By Joan Prowse – Saturday morning. 8 a.m. I wake up to an airplane revving its engines not once, not twice but three times before taking off. Sunday night, I’m drifting off to sleep as a plane lands and guns ...
Read More »Documentarian seeks Brick Works stories for film about site
Award-winning Canadian director Catherine Annau has been tapped to direct a documentary about the $55-million reclamation project whose aim is to build a national centre for urban sustainability at Toronto’s former Don Valley Brick Works. The documentary is seeking individuals ...
Read More »McGuinty asked to reward insurance firms at your expense
Insurance group seeks to slash auto insurance benefits which would then fall on the public health system to compensate By John Kumpf – The current provincial government prides itself on being a champion of the disabled. It points to its ...
Read More »Sellout of Canada in the works?
‘Secret’ North American Union talks to begin By Council of Canadians – ACTION ALERT: Demand a say in North America’s future The next North American leaders summit – where Canada, the United States and Mexico have met to discuss progress ...
Read More »Salute to a brave and modest nation
A British news paper salutes Canada By Kevin Myers, The Sunday Telegraph – And as always, Canada will bury its dead, just as the rest of the world, as always will forget its sacrifice, just as it always forgets nearly ...
Read More »City workers don’t deserve to strike
‘You haul garbage two, three years, tops. Tops! Then you start taking civil service tests and get into management. In five years, you’re driving to work in a limousine. In 20 years, you retire at half pay and spend the ...
Read More »Cops brawl; Grits & Tories vote to overfill prisons
Toronto Police Accountability Coalition report By John Sewell – 1. A fine police brawl It has become a Toronto police tradition to hold a fight night—Fitenite—every spring to raise money for charity. The event consists of about 10 boxing matches ...
Read More »Waterfront sound warriors gear up
With summer at hand, members of the York Quay Neighbourhood Association (YQNA) are once again gearing up for their annual war against excessive noise. “A coalition of residents, city councillors and provincial and city agencies has been formed and is ...
Read More »Corktown dogs to get own park
By Frank Touby — Long-suffering Corktown dog owners are soon to have their off-leash park, says area Coun. Pam McConnell. So, in fact, are others throughout the city. But Corktowners will hear about theirs first in a public meeting scheduled ...
Read More »Art at Distillery revulses residents
By Eric Morse — People may love them or hate them, but absolutely everybody seems to have an opinion on them. They are the new artistic installations in the Distillery Sculpture Park. They are definitely large and metallic in the ...
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