By Dennis Hanagan – Toronto artists Michael Awad and David Rokeby have been named to compete with artists from Montreal and New York to provide an art installation at the 14,000 square-metre Ripley’s aquarium next to the CN Tower. In ...
Read More »Planners decline Adelaide W. tower proposal
By Kimberly Spice – Toronto’s community planning office sent a scathing report to community council recommending they refuse the current development proposal for 290 Adelaide St. W. The proposal, as described in the planning office report dated July 20, far ...
Read More »Summer misery for Queens Quay residents
‘I cannot open windows or doors to let some air in after weeks of high temperatures from the noise coming from this deconstruction project.’ By Suzanne Batinovic – How can Councillor Vaughan, who was in integral part of CommunityAIR, an ...
Read More »CALM compassion club in second pot raid
‘This time they were more polite and didn’t punch anyone in the face’ By Jeremiah Vandermeer – Toronto’s Cannabis As Living Medicine (C.A.L.M.) Compassion Club, the embattled medical marijuana dispensary raided by police last March, was raided again Wednesday at ...
Read More »CPP changes could affect you
You won’t have to stop working to collect CPP early By Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario – The Canada Pension Plan (CPP) is changing, with some new rules taking effect as early as 2011. The changes will affect people about ...
Read More »Tips for first-time homebuyers
For many, buying a home is one of the first – and biggest – goals in life. But the process of finding that first house and arranging to pay for it can also be one of the most complicated tasks ...
Read More »McGuinty renders community engagement ‘meaningless’: Ombudsman
Report from Andre Marin refers to the ‘LHIN Spin’ By Ontario Health Coalition – The Ontario Health Coalition applauds Ontario Ombudsman Andre Marin’s report, “The LHIN Spin”. But the Coalition is deeply concerned that the McGuinty government has evaded its ...
Read More »Do Parks & Rec workers goldbrick?
Is there any rational planning going on in that department? By Suzanne Batinovic – Why do the Parks/Rec people just turn the garbage bins over instead of dumping the garbage? Why do we have to have maggots crawling all over ...
Read More »Harper sells Canada out to European-based multinational corporations
Wants to do a free trade deal that costs Canada its sovereignty and lets multinational corporations own us By Dylan Penner, Council of Canadians – The Council of Canadians and Canadian Community Economic Development Network today warned premiers to keep ...
Read More »John Sewell: Hopeful signs police abuses may be addressed
By John Sewell – As I sat in the Toronto Police Services Board meeting I was concluding—to my surprise—the board is learning. The board now seems ready to take effective action to look into what the police did during the G20 ...
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