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At its July meeting the Toronto Preservation Board approved a plan to make the Garden District as a Heritage Conservation District. Under Part V of the Ontario Heritage Act the designation would help protect the community’s historical buildings and character. ...

The city began installing physically-separated bicycle lanes called cycle tracks on Richmond and Adelaide Streets in mid-July similar to the ones on Wellesley, east of Jarvis. The track on east-bound Adelaide will run on the street’s south side between Bathurst ...

Kimberly Spice – The Canada Rugby League has only been in existence since 2010 but they have climbed to the rank of 20 on the international rugby scene out of 48 world class teams. Front and Spadina area resident Robin Legault ...

Anthony Marcusa – Now that projects are rising above ground in the West Don Lands, talk has turned to who will control the newly-built affordable housing after the 2015 Pan Am games are over. The future is clear for Block 15: ...

ÏAnthony Marcusa – The Toronto and East York community council casino subcommittee will meet at city hall on Jan. 11 at 9:30 a.m. in committee room 2 on the second floor at 100 Queen St. W. Councillors Ana Bailão, Paula Fletcher, ...

Christina Palka – The Fort York Neighbourhood Association (FYNA) is officially up and running, says newly-minted association president Vicki Townley-Trottier. The fledgling group (whose mission is to help make the neighbourhood a safer and generally more beautiful place) came into being ...

Dennis Hanagan – Police at 51 Division are finding social media a useful tool to tell the community why they’ve increased the number of foot patrol officers in the neighbourhoods of Regent Park, St. James Town and the Sherbourne corridor this ...

Anthony Marcusa – One Downtown resident and long-time supply teacher is turning his experience interacting with kids into an exciting piece of fiction targeted at the curious children and young adults. Queen’s Quay and Spadina resident Randy Coates has taught students ...

Dennis Hanagan – At its June meeting city council deferred a recommendation from its Planning and Growth Management Committee that would have given the city more control over its planning decisions. But that greater control would have dealt with only minor ...

Kimberly Spice – Developers and city planners revealed the updated proposal to the Mirvish and Gehry project at 260-270 and 274-322 King St. W. during a community consultation meeting at Metro Hall on May 27. The original design would have eliminated ...