Dennis Hanagan – There’s a notion that once artists move into a neighbourhood for its cheap rents they gentrify the place and then new developments—like condos—move in, forcing up rents and forcing out artists as they search for other cheap-rent ...

Daniel Libeskind is the architect Toronto loves to hate the most. He has the distinction of constructing one of the most controversial and unsightly structures in our city—the new addition to the ROM—while at the same time building one of the ...

I remember clearly when the topic of sex education was introduced to me in Grade 7. I was both curious and embarrassed. There I was, in a classroom with 24 other students, talking about the human reproductive system. The teacher—whom ...

Eric Morse Two pieces of good news emerged from an Oct. 10 community liaison meeting with 51 Division organized by the St Lawrence Market Neighbourhood BIA to address concerns about homelessness and attendant crime issues in the area. The first ...

Dwight Peters — Berczy Park will be redesigned in 2014. A lot is at stake as the local community has changed dramatically over the past three decades. If Berczy is to succeed, the redesign process must focus on what the ...

Dennis Hanagan – A Heritage Toronto plaque will be unveiled Nov. 14 at Ryerson’s Mattamy Athletic Centre, 60 Carlton St., to commemorate Maple Leafs Gardens. One of the most renowned arenas in the history of hockey, Maple Leaf Gardens hosted ...

The Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) is blaming Ontario’s Liberal government and the cost of their gas plant cancellations for electricity rate increases that came into affect today. The price for off-peak power has increased by 7.5 per cent per kilowatt-hour, ...

The term “free trade” seems so upright; so economically sensible. It presupposes a world where nations without certain geographic, demographic or geological attributes can parlay their advantages in other areas with countries that lack what they have. This video of ...

Elizabeth May — While the front pages of this week’s papers contain further allegations in the Senate scandal—a scandal that is deeply rooted in the PMO’s obsession with controlling all aspects of government—I am writing to update you on another ...

David White — “This democratization of wine is great,” asserted Jancis Robinson, one of the world’s leading wine authorities, over coffee one recent morning. Robinson was in Washington, D.C., to promote the seventh edition of The World Atlas of Wine, ...