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AGCO hears Fiona’s case

By Will Tremain – Chun Bo Wang may have a hard road ahead, with concerned residents and police one side, and drug dealers and prostitutes on the other. On May 17, the owner of Fiona’s CC Restaurant and Bar at ...

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Miller as wimpy strongman

The Toronto Star recently contrasted David Miller with Chicago’s strongman Mayor Richard Daley and the Blond Bomb Fragment didn’t show up very well in contrast. After all, Daley made a quick end to his city’s pork-barrel airport by bringing bulldozers ...

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Community events in Trinity-Spadina: Chow

Bathurst Quay Neighbourhood Association Annual General Meeeting May 17th 2007 7:30pm Harboufront Community Centre (Corner of Queens Quay and the foot of Bathurst Street) For more information visit www.bqna.org Downtown West Solar Energy Project: Information Sessions The volunteer run Downtown ...

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Prostitution sweep nets 40 men, 51 Division

From Monday, April 30, 2007, to Thursday, May 3, 2007, members of 51 Division Plainclothes Unit conducted a „john‰ sweep along Shuter Street and River Street in response to community complaints of prostitution. As a result, 40 men were arrested ...

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Power line meeting sheds little light on proposed Leslieville route

By Duncan McAllister – The mood was tense at the Matty Eckler centre on Gerrard St., during a standing-room-only community meeting Apr. 24, as local residents arrived to voice their concerns about the proposed hydro transmission line that may or ...

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Toronto’s first public school celebrates 200 years

Jarvis Collegiate graduates reunite to celebrate landmark date By Jeffrey Todd – In 1807, a one-room shed became Toronto’s first public school. When it opened schooling was only for the privileged few. Now, Jarvis Collegiate will celebrate its bicentennial, and ...

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Nelson Mandela Park PS students to fly to South Africa

By Mirnada H. Beninger – Cate Dempsey-Galle has a dream. By the first week of July, she hopes to be able to raise enough funds to be able to fly across the globe to South Africa for three weeks. At ...

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Controversial Cabbagetown liquor license denied

OCAP support doesn’t hold up in court By Will Tremain – It’s a double whammy for the Cabbagetown Restaurant and Bar. Despite rallies by local supporters, free legal representation, and the backing of the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty, the Cabbagetown ...

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Jilly’s will keep jiggling along Queen East

By Will Tremain – Jilly will keep taking it all off instead of taking off. Jilly’s Adult Entertainment, a strip club and Toronto landmark, leases space on the ground floor of the New Broadview Hotel at Queen St. E. and ...

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Downtown mourns Callwood

By Eric Morse – June Callwood’s granddaughters Emma, Marie and Lucy head a candlelight procession of more than a thousand people from Jessica’s on Parliament Street to Casey House on Huntley Street in celebration of June’s life and leadership on ...

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