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Opinion | Downsview’s Rogers Stadium shows downtown may no longer be the place to be. But there is a downside

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Downsview Park has already become a hub for cultural events like the VELD Festival.


Shawn Micallef is a ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½-based writer and a freelance contributing columnist for the Star. Follow him on Twitter: .

In the last month I’ve attended two concerts at History, the music venue on Queen Street East in The Beach neighbourhood. A middle-aged person seeing acts he has listened to since the 1990s is not remarkable, but the venue location is: History is far from downtown, the traditional place for such things.

Coming from the west side of ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½, I had a lot of time to think about this on the 10 kilometre bike ride there. I rode, in part, because getting to and from the east side of ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½ is legendarily difficult by public transit or automobile these days.Ìý

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Shawn Micallef is a ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½-based writer and a freelance contributing columnist for the Star. Follow him on Bluesky: .

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