City: Let them eat franks
Late-spring sunshine bathed the third annual St. James Town Festival, which went ahead despite an 11th-hour permit scare, thanks to a sacrifice made by Festival volunteers – their lunches.
Monthly Archives: June 2007
‘Don’t push your luck’; On Careers
How did they get there? Five successful Canadian executives share the best career advice they ever received from their fathers or mentors on their way to the top.
Big boxes, cold shoulder
On May 18, at the Ralph Thornton Centre on Queen Street East, politicians, developers and Leslieville residents met under the stewardship of Councillor Paula Fletcher (Ward 30, Toronto-Danforth) to discuss what many in the community had been fearing for months – namely, what one opponent called the “malignant” intrusion of big-box retail into their neighbourhood, Wal-Mart generally being the most feared tenant.