Author Archives: Bulletin Editor

Affordable housing top priority for core neighbourhoods: Murray

By Eric Morse – Toronto Centre MPP Glen Murray sees the availability of affordable rental housing as a current major challenge in Downtown Toronto, and believes strongly in the system of neighbourhood consultations he and Ward 27 and 28 councillors ...

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Film recalls Bleecker St. battle of early ’70s

Block-busting developers and resistant residents collided in days when John Sewell, later Mayor of Toronto, was an alderman By Bulletin Staff – The fight over the future of a large part of Cabbagetown occurred in the early 1970s, and the ...

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McGuinty’s crew keeps snapping at turtles

Ontario refuses to outlaw hunting of endangered species. By Victoria Foote – Despite submitting a petition to the Ontario Legislative Assembly signed by 11,000 people calling for an end to the snapping turtle hunt, the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources ...

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Second injury at Island airport intersection in 2 weeks

‘This pedestrian crossing is rendered unsafe by the huge volume of traffic speeding to and from the Toronto Island airport terminal’ By Brian Iler – A young woman was struck by a car at Bathurst and Queens Quay about 1:50 ...

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TCHC stonewalls on stripped then abandoned space

Frank Touby  — Privacy law is often the last resort of scoundrels and bureaucrats—sometimes they’re one and the same. Thus we citizens who own the commercial property at 77 Lower Jarvis—we city “taxpayers,” as Rob Ford would describe us—are deprived ...

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Conservative justices reinforce Police-State America

Be grateful you’re in Canada—if you’re stuck in the States with an unpaid traffic ticket, get ready for a strip search By Carla Howell – The U.S. Libertarian Party denounces a U.S. Supreme Court decision, which on April 3, 2012 ...

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a spring tech refresher

So what really caused this year’s exceptionally early Spring? Was it global warming? El Nino? Or simply Mother Nature’s attempt to give the Gadget Zone an excuse to look at spring consumer tech early? We know what we believe! Here ...

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Allegations Port Authority jeopardizes children

Schoolkids must cross sometimes frantic taxi traffic to and from Island airport. Public meeting ends abruptly when hard questions are asked by public participants. By Brian Iler – The CEO of the Toronto Port Authority (TPA), Geoff Wilson, came under ...

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Port Authority says city bylaw wasn’t violated

Construction work was to solve taxi problem to neighbourhood, not to begin construction on underground bridge to Island airport. By Suzanna Birchwood, TPA spokeswoman – Construction personnel and trucks started arriving around 6:15am, and work started at 7:00am, the prescribed ...

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Port Authority crews blocked by residents

‘Sneak attack’ construction gambit at 4 a.m., contrary to city law, squelched by area residents By Brian Iler – In a second victory for Toronto’s waterfront communities during the week, residents and supporters blocked access to the construction site for ...

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