Eric Morse – Eight years in the fundraising, the Wellesley Community Centre swimming pool is about to enter the planning and construction process, councillor Pam McConnell told a kickoff town hall meeting Dec. 10. Originally budgeted with a pool at ...

Robert Evans Wilson, Jr. — The summer of 2013 was the summer that never happened – for me at least. It started out normal enough, maybe a bit too much rain, but I was excited to finally have some warm ...

The Ontario Federation of Labour (OFL), has been vocal about police shootings since last year’s Toronto shooting of Sammy Yatim and calls for sweeping changes to police protocols. “How many times will we have to see the same tragedy unfold ...

Molly Schwoppe — Statement from Geoffrey J. Neale, chair, Libertarian National Committee, in response to President Barack Obama’s announced plan for minor reforms of NSA mass surveillance: “Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of the rights of its citizens, ...

Kevin Ryan — [Global Research] Last June, Glenn Greenwald at The Guardian revealed that Edward Snowden was the NSA insider behind “one of the most significant leaks in US political history.” Snowden explained his motivations through Greenwald by saying, “There ...

Elizabeth May — I have been over the last few days, like most Canadians, getting the deluge of retrospectives on 2013.  Rob Ford’s name looms large in these reviews, along with Duffy and Wallin, Senate expenses and shenanigans. This review ...

Moving forward to the final meeting of the Budget Committee, Deputy Mayor Norm Kelly is pleased to confirm his support for the Budget Committee and their work they have undertaken to bring forward recommendations to deliver a fiscally sustainable budget. ...

Mary Gallagher — With the City of Toronto Budget Committee wrapping-up its review of the City’s 2014 Budget, the Toronto Real Estate Board (TREB) is calling for City Council to move forward with providing relief from the Toronto Home Buying ...

Linda Crill had it all. Beautiful, fit, happily married, and successful, she was the kind of woman who could tackle the difficult and make things happen. After Linda was widowed at 57, she followed experts’ advice as she began to ...

Remember Aesop’s fable of the scorpion and the frog? A scorpion and a frog meet on the bank of a stream and the scorpion asks the frog to carry him across on its back.  The frog asks, “How do I ...