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By Dennis Hanagan – City planners are expected to hold a community consultation meeting early in 2011 regarding a proposal to construct a building at Peter and Adelaide streets that would be 100 metres taller that what zoning allows. The ...

By Kimberly Spice – For the first time in Pride Toronto history, a community advisory panel (CAP) has been created with a mandate to consult with numerous groups, politicians, stakeholders and the city to create recommendations for Pride on how ...

By Kimberly Spice – The Bathurst Quay Neighbourhood Association, York Quay Neighbourhood Association and the Annex Residents’ Association are getting a new neighbour as the CityPlace Residents Association (CPRA) makes its official launch in the New Year. Concord CityPlace currently ...

By Kimberly Spice – In 2008, Church and Front St. resident Jessica Chaikowsky watched a newscast of two aid workers killed in Afghanistan and as she watched the bodies being loaded into coffins she wondered if her friend Shirley Case, ...

By Kimberly Spice – Regent Park for many years has had a consistent reputation of a “no go zone”—but with the help of projects like Regent Park Centre for Learning, the downtrodden area is slowly being gentrified and transformed into ...

She decided to make a colourful 2011 calendar featuring her feathered friends found in her area By Kimberly Spice – Pat Anderson might be a cat owner but her love for birds has inspired her to make a colourful 2011 ...

Chef Bashir griddles his specialty while local kids help out By Bulletin Staff – Cheerful Chef Bashir prepares his “Perfect Organic Pancakes” with real maple syrup or other gourmet toppings and Starbuck’s coffee at the St. Lawrence Neighbourhood Community Recreation ...

By Frank Touby – The Regent Park Centre of Learning was inaugurated Nov. 1 in crowded room filled with area residents and the city’s edu-cratic elites, including Anne Sado, president of George Brown College, Sheldon Levy, president of Ryerson University ...

By Duncan McAllister – Glen Murray and his staff have recently concluded the first in a series of community meetings aimed at producing community action plans for Toronto Centre. Throughout the month of November, Murray’s office conducted meetings in five ...

By Dennis Hanagan – Industry has greatly reduced the amount of pollution it puts into the Great Lakes, including Lake Ontario. But there are everyday things consumers can do to reduce water pollution even more. “How consumers dispose of their ...