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By Anthony Marcusa – The residents of Corktown will not let an opportunity pass without seeing it to the fullest potential. This was the message of the latest public meeting of the Corktown Residents’ and Business Association (CRBA) in regard ...

By Dennis Hanagan – It’s 205 years late, but the Mississauga Indians have received $145 million for the Toronto Islands and the land on which Toronto now stands. That’s better than the ten shillings the British paid them for it ...

By Kimberly Spice – Daniel Torchia, the father of two young children, was shocked last month when he strolled by the Harbourfront Centre at the bottom of Simcoe St. and found that the tree-lined children’s play area had been removed ...

By Duncan McAllister – In days of yore in Old Toronto, when only the affluent elite were able to afford pew fees at the magnificent St. James cathedral, such prominent citizens as Bishop Strachan, William Gooderham and Enoch Turner helped ...

By Anthony Marcusa – An impassioned group of residents will make their case protesting a planned high rise to be built on Church St. at an evening meeting on Dec. 6. As previously reported in The Bulletin, a 25-storey residential ...

By Eric Morse – “Precedent is wonderful,” says Randy Brown. Brown heads up a citizen’s initiative to raise money for new pathway paving in Riverdale Park. He has co-opted another park’s successful brick-naming campaign for the Cabbagetown greenspace. With the ...

By Rebecca Grima – St. Lawrence Market is inviting Toronto residents to the Market on Saturday, November 27 (10 a.m. to 1 p.m.), when residents can exchange two sets of incandescent seasonal lights and receive a free set of more ...

Parking variances approved by WDL committee By Anthony Marcusa – A curious geological situation will make for an interesting set of residences popping up in the West Don Lands. Four lots where King St. meets Queen are the future site ...

By Duncan McAllister – Community planner and Church-Wellesley Village resident Chris Drew maintains that if it weren’t for one email and a special phone call, “I could have ended up spending the rest of my summers in university working in ...

Councillor describes permit costs as ‘impossible situation’ By Dennis Hanagan – Another community festival has bitten the dust because its organizers can’t afford to pay the city fees to hold it in a park. As it has done for years, ...