Harvesting the city’s hidden treasures
Fruit isn’t the only sweet treat that can be havested from the tree, according to a creative group of green-minded residents.
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Real Estate Roundtable 2010
T.O. housing is reaching historic heights, but with the HST, mortgage changes & interest rate hikes ahead, is our inflated market floating toward a giant pin?
Local couple help hungry & homeless
IT WAS A Wednesday afternoon and Gordon Robertson was helping run the Drop Inn program at his church, as he did every Wednesday. As the centre was closing, an older couple showed up looking for help. Gordon suspected they hadn’t eaten in days.
Inside the manic mind of T.O.’s famed funnyman
Howie Mandel wrote his new book, Here’s the Deal: Don’t Touch Me, while recovering from a serious heart condition, which required “internal defibrillation.” It was a scary time, and Mandel’s grim fears are a constant theme throughout the book. It’s unnerving, because Mandel has always been the most boyish of performers. His brush with mortality seems so different from the devil-may-care lad we thought we knew.
Just who should run this town, anyway?
THE MESSAGE IS clear: the status quo at city hall is not good enough and is contributing to holding the city back.
Undue coyote fears?
Repeated sightings of coyotes in our area and a related warning by the Toronto Police Service as a result of repeated sightings in the Don Mills area have put some area residents on edge about the safety of our local green spaces.
Forest Hill's Person of the Year: Belinda Stronach
Belinda Stronach is a philanthropist, power broker, socialite, former public servant and our area’s latest high-profile resident.
Germs are our friends…really
If you had the city’s top microbiologist, Dr. Donald Low, one of the doctors that saw T.O. through the SARS crisis, cornered, what would you ask him about H1N1 swine flu?
Can T.O. be a green city?
A FEW YEARS ago, the editors of this publication asked me to write about how Toronto could become more sustainable. Since writing that article, my thoughts haven’t changed much. I still believe that, as the largest city in Canada, Toronto has the opportunity to become a role model
The water’s edge
When Alanna Mitchell was asked to stop writing stories about science and the environment, she knew she had her fill of life in daily newspapers.
Under T.O.’s Tuscan sun
MOUNT PLEASANT ROAD has been gifted an authentic Italian ristorante, Florentia, courtesy of chef Bruno Soleri and Italian artist Marco Sassone.
A break for the brain
Even recess has benefits
