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.
For local resident and cancer survivor Israel “Issie” Pelc, crossing the finish line recently at the Niagara Ultra Marathon actually marked the end of not one, but two marathons.
Not only does Stella Kim sell vintage jeans, but vintage runs in her genes as well. Kim recently opened high-end consignment shop Haute Classics (with co-owner Jina Han) but says her love of vintage started young and started in the family.
In terms of deadlines, it could be worse: Canadian Film Centre (CFC) has until March 2011 to spend $7.5 million in stimulus funds secured from the city, the province and the federal government. However, a neighbour’s recent appeal to the Ontario Municipal Board (OMB) has snagged plans to use the money toward repairing, upgrading and expanding the centre’s historic E. P. Taylor site near Bayview Avenue and York Mills Road.
The unassuming man from the Forest Hill neighbourhood who made headlines when arrested in connection with the G20 summit was denied bail late last month. However, a publication ban on his case is causing speculation, and there is a divide between his supporters and opposers.
Coun. Adrian Heaps recently announced plans to challenge a decades-old arrangement that has seen the city defer a total of about $33 million in property taxes at nine private golf clubs.
A recent decision by city council to place 79 Dawlish Ave. on the Toronto inventory of heritage properties will keep the house safe from demolition, for now.
Junior Academy has appealed to the city to save about a dozen trees that will be lost if it’s forced to erect an eight-foot masonry wall along its north and western borders.
