Dylan Reid

Summer is the season to pause, to take a break, to refresh body and mind. It’s generally understood that not as much will get done (with the exception of construction), that people may be absent in the flesh or at least in the spirit. The most fortunate may escape to the countryside and a cottage, others to a front porch, back yard, or balcony, or if those are not available, to parks, beaches, and patios.

The tens of thousands of soccer fans who will descend on Toronto in June for the six World Cup games our city is hosting may not think of Toronto as a soccer city. Even many Torontonians likely don’t think of their city that way. But although Toronto has only this century sustained a soccer team in a stable major league, the city in fact has a long history of soccer deeply embedded in its communities, and the sport has grown increasingly prominent in recent years.

We still don’t know when the Eglinton Crosstown LRT will open. It could be any day – the testing is all done. Or it could be many weeks away, given its history – there are still processes to go through, apparently, and still no-one wants to commit to a specific date. We can only hope that the first passengers will be able to hop on one of the once-new, now quite old trains while our new issue about Eglinton Avenue is still on store shelves.