Opinion

The Berczy Park working group which goes to the public Oct. 23 was formed to examine possibilities about the redesign of the iconic St. Lawrence Neighbourhood triangle that houses the Flatiron (Gooderham) Building on the east. Business representatives and local ...

Frank Touby — It’s the silliest globalized contradiction of all. Canadians pay “world prices” for what we produce in Canada. Think of how we could recapture our lost manufacturing industries if only we kept our oil to ourselves and didn’t ...

Summertime, soon slowly fading, makes us more aware of our relationship to nature. As city dwellers in our fixed man-made surroundings of hard buildings and streets, we treasure the soft, living and changing forms of nature. Our minds and perceptions ...

Reviewed and Updated April 26, 2018 Xplornet’s TV ads misrepresent the company. There are much better alternatives than an exploitive and deceptive corporation. NOTE: This reprehensible corporation is now getting into the telephone business as well as satellites. Don’t expect ...

The land of my birth, in whose army infantry I served during the nascent Vietnam-War era, has abandoned its Constitution and principles. Using the 9/11 incidents as an excuse, it became a police state. I pray that my adopted homeland, ...

What rankles most in the aftermath of the shooting of Sammy Yatim—a teenager, in a mental crisis, alone on an empty streetcar, a Swiss Army knife in hand, shot and tasered to death by Toronto police—is the inability of our ...

When we market Toronto abroad and invite the world to our city, we always showcase our diversity. The theme of the 2015 Pan Am games is centred on capturing the diversity of the city. A natural progression of a multicultural ...

Editorial — Every Ontario premier since (but not including) Bob Rae has sold out our city to corporate interests, primarily those in the high-rise, high-density development game. But even Rae failed to do what Liberal Premier Kathleen Wynne has an ...

Certainly the promise of free food, music and community helped, but hundreds turned out for the fifth annual Bob Kemp Day, sponsored by the 51 Division Community Police Liaison Committee (CPLC) and some local merchants. Many were there Aug. 15 ...

Frank Touby — It may not be the same glorious pink surface that St. Lawrence Neighbourhood young people so enjoyed playing basketball on, but it will be a restoration and perhaps an improvement. The charitable arm of Maple Leaf Sports ...