By John Sewell – Twelve years ago Downtown seemed awash in youths who would wash your car window whether you wanted it or not and then demand payment. Squeegee kids, they were called. The Mike Harris government had begun cutting ...

By Kimberly Spice – The choking combination of gridlock and exhaust fumes along central Queens Quay will be a thing of the past as Waterfront Toronto transforms the area into a pedestrian, car friendly, street. At the June 9 community ...

Green Party leader finally drops the save-the-earth stuff and gets down to the real business of seeking to save Canadians from government tyranny By Kieran Green – The Auditor General’s final report into the G20-G8 summit reveals a gross abuse ...

The Gadget Zone With Father’s Day on the horizon, what better to give Dad than a skin featuring your smiling face – and not including your annoying siblings! By James Careless – Welcome back to the Gadget Zone, and this ...

When Mike Hatred’s Common Simpleton’s Revolution came to an end and everyone was so sick of it and of him that the Liberals romped to victory, the last thing we expected was what we got: Mike Harris with a brain ...

It was the semi-hallucinogenic Acapuico Gold that sustained me through a terrible The Doors concert at Dinner Key Auditorium (which my father built) where I saw a staggering drunk Jim Morrison grab his crotch (it was zipped up) and look ...

The Gadget Zone Three pieces of cool consumer tech By James Careless – If you love great music outdoors but don’t want to risk damaging your loudspeakers, consider getting Grace Digital Audio’s ‘Mini-Bullets II’ indoor-outdoor speakers. They come with a ...

By Dennis Hanagan – A proposal to raise the Dufferin Street bridge where it enters Exhibition Place will ruin a long-cherished view of Lake Ontario, the city’s public works and infrastructure committee heard on May 26. The part of the ...

By Anthony Marcusa – Just as the words left his mouth lamenting the irresponsibility of some dog owners and park-goers, councilor Adam Vaughan paused to watch what looked liked a Boston Terrier race untethered across the delicate soil on Victoria ...

By Duncan McAllister – A long-standing polling place has had its Elections Ontario (EO) status revoked thanks to new provincial accessibility standards. Ironically, the removal of the Dixon Hall polling place at 58 Sumach from the list of voting locations ...