Whether it’s the fragrance, the colours, the shape, or all three, fresh flowers in the home make wonderful decorations to relax the mind and nourish the spirit.

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An updated guide of Annex resources By Gleaner Staff Staying home to help stop the spread of the 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) continues to be the new normal for the foreseeable future.   Read on for our updated guide to Annex resources during COVID-19, the third issue since we all started to hunker down and stay […]

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George Linton has lifted the spirits of hospital patients and those living in seniors’ residences across the city, one song at a time.

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There’s plenty of rumbling out there, among the corporate elites especially, that agree: saving the lives of 1-3% of the population is too high a price to pay for a shut-down in the economy.

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One of the most misunderstood and mismanaged techniques in gardendom is the act of pruning.

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What to plant in your container garden In May 2020, the Annex Gleaner celebrates 25 years of publishing. In acknowledgement of this history we are republishing highlights of our past; this feature, Portable potable vegetables by gardening columnist Bardi Vorster, is from May 1998. As spring is here this advice is timely. By Bardi Vorster […]

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COVID-19 response speaks volumes about those we choose to ignore By Terri Chu There’s a China-sized hole in the world’s pollution map thanks to the coronavirus (COVID-19). Flights around the world have decreased, economic activity has gone down substantially, and our air has never been cleaner. Even Venice’s famous canals are running clean, and are […]

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U of T seeks big win on greenhouse gas reductions By Nicole Stoffman Green energy from the deep earth is coming to the Annex. The University of Toronto is drilling one hundred and fifty-three 850-foot boreholes into the Robert Street Field in order to extract geothermal energy to provide heating and cooling to the future […]

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Crusader lauded for her contributions This article is the second in a series about local residents making a difference in our community. These unsung heroes were brought to The Gleaner’s attention by MPP Jessica Bell, who honoured them at her Annual Community Celebration, in December of 2019. By Nicole Stoffman Susan Dexter loves a challenge, […]

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Province has no business case for reckless cuts By Terri Chu Last year, Premier Ford and friends dropped $231 million of “taxpayer” money on killing wind energy projects. It’s one thing to not build any more but spending money to cancel projects? That’s next level “respecting” taxpayer money (as he likes to say). What this […]

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Emerging from the dust will be much greater density The Annex is by no means exempt from the building boom that sees the City of Toronto with more cranes in the sky than any other North American municipality. The Gleaner is distributed to homes from College Street in the south, Dupont to the north, Avenue […]

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City is caught flat-footed as alarm bells ring By Terri Chu I was mildly optimistic when Toronto City Council officially declared a “Climate Emergency”, in October, 2019. How naïve I was to think that an “emergency” meant that something might actually happen. The situation appears to me as though teenagers are dialing 911 and screaming […]

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