After graduating from Cardinal Carter School for the Arts, Sarah Magni headed to New York City and used her sizable artistic talents to take a stab at show business including a stint with the acclaimed Upright Citizen’s Brigade and an Off-Broadway sketch comedy show.
With Literacy Month here, we paid a visit to iconic bookstores Type Books (Spadina/St. Clair) and Ben McNally Books (Bay/Richmond). Who’s poised to take the title of best indie bookstore in Toronto.? You make the call.
Just over four years ago, a young Matthew Del Degan boarded the TTC to head off to school. He came across a homeless man and thought nothing of striking up a conversation with him. They laughed, smiled and really kicked up a storm, but the rest of the passengers were eerily quiet, Del Degan thought.
Recent expansions provide catalyst for shopping centre growth
An application to amend the City of Toronto’s official plan to permit the construction of six towers at a plaza at 865 York Mills Road that was submitted in late 2011 may finally come to fruition this coming fall.
The provincial transit agency Metrolinx has been eyeing different lots along Eglinton Avenue as potential sites for stations for the incoming Eglinton Crosstown Light Rail Transit (LRT) line.
Two years ago, when Leaside’s Angie Morris first walked 32 kilometres in the Shoppers Drug Mart Weekend to End Women’s Cancers, she was participating as a tribute to someone else.
Residents are hoping a transportation study currently underway could help address growing concerns over traffic in a part of Thornhill already under major development pressure.
Yorkdale Shopping Centre has surpassed $1 billion in annual sales, roughly $2.7 million per day, putting it on track to become North America’s top-selling retail centre.
The Concord Park development on Sheppard Avenue East between Bayview Avenue and Leslie Street will bring new publicly owned assets and serve both the immediate and broader Willowdale area.
On Sept. 13, York Regional Council will hear a request from Hillcrest Mall in Richmond Hill to remain open on all public holidays, except Christmas. I am surprised that Hillcrest has waited this long.
When I was young, my parents moved to the suburbs in North York. I hope I am not dating myself, but at the time, the area near Bathurst Street and Steeles Avenue in Thornhill was entirely farmland.
