This year’s December cover is a photo courtesy of cycling advocate Jun Nogami.
ON THE COVER: More ghost bikes to come? (Dec. 2024)
December 16th, 2024 · No Comments
Tags: Annex · On the cover
NEWS: Ford government is intent on removing bike lanes in Toronto (Dec. 2024)
December 16th, 2024 · No Comments
Bloor Street tops the list in the “Get You Home Faster Act”
BRIAN BURCHELL/GLEANER NEWS
By Ammara Khan
In a move to “combat congestion,” the Ford government has set out to reduce the number of bike lanes starting with the removal of lanes on Bloor Street, Yonge Street, and University Avenue.
LETTERS: An open letter to the Minister of Transportation (Dec. 2024)
December 16th, 2024 · No Comments
My family [and I] are longtime downtown residents and homeowners. We own a car and we also cycle daily to run errands, particularly on the Bloor shopping strip.
If you enact this bill we will simply stop shopping on the local Bloor strip. We will get in our car and drive somewhere else. So much for lowering congestion.
GRADING OUR GREENSPACE: Annex parks’ report card (Dec. 2024)
December 16th, 2024 · No Comments
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.
FOCUS: Community Safety Scholarship awarded to Sean Chen (Dec. 2024)
December 16th, 2024 · No Comments
Chen has made an impact at Harbord Collegiate
By Ammara Khan
Tags: Annex
EDITORIAL CARTOON: Today’s flavour: cookie dough (Dec. 2024)
December 16th, 2024 · No Comments
SEE MORE EDITORIAL CARTOONS:
- EDITORIAL CARTOON: Disinformation 101 (Oct./Nov. 2024)
- EDITORIAL CARTOON: Get ready for Eglinton! (Sept. 2024)
- EDITORIAL CARTOON: Staggering Progress! (Summer 2024)
- EDITORIAL CARTOON: How Nice (June 2024)
- EDITORIAL CARTOON: How Nice (May 2024)
- EDITORIAL CARTOON: How Nice: NIMBYism 101 (Apr. 2024)
- EDITORIAL CARTOON: Why can’t they get along??? (Mar. 2024)
- EDITORIAL CARTOON: How to drive in Toronto (Feb. 2024)
Tags: Annex · Editorial · Opinion
EDITORIAL: Bill 212 causes congestion (Dec. 2024)
December 16th, 2024 · No Comments
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.
Tags: Annex · Editorial · Opinion
FORUM: Time to file your vacant home tax declaration (Dec. 2024)
December 16th, 2024 · No Comments
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.
ON THE COVER: Redo of intersection itself a hazard (Oct./Nov. 2024)
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Import of a Dutch design was a response to cyclist death at Bloor and St. George streets
By Austin Kelly
Tags: Annex · News · On the cover
NEWS: An attempt to stem renovictions (Oct./Nov. 2024)
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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.
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
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.
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.
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)
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.