With epic commutes, sky-high real estate and taxes up the wazoo, we asked eight Toronto families why they love raising their kids in the city. Food industry heavyweights The parents: Grant van Gameren, chef/owner of Bar Isabel & Sunny Stone, metal worker and chef on mat leave Home: Detached house in Trinity Bellwoods Kid: Wylie … Continued
If you win, there will be women leading all three major provincial parties into the next election. How important is that to you? It would certainly be very different for Ontario. And certainly it would be the first woman leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario, and I look forward to stepping into that … Continued
Is everyone in the city paying a fair share? That was the question last month, as the City of Toronto was once again deliberating over the Toronto budget. Are homeowners paying enough or too much? Are small businesses paying too much? Should arts facilities get a special tax class? There is a movement to keep … Continued
Before Dave Hemstad was performing at the Just For Laughs comedy festival and on CBC’s The Debaters, he was en route to become a professional golfer. He was athlete of the year in his final year at Thornhill Secondary School, and although he was involved in school plays and even did a standup set for … Continued
The best shows this month from New Zealand pop star Lorde and rocker Dan Auerbach to the Land of Kush and an Irish film festival.
Not many career stories begin with literally being tapped on the shoulder by your calling, but for Steff Ivory Conover, one of the stars of the new CBC reality series The Succulent Six and a plus-size model, that’s exactly how it happened. While sitting on a TTC bus, a scout for the Miss Plus Canada … Continued
A controversial new development proposed at a north Toronto site backing onto a park has neighbours organizing and ready for a fight.
Over the past six years, the William Neal House has seen several different owners, at least two demolition applications and a flood remediation. Now a new application to demolish the home, known as the William Neal House, was submitted on Nov. 14, 2017 by the current owner, the Mansouri Group, which intends to build a Chrysler dealership on the subject lands.
REimagine Yonge, the $51.1 million streetscape redevelopment plan will have to wait at least one more month before Toronto City Council reaches a decision on whether to move it forward.
Local residents have questioned why the private course decided to remove a significant number of trees from its property.
Body-rub parlour premises are zoned to industrial areas, away from schools, places of worship and prying eyes, whereas holistic centres may occupy residentially and commercially zoned neighbourhoods.
Best known for her roles as Lana Lang in Smallville and Catherine Chandler in the CW’s TV adaptation of Beauty and the Beast, actor Kristin Kreuk is looking to step into a more dramatic role.
