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Skaters find safe haven at Market ‘til 10

By Kimberly Spice — Local skateboarders will soon be looking for their second new home in as many years when Toronto’s only free indoor skate park at the North St. Lawrence Market is set to close it doors on Wednesday ...

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Rec centre warns of pool closure

Due to renovations, the city-managed Jimmie Simpson Recreation Centre pool will close on June 15. The entire centre, located at 870 Queen St. E., will close in August. “The closure is required to complete the upgrades that are necessary to ...

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BIA solicits streetscape sentiments

The Old Cabbagetown BIA invites public comments on the new streetscape proposals being advanced for the business improvement area. The long-awaited proposals are the result of a study that was funded in part by the city. The goal of the ...

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Albino raccoon found Downtown

The frequency of albino raccoons in the wild is believed to be 1 in every 500,000 By Brad Gates — At 11:00 AM on Monday May 11th, 2009, Steve Parish of Gates Wildlife Control responded to a seemingly routine emergency ...

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‘Worst waterfront in the world’ to be transformed by 2012

By Kimberly Spice — City planners won praise from area residents for a plan to transform the Downtown waterfront—once voted one of worst in the world—into one of the 10 best. More than 300 Queen’s Quay neighbourhood residents liked what ...

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Off-leash parks meeting planned

A date is soon to be set for the long-awaited public meeting to discuss allowing dogs off-leash in St. James Park and Power St. park, Pam McConnell’s office confirms. Once a meeting is scheduled, notice will be sent to buildings ...

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Foolish dream to tear down Gardiner

Here we go for real. It’s going to cost millions of dollars purely to study the impact of spending $1 billion just to tear down the eastern portion of the Gardiner Expressway. While it’s true the city’s estimate of the ...

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Miller’s kleptocracy

In Mayor David Miller’s civic kleptocracy, cash-craving Toronto is mugging its denizens on the streets. Often on their own streets. If you park on Toronto’s streets, you’ll likely soon have one of Miller’s eager-beaver meter readers slap a high-priced yellow ...

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Make your point about Corktown point tower on April 2

By Anisa Lancione — City staff presented a preliminary report for the most recent rezoning application to be put forward for 126 Berkeley St. at community council on March 26. The application requests permission to build a 21-storey residential rental ...

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Old Town poster shows city as it once was

The Old Town Toronto Promotional Alliance has produced a number of poster replicas of an 1834 map of York, as the city first was called by European settlers. It was hand drawn  and, says OTTPA President Mike Comstock, “The map ...

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