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Harper to blow $45-$55 million digging a tunnel to the Island airport to save elite passengers 5 minutes getting to their planes. Meanwhile TPA owes Toronto $45 million in unpaid taxes. By Brian Iler – In an appalling misuse of ...

By Josh Bailie – Glen Murray’s community action plan is a go. Since his 2010 byelection win, the Liberal Toronto-Centre MPP developed neighbourhood improvement strategies with stakeholders in his riding, from regular citizens to health officials. Making these plans reality, ...

By Josh Bailie – Dozens of downtown library hours, including all Sundays hours for Parliament St., were potentially salvaged by the Toronto’s library board’s December rejection of city demands for a 10 per cent budget slash. What synthesized was a ...

By Anthony Marcusa – Precedent has become the plan when it comes to Downtown development, from the looks of three new tower proposals in the King-Spadina area. At a recent community planning meeting held by area councilor Adam Vaughan, a ...

By Anthony Marcusa – The surge of interest in the fate of the Port Lands was on full display at the Toronto Reference Library on Dec. 12 for the first public consultation meeting since council’s unanimous Sept. 21 endorsement of ...

By Ulla Colgrass – A proposal to build a 70-storey tower in the central waterfront is gaining its footings, but some area residents think the proposed height is a new low for a community that is already at capacity. Menkes ...

By Eric Morse – If all goes well in the tortuous process of development approvals for Toronto’s Waterfront, the year 2015 to 2021 could well see a new mixed-use neighbourhood of 1800 or so housing units coming into existence on ...

By Dennis Hanagan – One of the four committees in the new Liberty Village Residents Association (LVRA) will be looking at ways to help attract new businesses to the community, says association president Todd Hofley. The design and business development ...

By Dennis Hanagan – A new east-west road planned for the extreme south end of Liberty Village between Dufferin St. and Strachan Ave. will provide much-needed traffic relief within the village, but it’s giving villagers and city planners a headache ...

By Eric Morse – There are many ways to get involved with the Canadian criminal justice system, and most of them don’t involve getting charged with a crime. Most commonly, you might be called as a witness or empanelled as ...