Arts

Andrew Templeton — Move over Handel, watch out Scrooge. Enjoy a glass Christmas grog and experience composer Dean Burry’s rollicking alternative to your usual seasonal offerings; a celebration of the 400-year-old Newfoundland  tradition of mummering featuring music, dance and storytelling. ...

Harris Institute  has introduced a new Political Correctness Policy on its Jarvis Street Toronto campus. The policy was developed in conjunction with stakeholders that included faculty, students and staff. It is based in part on a cover story in The ...

Bruce Bell – Two centuries ago north of Queen Street (then called Lot Street) was mostly forest complete with wild deer, hungry bears and fish-filled streams. It would be in this idyllic woodsy enclave that the affluent citizens of York ...

Regan Macaulay has been an animal person for as long as she can remember. The local children’s author has met with innumerable animals through her work as a veterinary assistant, an animal masseur and an animal wrangler, but one particular ...

The third floor of historic St. Lawrence Hall on King St. E. is known mostly for its great ballroom with its magnificent crystal gas-lit chandelier where the likes of John A. Macdonald and Frederick Douglass once spoke. On the third ...

John Sewell provides an insider’s account of 12 years when Toronto was transformed by activist citizens and high-rise developments. By the mid-1990s Toronto was well on the way to being Canada’s laraget and most powerful city, but all this “progress” ...

Anjuli Solanki — Local youth from Thorncliffe and Flemingdon communities, members of the Toronto Emerging ARTivists (TEA) – winners of Toronto Youth Cabinet’s Community Arts Award and NXTCity Prize – will unveil their newly created eco mural, facing the city’s ...

Bruce bell – On the hot sweltering Tuesday afternoon of Aug. 10, 1909, passengers lining up waiting for the ferry to take them to the coolness of the Toronto Islands could see a thin line of smoke rise above their ...

Ilena Aldini-Messina — The City of Toronto Historic Sites present several events in September that provide enriching entertainment for all ages while connecting visitors to Toronto’s rich history. Visit www.toronto.ca/museum-events for more information. COLBORNE LODGE    South end of High Park ...

Teresa Fazari — Bike polo, underwater rugby, axe throwing. Unconventional or “weird” sports are picking up steam in Canada.  By combining favourite elements of ‘traditional’ sports to create new sports, Canadians are finding new and unique ways to get active. ...