Author Archives: Bulletin Editor

Visit museums, galleries on library card

The Toronto Public Library has an amazing new item in circulation: the Museum and Arts Pass, or MAP. The MAP, which can be borrowed using a valid adult library card at any Toronto Public Library branch, grants family access to ...

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Waterfront Toronto plans meetings

The  third and final public meeting has been scheduled to discuss the Queens Quay revitalization project’s environmentral assessment on March 25. Waterfront Toronto’s board of directors will meet on March 25 and May 13, while the design review panels will ...

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Literary ‘feast’ at North Market April 2

On April 2 from 6 to 8:30 p.m., Downtown book lovers will get face-time with local authors. Dozens of Toronto authors will sell and sign their books, mingle with readers and conduct talks and interviews. Joy Kogawa and The Bulletin’s ...

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Cabbagetown gallery opens

Gordon Daniel’s, a new art gallery at 460 Parliament St. and currently the first in Cabbagetown, has opened its doors with “Duotones” by young photographer Sai Sivanesan. The opening was a packed house graced by  Sivanesan’s mentor, famed Canadian and ...

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Comstock: Sidewalk sidelines

By Michael Comstock – The snowplough that is driven down King St. E. this winter has to skip sections of the walk where the transit shelters take up so much of the sidewalk that it can’t fit between the pole ...

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Touby: Second-Rate Olympics R Us

By Frank Touby – Now, from the clowns at city hall, a new circus! Presenting… Olympics Lite! (Otherwise known as the Pan American Games.) What better way to take a broom to that feeling of less-than-world-class than to sweep up ...

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Sewell: Gangbanger candidates target of hopeful new program

By John Sewell – As we climb out of cold February into the early spring of March, here’s some good news. The federal government has agreed to fund a program targeting youth involved in gangs and violence. It is exactly ...

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SmartCentres smarting at OMB loss

Says it will accept the decision in an announcement following Leslieville Big Box development cancellation By From SmartCentres – All the voices have been heard, and we lost. While disappointed, we respect the process and the decision of the Board. ...

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Leslieville wins against Big Box invasion

OMB rules employment lands a developer wanted to use to build a Wal-Mart and other monster retailers don’t provide enough to rank as an employment district Leslieville residents have won the Battle of the Big Boxes. The employment lands that ...

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How about a Multimillionaire tax?

Gouge the super rich to avoid a deficit, bail out the economy and reverse the current slump? By Community Commonwealth Association – There’s a way for the government to finance economic recovery without creating a huge deficit, with a Multimillionaires ...

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