Not your typical garden club With school grounds often resembling parking lots rather than places of inspiration and learning, the need to bring nature back to students is a growing concern for many parents and teachers. Nelson Mandela Park Public ...

Like most Canadians, I was shocked when my fellow media mogul, Lord Black of Crossharbour (I just call him Conrad), was yanked in front of the Yankee system of justice by that showbizzy prosecutor, Patrick Fitzgerald who has toppled some ...

The wild bunch at city hall, led by two-fisted David “Mushy” Miller, have passed our streets over to Big Business. For a supposed pack of socialists, this blundering band of amateur city builders has a gob-smacking inclination to follow the ...

The rightly hated Ontario Municipal Board has had some of its developer-pleasing ways curtailed by the developer-loving Dalton McGuinty government. As the de facto city planner for every municipality in Ontario, the OMB’s cadre of unelected panelists leans heavily against ...

By John Gelmon – Since my last year of high school, 1983-84, when I was 18, I had gone an awfully long time without having a girlfriend, even though at times I desperately wanted one. Going places on my own, ...

For many years I have loved this city, but seeing the squalour on the streets of our financial district sidewalks, I am beginning to see why a lot of the country thinks Toronto sucks. The greatest crime in Downtown Toronto ...

By Will Tremain – For some, the sound of an airplane is music to the ears, but for Tamara Bernstein it definitely isn’t. Bernstein is Harbourfront’s artistic director of Summer Music in the Garden, a series of free concerts running ...

By Will Tremain – Chun Bo Wang may have a hard road ahead, with concerned residents and police one side, and drug dealers and prostitutes on the other. On May 17, the owner of Fiona’s CC Restaurant and Bar at ...

To Mayor Miller: The proposed condos at the foot of Yonge Street expose this city’s total lack of vision for what could be. People are against waterfront condos, but they can’t imagine what an amazing focal point this site could ...

I am a volunteer junkie. It seems I can find the enthusiasm needed to get involved, when certain community projects appear. Over time, you start to recognize those people who re-appear at deputations, talks, displays and the councilor’s ceremonials. These ...