Entries Tagged as 'General'
July 18th, 2018 · Comments Off on GREENINGS: Results beg for electoral reform (July 2018)
Environment would benefit from a system that’s not a winner takes all
Big congratulations to Jessica Bell who is now representing us in University-Rosedale at Queen’s Park. Read more
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July 18th, 2018 · Comments Off on GRADING OUR GREENSPACE: More attention to green spaces means parks are improving (July 2018)
Tall trees provide lots of shade for the University of Toronto faculty and students who often congregate at Bloor-Bedford Parkette. Easily accessible from St. George station or the parking lot behind the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, the park also features paved walkways and several benches. AHMED-ZAKI HAGAR/GLEANER NEWS Read more
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July 18th, 2018 · Comments Off on SPORTS: Many hats, one goal for Topolie (July 2018)
Player-manager Damon Topolie hits one out during a game in Burlington May 2018.
R.S. KONJEK/GLEANER NEWS
An interview with Toronto Maple Leafs’ player-manager
A recent ESPN column declared that “parts of baseball are disappearing before our very eyes”. Read more
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March 22nd, 2018 · Comments Off on CHATTER: Cultural hub marks 10 years (March 2018)
The Stop’s Farmers’ Market runs every Saturday year round from 8:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the Artscape Wychwood Barns at St. Clair Avenue West and Christie Street. It’s one of many community activities at the cultural community hub, which opened in 2008 and includes 26 artist live/work studios, 15 artist work studios, and nine non-profit arts and environmental organizations. For more information on the Barns, please visit www.artscapewychwoodbarns.ca. COURTESY ARTSCAPE Read more
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March 22nd, 2018 · Comments Off on EDITORIAL: A social contract is a precious thing (March 2018)
In South Africa, Cape Town is about to run out of fresh water. Authorities predict that Day Zero — the last time water will flow from a domestic tap — will hit on July 9, 2018. Three years of drought resulting from climate change has brought a city of 4 million to the brink of crisis. Read more
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January 29th, 2018 · Comments Off on ARTS: Beauty, through the eyes of a beast (Jan. 2018)
The NAGs Players rehearse Beauty and the Beast, which opens February 1 at the Tranzac Stage. Written by Ben Crocker and adapted for the NAGs Players by Ginty Burns & Lina Minniti, this fun-filled family entertainment tells the story — through a poodle’s eyes — of a prince who falls in love with a beautiful girl and suffers the consequences of a glamorous witch’s jealousy. For more information, please visit www.nagsplayers.com. COURTESY NAGS PLAYERS
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December 15th, 2017 · Comments Off on CHATTER Deals disappear with December demolition!! (Dec. 2017)
BRIAN BURCHELL/GLEANER NEWS Deals fell to the floor as the Honest Ed’s demolition continued with the dismantling of masonry, lumber, and steel. Originally divided by a city-owned alley called Honest Ed’s Way, the store’s sections were constructed very differently. Pictured here is the west annex, which was built on the houses that once stood there and featured crooked floors, because the houses were not built to the same elevations. Read more
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December 15th, 2017 · Comments Off on EDITORIAL CARTOON: How Nice (Dec. 2017)
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FORUM: Celebrating 20 years of cartoonist Brett Lamb (April 2017) Read more
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November 24th, 2017 · 1 Comment
Dutch Dreams owner recalls Nazi terror, jubilation after liberation
COURTESY J.L. BLOEMHOF’S AMERSFOORT ’40-’45 “Look at him, I find that so beautiful a picture. He’s from the Polar Bear Brigade, they liberated us. Isn’t that a beautiful picture? You can see in his face that he knows he liberated the Dutch, he’s proud and happy!” Read more
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October 12th, 2017 · Comments Off on CHATTER (FALL 2017): Dispensary search leads to 15 charged
The Toronto Police Service executed a search warrant at the Canna Clinic Dispensary in Kensington Market on September 11.
The police seized a large quantity of cannabis and cannabis-related substances including 169 kilograms of marijuana, 14.5 kilograms of marijuana oil, and 5 kilograms of a highly potent marijuana extract known as shatter. Approximately $14,000 in cash was seized along with the drugs. Read more
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September 13th, 2017 · Comments Off on NEWS (AUGUST 2017): Expanding the city’s cycling network
Study proposes to use laneways as bike lanes
By Geremy Bordonaro
Could Toronto’s network of laneways be integrated into the city’s cycling infrastructure? A recently launched study may answer that question.
Sponsored by the Laneway Project, Laneways as Bikeways explores whether laneways could be converted into bikes lanes. Read more
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September 13th, 2017 · Comments Off on NEWS (AUGUST 2017): Palmerston goes green
Residents’ association follows model set by Harbord Village
By Emilie Jones
The Palmerston Area Residents’ Association (PARA) unveiled its plan to go green at a public meeting in early August. The association, which has been developing the plan with the office of Mike Layton (Ward 19, Trinity-Spadina), was looking for ideas and feedback from the neighbourhood. Read more
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September 13th, 2017 · Comments Off on CORRECTION (AUGUST 2017): A better historical view
Kent Jackson, a member of the Bloor Street United Church congregation, noted that the archival photo we ran with this article did not match the cutline: “The church lost its steps and main entrance when it was truncated in 1927 to make way for the widening of Bloor Street West.” Read more
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