Frank Touby – A bold initiative to serve both as a fund-raiser for needy individuals and worthy organizations and as a “drug-free, booze-free” currency good only for food-and-necessities, the Toronto Dollar is in dire straits. This is somewhat of a ...

Dennis Hanagan – A staff report that recommends taking money slated for a St. Lawrence Neighbourhood park and using it instead to spruce up Market Street was left up in the air at the Jan. 22 meeting of the Toronto ...

As part of its mission to keep the streets clean, the Downtown Yonge Business Improvement Area (BIA) has l installed 12 cigarette receptacle ashtrays along both sides of Yonge St. between Gerrard and Dundas. The receptacles were installed on streetlight ...

Dennis Hanagan – At its Jan. 22 meeting, Toronto and East York community council deferred two applications for zoning amendments with proposals to build residential buildings at 324-338 Richmond St. W. and 24 Mercer St. In the Richmond St. case ...

A special meeting of the planning and growth management committee on the city-wide zoning by-law previously scheduled for Feb. 13 has been rescheduled for March 6 at 9:30 a.m. in the council chamber at city hall, 100 Queen St. W. The ...

I walk my Jack Russell Terriers three times a day in the streets and parks around my home. Like most pet owners, I take no pleasure in walking the dogs in the rain or on a cold February day, but ...

Fellow voters, we have been bamboozled. He had such a glorious start to his mayoralty career that seeing the guy step on his own (thing) day after day was a shock that quickly became run-of-business: How’s Rob Ford going to ...

There is a proposal to remodel one of New York City’s most celebrated landmark buildings, the NYC Public Library on Fifth Avenue. It’s a magnificent structure as famous as the Empire State Building or the Statue of Liberty. Built in ...

Metrolinx is hosting a public roundtable session on Feb. 9 from 1 to 3 p.m. at Metro Hall, Room 308, as part of the Big Move consultation process. The Big Move has already started to impact Downtown transit projects: the ...

Kimberly Spice – With so many changes happening in and around CityPlace in recent months, members of the CityPlace Residents’ Association (CPRA) were ready for the Jan. 7 standing-room-only meeting at the Renaissance Hotel. First up was Karen Mills—founder of ...