- Community seeks social responsibility in Queen Street redevelopment
By Reedah Hayder – City staff and local residents are calling for revisions to a proposed 31 storey mixed-use condominium on a 19th-century heritage site at the corner of Queen…
- Damage to parkland feared from Metrolinx’s Don Valley Layover Facility
By the bridge reporter – Metrolinx’s proposed Don Valley Layover Facility for GO trains continues to raise concerns about its impact on the Valley’s ecology. Both the public and the…
- Advocating for positive change in the Moss Park community
By Kais Azad, Building Roots and Coalition Coorindator – In 2013, Building Roots was founded to address the lack of fresh food access and agricultural growing space in Toronto. We…
- Major drug bust adds to problems facing Esplanade residents
By the bridge reporter – On April 14 Toronto Police announced that more than 280 kilograms of illicit drugs had been found in an apparent condominium “stash house” on The…
- Cabbagetown South residents hire weekend guards
By Elspeth Chalmers – Residents in the Cabbagetown South neighbourhood have hired private security to conduct weekly patrols. On Friday and Saturday nights, guards will walk the neighbourhood from Shuter…
- Market Street closing from June to the end of September
By Krishika Jethani – On April 21, the Toronto and East York Community Council voted to close Market Street beside St. Lawrence Market to vehicular traffic from June 1 to…
- Council extends COVID-19 shelters, including Bond and Novotel Hotel sites
By the bridge reporter – On March 24, City Council’s Economic and Community Development Committee approved a staff recommendation to extend use of 27 Covid-19 temporary shelter sites until at…
- The politics of poverty
By Andre Bermon, Publisher – An abandoned Victorian mansion abutting a large empty lot sits idly on a strip of Sherbourne Street, just a stone’s throw from Dundas East. To…
- Toronto Street
By Bruce Bell, Columnist – Toronto Street (one block west of Church between King and Adelaide Streets) should be nicknamed the ‘If Only’ street, as in “If Only they had…