By Anthony Marcusa – As drivers continue attempting to save time wherever possible in an increasingly congested city, some quiet residential streets are feeling the negative effects. Two of the casualties are Brooklyn Ave. and Pape Ave., two strictly residential ...

By Anthony Marcusa – Cityzen’s proposal for a 34-storey building to replace the Greyhound depot at 154 Front St. E. met with ready opposition at the community consultation on June 28. A hostile crowd poured into the Nathan Cohen Studio ...

The food bank serves fresh and non-perishable food to as many as 2,800 people each month -making it a critical source of nutrition in one of the city’s poorest areas By Robert Thorpe – The Parkdale Community Food Bank is ...

Questions whether this is good for city hall or for Astral Media which sells the ads By Jayme Turney, Toronto Public Space Initiative Toronto may be looking at 120 “‘sidewalk billboards” this fall. On July 14th, City council approved a ...

The big problem is getting more comments directly from Rob Ford By Mike Comstock – I was fortunate enough to sit in on a panel of Sue-Ann Levy (Sun), Royson James (Star) and Marcus Gee (Globe), moderated by John Tory ...

Maybe tickets have been issued just because an officer could write it out knowing he or she could get paid for court time By John Sewell – Twelve years ago Downtown seemed awash in youths who would wash your car ...

Free trade is another evil that is presented as wonderfully forward thinking and modern. By Frank Touby – Globalization is a terrible thing. It’s presented to us as a sign that the world is becoming more civilized, humane and democratic. ...

There is never an excuse for a cop kneeling on a person’s head, beating an unoffensive person with a fist or club, or shooting teargas and plastic bullets into a non-resisting crowd. Those are felonies. By Frank Touby – Compared ...

By Anthony Marcusa – A critical time is approaching for the development of the athlete’s village for the 2015 Pan Am Games—and residents of the West Don Lands are nothing if not vigilant about the fate of the development. But ...

By Dennis Hanagan – Staff in city departments should “flag” buildings and landscapes they think might be potential heritage sites because Toronto’s Heritage Preservation Services (HPS) is too understaffed to build a comprehensive inventory of them, and that has caused ...