Dunlap development plans cause uproar
A Subdivision draft for the David Dunlap site, rumoured to have been submitted months ago, was made public recently by the Town of Richmond Hill.
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Thornhill man at middle of alleged $131M tax scam
The Canadian Revenue Agency (CRA) recently revoked the charitable registration of two Markham area charities it said were being operated for the private benefit of its directors.
The biggest fight of their marriage
Jack Layton and Olivia Chow discuss their relationship and explain how their respective battles with cancer have strengthened their marriage
Police say Bathurst bus that hit girl unable to manoeuvre
An 11-year-old girl was sent to hospital with serious injuries on April 18 after what appeared to be an attempt to catch a bus on Bathurst Street south of Sheppard Avenue.
Fundraising in her brother’s honour
Richmond Hill resident Jalal Rafinejad was always getting noticed, says his sister Golbahar. He was a kind, fun, talkative 16-year-old. When he was diagnosed with leukemia as a Grade 11 student at Langstaff Secondary School in December of 2007, that didn’t change.
Pro athletes questioned in area doctors case
Dr. Anthony Galea, A Toronto sports medicine specialist and former director of the Clinic for Sports Medicine at North York’s Fitness Institute, is in hot water as United States federal agencies continue investigating his alleged distribution of performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs) to high-profile athletes — an investigation confirmed by Galea’s lawyer Brian Greenspan.
High school club paints picture of tolerance
While last month’s protests were enough to send Premier Dalton McGuinty’s sex ed. curriculum back to the drawing board, a William Lyon MacKenzie Collegiate Institute group is fighting hard to have greater sexual and gender tolerance in schools.
Songwriting award a ‘Rush’ for locals
When Rush was inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame (CSHF) recently, a part of Willowdale went with the rock legend.
Highly anticipated music release hits this month
Broken Social Scene prepares to celebrate a decade of their original chaotic hipster-pop orchestrations.
T.O.’s musical mommy
Toronto’s star soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian reflects on balancing her career with being a mom
Teetotallers in training
Is T.O.’s queen of good manners all she’s cracked up to be?
Powerful play by a brave new voice in Canadian theatre
One of the most difficult kinds of theatre to perform faithfully in modern times is ancient Greek or Roman: that ever-present chorus crying out warnings and terror in musical unison; the masks which hide facial expressions; that awareness of what will happen at the end. Erin Shields, the young playwright of If We Were Birds, a powerful, moving 90-minute play seen at its final preview at the Tarragon (where it will play until May 23), has made a number of wise choices that avoid these dilemmas.