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Dennis Hanagan – Corktown’s five parks are in need of makeovers but because of their small sizes there are limitations in what can be done with them. “The existing ones are getting old and tired. They aren’t meeting the needs ...

Dennis Hanagan – Residents at the Moss Park apartment buildings have made good use of green space outside their 285 Shuter St. building for the past three summers. They turned a large portion of the lawn on the Queen St. ...

Duncan McDonald – The ABC Residents Association (ABCRA) hosted its annual general meeting on Oct. 8. The ABCRA is a non-profit group that advocates on many issues pertaining to municipal development and planning. The members are deeply concerned with the ...

Dennis Hanagan – Construction for a new library at the First Parliament site at Berkeley and Front streets could begin in 2017 with the library ready to open in 2019, according to a report from a working group with the ...

Kimberly Spice – Few people who watch comedic sketches at the famous the Second City rarely recognize how much impact the music has on the audience. To make a memorable evening the comedians and music director must work hand-in-hand to ...

Dennis Hanagan – Graffiti taggers unknowingly provided a job opportunity for two young artists—the real kind—in Little Norway Park at Bathurst and Queens Quay this past summer. Friends of Little Norway Park (FLNP) asked Harbourfront Community Centre if it had ...

Dennis Hanagan – Pete Gregerson used to work in the ventilation, sheet metal and air-conditioning business on the site of what is today Sunnybrook Hospital in the 1940s. It was an extension of the Christie St. Veterans’ Hospital at the ...

Kimberly Spice – Victoria (not her real name.) received the devastating news approximately a year ago that she had breast cancer and as bad as those test results were, she also faced the confusing and frustrating dilemma of how her ...

Dennis Hanagan – A meeting place at the Rogers Media parking lot in the Bathurst Quay neighbourhood where residents could regularly gather for leisurely chats has driven off into the sunset. The weekly visits by the Toronto Public Library (TPL) ...

Eric Morse – Old Cabbagetown Business Improvement Area (BIA) staff changes appear to be making a slaw of some Cabbagetown Festival traditions. Immediately after the successful 2013 festival, Nauoda Robinson and Krissia Valiente—who had been staffing the BIA office at ...