There must be something in the U of T water. Recently, not one but two teams of innovators made headlines thanks to their impressive and thought-provoking achievements.
The musical landscape in Toronto is changing, and it’s about time we had a radio station to reflect that. And Indie88, which went live earlier this week as Toronto’s latest radio station, has delivered. Here are five reasons why you should tune in to 88.1 FM.
It’s Thursday, and the long weekend is fast approaching. Need stuff to see or do? We’ve got you covered. In this edition, two music festivals, pro tennis action, dancing in Withrow Park and more.
Bicycles are an increasingly popular, affordable and practical transportation option. Many cities are making life easier for cyclists by building separated lanes, implementing bike-share programs and introducing regulations to reduce conflict between bikes and cars. You can now find bicycle sharing in 500 cities in 49 countries, including Beijing, Montreal and Mexico City.
Typically, journalists are interested in covering the news, not becoming the news. But when veteran CBC reporter Sasa Petricic was detained in Turkey along with his colleague Derek Stoffel, their arrest became their network’s lead story.
Summer camp for grown-ups? It’s happening. Danielle Goldfinger, who also works as an event coordinator for The Stop, is organizing an adults-only camping getaway just in time to say farewell to the summer. From Sept. 6-8, 100 nature-loving Torontonians will escape the city smog by heading north to Camp Timberlane in the Haliburton Highlands.
Pictures of receding glaciers and polar bears looking for ice were the closest many of us came to the phenomenon of global warming, until recently. Now we have photos of a flooded subway concourse, cars submerged on the Don Valley Parkway and a GO train stranded in a lake like the Mariposa Belle.
For a rock ‘n’ roll fan, a Kiss concert is about as close as you can get to a sure thing in live music. That’s why it was no surprise that the legendary foursome absolutely rocked the house at the Molson Amphitheatre on Friday night with their patented blend of pyrotechnic spectacle and explosive sound.
Amid the months of Justin Bieber horror stories in the tabloids and the tales of his belated arrival times at concerts, it’s easy to forget that he – you know – actually performs from time to time.
While we are in the middle of summer vacation, the students of our neighborhood are still top of mind. Faced with a persistent and growing problem of traffic snarls and parking problems surrounding many of our schools, a number of school zone safety reviews are underway. Schools reviewed include John Ross Robertson and Allenby public elementary schools, as well as Yeshiva Yesodei Hotaroh School.
Relief for Willowdale’s chronically over-crowded schools could be on the way now that a funding freeze on the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) has been recently lifted, thanks to the board agreeing to sell off a raft of lands that is said to include local properties.
A vote for a long-awaited plan to revitalize the residential and industrial Thornlea neighbourhood plagued by health concerns has been put on hold after tensions between local residents and business owners flared.
