‘HOODS

There will be dining in the dark by February Downtown and perhaps in the spot being vacated by Golden Griddle at 77 Lower Jarvis (formerly Casa di Giorgio). That chain is closing there and the Montreal O.Noir Restaurant is on ...

By Dennis Findlay – The Port Lands Action Committee met on Nov. 20 at the Ralph Thornton community centre to hear park manager Ralph Toninger deliver a presentation on the master plan for Tommy Thompson Park. Toninger described the planned ...

Robert Conway, pastor at St. Bartholomew’s at 509 Dundas East in Regent Park, really does want socks for Christmas. Conway reports that one of the most valuable resources for the homeless and most vulnerable during the winter months is a fresh pair ...

For the past 15 years, Helen Coltrinari and her neighbours have gone out “caroling for cans” in Cabbagetown. “It started way back, when CBC radio was still on Parliament and started its first food drive,” she reports. “The tradition continues ...

St. George the Martyr Church Anglican Church at 197 John St. is hosting a celebrity reading of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol on Dec. 7. The event begins at 2:15 p.m. with local artist Charles Pachter reading from his new children’s ...

A cup of coffee and a little carolling marked the beginning of the holiday season in the Church and Wellesley Sts. neighbourhood. Despite a temperature below freezing, over 100 people – including 15 Community Response Unit officers from 51, 52 ...

By Anisa Lancione – Iraq war resister and Bathurst Quay resident Patrick Hart, his wife Jill, and his son Rian have received a deferral of the deportation order that would have had them leave Canada by Oct. 30. The family ...

Our community focus for the past six weeks has been on political leaders. So now let’s turn our attention to the young leaders of Downtown Toronto and the neighbourhoods The Bulletin serves: Cabbagetown, Corktown, Liberty Village, Leslieville, Garden District, Queen’s ...

By Ann Hui – Leslieville residents are not surprised after a shooting left one innocent bystander dead and four others injured outside the Duke of York in the wee hours of Oct. 25. Det.-Sgt. Gary Giroux called the incident a ...

St. Lawrence resident and Cambodian antipoverty activist Phymean Noun has been chosen as one of ten finalists in the running to be named Hero of the Year by US news network CNN. Noun, who was profiled by The Bulletin in ...