Craig White

As seen from a quiet lagoon within the Toronto Islands, the Downtown skyline is particularly set off by the CN Tower's colourful LED lighting and the Rogers Centre's deep blue glow against the late day skies.

A drone captures a snake in the garden, a path climbing the bank of Toronto's Don Valley ravines between Chorley Park, on the left, and the Beltline Trail, on the right. While Chorley Park sits above the valley on the Rosedale plateau, the Beltline Trail runs towards Brick Works Park on the valley floor.

TTC and MiWay buses rush in and out of Renforth Station at the east end of the Mississauga Busway. In the future, around 2031, Eglinton Line 5 will extend to here, with another extension of it hopefully underway by then to Toronto Pearson International Airport.

At the east end of Toronto Harbour, beside where the new mouth of the Don River crosses under Cherry Street, a new dock receives half-hourly shuttle boats, carrying visitors across to the foot of Yonge Street, or to Portland Street at the west end of the harbour. To accommodate the new service here at Biidaasige Park, a small expansion of the park was opened earlier this summer. Coming up later this month, a larger western extension of this newly greened area of the Port Lands will open to the public, with several new features we'll be talking about at length at that time.

The podium levels at Rushden Station, a residential complex under construction in Toronto's East End, present a lot of blank concrete wall to the city, as they mostly hide parking levels.

The tops of Concord Adex's condos across Concord Park Place in North York and Concord CityPlace in Downtown Toronto have something in common: night-lighting. Atop the recently completed Kings Landing Condos at Concord Park Place, colour-changing LED strips were recently caught during a test run.

Before the elevators that every resident depends upon are installed in new buildings, construction workers rely on hoists that run up and down their exteriors during the construction stage. Two of those were recently captured projecting off the coloured walls at two of the Rushden Station towers now being completed in Toronto's East End.

Even though games at Toronto Stadium are now finished, and south of the border the tournament is heading into its final matches, several FIFA World Cup installations are still in place around the city. One that adds colour to the ever-popular Harbourfront Centre area is a walk festooned with flags from all 48 qualifying countries, leading people from Queens Quay south to the water.

In Toronto's West End, work on a new linear public space known as the "Davenport Greenway" has been progressing slowly since construction began in the summer of 2025. The greenway — community gathering spaces stretched out along a multi-use path — is being built under and beside the Barrie GO line's new Davenport Diamond Grade Separation, an elevated viaduct and berm.

As Northern Ontario forests and settlements disappear in a wall of flame, the result of the combustion now fills our sky. Stay indoors as much as you can, and consider sending a message to your elected officials to let them know that economic decisions made without heed for environmental consequences are not what you are looking for in your future.