Opinion

By Brenda Roman – In mid-July, the Toronto Star decided to run a contest for “Top Waterfront Park” to see which waterfront park was most popular. For some reason, even when reminded, it decided to leave out Little Norway Park, ...

By Tim Trow, President, Toronto Humane Society I know we can sometimes sound like the boy who cried wolf, but we always operate at the very edge of our capacity because we never resort to euthanasia to keep the numbers ...

Over a month after the tragic school shooting of Jordan Manners, the Conservative government, namely Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day has failed to address the needs of Canada’s biggest city, said NDP MP and Youth Critic Olivia Chow. Yesterday, Minister ...

It is an annual ritual that former Liberal MP Dennis Mills condemned city residents to endure each year when the perennial backbencher talked the Jean Chretien government into remaking the failed Toronto Harbour Commission into a federal port authority, against ...

By John Sewell – Maybe police chases are a necessary evil, or maybe there’s an alternative. They certainly happen with great regularity. According to the chair of the police Services Board, Alok Mukherjee, Toronto police were involved in 245 chases ...

By Frank Touby – The Downtown community council of Toronto city council recently voted to reduce traffic to the Island airport’s ferry dock from Queen’s Quay West to the water from five lanes to just two to improve neighbourhood pedestrian ...

Not your typical garden club With school grounds often resembling parking lots rather than places of inspiration and learning, the need to bring nature back to students is a growing concern for many parents and teachers. Nelson Mandela Park Public ...

Like most Canadians, I was shocked when my fellow media mogul, Lord Black of Crossharbour (I just call him Conrad), was yanked in front of the Yankee system of justice by that showbizzy prosecutor, Patrick Fitzgerald who has toppled some ...

By John Gelmon – Since my last year of high school, 1983-84, when I was 18, I had gone an awfully long time without having a girlfriend, even though at times I desperately wanted one. Going places on my own, ...

For many years I have loved this city, but seeing the squalour on the streets of our financial district sidewalks, I am beginning to see why a lot of the country thinks Toronto sucks. The greatest crime in Downtown Toronto ...