Fifty years ago this August, an eager Albertan moved to T.O., destined to revolutionize two of its iconic institutions. We asked this former Globe & Mail editor-in-chief and ROM CEO how he would spend his final night in the city?
These days, It’s the schools facing expulsion rather than the students — and not because they’ve been misbehaving.
While Last Month the committee of adjustment (COA) voted down development plans for a proposed Bayview Avenue and Broadway Avenue grocery store and LCBO site because of size and traffic concerns, most say the decision was the first battle in what will likely be a long war.
It was a recent conversation with Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel that compelled North Toronto resident and Indigo CEO Heather Reisman to try and save Iranian woman Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani from death. “I had just come from hearing him say the opposite of love is not hate; it’s indifference,” said Reisman of her talk with Wiesel, … Continued
Shondra Nauth says she has yet to receive justice after Toronto’s ombudsman issued a damning report on the city’s handling of a plumbing problem that has caused her basement to flood 18 times in the last eight years.
The Rob Ford campaign has slammed allegations that the mayoral candidate got into a physical altercation with a football player and was subsequently asked to leave his coaching position at Newtonbrook Secondary School in 2001, as was reported in a recent Toronto Star article.
While the cost of revamping the playing field at Our Lady of Perpetual Help school (OLPH) has left the site in decline, a recent proposal by a community group to pay $250,000 to transform the field has locals wondering if they can devise a better plan and funds to back it.
Concerned residents are planning to go to the OMB over the density of the Lawrence Heights redevelopment plan recently approved by city council. The 20-year vision for the area bound by Lawrence Avenue to Highway 401 and Bathurst Street to Dufferin Street allows for up to 6,300 new residential units, on top of the 1,208 social housing units that will be replaced.
Local entrepreneur and SmartCentres owner Mitchell Goldhar recently made history with his $1.2 million purchase of Paul Henderson’s 1972 Team Canada hockey jersey.
Time to get things moving again: that was the message Coun. Karen Stintz gave late last month, when she held a meeting to understand why there has been no progress on the Heart Park project, an initiative that was originally spearheaded by Post City Magazines, since last February.
Conrad Black was recently released on $2 million bail from the Florida prison where he has served more than two years of a six-and-a-half-year sentence. The decision came after the U.S. Supreme Court found that a law used to aid in his conviction had been written too broadly and didn’t apply to his case, paving the way for an appeal.
While Lisa LaFlamme knew she would be taking over for Lloyd Robertson as lead anchor before CTV made the official announcement, the local said it still didn’t feel real until the secret was out.
