Subway to cost up to $2 billion
The price tag for the proposed Yonge subway extension into Richmond Hill is estimated to be between $1.5 billion and $2.1 billion, according to a new York Region Rapid Transit Corporation report.
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Promenade to see renos
Sounds of banging hammers and whirring power tools will ring in the month of March at the Promenade Shopping Centre.
Registers rang during Christmastime rush
With memories of the holidays quickly fading into ghosts of a Christmas past, Vaughan retailers are taking stock of the shopping season that was.
Couple wants Jackson out of office
Gino and Mary Ruffolo want the Ontario Superior Court to throw Mayor Linda Jackson out of office.
Library to launch online help service
Parents who would lose on Are You Smarter Than a Canadian 5th Grader? but have kids who need homework help can soon turn to a friend at a library in Ontario — without leaving the house.
Newsmaker of the Year
During heated debate, Vaughan Today’s editorial staff made their cases for who they thought made the biggest impact on the headlines from the year that was. After a momentous vote, the Newsmaker of the Year, Noisemakers of the Year and three that deserve an honourable mention emerged. Love them or hate them, you couldn’t avoid them in 2007.
Business heats up for solar company based in Concord
Future looks bright for Your Solar Home after striking distribution deal with American utility Todd Kirkpatrick, a veteran of the high-tech world, went decidedly old school in 2000 when he bought Kerrydale Stables, a Muskoka-area commercial horse farm. It wasn’t long, however, before the long,
Neglected women’s shelter proposal revived by Meffe
The warm sentiments of the holiday season moved a pensive councillor Peter Meffe to resurrect a seemingly dead mayoral task force report on the need for a women’s shelter in Vaughan.
2006 election battle continues in court
The legal battle in the now-infamous 2006 mayoral war is far from over. The latest judicial battle won’t be settled until Ontario Justice Lucia Favret decides in January whether to order a compliance audit into Mayor Linda Jackson’s campaign finances.
Defence motion filed by Ruffolos in suit
Gino and Mary Ruffolo have filed notice of intent to defend themselves against the legal action commenced by the City of Vaughan on Nov. 20.
GO strike looms again as transit workers nix deal
GO Transit bus drivers and ticket vendors are once again in a position to walk off the job and onto the picket line after rejecting a tentative agreement that had averted a possible strike earlier this month.
Staff to pick park locale
Following council’s lukewarm reception last week of the Off Leash Working Committee’s final report, councillors voted Monday to receive the report and instructed staff to begin choosing a site for the park.