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 ...
Read More »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). ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »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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