Front Street may soon be more pedestrian friendly. A proposal is being examined by the city to expand pedestrian pathways and reduce the number of car lanes in the area around Union Station.
[The Grid]
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Can you trust someone who decides to spend so much more than he can raise trying to get elected?
My boyfriend’s moving in and there’s going to be trouble
She kick-started the career of a then little-known singer named Bob Dylan, marched with Martin Luther King and sang to Nelson Mandela. Along the way, she’s released 50 albums and won countless awards and tributes. Joan Baez is a living legend, and for the past 53 years has attempted to make the world a better place the only way she’s ever known: by singing. She plays at Roy Thomson Hall tonight.
Members of the mayor’s executive committee say they need more time to decide whether they will support a 10 per cent sale of Toronto Hydro. A decision will likely be made in the new year.
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Mark this coming Sunday on your calendar — and every day before that. These are the remaining days to see FELA! in Toronto, one of the most satisfying evenings of musical theatre in years that is being joyously performed at the Canon Theatre.
Taxpayers won’t be on the hook for Mayor Rob Ford’s business cards: he plans on paying for them himself.
[Toronto Sun]
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With Halloween’s arrival, there is an increased — if fleeting — obsession with the occult. But if actual undead entities start commingling with their flesh-and-blood counterparts this year, it’s time to call the Paranormal Investigation Society of Toronto (PIST).
Boo. Nope, it’s not a ghost, but rather the way students at a Hamilton elementary school are feeling after principal Linda Chittick banned Halloween costumes. She suggests that festive students wear black or orange instead.
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The Toronto Archives is like a box of chocolates: you never know what you’re going to get. We certainly weren’t expecting to stumble across this photo. There are almost too many weird things going on here to list: why is a photographer set up here? Why aren’t the boys wearing shoes on a dirt road? What kind of lecture is the police officer giving? The folks at the archives seem equally as baffled. Toronto, you never cease to amaze.
When a band’s reunion show at SXSW causes a riot, people talk. And it wasn’t long before Toronto band Death From Above 1979 was the talk of the festival circuit, bringing their unique brand of mayhem to stages from Coachella to Lollapalooza. The biggest show this week (month? YEAR?) in town is surely the raging return of legendary duo Sebastien Grainger and Jesse Keeler (MSTRKRFT) to their hometown for two nights at Sound Academy.
According to a video and audio release online, hacktivist collective Anonymous is planning an attack on Nov. 7 to “erase” the TSX from the Internet.
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