Local residents fear that recent developments on Bayview Avenue that were rejected by city staff and Toronto City Council but subsequently approved at the Ontario Municipal Board may have paved the way for townhouses on York Mills Road.
Bill Crothers, a former Olympic athlete and York Region trustee chair, has criticized the school board for considering a policy that would close the exclusive arts stream at Baythorn Public School.
Curfews teach teens limits, show that parents care
Godwin Chan is lone councillor to vote against development
Colle said the development could set an unwanted precedent
More than 100 elementary school children are being forced to relocate after trustees announced their school had exceeded capacity.
Seeds is a stunning and vastly important piece of documentary theatre by the much-admired Montreal playwright Annabel Soutar
A recent application to build a seven-storey, mixed-use building on Avenue Road between Brookdale Avenue and Fairlawn Avenue has brought into question the future of the current shops and restaurants on that stretch of the upscale strip.
The Victim Party exists somewhere between homage and innovation, taking liberally from the punk rock canon and packaging it into a joyous fist-pump of danceable, sing-along anthems. The list of bands that current members have played for in the past reads like a downtown bathroom stall wall, coated in the stickers of some formidable GTA bands.
Ever wondered why we have a leap year, who thought of it and whether you’re working for free today? Clearly you have because it’s the fifth most popular search term on Google right now and every news outlet is carrying the story. We grabbed a coffee and sampled the buzz around the net.
Evil tyrants, cruel teens and human traffickers are among the bad guys in the unwelcome spotlight of TIFF’s annual Human Rights Watch film series. The fest, which starts today and runs until March 8 at the Bell Lightbox, assembles nine documentaries from around the world that showcase humanity at its darkest. Here are four that caught our eye.
If you watched Sunday’s Academy Awards ceremony then you were witness to Hollywood’s continuing shoddy treatment of women. From the lack of female director nominees to Angelina Jolie making headlines with her right leg, Tinseltown has a lot of ground to make up when it comes to its representation of women. Cue the aptly named documentary Miss Representation.
