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Dennis Hanagan – Toronto wants to build physically-separated bike lanes between Bathurst and Sherbourne on either Richmond, Adelaide and Wellington streets—or on a combination of all three. There will be trade-offs: a 20-page city booklet says consideration will be given ...

Dennis Hanagan – A lot of people don’t realize that when they walk through Little Norway, Trinity-Bellwoods and Bickford parks they’re walking the ancient waterway we known as Garrison Creek because it once flowed openly past Fort York. In the ...

Harrison Lowman – This month, residents of the closely-knit Ward’s Island are encouraging their city-side neighbours to examine and take part in the stitch work that forms their history. The Ward’s Island Association (WIA) is celebrating its 100th anniversary in ...

Eric Morse – Councillor Pam McConnell has assembled a community working group to consult on the First Parliament site on the Southwest corner of Front and Parliament streets. Mandated to provide a forum for the community and city staff to ...

Dennis Hanagan – The Toronto Humane Society (THS) on River St. got a bad taste of its neighbour—the Don River—during the July 8 super storm that wreaked havoc over the Downtown core. “The (river) came up into the basement. It’s ...

Anthony Marcusa – Before she started a charity for at-risk kids, Miranda Jollymore Kamal was already an active person: she was a single woman, a table tennis player, a mortgage broker and a competitive boxer. But it was the time ...

Harrison Lowman – Plans to move forward with Don River mouth and port lands redevelopment are being stonewalled by industrial companies that remain entrenched in the once-thriving manufacturing district, according to some local residents. During a public consultation in Eastern ...

Frank Touby — The pride and joy of so many St. Lawrence Neighbourhood young people is a glorious basketball court on The Esplanade across from the St. Lawrence Rec Centre that was, in effect, ‘vandalized’ by a thoughtless cop chasing ...

Mary Gallagher — Greater Toronto Area Realtors reported 5,984 condominium apartment transactions through the TorontoMLS system in the second quarter of 2013. This result was down by approximately six per cent in comparison to the second quarter of 2012.The number ...

‘The June report leaves the second-quarter tally at an impressive 6.4% above the previous quarter – the strongest performance since 2010’ By Peter Scot – According to Bank of Montreal Senior Economist Robert Kavcic, the latest data from the Canadian ...