Dennis Hanagan – In Cabbagetown, high school students are learning how to make tea. But not the kind they’d want to drink. It’s tea made from compost, and the plants in the vegetable garden at Winchester Public School—where the students ...

Anthony Marcusa – The future of the eastern portion of the Gardiner Expressway is still up in the air after a June 13 public meeting to present the results of an environmental assessment and preliminary plans for the future of ...

Anthony Marcusa – An anxious crowd gathered on June 10 at Daniels Spectrum in Regent Park for the first official public consultation between the city and concerned residents to discuss proposed amendments to the Regent Park redevelopment plan. The proposal ...

Eric Morse – Other than the old-fashioned quad-wheel skates, there is nothing at all that would stand out in a crowd about the lady in yellow and black team uniform and elbow pads who has met for an interview at ...

Eric Morse – After a brief search for candidates, the city has announced the members of the new program advisory committee for the St. Lawrence Market precinct. Under the terms of reference laid out in the summer of 2012, the ...

‘The dangerous Island airport expansion plans put the revitalization of Ontario Place in peril’ By Will Molls – NoJetsTO welcomes the announced revitalization plans for Ontario Place that include the creation of an urban park and waterfront trail. However, the ...

‘Politics is off the rails in Ontario’—Greens By Becky Smit – Support for legislation to recall provincial and municipal officials was endorsed by Green Party of Ontario members at their annual convention in Oshawa over the weekend. “Politics is off ...

‘It’s become a highlight for our Local activists and volunteers to come out and make this remarkable place even more special for the people who need it’ By Kevin Wilson – Volunteer members of the Toronto Civic Employees Union (TCEU), ...

In Ontario a wage freeze doesn’t actually mean a freeze on wages By Candice Malcolm – After six painful weeks of negotiations between Premier Kathleen Wynne and NDP Leader Andrea Horwath, the budget was just finally passed in mid-June. And ...

Liberal cuts to have ‘severe effects on many of the province’s most vulnerable citizens’ while corporations and banks in Ontario are paying the lowest corporate tax rates since the 1920s By Craig Saunders – The Liberal government’s budget, passed at ...