The Billy Bishop Airport, formerly known as the Port George VI Island Airport—and unofficially known as the Toronto Island airport—has been part of the Toronto landscape since 1939. It was built around the same time as the Malton airport, which ...

Imagine what would have happened if during the G20 the cops had all been armed with Tasers. That comment, made by a deputant at the public hearing called by the Toronto Police Services Board on Sept.  24 into whether more ...

By Dennis Hanagan – Protecting the character of the Leslieville neighbourhood will be on the minds of residents invited to Morse St. Public School at 180 Carlaw St. on Oct. 3 for an open house about the future of Queen ...

By Dennis Hanagan – The city is continuing to haggle with waterfront property owners over details in the Central Waterfront Secondary Plan (CWSP). City planners and property owners’ representatives met for a brief Ontario Municipal Board (OMB) pre-hearing on Sept. ...

By Eric Morse – With planning for the 2015 Pan Am games finally coming together, city council has announced that it is exploring the feasibility of putting forward a bid for Expo 2025 and they are looking to the as-yet-undeveloped ...

Enbridge Gas Distribution advises Toronto residents and motorists that Bayview Avenue between River Street and Lower River Street (commonly referred to as the Bayview Extension) has now re-opened. The road was closed for eight weeks while Enbridge Gas Distribution conducted ...

Brian Iler — A small aircraft crashed Sunday evening, Sept. 29, at Santa Monica Airport in California, killing those aboard. The L.A. Times story is here. That airport, like the Toronto Island Airport, abuts a residential area, and has been ...

At 12:01 a.m. Sept. 30, hours before a critical meeting of its members, the Continuing Education Students’ Association of Ryerson (CESAR) locked out two unionized staff. “To not allow CESAR members to have a say in this matter is profoundly ...

Jacqui Delaney — In stark contrast to the Liberals’ No-Plan-At-All Plan, Ontario PC Leader Tim Hudak today invites Premier Kathleen Wynne to either “steal” his party’s plan to save Ontario or admit to not caring about half a million jobless ...

Gary Smith — On Sunday Sept. 29, local animal rights activists from Toronto Pig Save, along with U.S.-based nonprofit Farm Animal Rights Movement (FARM), were at Quality Meat Packers in Toronto to protest the brutalization and killing of pigs. The ...