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By Frank Touby – The much-criticized Corus building taking a primo lakeshore spot at the foot of Jarvis Street is a finalist in the claimed “prestigious” Office Lease of the Year “REX” award from the National Association of Office and ...
Read More »Idiots! Idiots! Idiots!
Yes, we’re talking Toronto city council By Frank Touby – These dysfunctional bozos now want to waste scarce transit funds to decorate subway stations. Their monumental stupidity in pushing for outrageously pricey and inefficient streetcars—a boon only to the concrete ...
Read More »Bad timing over Smart!Centres kiboshes Leslieville BIA plans
By Duncan McAllister – Attendance was sparse at an initial meeting organized by Mary Ann Grainger to discuss forming a new business improvement area for Leslieville. One local resident comments that “out of the many, many stores, only a few ...
Read More »Comstock: How about a Downtown TTC discount?
I am quite different from Pam McConnell, Kyle Rae and Olivia Chow, because I have a car. I drive it very little, it is 11 years old with only 94,000 kms, and most of that mileage (kilometrage?) is driving to ...
Read More »Comstock: Tourism helps makes Downtown living rich, exciting
Within the service sector in Canada we find tourism in the crapper. The looney, the border and the people sleeping on the streets are robbing Toronto’s economy of tourism’s value. And tourism is a wonderful thing. Tourism integrates the world, ...
Read More »Sewell: Spend less for cops, more for youth
By John Sewell – Did you hear the story about the cop who made $140,000 last year? He’s a constable with the Toronto police force and that was his take-home pay. Or maybe the Toronto cop who made $102,000 not ...
Read More »Ontario Heritage Trust to operate Enoch Turner Schoolhouse
The Honourable Lincoln M. Alexander, chairman of the Ontario Heritage Trust, and Lynne Kurylo, chair of the Enoch Turner Schoolhouse Foundation, announced the transfer of the Enoch Turner Schoolhouse to the Ontario Heritage Trust. “The Ontario Heritage Trust and the ...
Read More »Cabbagetown BIA approves landscaping study, graffiti cleanup
At the Cabbagetown Business Improvement Area’s March meeting, their board of management approved several new ideas that will help them create big changes along Gerrard, Parliament and Carlton. First, the Board approved a landscaping and design study for local shopping ...
Read More »21st annual Toronto St. Patrick’s Day parade
Once again, it’s that time of year when we don our green attire and take to the streets in celebration. This year’s parade made it’s way down Yonge St. with perfect, albeit chilly weather. Sean Murphy, 2008 parade Grand Marshall was ...
Read More »Yonge and Dundas Square soon to connect to PATH
The newly renovated public space at Yonge and Dundas, now known as Toronto Life Square, will soon have a new connection to Dundas subway station as well as the PATH, Toronto’s downtown walkway. The estimated completion date for this new ...
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