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The long awaited new garbage bins are now arriving along Downtown streets. They’re tubby and silver with a special foot pedal that opens the slots where your litter is deposited. Opinions about their beauty and svelte shape vary across a ...

Ms. Grumpy at Archer Housing Co-op is quoted as saying to some celebrants at the unveiling: ‘I don’t want this lane’s name changed.’ It was previously unnamed. By Bulletin Staff & TorontoHistory.org — With a flourish and a yank on ...

By Eric Morse — Cabbagetown is becoming a source and setting for biographical fiction. John McAree’s biographical novel Cabbagetown Store, which launched at the Ben Wicks Pub on Parliament St. last summer, now has a charming prequel. Polly of Bridgewater ...

By Kimberly Spice — Little Norway Park has received $100,000 through a government funding grant for upgrades to the children’s play area under the condition that the upgrades must be completed by March 2011 or the money returned. The announcement ...

By Duncan McAllister — Many excited young students packed the auditorium at Lord Dufferin public school Nov. 25 to receive computers for their efforts in graduating from courses at the TD Securities Computer Literacy Centre. 71 graduating students, aged from ...

By Ken Smith — A proposed six-level parking garage across the road from the L Tower is “a GO” but questions remain. The treed site at the southeast corner of Yonge St. includes a small GO Transit parking lot and ...

By Duncan McAllister — Work is moving forward in the West Don Lands, Toronto’s newest community.  New developments at the site promise to provide some exciting new changes to the old Corktown neighbourhood. Plans are underway for the first residential ...

By Dennis Hanagan — A handful of residents and business representatives attended an informal meeting at city hall on Oct. 28 to hear how the city is working on a draft zoning bylaw to consolidate the 43 different ones it ...

By Jennifer Basso — Salwa Aleem and 14 other young women celebrated the finale of the Opportunities Unlimited (OUL) program on Nov. 19 at the Institute of Chartered Accountants Building on Bloor St. The event wrapped up an intense six ...

By Bruce Bell — Just inside the courtyard of King George Square at 160 King East is a just recently unveiled and exquisitely designed statue to a man very few Torontonians are aware of. In 1834 the year of Incorporation ...