COURTESY JODE ROBERTS, DAVID SUZUKI FOUNDATION   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 […]

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When the Sonic Boom record store moves out this October, a Bad Boys Superstore will move in. The 12,000-square-foot space is located on the corner of Bathurst and Bloor and is part of the Honest Ed’s building complex. The plan was announced on July 20 during Honest Ed’s 66th anniversary celebration; David Mirvish presided at […]

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Trinity-Spadina (Ward 20) welcomed new city councillor Ceta Ramkhalawansingh this past July. Long-serving city councillor Adam Vaughan resigned this spring for a successful run in a federal by-election in Trinity-Spadina. He is now the new member of parliament for the riding. Ramkhalawansingh was appointed by city council on an interim basis until the municipal election […]

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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 Yatim was shot and killed by Toronto police on a TTC streetcar on Dundas Street. Constable James Forcillo of Toronto Police Service (TPS) 14 Division was charged just 30 days after the shooting […]

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Vaughan’s vacancy creates competition By Madeline Smith Ward 20 is one of the toughest races in this year’s municipal election. Without an incumbent, the ward has attracted a huge selection of candidates—the most city council hopefuls in all the ward races— with 22 currently in the running. Running from Dupont Street to the waterfront, Ward […]

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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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