Summerhill residents are hoping to effect some calm on their streets and pump an increasing flow of through traffic back to the main arteries. Since September 2013, members of the ABC Residents Association have been studying and counting traffic through their residential streets, focusing mainly on the east-west flows along Roxborough Street West, Macpherson Avenue … Continued
More than two years of study and $250 million in recommendations
Alexandria project went bankrupt last year after slow sales
A dramatic, high-speed chase in a stolen car down Ontario’s busiest highways with a helicopter in pursuit? It may sound like a scene from a video game, but this real-life incident began, coincidentally, at a Thornhill video game shop. Police were alerted to a break-in at an EB Games store near Bathurst Street and Centre … Continued
Councillors fear new bus lanes spell end of subway extension
North York woman serves as an ‘Angel’ to families in need
Developer hopes to restore heritage features to farmhouse
The Gladstone has been a hotbed for culture in Toronto since before the west end was cool. Home to anything artsy under the sun, this month sees Becky Comber, a photo-based artist, set up camp in the hotel for the duration of the CONTACT Photography Festival.
Dear Olivia Chow, Rob Ford, David Soknacki, Karen Stintz, John Tory and other mayoral candidates, Toronto faced some serious weather this past year. The never-ending polar vortex, dramatic ice storms and flash flooding — unsettling reminders that our communities are vulnerable to Mother Nature’s whims — left many of us with cracked pipes, soggy basements and frayed nerves.
It’s been impossible to avoid the perpetual hubbub over what we put inside of ourselves (e.g. the alleged health hazards of eating wheat). But according to two of our country’s top environmental thinkers, Bruce Lourie and Rick Smith, we’ve got even more work cut out for us.
Canada’s leading food critic for over 30 years, Joanne Kates has compiled her 5th annual list of Toronto’s best restaurants—and this year there’s a new name in the top spot. Toronto’s first lady of food has named Rob Gentile’s Buca as the city’s best restaurant in her annual Kates Top 100 Toronto Restaurants list, which will be published in the May edition of Post City Magazines.
Elaine Lui didn’t always want to be a writer. It wasn’t until she started her now famous blog, LaineyGossip.com, that she really considered it as a profession. In fact, one of her earliest career objectives — at age 10 — was to become Miss Hong Kong, an expressed desire to which her mother responded, “Miss Hong Kong is a whore.”
