News releases

Secret city offer a gift from you to Island airport: $2.5M/year

Brian Iler — The City of Toronto has battled the Toronto Port Authority for more than a decade to collect property taxes on the Island Airport and other lands owned by the Port Authority. That battle, fought so hard by ...

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Maple Leaf Forever tree lives on in design exhibit

As part of the Toronto Design Offsite Festival (TO DO), an exhibit curated by LEAF (Local Enhancement & Appreciation of Forests) will showcase four unique pieces by Brothers Dressler, Dystil, The National Design Collective and Paus + Grün. The designers ...

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Are you a skilled restaurant manager? Subway wants you!

Canada’s premier healthy fast-food restaurant needs a talented, experienced restaurant manager. Duties include: to plan, direct and evaluate the operation of the restaurant. To properly evaluate the  customers complaints, queries and give them a proper, in-time solution. $17.50 per hour ...

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Workshop on how to lobby

Canadian Electoral Alliance www.electoralalliance.ca and Fair Vote Canada www.fairvote.ca presents- Activist Workshop: How to lobby Proportional Representation on Thur Jan 23,2014 7-9pm Metro Hall, Rm 308/309,55 John St. Chaired by John Deverell, founding Treasurer of Fair Vote Canada Proportional Representation ...

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Liberals’ refusal to honour deal with CUPE threatens Bill 122

Mary Unan —Today the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) announced that, because of the Liberal government’s failure to honour its year-old agreement with school support workers, the union cannot support the government’s Bill 122, the School Boards Collective Bargaining ...

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It’s going to be a grand NIGHT on Friday, January 31, 2014!

In the cold mid-winter,  grandNIGHT will  warm up Toronto! The Toronto Island Grannies in Spirit and NIGHTWOOD Theatre are presenting a Gala Fundraiser, grand NIGHT, in support of the Stephen Lewis Foundation. This exciting event brings together a great evening ...

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Porter dumps hazardous de-icing fluid into city sewer

A proper de-icing facility is impossible at Toronto Island airport. A recently-released draft Master Plan for the Island Airport says tight physical constraints at Toronto’s Island Airport make provision of a proper de-icing facility impossible. Here’s what the Plan states: ...

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