TheBulletin.ca Journal of Downtown Toronto
By Doug Fisher – The Donvale Cabbagetown Residents Association is working on a new project to improve the corner at Winchester and Parliament. The site has been the focus of a lot of controversy last summer. Now the DVCRA has broken ...
Read More »Survey shows cycling on the rise in Toronto
Whether it’s a trip to the store to pick up bread, visit friends or ride to school, Torontonians cycling for practical day-to-day needs is on the rise More people are cycling in Toronto than ever before, says a survey conducted ...
Read More »Harper covers up Prince of Pot details
The fate of Marc Emery, known worldwide as the Prince of Pot, is in the hands of Canada’s Justice Minister Rob Nicholson. The Justice Minister will decide to approve or refuse the extradition of Emery to the United States at ...
Read More »Sewell: G20 has got to be haunting Bill Blair’s sleep
By John Sewell – Imagine yourself as police chief Bill Blair. It’s New Year’s evening, you’ve gone to bed a few minutes past midnight and then are roused awake by a nightmare. What’s it about? Surely the G20 meeting in Toronto ...
Read More »Solar electricity for your high rise?
By Tim Grant — At Tower Power Toronto’s Jan. 13 evening meeting, Dennis Bartels presented his ”solar electricity 101”—all you need to know about adding photovoltaic panels to the roof of your multi-unit building. He described the system components, the ...
Read More »Growing community by growing food
By John Bessai — On Nov. 29, I shared in the November Feast at Sketch, a place for young people who are homeless, at risk of being homeless or street-involved that offers a creative, safe space to engage in community ...
Read More »Comstock: A small town is moving Downtown this year
By Michael Comstock – 2010 brings in a new year that will be special and memorable for people living in the city. It will be a year of real change for 40,000 to 45,000 people moving into newly completed Downtown condo ...
Read More »Viewpoint: Old Town Toronto ready for Pan Am Games closeup?
By Ken Smith – Old Town Toronto denizens have seen motorized wheel chairs topple over in winter around the southwest corner of Church and The Esplanade, a spot notorious for the lack of a sidewalk. That is changing thanks to city ...
Read More »No good guys in local TV/cable riff
There are no good guys in this dispute over whether cable should pay for broadcast content. Actually, there are no good guys in the whole arena of businesses nominally “regulated” by the Canadian Radio-television Telecommunications Commission (CRTC). Too many of ...
Read More »Sly Ontario grits insert a gold ringer
It’s so tempting to punish the Ontario Liberals for foisting Dalton McGuinty on us. With a byelection in the works to replace MPP George Smitherman, who is resigning his seat to run for city mayor, we should have a chance ...
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