By Beth Macdonell
In the early 1990s, residents and merchants of Kensington Market successfully organized to increase garbage pickup days from two to three days a week.
Now, it will be seen if the newly formed Kensington Business Improvement Area (BIA), will be able to make a similar move by reversing a decision by Toronto Solid Waste [...]

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By Claude Saravia
Chad Mutchler was watching from a friend’s roof that cold Feb. 20 when a fire ripped through the Queen West neighbourhood just before dawn.
It took 150 firefighters in 30 trucks to extinguish the six- alarm inferno that destroyed a section of Queen Street West, between Bathurst Street and Portland Avenue in 2008.
He never [...]

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Filthy dirty homemade fun
It’s probably a fair bet that St. Valentine, whosoever that borderline-apocryphal personality might be, probably didn’t think of his life’s work as culminating in an excuse for greeting card makers and confectioners to have a one-day sales bonanza. And yet, here we are.
But probably even further still from his mind would be [...]

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Cinema has worn many hats over the century, online doc shows
By Matt James
The Bloor Cinema (506 Bloor St. W.), like a lot of centarians, has shrunk with age.
Back in 1941 when it was known as the Midtown, it could seat 1,125 people. You could catch a flick for 35 cents, and if you threw in [...]

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