Residents decry loss of green space and heritage impacts By Brian Burchell It was billed as a community consultation, but a Nov. 29 meeting on plans to add an 11-storey mixed-use building and eight stacked townhouses to the north and south of the existing 25-storey tower at 666 Spadina Ave. was more about airing grievances […]

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COURTESY RICHARD LONGLEY: The Harbord Village Residents’ Association and the Harbord Street Business Improvement Area celebrated their tenth annual Harbord Street Pumpkin Festival on Nov. 1. Featuring hot cider, a silent auction, and, of course, many glowing pumpkins, it drew crowds to Harbord Street between Spadina Avenue to Borden Street.   READ MORE: NEWS: Harbord […]

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  READ MORE: NEWS: Building community over fattoush (June 2016) NEWS: A warm welcome for new arrivals (January 2016) EDITORIAL (DECEMBER 2015): Embrace Refugees NEWS: Groups raise funds for refugees (December 2015) NEWS: Churches raise funds for refugees (November 2015)

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MORE how nice!: Planning! by Train Waits (July 2016) Water, water, everywhere! by W.H. Consin (June 2016) How to meet your quota! by Otto Mobile (May 2016) A carpet of green! by Don Mower (April 2016)

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By Annemarie Brissenden It’s hard to feel sad when playing a ukulele. “Everyone feels good when they play the music,” laughs Sarah Bradley, a branch head librarian with the Toronto Public Library (TPL). She and her colleagues have been running a ukulele program at the Lillian H. Smith branch at College Street and Spadina Avenue […]

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Fans celebrate another up-and-down season By R.S. Konjek Baseball won’t be rushed. It is a pastime to be sipped and savoured. The game will outlast all manner of hindrances en route to its conclusion — be it a rainstorm, a tie score, or a lopsided blowout demanding a show of mercy. With few exceptions, the […]

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READ MORE: ARTS: Bringing art to the people (April 2016) NEWS: Untapped potential: Animating our local laneways (February 2016) NEWS: Incubating micro-retail: Laneways untapped realm of urban design (December 2015) ARTS: Graffiti artist Erica Balon creates mural on Bloor Street West (July 2015) NEWS: A new side to graffiti: SPUD counters war on graffiti with […]

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Rogers family donates $5 million to Hot Docs By Annemarie Brissenden Ninety years after John Grierson — who would go on to become the first commissioner of the National Film Board of Canada — coined the term documentary, Toronto’s burgeoning narrative feature industry has secured a permanent home. Late last month, Hot Docs received a […]

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Phase two additions include a new stage area By Geremy Bordonaro After a long wait, Margaret Fairley Park is set to undergo its second, and final, stage of revitalization this summer. Construction is expected to begin in the middle of July and finish this autumn. The park’s space will be expanded, the wading pool will […]

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An expansive dog run, a spot for runners, and an upgrade underway In this, part two of our annual survey of parks in the Annex, we step into new territory. The majority of parks reviewed this month are ones we haven’t covered in the past, and as in part one, we discovered great greenspaces mixed […]

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City hosts consultation on Westbank’s Mirvish Village plan By Annemarie Brissenden So pervasive is the spectre of Donald Trump these days that it’s impossible to escape, even in the Annex. “Thank god it wasn’t Donald Trump,” said one community member of Westbank Project Corp.’s plans for Mirvish Village during a June 13 community meeting at […]

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