Opinion

Aim is to provide health service and care to all, including the marginalized, in “a loving way,” says Smitherman By Frank Touby – MPP George Smitherman, Ontario’s deputy premier, wore his health and long-term care minister hat Nov. 9 to ...

U.S. ambassador among passengers who had to cross on old ferry to Island, get frisked, then take a bus to a flight at Pearson on Porter Air plane By Frank Touby – The few passengers taking scheduled flights from Ottawa ...

Tasse backs the boondoggle By Frank Touby – You could tell when Steve Harper’s loose Cannon, Larry, populated the Toronto Port Authority (TPA) with appointees, how this was going to read. The long-awaited Roger Tassé report on the prospects for ...

The dysfunctional Toronto Port Authority gave another example of how it richly deserves to die. But now it’s a Tory pork barrel since Steve decided the money-losing operation that’s too lucrative to die should be his. It survives by taxing ...

Figure the Tassé study will keep the Toronto Pork Authority in power By Frank Touby – Don’t expect anything more from the Tassé “study” about the reprehensible Island airport than an attack on the evils of Paul Martin’s handling of ...

By Francine Berry – Our friends in St. Lawrence may or may not wish to hear how some Corktowners are coping with Mr. Gupte’s methadone business that moved from their neighbourhood to ours about three months ago. At the September ...

Rebuttal to the Viewpoint appearing in the August edition of The Bulletin By James Kelly CGA on behalf of the Steering Committe –  We are a group of business people who have been working together for the past two years ...

Proposed TO panhandling ban: unconstitutional and expensive Anti-panhandling bylaw: Is it legal? Toronto municipal politician Jane Pitfield has proposed a “quality of life” bylaw to ban panhandling. The law courts have ruled that there is “expressive content” in begging that ...

It’s back-to-school season and once again the weather turned just as St. Lawrence Market’s Buskerfest was in swing. Downtown East was popping with street events this summer. There was a large turn out at Quay to Toronto, to see the ...

By Frank Touby – He was our great blond hope: The man with the broom; the man who was going to make a clean sweep at city hall and rid us of the civil-service ineptitude and backdoor dealings that peppered ...