By Ulla Colgrass – The Waterfront welcomes large crowds that sail the lake on over 20 tour boats. Many of the boats are beautiful and decorated with lights and flags. Their only drawback is the thunderous music that is often ...
Read More »Harbourfront Centre rocks way too hard?
‘Nobody expects this to be a quiet neighbourhood,’ just not bone-rattling By Anisa Lancione – Frustrated Harbourfront residents have taken the loud by the speakers by launching a noise survey and campaign to force action from the city’s noise control ...
Read More »Corktown caterer going for gold in Beijing
Kelly Jackson, local caterer to the Corktown and Cabbagetown areas since 1995 takes off to Beijing, China on July 21, 2008. Jackson’s mission is to cook for the U.S. olympic team and coaches at the high performance training centre located ...
Read More »Friends for Life bike rally departs Toronto
Once again, the Friends For Life Bike Rally rolled out on Sunday, July 27, 2008. That morning, over 300 cyclists departed on a six-day journey to Montreal in support of the Toronto People With AIDS Foundation. This year marks the tenth ...
Read More »New mammoth blue bins boost recycling rates
Toronto neighbourhoods that have been using the city’s new blue bins for several months are recycling from 10 to 15 per cent more, according to solid waste management services. The larger sizes of the new blue bins are also a ...
Read More »George Brown College to open campus on the waterfront
George Brown College has received funding from the Provincial Government to proceed with a new state-of-the art campus in the heart of Waterfront Toronto’s new East Bayfront development. The new facility will help address skills shortages in a variety of ...
Read More »Sewell: Cops spew gobbledygook on gun facts
By John Sewell – Gun clubs have been chased out of the city by city council’s decision at the end of June, and that’s apparently a signal that our leaders think that something has to be done about guns. It ...
Read More »Comstock: Think hard before tearing down Gardiner
By Mike Comstock – (This is a column by the late Mike Comstock published in July 2008) The next time someone talks about the Gardiner Expressway being torn down please review their reasons and weigh their arguments. This could be ...
Read More »Recollections of the birth of The Bulletin
By Frank Touby – Paulette and I had just been married at St. Michael’s Cathedral after 19 years of “dating” from the same bedroom. My last “solid” job, as a senior editor at Financial Post, was several years behind me—a ...
Read More »Miller applauds selling us out to corporate interests
By Frank Touby – For a band of so-called socialists, David Miller and his council followers are looking an awful lot like neocons. They’re falling in bed with big business at every turn. Take a gander at this monstrous scheme ...
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