Friends of Eglinton Flats

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Urgent Rally Today at, and for, Smythe Park at 1pm!
02/07/2026

Urgent Rally Today at, and for, Smythe Park at 1pm!

We are having an urgent rally Saturday at 1 pm to protect Smythe Park with a First Nations ceremony for the 847 trees the City of Toronto plan to remove. Together we can stop this! Build Scarlett Road bridge 1st! A larger Jane Street bridge will not help stop the flooding of the homes upstream according to an independent engineer. This destruction is absolutely unnecessary and we must stop it! This is our community oasis. So many wildlife will suffer. Save Smythe Park!!!!
We call on the City of Toronto to:
● Pause the project immediately and place an injunction on construction
● Respect the independent technical review
● Rebuild the Scarlett Road bridge before the Jane Street bridge
● End sewage discharges into Black Creek
● Restore and protect Lavender Creek
● Incorporate First Nations knowledge into a revised design
● Protect Smythe Park through a proven, nature-based flood solution

Just south of Eglinton Flats!
02/07/2026

Just south of Eglinton Flats!

Smythe Park is one of the parks we steward. It is truly loved by the locals who are lucky enough to live near it. So many animals call this park home, turtles, beaver, fox. Black Creek flows through the park and there are ponds everywhere. On hot summer days humans and their more-than-human kin can find cool under one of the hundreds of mature trees. It is an oasis.

Work on flood mitigation plan is set to start within a week. The work includes removing more than 800 trees in Smythe Park alone.

Please join the rally today to stand up for this special place and the beings who live there.

Flood mitigation work is critical AND rally organisers are asking the City of Toronto to:

● Pause the project immediately
● Conduct an independent review of the project
● Build the Scarlett Road bridge first
● End sewage discharges into Black Creek
● Restore and protect Lavender Creek
● Incorporate Indigenous Knowledges into a revised design
● Naturalize from Alliance to Jane it is a vital wildlife corridor
● Protect Smythe Park and the entire project area using a proven, nature-based flood solution

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