Dennis Hanagan – Pete Gregerson used to work in the ventilation, sheet metal and air-conditioning business on the site of what is today Sunnybrook Hospital in the 1940s. It was an extension of the Christie St. Veterans’ Hospital at the ...

Kimberly Spice – Victoria (not her real name.) received the devastating news approximately a year ago that she had breast cancer and as bad as those test results were, she also faced the confusing and frustrating dilemma of how her ...

Joey Schwartz — After an almost year-long battle with colon cancer, Frank Vander Rasky passed away at Sunnybrook Hospital on Thursday, September 11, 2014, aged 65. A long-time member of the Toronto Bicycling Network, Frank could be seen on Easy ...

Dennis Hanagan – A meeting place at the Rogers Media parking lot in the Bathurst Quay neighbourhood where residents could regularly gather for leisurely chats has driven off into the sunset. The weekly visits by the Toronto Public Library (TPL) ...

Carey Kinsolving — On Thanksgiving Day, families all over America sit down to dinner at the same time — halftime. “Thanksgiving has two good words,” says Hollie, age 9. “They are ‘thanks’ and ‘giving,’ and that’s what we need to ...

Eric Morse – Old Cabbagetown Business Improvement Area (BIA) staff changes appear to be making a slaw of some Cabbagetown Festival traditions. Immediately after the successful 2013 festival, Nauoda Robinson and Krissia Valiente—who had been staffing the BIA office at ...

Dennis Hanagan – Naming the new George Brown College student residence in the West Don Lands area after black businessman Thornton Blackburn and his wife Lucie would be a source of inspiration for Geneve Gray. Gray is black and studying ...

Paulette Touby – For those of you who feel your mother somehow got you into this mess The Mousehouse Years might resonate. Velvet Haney did not speak at her mother’s funeral. This book is Velvet’s eulogy, she says. Except there is ...

Eric Morse – After a three-year delay, the reconstruction of the North St Lawrence Market is once again under way. Councillor Pam McConnell and the city project team briefed a gathering of 100 very interested residents and stakeholders at St Lawrence ...

Dennis Hanagan – After more than two years of traffic snarls in the Distillery District life suddenly got better in mid-November for the District’s residents and shoppers, especially for those who drive. On Nov. 17 fencing that blocked the road and ...