Growing for a cause
What started as a local community garden project to promote healthy eating and support local food initiatives is blossoming into a nationwide enterprise.
Category: Culture
City council approves Leaside traffic study
A $300,000 comprehensive traffic study to help understand how Leaside can deal with the effects of congestion, construction and potential incoming Costco and Walmart stores will soon be undertaken. Toronto City Council approved the decision at a June 11 meeting.
Kids’ singers honoured
Generations of Canadians have grown up with Sharon, Lois and Bram as a staple of their childhoods. Now the “Skinnamarink” singers, who recorded their first album in 1978, may be honoured by having a local playground named after them.
Sustaining our gem of a garden
Summer is here and the Toronto Botanical Garden is in full bloom — what better time to come and visit the city’s only botanical garden.
Sheppard and Leslie proposal sees height scaled down
A controversial proposal to build five residential towers at 1200, 1210 and 1220 Sheppard Ave. E. has ended in a peaceful settlement at an Ontario Municipal Board (OMB) mediation. Amexon Development Corporation will soon begin construction on the five towers, the highest of which will be 31 storeys.
Approval of new district shows towns inclusiveness
The Town of Richmond Hill has unanimously endorsed the creation of a symbolic Jewish District that some call an important step toward being inclusive of the town’s local Orthodox Jewish community.
It’s a party in the village
On Aug. 16 and 17, join me for the third annual Five Senses Festival in the downtown core — what I consider to be simply the best summertime grassroots community celebration of arts and culture in the historic village of Richmond Hill.
Yonge and Eg park shortage continues
Yonge Street and Eglinton Avenue has been identified by the City of Toronto as an area in need of increased open space. Now, vital steps have been taken in determining how to improve the area’s public space.
Casa Loma sees million dollar turnaround
The recently released financial statements of the Casa Loma Corporation indicate that the landmark has been on an upward trajectory since the City of Toronto resumed management of it last year.
Contractor jailed for ‘destroying’ senior’s home
A Yorkville contractor has received a jail sentence for deliberately taking advantage of an elderly North York woman, defrauding her of most of her life savings and leaving her home in an almost uninhabitable condition.
Unique deal lands Hogg’s Hollow new park
The Green P parking lot just North of the Miller Tavern at Yonge Street and York Mills Road is currently being halved in size to make way for parkland.
Avenue Road Canada Post station sells
Approximately a year after Canada Post put its facility at Avenue Road and Melrose Avenue on the market, it has found a potential buyer.