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Dennis Hanagan – Events that happened more than 80 years ago made Garden District resident Kara Kieferle decide she wanted to be a Salvation Army bell-ringer this year. “When my grandfather was a young man growing up on the prairies in ...

Eric Morse – The St Lawrence Market Neighbourhood Business Improvement Area (SLBIA) held a well-attended annual general meeting on Oct. 28 at the Houston Ave. Bar & Grill. Executive Director Al Smith introduced DTAH, the architectural and planning firm chosen ...

Steve Johnston — 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 ...

Dennis Hanagan — With 42 million people walking north and south at Yonge and Dundas streets every year Toronto has to start looking at its often forgotten laneways as public thoroughfares. “We have to start looking at laneways as public ...

Frank Touby — City staff are correct in challenging the Uber “taxi” cellphone application’s use in Toronto. Mayor-elect John Tory is wrong in advocating we need to get in step with the times in this regard and essentially cease to ...

Ceta Ramkhalawansingh — Just under two weeks from now, Councillor-elect Joe Cressy will take over as the ward councillor.  If you haven’t already done so, and wish to remain on the Ward 20 mailing list, please reply with a request ...

Eric Morse – Art City is a not-for-profit organization based in St. James Town that provides free and accessible, multidisciplinary art programs to the children and youth of the neighbourhood. It has been around since 2002, having been imported from Winnipeg ...

Brian Iler — CommunityAIR has recently obtained letters sent by the TTC, seeking urgent funding from the provincial and federal governments. The letters, dated July 29, 2014, attached, have not previously been made public. These letters outline the desperate need ...

Gary Null, PhD —         There’s nothing like a glass of cool, clear water to quench one’s thirst. But the next time you or your child reaches for one, you might want to question whether that water ...

  On Oct. 2, local animal rights activists, along with U.S.-based nonprofit Farm Animal Rights Movement (FARM), will hold a 12-hour protest at the Maple Leaf Poultry slaughterhouse to protest the brutalization and killing of animals. The protest is part ...