Author Archives: Bulletin Editor

Touby: Dalton McHarris & the Harmful Sales Tax

By Frank Touby –  Do you get the feeling they really don’t give a damn about you? Does it seem to you that the labels Left and Right no longer fit the suits who wear them? You’re not hallucinating. There is ...

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The Great White Hype’s long farewell

The predictable but long-dragged-out finish to a disappointing term of office has been announced and we won’t have David Miller to complain about—in a year. There was so much hope when he stood with his broom in surprising victory at ...

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Regiment to leave Fort York armoury

By Eric Morse — A storied regiment of the Toronto Garrison is leaving its Downtown home of 77 years for Etobicoke. On Sept. 12 at 11:30 a.m., led by its pipe band, the Toronto Scottish Regiment will march out of ...

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Porter belongs at Pearson Airport

There’s no question the Island airport has long been an anachronism in its current incarnation as an elegant monopoly by a single taxpayer-supported passenger service. Toronto has endured the blight of increased commercial air traffic amidst a residential- and tourism-oriented ...

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Comstock: The Gardiner should toll for thee

By Michael Comstock –  The summer break is over and it is back to the grind. Back to school and back from vacation. Yes, years of the behavioural training based on the school board’s calendar, has set all of us up. ...

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Sewell: Cops won’t investigate fellow cops’ misdeeds

By John Sewell –  A new police complaints mechanism will finally be available in Ontario in the next few months. It’s been a long time coming. When he was premier, Mike Harris scrapped the independent complaints mechanism instituted in the early ...

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New Rees wave deck makes a splash

By Kimberly Spice — Under sunny skies, clowns, jugglers, magicians and the band The Tynes Family Funk helped celebrate the opening of the third wavedeck along Toronto’s waterfront. The Rees WaveDeck, the third in a series of four, officially opened ...

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Touby: Our poll may show most would fire their city councillors

By Frank Touby – If Downtown were a city of its own—not a bad idea, by the way—there might be an overthrow of the government in the works. At least that’s what The Bulletin’s online poll at www.thebulletin.ca would indicate. (The ...

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Summertime graffiti project tags three more mural sites

On Aug. 27, project co-ordinator and Room 13 Toronto artist-in-residence Michael Brown and four local youths from the Harbourfront Community Centre’s mural project led a 30-minute walking tour taking in three Downtown buildings they transformed with original works of art ...

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GWNA Street Sale Sept. 12

The Gooderham and Worts Neighbourhood Association will hold its annual street sale on Sept. 12 from 9 a.m. until 2:30 p.m. at Trinity and Mill streets. There will be a barbecue from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. The tables will ...

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