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Entries from June 2010

This week in adorable local news

June 9th, 2010 · 2 Comments

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Party’s over: Frats may lose rooming house exemption

June 8th, 2010 · 7 Comments

By Jacob Arnfield Is there a difference between a fraternity and a rooming house? Historically, municipalities with rooming house laws say yes. When Toronto’s rooming house legislation was first instituted, fraternity and sorority houses were exempted, but this is not likely to be the case for much longer. Earlier this year, Councillor Adam Vaughan (Ward [...]

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Park Property without power: 22-storey building suffers 30-hour outage

June 8th, 2010 · 1 Comment

By Darko Milenkovic Residents of a 22-storey building in the Annex found themselves with neither electricity nor water during a weekend-long power outage last month. During a windy morning on May 8, a tree limb fell on top of a power fuse creating sparks and causing a partial power outage at 100 Spadina Rd, owned [...]

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Tough cookie: Architect turned baker gets put to the test

June 8th, 2010 · No Comments

Horii has a passion and desire to keep creating. She noted that she has dabbled in other pastries, like cupcakes and three-dimensional cookies. “When people see it, they’re just blown away. The kind of satisfaction you get from that is what keeps me going,” she said. Her passion has not gone unnoticed. “I think it’s [...]

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