UTS launches fundraising campaign By Geremy Bordonaro The University of Toronto Schools (UTS) has launched Building the Future, a $60-million fundraising campaign aimed at restoring its current building and developing a new building that will include a performance centre. Upgrading the facilities is part of the terms of its agreement with the University of Toronto (U […]
NEWS (Nov. 2017): Building a legacy
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NEWS (Nov. 2017): Pilot project becomes permanent
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Council resoundingly votes in favour of Bloor Street bike lanes By Geremy Bordonaro It’s been a long time coming but the Bloor Street bike lanes are now a permanent fixture of the community. After hours of debate, questions, and rhetoric, Toronto City Council resoundingly voted 36 to 6 in favour of keeping the lanes. The […]
Chatter (Nov. 2017): Bloor Annex BIA updates street revitalization plan
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The Bloor Annex Business Improvement Area (BIA) met this month to discuss the upcoming, and much anticipated, Bloor Street revitalization plan due in 2019. Spanning Madison Avenue to Bathurst Street, the BIA intends to replace the tree planter boxes with new trees that will be level with the sidewalk. A proprietary root system has been […]
CHATTER (Nov. 2017): Coming down
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READ MORE EDITORIAL: Westbank’s positive precedent (April 2017) NEWS: Westbank presents latest proposal (MARCH 2017) FORUM: Build a neighbourhood (March 2017) NEWS: Height, density still top concerns (July 2016) NEWS: Westbank submits revised application (June 2016) DEVELOPINGS: Annual review reflects tension between community activism and OMB (March 2016) Westbank towers over 4 Corners (January 2016) City hosts first Mirvish Village […]
CHATTER (Nov. 2017): Kensington Market HCD enters planning phase
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Planning has officially begun on the Kensington Market Heritage Conservation District, after city staff and Taylor Hazell Architects spent more than a year studying how best to preserve the area’s unique character. It comes shortly after the National Film Board of Canada released a Heritage Minute about the history of the market’s cultural diversity. This […]
CHATTER (Nov. 2017): Forcillo arrested for breach of bail
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The officer convicted in the death of a troubled teenager on a Toronto Transit Commission streetcar in July 2013 has been re-arrested for breach of his bail conditions. Constable James Forcillo was acquitted in January 2016 of second-degree murder but found guilty of attempted murder in the death of 18-year-old Sammy Yatim. Forcillo had continued […]
NEWS (Nov. 2017): Collateral damage
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Community outreach suffers with TDSB ban on SROs By Brian Burchell It was a novel idea: one cellphone, a shoestring budget, and a few bikes. All shared by the four police constables who made up 14 Division’s School Watch Officer (SWO) program. Together, they served ten schools west of Spadina Avenue, including Central Technical School, […]
FORUM (Nov. 2017): Establishing a new Indigenous Affairs Office
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A dedication to reconciliation and Aboriginal issues By Joe Cressy and Mike Layton We gratefully acknowledge that the City of Toronto is located on the traditional lands of the Ojibwa, Hodenosaunee, and the Huron Wendat and is part of the Treaty Lands and Territory of the Mississaugas of the New Credit. These words we hear at […]
ARTS (Nov. 2017): Starting to feel festive
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Gearing up for the season By Heather Kelly Game changers and trail blazers At key moments in history, remarkable individuals find the courage to reinvent the world as we know it. Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema presents the popular series, Game Changers, which pays tribute to the cultural visionaries who point the way forward. Films that tell […]
GREENINGS (Nov. 2017): Celebrate science not milestones
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Researchers shouldn’t have to spend their time asking for money The federal government recently announced that it provided $1.6 million to the Polar Environment Atmospheric Research Laboratory (PEARL) to great fanfare. It is enough to keep it running through 2019. It seems like such a paltry amount considering we spent half a billion dollars to […]
HISTORY (Nov. 2017): A childhood in war-torn Holland
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Dutch Dreams owner recalls Nazi terror, jubilation after liberation In honour of Remembrance Day, we’re reprinting the story of Theo Aben, co-owner of Dutch Dreams. It first appeared in November 2004. By Jessica Shulman Eight-year-old Theo Aben stood rapt as Canadian troops descended upon his town of Amersfoort, Holland. He fought hard to suppress a […]