By Kristyn Wong-Tam – Your voices have been very important in the City’s discussions on the issue of casinos. You came out in large numbers to the consultations at City Hall and the Metro Reference Library. Your emails, calls, and ...

80% of Ontario’s wind-power generation occurs when electricity demand is so low that the entire output is surplus and must be dumped on the export market at a substantial loss. By Kenneth P. Green – Ontario’s Green Energy Act (GEA) ...

By Bill Freeman – As Alice in Wonderland said, “This is getting curiouser and curiouser.” We are talking, of course, about the Porter Airlines announcement that they are going to buy a fleet of CS100 jets from Bombardier. Porter’s home ...

Hundreds of Torontonians joined local farmers April 9 to demand the federal Minister of Agriculture step in to stop the release genetically modified (GM) alfalfa, that farmers say threatens their livelihoods and their ability to produce the local food consumers ...

Friends of the Earth has launched our new Campaign for Genetically Engineered (GE)-Free Seafood, calling on grocery stores, restaurants, chefs and other food companies to make an immediate commitment to not sell genetically engineered salmon and other seafood By Eric ...

‘It’s outrageous to force hardworking tradespeople to pay millions in a new trades tax to support big salaries and a new bureaucracy that provides no value to tradespeople or consumers’ By Jessica Georgakopoulos – The Ontario Liberal government’s controversial new ...

But the federal outfit figures its precious site on our lakeshore is only worth the same tax value as if it were out in the boondocks, like Pearson By Frank Touby – Toronto city council has narrowly defeated a move ...

The telephone poll, which sampled 1,004 voters, comes just days before voting in the Liberal leadership race is set to begin. Co-operation and electoral reform have been major topics of debate between the two top candidates, Joyce Murray and Justin ...

The Big Carrot Natural Food Market and others sponsor this rally at St. Lawrence Market to save family farms in Canada Tuesday April 9 from noon to 1 p.m. The Day of Action to Stop GM Alfalfa was called by ...

By Mary Gallagher  – Greater Toronto Area REALTORS(R) reported 7,765 transactions through the TorontoMLS system in March 2013 – down 17 per cent compared to 9,385 transactions in March 2012. While the year-over-year dip in March sales followed the trend ...