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<title>David Himel</title>
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Hmmm, Kensington is constantly changing.  Ive been a resident on Spadina for 18 years, we kinda refer to ourselves as the last jews on Spadina.  Kensington walks a delicate tightrope.  I can say I know every single business owner and long term resident there.  I had a clothing store years ago, and still buy and sell vintage stuff to this day.  The delicate boho non corporate environment of Kensington is the cleavage between 800000 dollar house prices and organised crack dealing gun toting gangs of Alexandra Park Community housing.  The purgatory in the middle is Kensington, just bad enough to keep Mundane made in China Corpo Canada out, and comfortable enough to run behind alley and buy a rock.  It makes for perfect grounds to foment new business and ideas, the marker of success which is to move out of the market and sell to "real" people when you have enough cash flow.  Many wonderful people have come and gone from Kensington cursing its name or spring boarding from its hip mother of pearl.  My judgement is still out as to if I actually am in love with it or hate it with a vengance, either way Im not ready to leave yet!!! 40 years of history and counting.]]>
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<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2008 13:06:34 PST</pubDate>
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<title>mdintoronto</title>
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Speaking of anti-gentriication of the market, songwriter Bunny Brown relates to that in her tune Free Toronto for those interested http://www.myspace.com/bunnybrownmusic]]>
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<pubDate>Mon, 12 Feb 2007 23:35:10 PST</pubDate>
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<title>kevin bracken</title>
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It is interesting that people always hold up the Kensington Market as being the antithesis of Queen West; however, they are both shopping districts, and the Kensington MARKET's most excellent features are afforded entirely by commerce. 

Whether you buy anything or not when you are in each place does not change the fact that both 'hoods are selling more than parsnips and parkas: they are selling an image. The way things are priced today has less to do with a "breadbasket of goods" model and more to do with "lifestyle access", one reason Kensington's fruit is sometimes 4x as expensive as fruit literally one block away in Chinatown. You are buying an image.

It is easy to observe that most people who walk through Queen West buy nothing at all, and simply enjoy the street life, busy wide sidewalks, fashionable people and aesthetic of the 'hood. I disagree with the "outdoor mall" aspect because Queen Street is still very much the centre of pedestrian life in Toronto, and the Kensington Market is just as commodified and commercialized, but the signs are a little more hastily-prepared    for one's granola-crunching, fair trade, locally grown, organic bohemian pleasure. 

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<category>Toronto, City</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 11 Feb 2007 18:51:59 PST</pubDate>
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<title>Carrie</title>
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haha, nice one

carrie]]>
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<category>Toronto, City</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 11 Feb 2007 18:48:32 PST</pubDate>
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