional middle eastern flavours to bring a unique spin on pizza.

From the HOME ISSUE, out now

12/20/2024

ANNOUNCING THE TOP 4 FINALISTS OF THE un/SHELTERED TORONTO HOUSING DESIGN CHALLENGE

In partnership with Maytree, WEP issued a call for imaginative, innovative designs for housing 1,000 unsheltered individuals living in the city.

Among the raft of submissions that came in, these four stood out. Steeped in practicality and creativity, their solutions – which you can read through here – also honour every person’s human right to dignified housing.

The winner will be announced Jan. 20, 2025, 4 to 6 p.m. at Beeton Hall in the Toronto Reference Library.

12/17/2024

SCORING TICKETS TI COUCHELLA

Want to find the best new place to see a band in Brockton? It’s in living room.

In our latest issue, meets the couple who have transformed their house into intimate live music venue, .

Find it in the pages of the Home Issue, out now.

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