Author Archives: Bulletin Editor

Middle school project evolves from down and out to published book

Regan Macaulay has been an animal person for as long as she can remember. The local children’s author has met with innumerable animals through her work as a veterinary assistant, an animal masseur and an animal wrangler, but one particular ...

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Planning consultations required for Esplanade, Sherbourne towers

St. Lawrence and Garden District residents will get a chance to say what they think about residential buildings proposed for their neighbourhoods. Community council told planning staff to organize community consultation meetings for a 34-storey, mixed-use building at 75 The ...

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Family struggles while son recovers from virus

When Marlaina Resendes feels down she looks at her 3 1/2-year-old son, Zion, and marvels at his strength and will as he tries to recover from a disease that, one year ago, almost killed him. “It’s his spirit,” says the ...

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Underwater hockey team swaps skates for snorkels

Underwater hockey is a demanding sport where a changeup between players can happen in as little as 15 seconds due to exhaustion. “Underwater it is a surprisingly fast game,” Emmanuel Caisse told The Bulletin. “When you can shoot that puck ...

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Hood not happy with new Ryerson building

A 27-storey, mixed-use Ryerson development for 270-288 Church St. at Dundas will help consolidate the school’s programs, says its Dean of the Faculty of Community Services. But nearby residents aren’t so pleased. The development has “created a considerable conversation in ...

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John Sewell’s book and how he and friends saved Toronto (Video)

John Sewell provides an insider’s account of 12 years when Toronto was transformed by activist citizens and high-rise developments. By the mid-1990s Toronto was well on the way to being Canada’s laraget and most powerful city, but all this “progress” ...

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No good signs police misbehaviour will change soon

John Sewell– Almost every day there’s a new and disturbing story about the police; sometimes worrisome behaviour, sometimes lack of good management, sometimes ineffective oversight. The recent police explanation of a shooting in February which left two men dead in ...

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US knew there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq

Jonathan Cook — In Autumn 2002 the Observer newspaper’s correspondent Ed Vulliamy found confirmation of a terrible truth many of us already suspected. In a world-exclusive, he persuaded Mel Goodman, a former senior CIA official who still had security clearance at the Agency, to ...

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CUPE rues delay that might privatize all Toronto’s waste

Kevin Wilson — Following the Sept. 22 decision by the City of Toronto Public Works and Infrastructure Committee to defer receiving a report on the benefits and drawbacks of further contracting out of solid waste management, Local 416 of the ...

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