Opinion

To Mayor Miller: The proposed condos at the foot of Yonge Street expose this city’s total lack of vision for what could be. People are against waterfront condos, but they can’t imagine what an amazing focal point this site could ...

I am a volunteer junkie. It seems I can find the enthusiasm needed to get involved, when certain community projects appear. Over time, you start to recognize those people who re-appear at deputations, talks, displays and the councilor’s ceremonials. These ...

Like O.J. Simpson, Lord Crossharbour is being framed By Frank Touby – As I watch the prosecutorial abuse of my fellow media mogul, Lord Black of Crossharbour, it is apparent how that stilted skit we call a justice system plays ...

By Eva Curlanis-Bart – The bubble of deceit, pretense and political correctness called Harm Reduction has been burst by the United Nations drug control agency. A stern warning to Health Minister Tony Clement declares that Canada having signed the 1961 ...

By Frank Touby – Porter Airlines, the one that uses an urban pest as its mascot, a raccoon, is trying to get permission in the U.S. to fly from the Island airport into New York/Newark airport. Continental Airlines in the ...

Before SARS, before Amalgamation, before 9/11, the southeast Downtown of Toronto began to organize itself as a district within the city. How can we bring improvements to the neighbourhood if we are all reading different manuals? We were a long ...

Some of you are going to be very offended by this and for that, I’m sorry and I apologize in advance. Because if you’re offended, it’s likely that you’re not among the people I’m going to describe, despite your political ...

By Frank Touby – Don’t get them wrong. They’re not NIMBYs. Corktown residents gathered last month in antique Enoch Turner Schoolhouse in a promise kept by their MPP, Health Minister George Smitherman to add a third Methadone Task Force hearing ...

The purpose of this memo is to outline the reasons why I believe the Quay to the City promenade concept will be a mistake for the City of Toronto.  As well I have concerns about some of the other elements ...

By Joy Kogawa – At a recent conference on climate change, experts and scientists declared unequivocally that catastrophic times are upon us. One physicist at the University of Toronto said it was already too late.  The Titanic has hit the ...