Author Archives: Bulletin Editor

Are they covering their butts selling off your property?

How about another pack of Highway 407 giveaways? That’s what neocon make-believe liberal Dalton McGuinty is offering you to make himself look less like the loser he is. He’s having you join him in that column by asking the lowest ...

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City goes with plan ‘A’ for Fort York visitor centre

By Eric Morse — For many years Fort York, almost the only military complex from the actual War of 1812 era that remains intact, has been effectively sealed off from the waterfront and the rest of the city by a ...

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New garbage bins holiday gifts from the city

The long awaited new garbage bins are now arriving along Downtown streets. They’re tubby and silver with a special foot pedal that opens the slots where your litter is deposited. Opinions about their beauty and svelte shape vary across a ...

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Taylor’s Wharf Lane gets a name and a sign

Ms. Grumpy at Archer Housing Co-op is quoted as saying to some celebrants at the unveiling: ‘I don’t want this lane’s name changed.’ It was previously unnamed. By Bulletin Staff & TorontoHistory.org — With a flourish and a yank on ...

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New publishing effort tells Cabbagetown stories

By Eric Morse — Cabbagetown is becoming a source and setting for biographical fiction. John McAree’s biographical novel Cabbagetown Store, which launched at the Ben Wicks Pub on Parliament St. last summer, now has a charming prequel. Polly of Bridgewater ...

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City sells out Harbourfront residents

The tar baby of streetcars has again stuck the city for millions of dollars. This time, to of all places, the Toronto Port Authority. Our ideologue mayor, David Miller, is spending us poor to enrich big business and clog our ...

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Sewell: Crime is in a 10-year decline, cop’s wages are soaring

It won’t be much of a show down, at the end of the day. The city budget chief, Shelley Carroll, needs $500 million in cuts to balance the city’s budget next year, and she has asked all city departments and ...

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Waterfront playground wins reno grant

By Kimberly Spice — Little Norway Park has received $100,000 through a government funding grant for upgrades to the children’s play area under the condition that the upgrades must be completed by March 2011 or the money returned. The announcement ...

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Computer literacy program marks 10 years of training

By Duncan McAllister — Many excited young students packed the auditorium at Lord Dufferin public school Nov. 25 to receive computers for their efforts in graduating from courses at the TD Securities Computer Literacy Centre. 71 graduating students, aged from ...

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Another parking garage for Old Town?

By Ken Smith — A proposed six-level parking garage across the road from the L Tower is “a GO” but questions remain. The treed site at the southeast corner of Yonge St. includes a small GO Transit parking lot and ...

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