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Dennis Hanagan — Designers want to put a green roof on the new Jack Layton Ferry Terminal and make it roomier for families lining up for ferries, often with strollers and picnic gear in tow. The design team of KPMB Architects, ...

Kimberly Spice — The new design will have traffic from the Gardiner exiting onto Lower Simcoe. The construction plans for the Gardiner off-ramp onto Lower Simcoe will be presented to the public at a Lower Yonge Precinct meeting in June ...

Dennis Hanagan — Grades 2 and 3 students from Lord Dufferin Jr. & Sr. public school got an introduction to the icky business of vermicomposting—the art of turning worm poo into fertilizer—at the Christian Resource Centre in Regent Park. The ...

The spell is broken! After years of conservative obsession with tax cuts and no budget deficits, our national election in October unexpectedly brought the Liberal party to power led by a young, energetic Justin Trudeau. Trudeau correctly sensed and took ...

As part of the City of Toronto’s Refugee Resettlement Program, WoodGreen Community Services has launched a website called H.O.M.E., short for Housing Opportunities and Marketplace Exchange. The website matches Syrian refugees with housing, goods and services from donors, both businesses ...

Brian Iler — The Ontario government is about to enmesh itself in the Island airport controversy by giving itself the power to give that airport a huge property tax break. The Ontario government has studiously avoided getting mixed up in ...

Eric Morse — While Gov. Gen. David Johnson was convening Ministers and national non-profits at Rideau Hall Dece.1, a small group of community workers and volunteers called Community Matters was gathering in the quieter surroundings of St. James Town to ...

Snow.  It’s a fact of life in Canada.  And when the snow starts to fly, it can affect how we get around. Drivers and cyclists want to have roads cleared quickly and efficiently to allow for the movement of traffic.  ...

Riverside businesses welcome a new development that would bring pedestrian traffic to Queen St. E. near the Don River bridge, but some residents worry about gas emissions coming from the “car mall” that would be part of the project. Streetcar ...

The next round of public consultation on the city’s rapid transit studies has been rescheduled from November 2015 to early 2016 due to recent indications that more complete ridership data will not be available until that time. The city reports ...