TORONTO The city recently released Change Is in the Air: Toronto’s Commitment to an Environmentally Sustainable Future, a wish list of ways Toronto hopes to reduce its environmental impact. But, as the frog says, it ain’t easy being green. The city is on its way,
There’s no two-tier health care at Etobicoke General Hospital. But if you’re a rare peregrine falcon, you might get a free private room. Earlier this month, volunteers from the Canadian Peregrine Foundation, a non-profit group focused on helping endangered and threatened birds of prey, built
On doors and windows and countertops at food establishments all over the city are the familiar green “pass” signs assuring us that the grub is good, at least according to Toronto Public Health. But seldom does one spy a yellow or red sign. Is the
MORRIS PETERSON Morris Peterson, the longest-serving Toronto Raptor, knows a thing or two about his adopted hometown — and about success. For the first time since 2002, his squad is heading to the playoffs. MoPete took time out to speak to Philip Alves about life
Bay and Gerrard A garden is to be built in the unlikeliest of places this summer: a parking lot amid the towers at Bay and Gerrard streets downtown. Hellmann’s, purveyors of mayonnaise, announced plans yesterday for a community garden at 686 Bay St., to last
If Dovercourt-Wallace Emerson-Junction were a person, it might be a high-priced lawyer with a penchant for frequenting crack dens. Simultaneously posh and poor, this hyphenated amalgam from Toronto’s official neighbourhoods list is the poster child for gentrification. Roughly boat-shaped, DWEJ is culturally mixed. Nearly one
De Boer to build development at Allen-Sheppard Idomo furniture’s iconic, bearded pitchman/owner has turned to building condos, in a project that will transform the desolate corner of Sheppard Avenue West and Allen Road. North York Community Council this week approved a mixed residential and commercial
JULIAN RICHINGS Queen Street West is the stage British-born actor Julian Richings has loved since moving here in 1984. Richings, a star of the upcoming production of Noble Parasites, spoke to Philip Alves about life in West Queen West and downtown. PARKDALE DAYS It hasn’t
For most of the year, Exhibition Place, a 78-hectare expanse between the Gardiner Expressway and Lake Shore Boulevard West, feels desolate. Eerie feelings of loneliness creep into a pedestrian’s thoughts. But looks can deceive. Something’s going on down there – or rather, a confluence of
We may not have two-tier health care, but The Scarborough Hospital (TSH) is plunging into self-service health care. No, it’s not handing out suture kits or defibrillators to patients, but rather installing computer kiosks that will allow a patient to update his or her condition
The ROM, the Four Seasons Centre, the AGO — Toronto is in the midst of bona fide cultural renaissance. But in the middle of it all, a pair of important theatres, the Canon and the Panasonic, have been adorned with For Sale signs. The Church-Yonge
Acclaimed British filmmaker Ken Loach has been directing for more than 40 years, always delivering films infused with a sense of social realism. Coinciding with the release this Friday of The Wind that Shakes the Barley, Cinematheque Ontario is presenting Wind of Change: The Cinema