Kirsten Gunter – Judith Gelber has been appointed Vice-Chair of the Ontario Arts Council (OAC), while  Martha Durdin, OAC’s longest serving Chair, recently completed her third 3-year term in February. As Vice-Chair, Judith will helm OAC’s board of directors until a ...

Dennis Hanagan – The city’s parks department hopes to have a Downtown gem ready to re-open to the public this March. It’s the newly-retrofitted conservatory at Cloud Gardens Park in the heart of the financial district, south of Queen and ...

Eric Morse – This is a federal election year, and according to a prediction by former Liberal leader Bob Rae made on Feb. 10, the vote will take place as scheduled in October notwithstanding all the talk about a spring ...

Eric Morse – Around the outer wall of the nave of St Simon the Apostle’s Church, around 130 people join hands and sing “With a Little Help From My Friends” by the Beatles. For the newcomer, an unexpected moment, an ...

John Sewell — In November the Toronto Police Services Board decided it would not review the police service budget in its detailed form, but instead simply approve a global spending limit of $957 million recommended by the chief. When the ...

German chemical giant Bayer has failed in its attempt to muzzle Friends of the Earth Germany (BUND) over the environmental group’s claims that thiacloprid, a pesticide manufactured by Bayer, harms bees. Thiacloprid is one of a group of insecticides called ...

Margaret Rao — Canadian Unitarians for Social Justice (CUSJ) has issued a joint statement with 75+ civil society organizations from across the country, including Independent Jewish Voices Canada, the International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group, and Confédération des Syndicats Nationaux,condemning the ...

Eric Zuesse — Bolivia’s President Evo Morales has blamed U.S. President Barack Obama for the failure of the recent OAS (Organization of American States) Summit of the Americas to issue a final declaration, and he says that a major sticking point ...

Siobhan Geary — York Quay residents remain skeptical about the proposed Island airport expansion’s environmental assessment, despite a detailed presentation on March 11 from AECOM, the company hired by Ports Toronto to perform the assessment. Ports Toronto is the government ...

Eric Morse — A full St Lawrence Hall and a distinct air of skepticism tempered by curiosity greeted organizers of a public consultation on the potential form and route of the relief (subway) Line, formerly known as the Downtown Relief ...