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GRADING OUR GREENSPACE: Annex parks’ report card (Dec. 2024)

December 16th, 2024 · Comments Off on GRADING OUR GREENSPACE: Annex parks’ report card (Dec. 2024)

Our fourth and final instalment of the review of area parks for 2024

Compiled by Ammara Khan

Each year the Annex Gleaner reviews the many parks and parkettes in our coverage area using a variety of criteria. 

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Tags: Annex · Life

FOCUS: Community Safety Scholarship awarded to Sean Chen (Dec. 2024)

December 16th, 2024 · Comments Off on FOCUS: Community Safety Scholarship awarded to Sean Chen (Dec. 2024)

Chen has made an impact at Harbord Collegiate

From left, P.C. Geoff Graham, Inspector Robert Choe, scholarship winner Sean Chen, Scholarship Coordinator Brian Burchell, and P.C. Jamie Breau at Toronto Police Service’s 14 Division. COURTESY TORONTO POLICE SERVICE

By Ammara Khan

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EDITORIAL CARTOON: Today’s flavour: cookie dough (Dec. 2024)

December 16th, 2024 · Comments Off on EDITORIAL CARTOON: Today’s flavour: cookie dough (Dec. 2024)

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EDITORIAL: Bill 212 causes congestion (Dec. 2024)

December 16th, 2024 · Comments Off on EDITORIAL: Bill 212 causes congestion (Dec. 2024)

Bill 212, Reducing Gridlock, Saving You Time Act, 2024, is a reckless piece of legislation based on the false premise that bike lanes add to traffic congestion and are bad for business. The Annex is a shining example of how neither is true.

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FORUM: Time to file your vacant home tax declaration (Dec. 2024)

December 16th, 2024 · Comments Off on FORUM: Time to file your vacant home tax declaration (Dec. 2024)

Not to late for the flu shot or an updated COVID vacine

By Dianne Saxe

Two years have now passed since I was first elected to Toronto city council, and I am tremendously proud of the improvements we have made together. 

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FORUM: Dangerous road safety bill is a distraction (Dec. 2024)

December 16th, 2024 · Comments Off on FORUM: Dangerous road safety bill is a distraction (Dec. 2024)

It’s as if being premier is too hard and he would rather be mayor of Toronto

By Jessica Bell

The Conservatives anti-bike bill went to committee in mid-November. It came into committee bad, and it went out worse.

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ON THE COVER: Redo of intersection itself a hazard (Oct./Nov. 2024)

November 8th, 2024 · Comments Off on ON THE COVER: Redo of intersection itself a hazard (Oct./Nov. 2024)

Import of a Dutch design was a response to cyclist death at Bloor and St. George streets

City crews work to amend the recently redesigned intersection of Bloor and St. George by removing trip hazards that were injuring cyclists and pedestrians. BRIAN BURCHELL/GLEANER NEWS

By Austin Kelly

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Tags: Annex · News · On the cover

NEWS: An attempt to stem renovictions (Oct./Nov. 2024)

November 8th, 2024 · Comments Off on NEWS: An attempt to stem renovictions (Oct./Nov. 2024)

City council works to develop a new bylaw 

By Meredith Poirier

In response to repeated outcries from tenants the city is developing a legislative framework to help protect them. 

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NEWS: Hot Docs/Bloor Cinema to reopen (Oct./Nov. 2024)

November 8th, 2024 · Comments Off on NEWS: Hot Docs/Bloor Cinema to reopen (Oct./Nov. 2024)

A soft reopening is planned for third-party rentals

The Rocky Horror Picture Show returns to Hot Docs this Halloween. NEILAND BRISSENDEN/GLEANER NEWS

By Rose Haberer 

Since its closing in the heat of mid-June, questions about the fate of the Toronto gem and documentary film-scene staple, Hot Docs, have been left open-ended, until now. 

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GRADING OUR GREENSPACE: Annex parks report card (Oct./Nov. 2024)

November 8th, 2024 · Comments Off on GRADING OUR GREENSPACE: Annex parks report card (Oct./Nov. 2024)

Third instalment of the Gleaner’s review of area parks for 2024

Each year the Annex Gleaner reviews the many parks and parkettes in our coverage area using a variety of criteria. 

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Tags: Annex · Life

CHATTER: Trinity-St. Paul’s blesses all creatures great and small (Oct./Nov. 2024)

November 8th, 2024 · Comments Off on CHATTER: Trinity-St. Paul’s blesses all creatures great and small (Oct./Nov. 2024)

The annual tradition pays tribute to the creatures we love. ROSE HABERER/GLEANER NEWS

If you happened to be at the Trinity-St. Paul’s Centre for Faith, Justice and the Arts this past Sunday, Oct. 6,  you would have found the pews full of people replaced with a gaggle of pointy eared, furry friends, there for the annual Blessing of the Animals. 

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EDITORIAL CARTOON: Disinformation 101 (Oct./Nov. 2024)

November 8th, 2024 · Comments Off on EDITORIAL CARTOON: Disinformation 101 (Oct./Nov. 2024)

“Tunnel Talk”

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EDITORIAL: Fact-checking Ford (Oct./Nov. 2024)

November 8th, 2024 · Comments Off on EDITORIAL: Fact-checking Ford (Oct./Nov. 2024)

Premier Doug Ford, while apparently unable or unwilling to address urgent provincial crises in health care, education, and the ongoing existential threat of climate change, has instead told an Empire Club luncheon last week that he is planning to “rip out bike lanes on major roads such as Bloor Street.” The elites at the lunch were thrilled, a group whose praise Ford craves.

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