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By Duncan McAllister – It was part of a daily routine for Corktown resident Joanne Nelson, walking her Jack Russell terrier in Sackville Park,  except she certainly didn’t expect what was about to happen next. She was throwing a ball ...

By Frank Touby – The Downtown community council of Toronto city council recently voted to reduce traffic to the Island airport’s ferry dock from Queen’s Quay West to the water from five lanes to just two to improve neighbourhood pedestrian ...

Paula Fletcher is losing one of her biggest assets. Constituency assistant Pat Chastang, who was profiled by The Bulletin last year, is moving over to Adam Giambrone’s office at city hall. She will start as his executive assistant on June ...

The Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) and Waterfront Toronto invite the public to attend the second workshop for the EA Phase of the TTC-TWRC Waterfront Transit Environmental Assessment – East Bayfront. The purpose of this study is to identify the required ...

By Eric Morse – Little Trinity Church at King and Trinity Streets celebrated its 170th anniversary this month draped in scaffolding, as it undergoes a restoration to its woodwork and windows that will see it returned to its classic pre-1940 ...

As part of fire safety week, residents are invited to join staff from Toronto Fire Services, the Toronto Police Service, and the Ministry of Transportation ata free car seat clinic. The clinic will be held on Friday, June 15, at ...

Manitou Beach on the Toronto Islands may be losing some of its spirit this week as the city performs minor dredging to improve water quality. Park manager Warren Hoselton reports that the dredging, set to start June 12, will allow ...

The wild bunch at city hall, led by two-fisted David “Mushy” Miller, have passed our streets over to Big Business. For a supposed pack of socialists, this blundering band of amateur city builders has a gob-smacking inclination to follow the ...

The rightly hated Ontario Municipal Board has had some of its developer-pleasing ways curtailed by the developer-loving Dalton McGuinty government. As the de facto city planner for every municipality in Ontario, the OMB’s cadre of unelected panelists leans heavily against ...

By Will Tremain – For some, the sound of an airplane is music to the ears, but for Tamara Bernstein it definitely isn’t. Bernstein is Harbourfront’s artistic director of Summer Music in the Garden, a series of free concerts running ...