TheBulletin.ca Journal of Downtown Toronto
By Eric Morse — It’s rather like the weather. Everybody complains about the garbage bins but nobody ever does anything. Since the Day of the Bins hit the Downtown neighbourhoods, there has been a storm of complaints about the aesthetic ...
Read More »Rugby player takes on Miss World pageant for charity: needs gown
By Joshua Baillie — Miss World Canada finalist Gwen Elliot doesn’t just want to be a beauty queen, she wants to be a national role model. That’s why the 20-year-old Downtown resident is trying to raise a record amount of ...
Read More »Visit museums, galleries on library card
The Toronto Public Library has an amazing new item in circulation: the Museum and Arts Pass, or MAP. The MAP, which can be borrowed using a valid adult library card at any Toronto Public Library branch, grants family access to ...
Read More »Waterfront Toronto plans meetings
The third and final public meeting has been scheduled to discuss the Queens Quay revitalization project’s environmentral assessment on March 25. Waterfront Toronto’s board of directors will meet on March 25 and May 13, while the design review panels will ...
Read More »Literary ‘feast’ at North Market April 2
On April 2 from 6 to 8:30 p.m., Downtown book lovers will get face-time with local authors. Dozens of Toronto authors will sell and sign their books, mingle with readers and conduct talks and interviews. Joy Kogawa and The Bulletin’s ...
Read More »Cabbagetown gallery opens
Gordon Daniel’s, a new art gallery at 460 Parliament St. and currently the first in Cabbagetown, has opened its doors with “Duotones” by young photographer Sai Sivanesan. The opening was a packed house graced by Sivanesan’s mentor, famed Canadian and ...
Read More »SmartCentres smarting at OMB loss
Says it will accept the decision in an announcement following Leslieville Big Box development cancellation By From SmartCentres – All the voices have been heard, and we lost. While disappointed, we respect the process and the decision of the Board. ...
Read More »Leslieville wins against Big Box invasion
OMB rules employment lands a developer wanted to use to build a Wal-Mart and other monster retailers don’t provide enough to rank as an employment district Leslieville residents have won the Battle of the Big Boxes. The employment lands that ...
Read More »How about a Multimillionaire tax?
Gouge the super rich to avoid a deficit, bail out the economy and reverse the current slump? By Community Commonwealth Association – There’s a way for the government to finance economic recovery without creating a huge deficit, with a Multimillionaires ...
Read More »Happy Food Freedom Day!
No, it doesn’t mean free food, far from it By Stacy Ferris – On February 12, 2009, the average Canadian will have earned enough income to pay his or her individual grocery bill for the entire year. In observing Food ...
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