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Distillery hosts summer information meeting The Junior League of Toronto (JLT) is hosting and information evening on Aug. 21 from 6:30 to 9 p.m. at the new Young Centre for the Performing Arts, located in the Distillery District. “This event ...

By Catherine Tammaro – Fresh-faced Siobhan Bonisteel sits amid the organic market on a sweltering Tuesday afternoon in Riverdale Park. Her father, Cabbagetown’s country-blues musician Johnny Pearl, has just finished helping her to set up her tent and pulls away ...

By Arthur Gron – The city’s perennial battle with the constant accumulation of garbage in the waters of the inner harbour is being waged by Jason Smith, Brad Potter, and Kurt Nielson. The three waste warriors from Harbourfront are keeping ...

By Angela Scappatura – The suicide of a close friend and co-worker served as the catalyst for the upcoming Soulpact fundraiser said the event organizer. “When you witness someone spiral with mental illness you realize how much it’s a bigger ...

By Richard Holt – What was once an urban phenomenon is now an annual tradition thanks to the Canadian Peregrine foundation. On June 12, two peregrine falcon chicks were banded at the Toronto Sheraton Centre Hotel. The fledglings, which nest ...

By Jeffrey Todd – Louise Marie has broken her silence. Now, this small business owner at Yonge and Wellesley has issued a challenge in the ongoing sign war. “I dare the city to hit the whole street at once,” she ...

By Richard Holt – Toronto Police serve and protect. And essential to their role of making Downtown a safe place to live is the bike patrol. Constable Charles Stern, a bike patrol officer at 51 Division, wheels out all the ...

Toronto is in dire danger of being train wrecked if the provincial Liberals don’t do something about that developer’s lackey who leads them and is now passing out our cash. Dalton McGuinty was nobody’s first choice to lead the party ...

If you’re a cautious civil servant intent upon shielding yourself from criticism, it’s almost irresistible to spend some tax money to cover your behind. That’s done by the simple route of launching a study of some or all of the ...

By Duncan McAllister – The hard work of a decade has finally paid off with the opening of Ireland Park on June 21. Thousands gathered at Toronto’s waterfront to mark the official opening of the 300’x70’ memorial at the foot ...