A rich treasure of design and history awaits This is the second, and final part, of this year’s of this year’s Grading our Greenspace, our annual parks review, writers visited twelve local parks to rate them on a variety of factors, including amenities, cleanliness, and ambience. Do you agree with our assessment? Send us your […]

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Ex-candidate for federal seat eyes city seat By Joe Cressy Toronto is a great city. Survey after survey ranks Toronto amongst the top cities in the world.  And we have much to be proud of: unique and engaged neighbourhoods; a diverse population; financial and innovation hubs; a thriving arts and cultural industry; and green spaces that rival those […]

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Tired canoes re-purposed as pollinator point By Samina Esha On July 18, Homegrown National Park, a David Suzuki Foundation project, hosted their second successful year of a community Canoe Garden after last year’s effort to enhance Toronto’s green space. The goal of the project is to fill canoe planters with native plants that are friendly […]

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Iacobucci calls for a shift to a “zero deaths” police culture By Brian Burchell It’s been just over a year since Sammy Yetim was shot and killed by Toronto police on a TTC streetcar on Dundas Street. Constable James Forcillio of Toronto Police Service (TPS) 14 Division was charged just 30 days after the shooting […]

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  By Annemarie Brissenden Heritage Toronto marks Cecil Street Jewish roots In 1938, two young boys posed for a picture on the front steps of the Ostrovtzer Synagogue at 58 Cecil Street. Three-quarters of a century later, Gurion Hyman and Gordon Perlmutter, now grown men with a wealth of history behind them, stood once more […]

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Once again the proposal to lease out the Central Tech field to a developer for twenty-one years has failed to clear a hurdle. School board officials took the unusual step of launching a legal challenge of a municipal by-law allowing the City to say whether or not the plan needed a special application. The court […]

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Cressy contemplating running for city council By Annemarie Brissenden It was always going to be an uphill battle for Joe Cressy. As the federal New Democratic Party candidate running to replace Olivia Chow in Trinity-Spadina, he was facing a riding whose changing demographics were lending it an in- creasingly Liberal hue. And that was before […]

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New MPP focused on transit, development, and services for seniors By Annemarie Brissenden There is an oddly poetic quality to Han Dong’s defeat of Rosario Marchese in the recent provincial election. Dong, the newly elected Liberal member of provincial par- liament for Trinity-Spadina, was inspired to seek office by Bob Wong, the Liberal MPP who […]

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City’s right to declare what requires a bylaw variance upheld By Brian Burchell The Toronto District School Board (TDSB) has lost another round in the fight to lease the Central Tech- nical School field to a commercial operator who would apply artificial turf and a dome for winter use. Superior Court Justice D.L. Cor- bett […]

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How to skip the gluten and the cost of store-bought By Susan Oppenheim “Gluten sensitivity (also gluten intolerance) is a spectrum of disorders including celiac disease in which gluten has an adverse effect on the body. Symptoms include bloating, abdominal discomfort or pain, diarrhea, constipation, muscular disturbances, headaches, migraines, severe acne, fatigue, and bone or […]

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