Spearhead Brewing Company, which is one of Ontario’s most inventive contract brewers, has established a knack for making delicious beer with oddball ingredients. For its first release, the Hawaiian Pale Ale, it used pineapple, and now the brewery has spiked its second creation, the Moroccan Brown Ale, with figs, raisins, dates and cinnamon.
Local electro-pop outfit Dragonette shot to international fame — and snagged a Juno Award in the process — with the hit song “Hello,” a collaboration with French DJ Martin Solveig. We caught up with lead singer Martina Sorbara to chat about her marriage to band mate Dan Kurtz, the band’s groundbreaking new album and why Richmond Hill will always be home.
As condo developers fill in the holes between Lakeshore and Eglinton, they have to take a different approach to street-level retail. At Bathurst and St. Clair, that means that Starbucks and Menchie’s have been joined with independent grocer Bari’s Fine Food.
A westward extension of the Sheppard subway line to Downsview station is one step closer after receiving an endorsement from Toronto City Council.
After months of debate, Yorkville grocer Pusateri’s has learned that the sidewalk indent in front of their store on Bay Street will be destroyed. Pusateri’s has used the indent as a valet space since 2003.
At a Toronto and East York Community Council meeting on May 14, Coun. Josh Matlow presented a request to designate 1909 Yonge St., the original J. J. Davis General Store and Post Office, a heritage site.
The Bayview Village Association (BVA) has been fighting a long battle against developer Amexon and its plans for five residential towers at 1200 to 1220 Sheppard Ave. E., measuring up to 39 storeys. After two rejections at Toronto City Council, Amexon has appealed to the Ontario Municipal Board (OMB), and the hearing is scheduled to … Continued
A City of Markham councillor is challenging his own city’s decision to merge Thornhill’s two existing seats at council into one for next year’s municipal elections, claiming a botched official study.
On May 15, work began on the new Northern Dancer Pavilion at the Canadian Film Centre (CFC) at 2489 Bayview Ave. The new addition will host a 4,000-square-foot, single-storey actors conservatory.
A resident of a small Russian community in North York, near Steeles Avenue and Yonge Street, has been found guilty for her part in a scheme that defrauded an organization that supports survivors of the Holocaust of $57.3 million.
Sheppard Avenue is among the roads City of Toronto: Transportation Services planners are targeting in their search for a timely fix to clogged intersections on the city’s most gridlocked roads.
Forest Hill Village, located at Spadina Road and Lonsdale Avenue, has seen an array of chain establishments replace its many independent shops. The newest addition is an incoming LCBO, replacing Parker’s Dry Cleaning, which has some residents apprehensive.
