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Eoin Carroll, an import from Ireland, will compete again June 1 at the Metro Convention Centre By Bulletin Staff – Bodybuilder and St. Lawrence Neighbourhood resident Eoin Carroll has taken a major physique competition title and is in line to ...

Dennis Hanagan – Volunteers from 51 Division will survey residents in Regent Park, St. Jamestown and the Sherbourne corridor this May to hear their concerns about safety in their neighbourhoods. They’ll be asking questions as part of the division’s summer ...

Dennis Hanagan – Traffic congestion in the Downtown core is so bad that the city is undertaking a study see how cars, pedestrians, cyclists and public transit can try to live together. “We’ve heard a vast number of concerns,” Andre Filippetti, ...

A grassroots project to improve Riverdale Park has failed to take root this year, according to the project’s organizer. As reported in the Dec. 2010 edition of The Bulletin, Randy Brown of Cabbagetown Art and Crafts was spearheading a project ...

The grass on St. James Park will be better by far than what was there before Occupy Toronto camped out in November. The grass was well trampled by general use and by slack maintenance by city staff. However, with some ...

The 97-year-old Shaw St. school that’s been vacant for the past 10 years in the Trinity-Bellwoods community is being renovated to re-open next fall as Downtown’s largest arts and cultural centre west of Spadina Ave. It’ll be called Artscape YOUNGplace, ...

Eric Morse – A blue-ribbon panel of nine citizen members has been named to the Riverdale Farm stewardship group. The March 18 announcement from Ward 28 councillor Pam McConnell’s office concludes a lengthy terms-of-reference and recruitment process which began in ...

Kevin Cooper – Each year, as part of the curriculum, students of the School of Urban and Regional Planning at Ryerson participate in projects that team up groups of students with actual clients to take on real world planning tasks. ...

Anthony Marcusa – Even though their scores improved while its score dropped, none of the three other Downtown high schools were able to beat out St. Michael’s Choir School for top honours in the Fraser Institutes’s annual ranking of secondary ...

St. James Town residents have rallied under the name Smart Development to offer “smart” solutions to a highrise proposal they fear will bring thousands more people to their already overcrowded and underserviced neighbourhood. “When we looked at that proposal… it ...