Everyone Say Biidaasige: Toronto’s Marvellous Park Is Just the Beginning for a New Port Lands

Chris Glaisek seizes the long silver pump handle with his left hand and presses down. As he works the lever, water gushes from a short spout onto a narrow wooden table with raised sides and slots cut at both ends. “I think this is one of the tables that you tilt,” he says, touching one side as a test. “Yeah. So you can decide which way you want the water to run.” The water pours off, wetting the rough, pale red pavement at Glaisek’s feet, then trickles downslope into the first of a series of shallow, hand-sculpted concrete bowls tinted the same pale red in Toronto’s Biidaasige Park.

With Toronto under its latest heat warning and the sun climbing in the morning sky, a little fun during working hours in the city’s newest water-play…