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By Anthony Marcusa – Cityzen’s proposal for a 34-storey building to replace the Greyhound depot at 154 Front St. E. met with ready opposition at the community consultation on June 28. A hostile crowd poured into the Nathan Cohen Studio ...

The food bank serves fresh and non-perishable food to as many as 2,800 people each month -making it a critical source of nutrition in one of the city’s poorest areas By Robert Thorpe – The Parkdale Community Food Bank is ...

By Anthony Marcusa – A critical time is approaching for the development of the athlete’s village for the 2015 Pan Am Games—and residents of the West Don Lands are nothing if not vigilant about the fate of the development. But ...

By Dennis Hanagan – Staff in city departments should “flag” buildings and landscapes they think might be potential heritage sites because Toronto’s Heritage Preservation Services (HPS) is too understaffed to build a comprehensive inventory of them, and that has caused ...

By Kimberly Spice – The choking combination of gridlock and exhaust fumes along central Queens Quay will be a thing of the past as Waterfront Toronto transforms the area into a pedestrian, car friendly, street. At the June 9 community ...

Green Party leader finally drops the save-the-earth stuff and gets down to the real business of seeking to save Canadians from government tyranny By Kieran Green – The Auditor General’s final report into the G20-G8 summit reveals a gross abuse ...

By Kimberly Spice – In Clarence Park—half a kilometer and directly east of Victoria Park—the entire south portion will be transformed into a dog run in the hopes it will entice area pet owners to come to the pet friendly ...

By Dennis Hanagan – A proposal to raise the Dufferin Street bridge where it enters Exhibition Place will ruin a long-cherished view of Lake Ontario, the city’s public works and infrastructure committee heard on May 26. The part of the ...

By Anthony Marcusa – Just as the words left his mouth lamenting the irresponsibility of some dog owners and park-goers, councilor Adam Vaughan paused to watch what looked liked a Boston Terrier race untethered across the delicate soil on Victoria ...

By Duncan McAllister – A long-standing polling place has had its Elections Ontario (EO) status revoked thanks to new provincial accessibility standards. Ironically, the removal of the Dixon Hall polling place at 58 Sumach from the list of voting locations ...