Author Archives: Bulletin Editor

Dancer captures athleticism of ballet in CONTACT show photos

Kimberly Spice – Form, grace, prowess and strength are the norm for dancers and one particular dancer Aleksandar Antonijevic, recently turned photographer,has been able to capture these athletes at their best. Picking up the camera three years ago, the Broadview ...

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A search for real conservatives finds few at city hall

If Rob Ford were actually a conservative instead of a spoiled, rich Baby Huey, he’d have saved us $1 million or more a year by not dumping poisonous fluoride into our drinking water. Conservatives don’t believe in medicating people without ...

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Distillery resident reprises role as director of a capella festival

Richard Holt – Distillery District resident Aaron Jensen is already an internationally published composer, arranger and performer— and now he can add the title of artistic director for this year’s SING! vocal arts festival at Harbourfront Centre. He is clearly ...

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Docent to dancer? Caldwell curates choreography

Kimberly Spice – Michael Caldwell had a change of heart while attending his first year at the University of Toronto. He was studying to become a museum curator when he dropped out— after just his first semester in the master’s ...

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Traffic study to end Downtown congestion

Dennis Hanagan – Traffic congestion in the Downtown core is so bad that the city is undertaking a study see how cars, pedestrians, cyclists and public transit can try to live together. “We’ve heard a vast number of concerns,” Andre Filippetti, ...

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King Eddy hotel would have been named for Victoria

On the morning of Jan. 22, 1901 the world awoke to some shocking but inevitable news: Queen Victoria, after reigning over a vast empire which included Canada for the past 64 years, was dead. During her reign Toronto had grown ...

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Neither Tories nor Fords come close to conservative

If Rob Ford were actually a conservative instead of a spoiled, rich Baby Huey, he’d have saved us $1 million or more a year by not dumping poisonous fluoride into our drinking water. Conservatives don’t believe in medicating people without ...

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Condo growth is good, but we need 3-bedroom units

You could say a tsumani of growth has engulfed Toronto, a building boom that the central city has not seen since the late 1960s. To get a handle on the extent of growth, I added up the number of applications ...

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Miller’s Build Toronto becomes Ford’s demolition tool

How good ideas can be thwarted by political change! Former Mayor David Miller tried to deal positively with the difficult fiscal deficit of our megacity of Toronto. He wrestled with the permanent fiscal straitjacket imposed by the Mike Harris’ “Common ...

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Let’s leverage development to preserve our heritage

It’s 2013 and do you know where your city is? A good question for anyone in Toronto, and a particularly good question for anyone living Downtown. Currently there are some 324 residential and commercial developments in various states of realization ...

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