By Duncan McAllister – A two-alarm blaze on Yonge St. shuts down traffic for 3 city blocks Feb. 1. The fire started in a block of stores on the east side of Yonge, just north of Dundonald at about 2.30 ...

Public Meeting (Community Consultation) Time: Tuesday, February 6, 2007 at 3:00 p.m. Location: Outside All Saints Church (Dundas and Sherbourne) Toronto Disaster Relief Committee (TDRC) and the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) are inviting users of the All Saints drop-in/day ...

By Jeff Todd – The Elizabeth St. entrance to the Toronto Bus Terminal is getting a face-lift. It needs one. Bus drivers say Toronto has one of the most dangerous stations in Canada. David Crow, who operates between Ottawa and ...

The State of Michigan today released their 2006 annual summary of waste from Canada. Overall, tonnage has increased from 5.6 million tonnes to 5.7 million tonnes. This includes all municipal and industrial/commercial waste from across Ontario. It is important to ...

By Frank Touby – Don’t get them wrong. They’re not NIMBYs. Corktown residents gathered last month in antique Enoch Turner Schoolhouse in a promise kept by their MPP, Health Minister George Smitherman to add a third Methadone Task Force hearing ...

The Harbourfront Community Association will hold their annual general meeting on Jan. 30 at 7 p.m. at the Harbourfront Community Centre. Adam Vaughan, newly minted Councillor for Ward 20 Trinity Spadina, will be the special keynote speaker discussing ideas and ...

Chow plans open house Jan. 28 Olivia Chow, NDP Member of Parliament in Trinity-Spadina, was unanimously acclaimed as the NDP’s candidate in the next election at a nomination meeting held on Jan. 21. “Thanks to you, the NDP is alive ...

The ice rink at Nathan Phillips Square will be closed Jan. 24 to accommodate “Paintings Below Zero”—part of Toronto’s upcoming WinterCity Festival. Artist Gordon Halloran of British Columbia will create an ice painting directly on the rink surface, allowing skaters ...

People in Toronto’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual, transgender and queer (LGBTTQ) communities are twice as likely to smoke cigarettes as the city’s general population. According to a report released today 36% of LGBTTQ participants reported current smoking, while the latest ...

The purpose of this memo is to outline the reasons why I believe the Quay to the City promenade concept will be a mistake for the City of Toronto.  As well I have concerns about some of the other elements ...