By Brenda Roman – In mid-July, the Toronto Star decided to run a contest for “Top Waterfront Park” to see which waterfront park was most popular. For some reason, even when reminded, it decided to leave out Little Norway Park, ...

By Tim Trow, President, Toronto Humane Society I know we can sometimes sound like the boy who cried wolf, but we always operate at the very edge of our capacity because we never resort to euthanasia to keep the numbers ...

By Angela Scappatura – The suicide of a close friend and co-worker served as the catalyst for the upcoming Soulpact fundraiser said the event organizer. “When you witness someone spiral with mental illness you realize how much it’s a bigger ...

Over a month after the tragic school shooting of Jordan Manners, the Conservative government, namely Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day has failed to address the needs of Canada’s biggest city, said NDP MP and Youth Critic Olivia Chow. Yesterday, Minister ...

By Richard Holt – What was once an urban phenomenon is now an annual tradition thanks to the Canadian Peregrine foundation. On June 12, two peregrine falcon chicks were banded at the Toronto Sheraton Centre Hotel. The fledglings, which nest ...

By Jeffrey Todd – Louise Marie has broken her silence. Now, this small business owner at Yonge and Wellesley has issued a challenge in the ongoing sign war. “I dare the city to hit the whole street at once,” she ...

By Richard Holt – Toronto Police serve and protect. And essential to their role of making Downtown a safe place to live is the bike patrol. Constable Charles Stern, a bike patrol officer at 51 Division, wheels out all the ...

It is an annual ritual that former Liberal MP Dennis Mills condemned city residents to endure each year when the perennial backbencher talked the Jean Chretien government into remaking the failed Toronto Harbour Commission into a federal port authority, against ...

Toronto is in dire danger of being train wrecked if the provincial Liberals don’t do something about that developer’s lackey who leads them and is now passing out our cash. Dalton McGuinty was nobody’s first choice to lead the party ...

If you’re a cautious civil servant intent upon shielding yourself from criticism, it’s almost irresistible to spend some tax money to cover your behind. That’s done by the simple route of launching a study of some or all of the ...