Eric Morse – The recent appointment of Councillor Pam McConnell as one of four deputy mayors by Mayor John Tory won’t affect existing working relationships with her constituents, McConnell’s office says. At the end of November 2014, when Tory took ...

Dennis Hanagan –  Downtown TTC riders are showing their grumpy faces on social media because they’re tired of crowded streetcars passing them by and making them wait for other cars— that also pass them by. That’s what TTCriders, a grassroots ...

Frank Touby – Vital Planet, the health shop that Hamilton lawyer Michael Granat started years ago at St. Lawrence North Market, went on the block last year. He wanted to sell it. And that desire led to his first (semi-biographical) ...

Frank Touby – There is only one way to get Toronto back on its game and that’s to de-amalgamate. Like many of you, I remember when Toronto-the-Good became Toronto-the-Great during its heyday under mayors like David Crombie and John Sewell. ...

Dennis Hanagan – St. Bartholomew’s Anglican Church and the Centre for Social Innovation, both in Regent Park, have teamed up to collect unwanted chessboards so children who attend the Daniels Spectrum in the evenings will have something to do as ...

Stig Harvor – Taxes are continuing to be a hot topic of public debate. Our provincial and city elections last year prominently featured taxes. This new year we are facing an important federal election on Oct. 19—unless Harper breaks his ...

Eric Morse – Every once in a while, success can be a little too much of a good thing. The Christmas Market in the Distillery District, having just had its fourth year of operation, and named by Fodor’s as “One ...

Bruce Bell – Between the years 1955 and 1975 some 20 000 of Toronto’s oldest buildings were demolished in an effort to “modernize” the Downtown core. Sadly only a handful of imposing structures were left standing after miraculously escaping the ...

John Sewell – You may not be aware of an obscure section of the City of Toronto Act, the law that governs the things city council can and cannot do. Section 228(5) states that city council cannot include in budget ...

Eric Morse – In late 2013, Waterfront Toronto launched an on-line survey conducted by University of Toronto Transportation Research Institute (UTTRI) of how residents of Downtown travel within the core. However it is uncertain whether the results of the survey ...