By Michael Comstock – The Bulletin is Toronto’s only Downtown community paper and it seems to thrive against a generally stagnated number of daily newspaper readers. Torontonians can get their news from a variety of media which is one reason ...

By John Sewell – Police Chief Bill Blair has announced that crime in Toronto is down, which is obviously a good thing. Now comes the big question—what does it mean? Chief Blair says that for the first six months in ...

By E.D. Cauchi — No, Toronto doesn’t have a team of Cinderella’s mice. Nor does it have a group of elves. But for a strike that had left the city without garbage pickup for over a month, Downtown is operating ...

St. Jamestown agency Community Matters Toronto is hoping to save swimming programs at the Jarvis Collegiate institute from drowning due to the Toronto District School board’s budget crisis. The group’s Margaret Coshan and Chris Hallett issued an appeal to Dowtown ...

“On July 18, the York Quay and the Bathurst Quay neighbourhood associations organised a waterfront community clean up. Close to 20 volunteers worked from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. cleaning out 21 overflowing garbage bins along 2 km from Queen’s ...

Cabbagetown artist Gina Dineen captured the late Peggy Kurtin on canvas just before her passing on July 13. The heritage activist was dedicated to the preservation and improvement of the Downtown core communities. Donations may be made in her memory ...

By Liz Sauter — Three sisters from the Hydro Block neighbourhood in 52 Division were each awarded for their volunteer and leadership roles at the 2009 Toronto Police Services ProAction awards ceremony. Pamela Tahir (the youngest) received the Junior 2008 ...

By Kimberly Spice — Even after a close call between her bicycle and a bus 10-year-old Teka was determined to travel the 10 km to school for her exams. Teka, whose family was tragically affected by AIDS, was one of ...

By Eric Morse — The great Cabbagetown bench brouhaha continues to roil through the month of July. On July 16, a meeting took place convened by the Old Cabbagetown Business Improvement Area (OCBIA) in response to a petition signed by ...

Plans for an off-leash dog park at 51 Power St. that had been sidelined during the strike may be moving forward quickly. Pam McConnell’s office reports that event though the mandatory June public meeting had to be cancelled, an informal ...