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By Susan De Rosa – Yes, the members of this group are all proud of losing… losing weight, that is. A new local support group has sprung up in the St Lawrence Neighbourhood–the St Lawrence Losers. Here, in Toronto’s best ...

The 124th annual Police Games, featuring athletic competitions such as bicycle races, obstacle courses, police dogs and tug-of-war contests between divisions of emergency services personnel, returns to the Rogers Centre on Sunday, Sept. 10, 2006, from 2pm to 5pm in ...

Dennis Hanagan –  Toronto and East York community council is seeking full council approval of secondary plan for the Queen and River area so developers will know what’s expected of them when they propose developments there. The Queen-River secondary plan ...

Dennis Hanagan – Volunteer park rangers are needed to help with 2015 activities of the Homegrown National Park Project (HNPP). It’s an initiative by the David Suzuki Foundation to add more greenery to Toronto. After two years of volunteer help ...

Dennis Hanagan – Two Downtown smokers, hooked on the idea of quitting, spoke to The Bulletin about their strategies to snuff out as they join the Canadian Cancer Society’s 9th annual Driven to Quit Challenge. Jacques of Church-Wellesley Village and ...

Eric Morse – The recent appointment of Councillor Pam McConnell as one of four deputy mayors by Mayor John Tory won’t affect existing working relationships with her constituents, McConnell’s office says. At the end of November 2014, when Tory took ...

Dennis Hanagan –  Downtown TTC riders are showing their grumpy faces on social media because they’re tired of crowded streetcars passing them by and making them wait for other cars— that also pass them by. That’s what TTCriders, a grassroots ...

Dennis Hanagan – St. Bartholomew’s Anglican Church and the Centre for Social Innovation, both in Regent Park, have teamed up to collect unwanted chessboards so children who attend the Daniels Spectrum in the evenings will have something to do as ...

Eric Morse – Every once in a while, success can be a little too much of a good thing. The Christmas Market in the Distillery District, having just had its fourth year of operation, and named by Fodor’s as “One ...

Eric Morse – In late 2013, Waterfront Toronto launched an on-line survey conducted by University of Toronto Transportation Research Institute (UTTRI) of how residents of Downtown travel within the core. However it is uncertain whether the results of the survey ...