Opinion

Frank Touby — After 15 years as a health-food store owner with three locations, including Vital Planet, formerly in the North St. Lawrence Market from which he relocated a couple of year ago, Michael Granat is retiring. He plans to ...

Frank Touby — Overpaid lunatics at Ontario Power Generation (OPG) could be the death of everything on earth. OPG was created in 1999 by the disastrous provincial government of Mike Harris in a Tory plot to sell off the province’s ...

Car-haters can’t stand the fact that people will forever drive private vehicles because it’s just too inconvenient to do many things on public transit By Frank Touby – Did Adam Vaughan get hit over the head on the Gardiner-privatization question? ...

Frank Touby — In her zany new book the woman who once described herself as among the elites of “the American Diaspora” in Canada, Diane Francis argues for what would amount to the absorption of Canada by the U.S. It ...

A most welcome and long-awaited announcement was made at the end of August by the Ontario Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing, Linda Jeffrey. Addressing the delegates to the Association of Municipalities of Ontario, she declared her government is planning ...

It was a disheartening meeting that I had with a key member of Premier Kathleen Wynne’s government in the person of personable MPP Laura Albinese (York South-Weston) I was part of a contingent from Newspapers Canada and the Ontario Community ...

The Billy Bishop Airport, formerly known as the Port George VI Island Airport—and unofficially known as the Toronto Island airport—has been part of the Toronto landscape since 1939. It was built around the same time as the Malton airport, which ...

Imagine what would have happened if during the G20 the cops had all been armed with Tasers. That comment, made by a deputant at the public hearing called by the Toronto Police Services Board on Sept.  24 into whether more ...

It has been a year since Mike Comstock died of pancreatic cancer last Sept. 22. He was a dear friend to so many on a personal basis and of the entire Downtown community. He was active as an enthusiastic unpaid ...

Frank Touby — After clearing this with the city’s integrity commissioner, artist Gary Crawford, a city councillor for Scarborough Southwest, agreed to paint a portrait of Toronto’s now world-famous mayor. Witnesses said he looks a bit thinner on canvas than ...