Photo of the week: CN (Pride) Tower

As this is Pride Week, capped off by the Pride parade, we snapped a photo of the CN Tower lit up with the rainbow. Enjoy

Toronto Life's 50 Reasons To Love Toronto Now (and 5 reasons to love the waterfront)

In the June issue of Toronto Life, it lists 50 reasons why they love Toronto right now.

Lists are, well, arbitrary. We can imagine the staff of Toronto Life gathering at a story meeting thinking up ideas. Maybe they have a map of Toronto so they try to cover the city. Who knows.

Anyways, from our boring but safe banks (No. 1) to the number of same-sex couples (No. 4) to our enviro-mayor (No. 35) they hit just enough topics to seem to cover the city.

So what about the waterfront community and Queens Quay? The Waterfront Revitalization comes in at No 34, with the magazine citing the HTO Park. Number 43 is that everyone bikes and everyone knows that they have to bike through the waterfront to get from east or west to downtown. And they point to Porter (No. 22) as a civilizated way to travel "we're ready to swap our protest for praise". Finally, at No. 13, they point out to the ethnic food (injera) at nearby Roundhouse Park and the CN Tower's LEDs make it cool (No. 12).

We have to say we agree that there are cool aspects to the waterfront.

Lights back on at CN Tower

We wrote last week about the lights out at the CN Tower. The National Post's Posted Toronto followed up on it (and linked back here) and we're pleased to see that the lights are back on. Are we to thank for such a speedy response? No, probably not but we're happy to catch it.

Says the Post.

The power supply to the section, about midway up the tower, was lost late last week, and required a switch replacement, said Lisa Tompkins, the tower’s director of marketing and communications.
Maintenance crews were sent into the elevator shaft yesterday, she said.
“A small portion of lights are located inside the shaft of the elevator and this poses a challenge,” said Ms. Tompkins.

CN Tower to supplier: So, did we get a warranty for those LEDs?

You don't have to have any imagination when you look up at night at the CN-Tower. Obviously, something is missing.

No
idea?

Keep

on

looking

down.

No,

even

farther

down.

Light's out.

Yep, if you're west of the tower, you'll see on the bottom half, a little to the left, a pretty big panel of LEDs has gone dark.

Back in June, 2007, the tower installed the new lights and treated everyone to a big light show. Of course, now we're pretty used to it. It's green and red during Christmas and the rest of the year, changes colour.

According to the CN Tower Website, it's using "Color Kinetics lighting system that merges patented Chromacore technology with microprocessor-controlled light emitting diodes (LEDs). The first major breakthrough in the lighting industry in over 100 years, Chromacore has enabled an entirely new kind of lighting – intelligent LED illumination -- recognized by designers and industry experts as a revolutionary invention, both technically and aesthetically."

Well, may want to check how we're gonna replace some of those LEDs.