The Harbord Village Residents’ Association (HVRA) has given Larry Sdao its Community Builder Award. Sdao owns 481 Bloor St. W., formerly home to the Brunswick House. HVRA chair Gus Sinclair said that Sdao worked with the community to deal with “an intractable problem that was the Brunswick House business [Sdao’s former tenant]”. Local residents’ associations […]

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The Toronto Police Service’s (TPS) 14 Division is investigating a sexual assault at Bloor Street West and Robert Street. On July 24, slightly before 6 a.m., a 25-year-old woman was reportedly approached from behind and assaulted by a man in his late-twenties to mid-thirties. The suspect then fled eastward. The man is described as 5 […]

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Nurturing unexplored and unexpressed talent By Annemarie Brissenden At a time when women had neither the right to vote nor access to much education, Mary Ella Dignam founded the Women’s Art Association of Canada (WAAC). By all accounts a singular woman with a singular vision, Dignam wanted the association to be a place that nurtured […]

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  More how nice! EDITORIAL CARTOON: how nice! by blamb (June 2017) EDITORIAL CARTOON: TCHC (May 2017) 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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Every once in a while, someone gets mad as hell and decides not to accept the status quo. It’s a small act of rebellion that can shake things up, bringing sanity and common sense to a situation that has gotten well out of hand. Take the case of Etobicoke resident Adi Asti. Frustrated by the […]

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Take personal actions to work towards reconciliation By Mike Layton As festivities wind down from Canada’s 150th birthday, we are granted an important opportunity to look back at where we have been as a nation and chart our course for the nation we want to become. Many of the Canada 150 celebrations focused on the […]

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Local politicians celebrate Canada at 150 As the nation celebrated the big 150 this month, we wondered how our local politicians marked our big day. Member of Provincial Parliament Han Dong (Trinity-Spadina), councillors Joe Cressy (Ward 20, Trinity-Spadina) and Mike Layton (Ward 19, Trinity-Spadina), and Toronto Catholic District School Board trustee Catholic School Board Jo-Ann […]

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August is alive along the Bloor St. Corridor By Heather Kelly Film Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema invites you to step into one of the most eccentric and remarkable spaces in New York hipster history: The Jazz Loft: According to W. Eugene Smith which opens August 4. Then enjoy a spirited look at the life and career of […]

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A Toronto baseball institution for over a century By R.S. Konjek In some quarters of Toronto, this year’s Canada Day celebrations were a time of spirited debate. People argued whether a giant rubber ducky on the lakeshore was a whimsical tourism boon or an outrageous financial boondoggle. Some wondered what a rubber duck had to […]

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Toronto shouldn’t have to pay for roads used by non-Torontonians I love a good history lesson. The Green Party of Ontario is floating a wonderful petition to implement road tolls on the Don Valley Parkway (DVP) and Gardiner Expressway. I haven’t been shy about being a fan for congestion control purposes. It likely won’t be […]

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Some parks still suffer from litter and disrepair Grading our Greenspace returns this month in the first of a three-part series. For this popular feature, we assess many of the parks in and surrounding the Annex considering factors like functionality, safety, cleanliness, seating, and shade. As in past years, our grades are widely varied: after […]

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