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By Ken Smith – Autumn brought a few more business openings, closings and more construction advances in Old Town Toronto. Immediately west of St. Lawrence Market across Market Lane, a formerly empty building that had been home of the old ...
Read More »The time for planning is now
By Ken Smith – The Time for Planning is Now New condo units, thousands of them, are transforming Old Town Toronto and more are planned. At the same time, some of Toronto’s most historically illustrious asphalt-pocked Old Town streets and ...
Read More »Founder’s dinner at Corktown schoolhouse to honour Crombie
By Dennis Hanagan – His brewery burned down and he went bankrupt. But that didn’t keep Englishman Enoch Turner from bouncing back and establishing a school for Toronto’s poor children in Corktown 162 years ago. That one-room school on Trinity ...
Read More »Cabbagetown co-op turns 30 in century building
By Dennis Hanagan – The Three Streets housing co-op in upper Cabbagetown is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year in tandem with the 100th anniversary of the three-storey building (called Hampton Mansions) it occupies at the southeast corner of Winchester ...
Read More »Major water main work may only make minor disruption
By Josh Bailie – The New Year will bring optimistic resolutions, midnight kisses, and the commencement of a two-year, $80-million construction project to replace a 70-year-old water main under D’Arcy, Elm and Gerrard streets. Planned to start in January, six ...
Read More »Toronto’s First Post Office was a gift to us
‘Tis the season to think about gifts, and remember some of the best ones received in past years By Ewa Jarmicka – The meticulously restored 19th-century post office at 260 Adelaide St. East was a gift to the St. Lawrence ...
Read More »Cafe Belong
By Annabelle Goodman – Café Belong at the Evergreen Brick Works 550 Bayview Ave 416 901 8234 My dear friend is going back to South Africa and I wanted to show her one more part of town. Neither of us ...
Read More »Mideastro Yorkville
By Annabelle Goodman – MIDEASTRO Yorkville 27 Yorkville Ave (416) 477-2427 It may sound like the Leon and Benny show but it is the finest new happening in town. Leon Goldstein hails from Israel but has traveled and lived in ...
Read More »The Burger Cellar
By Annabelle Goodman – The Burger Cellar 3391 Yonge St 647 345 0084 I love to explore and discover new restaurants. At the same time when something is superb I want to rediscover the pleasure again and again. I remember ...
Read More »Yitz’s
By Annabelle Goodman – Yitz’s 346 Eglinton Ave West (416) 487 4506 This is the best deli in town. It has been a family institution since my children were young. We still like to meet there for our comfort treat. ...
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