PHOTO COURTESY DANIELLE SUM: “Presence” by Danielle Sum, from Toronto in an Instant, featuring the work of photographers from Toronto working with Fujifilm Instax cameras. Part of this month’s Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival, each work represents urban life with a single image or small series. Sum’s image of Trinity College Chapel is on display at Annex Photo on Bloor Street West.
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By Clarrie Feinstein
The Miles Nadal Jewish Community Centre (JCC) has resubmitted an application to erect a third party electronic advertising sign on the roof of its building at the southwest corner of Spadina Avenue and Bloor Street.
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PHOTO BY GEREMY BORDONARO/GLEANER NEWS: Rexall Brunswick features many nods to history and community, such as this street sign.
By Annemarie Brissenden
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PHOTO BY GEREMY BORDONARO/GLEANER NEWS: A fire destroyed a large portion of the dome’s surface for the field at Central Technical School on May 15.
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Over 20,000 attendees and 120 craft and unique food vendors are expected to descend on Bloor Street between Spadina Avenue and Bathurst Street on June 11 for the 21st running of the Annex Family Festival.
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By Geremy Bordonaro
Development dominated the Annex Residents’ Association (ARA) annual general meeting on April 27.
The area has seen an increase in developments over the last few years, most notably the Westbank Projects Corp.’s Mirvish Village development, and that coloured every topic of discussion, from bike lanes to community housing.
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The University of Toronto plans to appeal Toronto City Council’s March 9 decision to designate 698 Spadina Ave. as a heritage site. The university intended to demolish the building and build a 23-storey student residence on the site.
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The University of Toronto is seeking broader powers to do as it pleases with respect to developing new buildings in certain designated large swaths of its campus. In effect, it wants to be an off-leash development dog, a request that has the community wary. The City of Toronto should be too.
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More how nice!
EDITORIAL CARTOON: The Grand Tory (April 2017)
FORUM: Celebrating 20 years of cartoonist Brett Lamb (April 2017)
EDITORIAL CARTOON: A second chance! by Brett Lamb 2037 (February 2017)
EDITORIAL CARTOON: Not really! It’s actually nice! by Stumpy the Subway (January 2017)
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By John J. Kiru
In 1998, Ontario took over school boards’ authority to set property tax rates. Residential education rates were immediately equalized across the province and an advisory panel recommended moving quickly to equalize business education tax rates as well. It is now 19 years later and Ontario has failed to adopt this recommendation to provide tax fairness to businesses across the province, although the current government has repeatedly promised to do so once the deficit was eliminated.
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