Victory Cafe at 440 Bloor St. W. is open for take-out and is offering gourmet pizza, prepared in a wood fire oven, at roughly 40% off the usual price ($10.95). Owner Nick Ndreka declared: “this is an emergency and people need a break!”
CHATTER: Victory’s Nick is the anti-gouger (Apr. 2020)
May 1st, 2020 · 1 Comment
LIFE: Two wheels keep on turning (April 15, 2020)
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EDITORIAL: Fictions, falsehoods and a crisis in leadership (Feb. 2020)
February 27th, 2020 · Comments Off on EDITORIAL: Fictions, falsehoods and a crisis in leadership (Feb. 2020)
On February 21, members of all four Ontario Teacher’s Unions walked off the job leaving 2 million students out of school and leaving parents scrambling for childcare. Meanwhile, the Ontario government has been trying to sell citizens a story about striking teachers: that they are fat cats led by union boss “thugs” looking to gouge us of tax dollars. The premier likes to paint himself as a hero out to save us all, rescuing the province in a time of crisis, but the only crisis the electorate can buy into at this point is a crisis in leadership – his leadership.
Tags: Annex · Editorial · Opinion
FROM THE ARCHIVES: Fear of high buildings groundless (Feb. 2020)
February 27th, 2020 · 1 Comment
Tall structures can curb urban sprawl
In May 2020, the Annex Gleaner celebrates 25 years of publishing. In celebration, we are republishing highlights of our past; this feature, Fear of High Buildings Groundless by city-building columnist Alfred Holden, is from May 2001. As thirteen developments are going up in the Annex area it appears Holden’s views were prophetic.
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DEVELOPINGS: Annex area developments loom (Jan. 2020)
January 31st, 2020 · 1 Comment
Emerging from the dust will be much greater density
The Annex is by no means exempt from the building boom that sees the City of Toronto with more cranes in the sky than any other North American municipality.
NEWS: Aroma suddenly shuttered (Jan. 2020)
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FOCUS: Marked with granite (Jan. 2020)
January 31st, 2020 · 1 Comment
Creating a spot to gather
Originally published in October of 2016 in anticipation of the granite installations in the Bloor Street Parkettes.
By Geremy Bordonaro
NEWS: OCAD students design bike rings (Dec. 2019)
December 9th, 2019 · Comments Off on NEWS: OCAD students design bike rings (Dec. 2019)
Traditional and contemporary pieces win competition
By Khyrsten Mieras
New bike racks are being added to the Annex’s urban landscape after OCAD announced the winners of its design contest in mid-November.
CHATTER: Park gets a haircut (Nov. 2019)
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After two Gleaner stories amplifying community concerns over the city’s neglect of Paul Martel Park (on Madison north of Bloor), city staff gave the green space a major clean-up and its long promised new sign. Residents are hopeful that park staff bring the planting beds back to life in the spring.
EDITORIAL: Don Cherry’s deeply revealing words (Nov. 2019)
December 9th, 2019 · 1 Comment
Don Cherry made it easy for Rogers’s-owned Sportsnet to fire him on Nov. 11. His attack on newcomers for not wearing symbols of allegiance (the poppy) advances a very non-Canadian agenda that is entirely contrary to the values that our soldiers and allies fought for over several wars. It’s not so much that times have changed and Cherry’s views have failed to evolve, but that we believe Cherry is advancing views that were never very Canadian. The fact that he was fired on Remembrance Day is the real tribute to those troops.
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CHATTER: Brodie barred from 104 Harbord (Oct. 2019)
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In July, the Gleaner reported that once again the illegal pot dispensary operating out of 104 Harbord Street just west of Spadina had been raided by police. Jeff Brodie who claimed to be a legal residential tenant of the premises was evicted because the building was being used as an illegal cannabis store. Police erected concrete barriers to the storefront making access for any purpose impossible.
CHATTER: Police Scholarship Awarded (Oct. 2019
October 17th, 2019 · Comments Off on CHATTER: Police Scholarship Awarded (Oct. 2019
Monica Maitland, who was a student at Central Toronto Academy, has won this year’s safety scholarship from Toronto Police 14 Division. Pictured above from left is Staff Sgt. Tam Bui, Monica Maitland, and Brian Burchell, Scholarship Chair (and publisher of this newspaper). Monica overcame significant family hardships but still managed to make her community a safer more welcoming place. One of the many things she has done is to organize gift bags of essentials for homeless people in her neighbourhood. She approached corporate stores to make donations for these essentials. Thanks to the scholarship, Monica is now enrolled at Seneca College where she intends to study Behavioral Psychology.
EDITORIAL: The hidden cost of Conservative climate plans (Oct. 2019)
October 17th, 2019 · Comments Off on EDITORIAL: The hidden cost of Conservative climate plans (Oct. 2019)
As they look to win votes in Ontario, federal Liberal candidates point to Doug Ford as a sort of warning about the dangers of casting a vote in favour of the Conservative Party of Canada. It seems even the Conservatives are buying into this narrative, as party leader Andrew Scheer brought Alberta Premier Jason Kenney to Ontario to give his campaign a boost this month. The distraction does little to veil the similarity between Conservative leaders, particularly when it comes to their climate plans.