By Kimberly Spice — Local skateboarders will soon be looking for their second new home in as many years when Toronto’s only free indoor skate park at the North St. Lawrence Market is set to close it doors on Wednesday ...

Due to renovations, the city-managed Jimmie Simpson Recreation Centre pool will close on June 15. The entire centre, located at 870 Queen St. E., will close in August. “The closure is required to complete the upgrades that are necessary to ...

The Old Cabbagetown BIA invites public comments on the new streetscape proposals being advanced for the business improvement area. The long-awaited proposals are the result of a study that was funded in part by the city. The goal of the ...

The frequency of albino raccoons in the wild is believed to be 1 in every 500,000 By Brad Gates — At 11:00 AM on Monday May 11th, 2009, Steve Parish of Gates Wildlife Control responded to a seemingly routine emergency ...

Condo dwellers get whacked with an 8% jump in condo fees; renters get whacked with 8% increases; everybody gets whacked and maybe the wacky goofball who agreed to it will get whacked too By Frank Touby – The guy nobody ...

By Kimberly Spice — City planners won praise from area residents for a plan to transform the Downtown waterfront—once voted one of worst in the world—into one of the 10 best. More than 300 Queen’s Quay neighbourhood residents liked what ...

A date is soon to be set for the long-awaited public meeting to discuss allowing dogs off-leash in St. James Park and Power St. park, Pam McConnell’s office confirms. Once a meeting is scheduled, notice will be sent to buildings ...

Here we go for real. It’s going to cost millions of dollars purely to study the impact of spending $1 billion just to tear down the eastern portion of the Gardiner Expressway. While it’s true the city’s estimate of the ...

In Mayor David Miller’s civic kleptocracy, cash-craving Toronto is mugging its denizens on the streets. Often on their own streets. If you park on Toronto’s streets, you’ll likely soon have one of Miller’s eager-beaver meter readers slap a high-priced yellow ...

Even before there was history, tax collectors have been the detested scourges on humankind. As far back as cave dwellers, there were thugs in animal skins who forcibly claimed turf and extracted tribute. Today they wear polyester and wool. In ...