Toronto Real Estate Board President Dianne Usher announced that Greater Toronto Area strong year-over-year increases in TorontoMLS home sales and the average selling price in March 2014. Home ownership affordability, backstopped by low borrowing costs, continued to be a key ...

Registered dietitian Cara Rosenbloom knows that healthy eating is important to the health of Ontarians. The results of a recent survey conducted by Metro reveals that almost all Ontarians (99 per cent) consider it important to eat healthily; however, only ...

Ontario Health Coalition — In August 2013, a routine mandatory public notice posted on the government’s regulations website revealed that a change in the ownership and control of public hospital services in Ontario was being planned. The Ontario government was ...

Unilever is supporting a dirty industry attempt to continue the destruction of Southeast Asia’s rainforests. If it gets its way, orangutans could keep dying in the name of “sustainable” palm oil. The consumer giant is attempting to ignore scientists’ work ...

Michael Schwartz – Delegates at Feb. 26 meeting of the St Lawrence Neighbourhood Association (SLNA) at the Older Women’s Network co-op heard good news and bad news from guest speaker Pam McConnell. McConnell started her presentation by revealing a crisis ...

Robin Careless – A plan to develop controversial plot of land in the Church-Wellesley neighbourhood may finally have the community’s approval. The 2-acre lot at 11 Wellesley St. W. has been vacant for years. When the ownership of the land ...

Dennis Hanagan – Awalkway on Market St. between Front St. and The Esplanade may  be named Paul Oberman Walk in honour of the late Toronto developer and architect. His work included renovating  Market St. heritage properties. He died in a ...

Michael Schwartz – Sections of Regent Park fronted by Gerrard St. E. and River St. will now be developed following a  community council vote on Feb. 25. As a result of changes to previous permissions, 654 existing social housing units ...

Dennis Hanagan – Regent Park is closer to getting its athletic grounds with consultations underway involving community members offering ideas of what they’d like to see there. A meeting was held at the Daniels Spectrum Feb. 26 with about 150 ...

Dennis Hanagan – A developer’s plan to reduce a heritage building on Dundonald Street to just its façade is a tragedy, says Paul Farrelly of the Church Wellesley Neighbourhood Association (CWNA). “The loss of a heritage building is tragic,” Farrelly, ...