An arbitrator has sided with the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) ruling that the rent the mental health hospital and research facility pays to the landlord of its College Street location be based on its value as an institution.  Read more

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Neil Wright, chair, and Joe Caversham, treasurer, both of the Harbord Street Business Improvement Area (BIA), pose with a graffiti prevention award, presented to the BIA by the Toronto Association of Business Improvement Areas for its work in improving the streetscape. Brian Burchell, Gleaner News

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Group of Seven member Lawren Harris, who painted Red House, Winter, shown on this year’s holiday cover, not only has many links to the Annex, but to this issue as well. He attended the University of Toronto, taught visual art for a time at the Central Technical School, and painted several depictions of the Ward before the First World War. His time in Toronto’s first immigrant neighbourhood — what some called a slum — is recounted in The Ward, which was reviewed in a previous issue, and features in our Year in Review.  Read more

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An alternative medicine practitioner has been charged with sexually assaulting a patient at his independently-owned Natural Healings Health Solutions clinic on Bloor Street West.  Read more

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A patch of orange pitched up on the picnic tables in front of Harbord Fish & Chips beside Albert Jackson Lane for the popular Pumpkin Festival on Nov. 1. Sponsored by Wright Real Estate Brokerage, this annual event is presented through a partnership of the Habord Street BIA and the Harbord Village Residents’ Association. Courtesy Graham Rempe

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A 40-year-old archaeology professor at the University of Toronto has been awarded a MacArthur “genius grant”. Dimitri Nakassis, who studies Late Bronze Age (Mycenaean) Greek society, will receive $625,000 over five years to spend however he chooses, but is still not sure how he will use the grant.  Read more

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An argument between two men in the College Street and Spadina Avenue area escalated to a stabbing Oct. 27 at 12:16 pm. The men were seen arguing, with one attempting to walk into a store when the other stabbed him in the back and fled the scene. The suspect is described as white, approximately six feet, with a medium build and a black beard. He was wearing a dark toque and winter coat, as well as a grey hooded top.  Read more

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Harbord Village’s Rory “Gus” Sinclair stands for a moment of silence during the University of Toronto’s Service of Remembrance on Nov. 11. Held annually at the foot of the Soldiers’ Tower, the service — during which the university community honours the faculty, staff, alumni, and students who fell during the First and Second World Wars and other conflicts — includes the singing of traditional hymns, the laying of wreaths, and readings, including In Flanders Fields, written by John McCrae, a university alumnus.

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Art animated the Annex earlier this month as it hosted a variety of installations for Scotiabank Nuit Blanche on Oct. 3. Catherine Chan’s I’ve Got Sunshine on a Cloudy Day (above), at 15 King’s College Circle, is a literal and figurative representation of sunshine that asks: what brings light to darkness? Neiland Brissenden, Gleaner News

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