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Campus to maximize space via virutal library, online learning

By Dennis Hanagan – Classrooms and the library at the new George Brown waterfront campus are going to look a lot different from what older generations would remember from their schooldays. There’re won’t be neat rows of desks in the ...

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CBC disses Woodsworth Co-op

Identifies the well-run, member-owned housing co-operative as part of the dysfunctional TCHC stable By Frank Touby – CBC’s local news crew and reporter Steven D’Souza got it seriously wrong in a story Dec. 13 about Toronto Community Housing Corp. (TCHC). ...

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St. Lawrence Neighbourhood development news

By Ken Smith – Autumn brought a few more business openings, closings and more construction advances in Old Town Toronto. Immediately west of St. Lawrence Market across Market Lane, a formerly empty building that had been home of the old ...

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Founder’s dinner at Corktown schoolhouse to honour Crombie

By Dennis Hanagan – His brewery burned down and he went bankrupt. But that didn’t keep Englishman Enoch Turner from bouncing back and establishing a school for Toronto’s poor children in Corktown 162 years ago. That one-room school on Trinity ...

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Cabbagetown co-op turns 30 in century building

By Dennis Hanagan – The Three Streets housing co-op in upper Cabbagetown is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year in tandem with the 100th anniversary of the three-storey building (called Hampton Mansions) it occupies at the southeast corner of Winchester ...

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Major water main work may only make minor disruption

By Josh Bailie – The New Year will bring optimistic resolutions, midnight kisses, and the commencement of a two-year, $80-million construction project to replace a 70-year-old water main under D’Arcy, Elm and Gerrard streets. Planned to start in January, six ...

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Toronto’s First Post Office was a gift to us

‘Tis the season to think about gifts, and remember some of the best ones received in past years By Ewa Jarmicka – The meticulously restored 19th-century post office at 260 Adelaide St. East was a gift to the St. Lawrence ...

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Occupy St. James’ Park ends peacefully

Very Toronto of both sides By Frank Touby – Occupy Toronto, which has made a muddy mess of much of St. James’ Park, is finally over. To their credit there has been no violence in the eviction and they have ...

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Toronto poisons your water

Calgary dumped the toxic waste, fluoride, but Toronto spends $2 million a year supposedly to protect children but in actuality harming us all By Bulletin Staff – Following a successful anti-fluoride campaign in Canada, Dr. Paul Connett, Professor of Chemistry ...

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Robert Lloyd fugitive on the run

Last seen in Toronto, wanted on Canada-wide warrant for breach of parole By Crimestoppers – The Repeat Offender Parole Enforcement (ROPE) Squad is requesting the public’s assistance in locating a Federal Offender wanted on a Canada Wide Warrant as result ...

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