Gurion Hyman and Gordon Perlmutter recreate the 1938 picture that is memorialized on a Heritage Toronto plaque. Unveiled in early July, the plaque, which is the thirteenth to commemorate Toronto’s Jewish her- itage, will be installed in front of the Cecil Street Community Centre. Marcus Mitanis/Heritage Toronto
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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 recently sided with the City.
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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.
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New MPP focused on transit, development, and services for seniors
By Annemarie Brissenden
There is an oddly poetic quality to Han Dong’s defeat of Rosario Marchese in the recent provincial election. Dong, the newly elected Liberal member of provincial par- liament for Trinity-Spadina, was inspired to seek office by Bob Wong, the Liberal MPP who lost his seat to NDP Marchese in the 1990 Ontario election.
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City’s right to declare what requires a bylaw variance upheld
By Brian Burchell
The Toronto District School Board (TDSB) has lost another round in the fight to lease the Central Tech- nical School field to a commercial operator who would apply artificial turf and a dome for winter use.
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How to skip the gluten and the cost of store-bought
By Susan Oppenheim
“Gluten sensitivity (also gluten intolerance) is a spectrum of disorders including celiac disease in which gluten has an adverse effect on the body. Symptoms include bloating, abdominal discomfort or pain, diarrhea, constipation, muscular disturbances, headaches, migraines, severe acne, fatigue, and bone or joint pain.
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Making sure the vulnerable are not forgotten
By Rosario Marchese
It all started at Harbord Collegiate. That’s where I met my lifelong friend Joe Pantalone, who would pull me into the NDP and later persuade me to run for public office.
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Kathleen Wynne’s June 12th election win represents many things. Political affiliation aside, we celebrate the first woman to be elected premier of Ontario. We also celebrate the first openly gay woman to be elected premier in Canada. These are critical milestones at a time when we recognize the need for leaders—corporate, governmental, or otherwise—to reflect the diversity of those that they lead and represent.
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Long serving Trinity-Spadina MPP Rosario Marchese plans to retire from politics. He is pictured here standing in front of the Ontario Legislature in June 2007.
New MPP, Han Dong, has lived in Trinity-Spadina for 13 years
By Brian Burchell and Annemarie Brissenden
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Adam Vaughn, who is running in the Trinity-Spadina by-election on June 30, poses in front of his campaign office on Spadina Avenue, in the midst of what Jane Jacobs, who had a profound influence on Vaughan, would term the “ballet of the sidewalk.”
Vaughan driven by urgent need to bring practical experience to federal politics
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Market forces replace not repair
The other night our fridge made a strange popping sound before the compressor mysteriously shut off. My initial reaction was to start looking for a new fridge.
We live in a world so full of consumption and of constantly replacing old things with new, that I nearly forgot that there existed such a thing as a refrigerator repair person.
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