Adam Vaughan Vows to “Destroy” OMB BRIAN BURCHELL/GLEANER NEWS

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 In our blind bid to recycle we seem to have forgotten the first two “Rs” By Terri Chu The city has put up nice new garbage bins along the major streets around the Annex recently. There are separate compartments for trash and recycling.  Toronto is ahead of most major North American cities when it comes […]

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Unique Parent-Child Cafe’ Provides a Safe Harbour Photo By Brian Burchell/Gleaner News An inside view of a space welcome to child and parent alike, a very well executed renovation of the site of the former Toronto Women’s Bookstore. By Erika Murray As a new mother in 2002, Nathalie Robertson initially struggled to forge a social […]

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When a big store means more than just a place to shop: the future of Bathurst and Bloor By Simone Blaiss In any intersection in downtown Toronto, transformation is inevitable, but the changes occurring to the four corners of Bathurst and Bloor has that area’s diverse community particularly up in arms.  This summer’s announcement that […]

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An old fashioned recipe never goes out of style By Susan Oppenheim My maternal grandmother gave me a copy of  The Naomi Cook Book first published in 1928 the Hadassah Women.  All the donated recipes are clear and simple. Things pop up like “cook in medium oven till done” quite often. My copy has the inscription […]

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By: Olivia Chow and Joe Cressy Those of us who live in the city all know the aggravation that can come with unreliable public transit and gridlock.  Being squeezed into an overflowing subway. Watching packed streetcars pass you by as you wait in the cold, already late for work. Sitting in a car in traffic […]

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Shows in thirty-five venues dazzled audiences By Beth McKay The Toronto Fringe Festival held its 25th anniversary from July 3rd to July 14th and, to celebrate, a whopping 148 shows were performed at 35 venues and entertained countless theatregoers. Though it may have been difficult to attend all of the Fringe shows because of the […]

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By Beth McKay The Green P parking lot is nestled in between Bloor Street and Lennox Street, and though this lot appears ordinary, it is yet another example as to why the Annex is such a thriving and eventful community. The Green P parking lot is used for cars throughout the week, but on Wednesdays […]

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From Christmas installations to increasing security at the Brunswick House By: Kelly Gabel The monthly Bloor Annex Business Improvement Area (BIA) meeting took place Oct. 16 at Kilgour’s Bar Meets Grill (509 Bloor Street W.) and was led by treasurer and secretary, Brian Burchell. On the agenda was the approval of the 2013 budget plan. […]

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Genre festival makes it way back to the Annex By Katie O’Connor The Toronto After Dark Film Festival (TADFF) is back, and this year it’s bigger than ever. The critically acclaimed genre film festival turns seven this year, and has expanded to nine nights of programming. The festival showcases feature length science fiction, cult, horror, […]

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By Samori Bryan On the morning of Oct. 8, employees of the second-hand goods store Cash Converters (570 Bloor St. W.) found the glass door of their shop broken into and a quantity of electronic items stolen. Fourteen division responded to an automated alarm around midnight at the store where officers discovered that a break […]

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UTS humanities teacher hopes to inject urban studies into Ontario curriculum Andrew Schopp The curriculum taught in public schools across Ontario covers everything from the Canadian Shield to the formation of cumulus clouds, but covers very little regarding the urban landscape in which 81 per cent of Canadians live. “It seems crazy to me that […]

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